Come and weave a Willow Basket at The Lexden CrownLunch or a Hot Beverage and Cake included.All materials providedBook your place via Eventbrite (fees apply) or email info@thecreativeworkshopcompany.co.uk and pay by Paypal or Bank transfer (No Fees Apply)

Dookie, the UK’s longest running tribute to Green Day return for 90 minutes set of pure hits.Supporting is Blinked 182 playing all the classicsDoors 7 PMThis gig takes place on the top floor of Three Wise Monkeys Colchester.Access – There is no lift to access the top floor of Three Wise Monkeys. There are five [...]

Join Unbelievable Truth for the Rich Inner Life tour 2025. We’ll be playing songs from our back catalogue and our first new album in 25 years, Rich Inner Life (out 26 Sept). Tickets on sale 10am 23rd May, we look forward to seeing you there.

🎃 The Rec Community Market – Sunday 5th October 🎃📍 Old Heath Recreation Ground, Colchester🕙 10:00 AM – 4:00 PMGet ready for a spook-tacular day at The Rec Community Market this Halloween weekend! Join us for a fun day of local traders, live entertainment, and family-friendly vibes.Here’s what’s brewing:🛍️ Over 25 stalls – handmade crafts, [...]

Blondel Medieval & Renaissance wind band playing more music from the 14th-16th centuries on shawms, bagpipes and recorders.What makes a song leap across national boundaries and language barriers, slip from the secular to the ecclesiastic, and remain at the top of the charts for more than 70 years? We don’t have the formula, but we [...]

Come and sing your favourite hymns with a live orchestra!6:30pm on Sunday, 5 October 2025.Entry is free, and all are welcome.Brought to you by St Botolph's Church and St Botolph's Music Society.This event is not ticketed. Donations to St Botolph's Church can be made via the donation point located at the back of the church.

‘Hejira’ is an outstanding 7-piece band set up to celebrate and honour the masterpiece works of Joni Mitchell, mostly from the late ‘70s. Having released the albums ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’, ‘Hejira’, ‘Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter ’and ‘Mingus’, Joni then toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous [...]

Join us on Tuesday 7th October for our Italy Wine & Food Pairing Evening. Italian wine comes to Roman Colchester as we take you through four-courses of seasonally inspired food and wine at Three Wise Monkeys - in collaboration with independent and local wine merchants and suppliers, Street Wines.Hosted by Charlie Rogers and Founder of [...]

An AV Presentation by Dick Williams ARPS DPAGB-AV, a leader in AV creativity, who will showcase examples of his latest work. From documentaries and musical interpretations to sequences of general interest, discover how Dick crafts compelling stories that captivate and inspire. Dick has decades of award-winning expertise and is the EAF Audio Visual Trophy Secretary [...]

Let me tell you about the imaginary town I lived in as a boy…” This collection of dark comic stories woven together by BBC award-winning writer, “the great Welsh storyteller” (The Stage), Shôn Dale-Jones is as much about the imagination as it is about innocence and not knowing what to do with the things we [...]

What a treat to have Laura Purcell talk about the follow-up to her first novel The Silent Companions. That novel was one of her most popular and we can't wait to read The House of Splinters. The evening will be hosted by fellow author JJA Harwood. If you love a classily written haunted house mystery, [...]

A radically fresh, boundary-pushing take on traditional songs.'We need more music like this; spontaneous, alive and affecting' - FRUKAnglo/Irish folk band The Haar brings the formidable singing talent of All-Ireland Scór na nÓg winner Molly Donnery combined with three of the most exciting instrumentalists on the folk and traditional music scene in Cormàc Byrne (Show [...]