Duncan Grant: Worlds Through Desire brings together artworks, stories and poetry from different generations to explore the ways LGBT+ people have sought friendship, community and intimacy across changing times and [...]
Essex artist Simon Carter transforms Firstsite's gallery with From the Landscape, an immersive exhibition inspired by the Essex coast and countryside. Carter has spent more than 40 years walking, drawing [...]
This October, the New Face for Leprosy exhibition comes to Colchester Library for a free, month-long public exhibition exploring the lives and experiences of people affected by leprosy. The project [...]
What does it mean to grow up by the sea today? From ambition and creativity to isolation and inequality, explore intimate photographs and firsthand accounts that document what life is [...]
What does it mean to grow up by the sea today?From ambition and creativity to isolation and inequality, explore intimate photographs and first-hand accounts documenting what life is really like [...]
Out of Line: Banksy and the Art of Dissent brings a major exhibition of street and urban contemporary art to The Minories in Colchester. The exhibition features 28 original artworks [...]
Get making during our Holiday Fun: Make session with a variety of free creative activities at Firstsite this Summer. Most suitable for those aged 4 – 11 yrs, but all [...]
Join us for a cosy and creative morning with our Christmas Lino Print Workshop.Perfect for beginners and creative minds alike, this hands-on workshop will guide you through the process of [...]
Join artist Sarah Hill for a specialone-off Life Sculpture class including homemade lunch this Halloween!Using a professional life model who will hold the same pose throughout, you’ll sculpt the human [...]
Colchester’s Record Fair returns to Firstsite, a treat for both enthusiasts and casual collectors alike. Come browse through stallholders’ collections of vinyl and CDs from a vast range of genres. [...]
November is National Novel Writing Month. Every year, thousands of writers around the world challenge themselves to write a book in thirty days – and this year, you can be [...]
Daniel Casey is dead! Or at least his love life is... Join us as we congregate at the hole-y Church of Homosexuality to remember a life gone too soon. With [...]
Ticketing includes a paperback edition of the book as well as the event. There are options to pay for the event only but please note that ticket/book option provides you [...]
Wait, What is This? is a fast-paced comedy written entirely in rhyme. Created and performed by Lydia Keating and John Harper, the show began life as a five-minute rhyming sketch [...]
Lover! Hero! Clown! Join award-winning physical comedian Jon Tilley (“Magnetic” The Scotsman) for his hilarious new show, an anarchic, comic retelling of the myth of real-life ultimate lover and original [...]
Mitch Benn is the 37th Beatle combines Mitch's Scouse upbringing, his love of music, and a lifelong obsession with Liverpool's most famous sons in one show.Mitch Benn was born in [...]
Alex McAleer isn’t psychic or supernatural, but he has an uncanny ability to apparently tap into his audience’s minds and read their thoughts at will.After more than a decade wowing [...]
Last Saturday of the month at 3pm unless specified Red Lion Books lead the discussions for this age group by gently encouraging members to share their voice but respecting the [...]
What happens when you grow up believing the world will end, realise you're queer, leave the Jehovah's Witnesses and end up working in A&E?Chris Ford's hilarious and deeply personal work-in-progress [...]
A hauntacular Halloween special edition of the world’s daftest whodunnit. Following a decade of five-star, sell-out performances, festival favourite ‘CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation’ returns to Colchester with the multi-award-winning crime [...]
She’s back!! Dust off your dabbers and put on your sparkliest of sparkles because it’s Nana Funk’s Music/Musicals Bingo!Join the Grand-dame of hi-jinks, Nana Funk for a fun-filled hour of [...]
Get ready for a night of frightful fun at POPINA Halloween 2026! Join us at The Courtyard, Lion Walk Shopping Centre, Colchester, on Saturday 31st October, 4pm–11pm, for House of [...]
Join us at Charter Hall, Colchester for an evening of world-class darts.Players:Gerwyn PriceChris DobeyRaymond van BarneveldKevin PainterLine up subject to late changeThere will be intervals throughout the event between professional [...]
This will be an incredibly powerful time of Sister's joining together for an evening of women's empowerment tapping into the energy of Samhain. The evening will be full of love, [...]
Tickets £8 Doors 5.15pm, show 5.30pm This show is for a seated audience Age Guidance: 16+ Content Warnings: Audience Participation, Distressing or Potentially Triggering Themes, Flashing Lights FREE CRISPS! [...]
Disney fan? Massive raging queer? Then Happily Ever Poofter is for you! In fact, whether you love or loathe all things Disney, this show is NOT one to be missed. [...]
Mitch Benn is Asking ElvisThe King is back! Mitch Benn resurrects Elvis from BBC Radio 2's legendary "Steve Wright in the Afternoon" show, to answer hunks of burning questions about [...]
A global fringe hit Are You Lovin' It?, which has won 17 awards in 6 countries, takes youon a surreal, hilarious journey through the wild world of WacDonalds. Meet a [...]
🎃💜Get ready for an unforgettable Halloween night! 💜🎃🎃💀Join us as we unleash the ultimate party in town, 😱👻🔥🔥A Fantastic collaboration as We bring you House of Pöpinä vs Sin. Prepare [...]
Event Programme: Best of Rik Mayal Featuring clips from Bad News, Mr Jolly and Fistful of Travellers Cheques. The Supergrass (New Director’s Cut) The hit Comic Strip Movie. Dennis Carter [...]
After wowing Colchester Fringe with their smash hit adaptation of Shakespeare's WORST play, multi award-winning Rendered Retina return, only this time their bringing his LEAST-KNOWN work, Timon of Athens. Follow [...]
The sell-out festival favourite returns from an acclaimed tour spanning Wellington, New Zealand to Brighton, England. Now even better, harder, and art-er. It's updated, innovated, and, as always, no two [...]
A play about flocks and belonging, told by a sheep who doesn't know how to belong after she was sexually assaulted. To find her way back into the herd, she [...]
Before Ella, Tina, Billie, or Beyoncé – there was JOSEPHINEJosephine is an international award-winning off-Broadway one-woman biographical musical that combines cabaret, theatre and dance to tell the story of the [...]
Tickets £12 23rd October: Doors 8.15pm, show 8.30pm 24th October: Doors 3.45pm, Show 4pm 31st October: Doors 8.15pm, show 8.30pm This show is for a seated audience Age Guidance: 18+ Content Warnings: Nudity, Scenes of a [...]
A dark tragicomedy about a pathetic Japanese salaryman who becomes a tyrant! Your favorite GUMBO’s Macbeth has finally arrived in Shakespeare’s land!Based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this modern adaptation transplants the [...]
Honkus Rompus return to Coda for an all-out ska halloween blowout!! Expect massive energy from them this halloween as we get spookily pumped with the anthems of SKA
Halloween night with great music. 🎵
🤘 BIG LICKERS. WE'RE BACK! 🤘Halloween is here, and THE BIG LICK is being UNLEASHED for one night only!Prepare yourselves for a night of METAL, ROCK, ALTERNATIVE and PARTY ANTHEMS, [...]
She’s back!! And she wants you to get involved! Get your main stage vocals ready and join the Grand-dame of hi-jinks, Nana Funk for a night of KARAOKE! Step out [...]
Get a bottle of house spirit of your choice and table with VIP bottle service! Minimum spend:…Read more Get a bottle of house spirit of your choice and table with [...]
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