Join us on Wednesday 19th March for our Beer vs Wine Taster Evening!Get ready for the ultimate battle of beverages. Beer vs Wine, we’re teaming up with Street Wines to bring you an evening of bold flavours, expert pairings, and friendly competition.Indulge in a specially curated selection of craft beers and fine wines, each expertly [...]

Risograph printing isoften described as digital screen printing. Think screen printing but with the convenience of a photocopier.Riso has a reputation as a DIY publishing process with vivid colours and stunning imperfections. A cheap method to produce zines, posters and short run art prints. In this workshop you will work with Artist Heidi Sharp to [...]

Get a behind the scenes look at the struggle of producing a theatrical performance in Peter Vetere’s Zarbopulon 5. As you watch the show from the wings, you’ll get a glimpse at what it’s like working with overzealous actors, overworked theatre managers and over the top directors.It’s opening night for Elodie Marks’ Zarbopulon 5 at [...]

It’s opening night for Elodie Marks’ Zarbopulon 5 at the annual Essex Theatre Festival. The cast and crew are hoping that it’s the defining performance of the competition, as winning would finally establish their creative careers and ensure that their show will transfer to London.The performance seems to go on with only some minor difficulties, [...]

A show in which the audience gets to choose which Edgar Allan Poe tales are performed! The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher and many more! Edgar Allan Poe is played by award-winning actor Jonathan Goodwin. No two performances will ever be the same. Full-blooded gothic melodrama brought to [...]

Come along and learn how to create your own piece of mixed media artwork. You will use a combination of techniques and mediums to produce your own work of art!'Mixed media is visual art form that provides artists with the ability to produce works of great creativity by merging multiple types of materials and methods.'The [...]

Our Dance and Movement for Well-being are gentle sessions for over 60s to ease joint mobility, improve agility, balance and self-awareness in movement.These classes involve relaxed movements such as chair yoga, dancing and self-massages to ease the muscles and tensions.Each session is led and planned by Lucy Teed a fully qualified Holistic Massage Therapist (level [...]

Showing at Firstsite Cinema - I Am Martin Parr (12A)!One of the most controversial photographers of our time.Martin Parr’s images often have the power to both amuse and leave us ever so slightly uncomfortable, caught between laughter and the uneasy recognition of ourselves in his uncompromising portrait of consumer society.Yet, in retrospect, perhaps he was [...]

A transformative workshop that helps you develop your style and confidently create your own choreography through guided exercises. Turn your ideas into movement and bring yourcreative vision to life. Guided by a professional dancer and instructor with 20+ years experience, Katie O’Halloran (KTO)Open for beginners Adults & Teen friendlyNo dance experience required (this is helping [...]

So hopefully this is the first of manyintimate live music sessions, mostly acoustic3 original artists im holding it at The Old Grocery48 high street, wivenhoeopposite my shopmax capacity is prob 30so tickets are £10 and that includes a free glass of wine or a bottle of beer, line up Ravens unpluggedPolly HaynesTales from the Top [...]

Tickets £17.50 / £16.50 concessions.Doors open 7pm.This gig is for a standing audience.One of the most unique and enjoyable live dub acts on the planet, their use of dynamic onstage dub mixing whilst performing alongside acoustic instruments and exceptional vocalists, make Zion Train one of a kind.http://www.wobblyweb.com/http://soundcloud.com/zion-trainhttp://www.mixcloud.com/ziontrainindub/http://www.youtube.com/user/neilperchhttps://www.instagram.com/ziontrainindubhttps://www.facebook.com/ZionTrainInDubhttps://ziontrain.bandcamp.com @ziontrainindubSupport...Johnnie Fisher AKA CyberdogVinyl Spinning DJ playing in [...]

Showing at Firstsite Cinema - Memoir of a Snail (15)!Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books in Memoir of a Snail.At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst.Despite [...]