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  • Colchester Castle Open Evening

    Colchester Castle Colchester Castle

    As a special festive treat, Colchester Castle’s FREE Christmas Open Evening returns for 2025 from 3 pm – 8 pm. Soak up the festive atmosphere whilst seeing over 2,000 years of amazing history, with festive refreshments. With the Castle decked out in Christmas cheer, it promises to be a great way to get in the [...]

  • Red Riding Hood: a Christmas Pantomime!

    Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Square 5, Colchester, CO4 3SQ Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Square 5, Colchester, CO4 3SQ

    Get ready for this Winter show full of pantomime fun!Are you ready to go into the woods? Join Red Riding Hood as she goes on this exciting adventure, meeting both furry friends and foes alike! Red is an adventurous young spirit who wants nothing more than to see the world. Her wish comes true when [...]

  • Wednesday Night Open Mic @ The Victoria Inn

    The Victoria Pub The Victoria Pub

    It's Open Mic Night!Bring yourself... or send your friends in place of you.... or come with your friends and get involved.Bring your instruments or borrow mine (Guitar, Piano, Cajon & Mics provided).*We run a sign up board & work through the names in order & attendance prioritising those who arrive before 9.*The sign up board [...]

  • Victoria Inn General Knowledge Quiz 2

    Victoria Inn Colchester 10 North Station Rd, Colchester, GB

    Test your general knowledge at the Victoria Inn General Knowledge Quiz, and help raise money for an incredible cause!- £3 a head entry (CASH ONLY)- Maximum 4 to a team- Outside food & dogs welcome - Book on 01206 514510Please bring the number of people you book for, and if you book and decide not [...]

  • An Evening With Simon Scarrow

    Waterstones Colchester High Street 12-13 High Street, Colchester, GB

    We are delighted to have Simon Scarrow join us for a talk about his latest Macro & Cato novel. After three books which dealt with the Boudican revolt and it's aftermath, this one sees Cato as Prefect of Rome's Urban Cohorts. It's AD63 and Emperor Nero's brutal and reckless rule is causing chaos and disorder [...]

  • The Big Christmas Special Rock n Roll Bingo Special at The Lexden Crown

    Lexden Crown Lexden Crown

    Its time to funk up your life, dig out your dabbers, and your best musical knowledge, then get ready to have some musical fun and win some great prizes, Its time to play Rock n Roll Bingo, with Big Jim.A night of 4 games of Music Bingo, fun music and great company. Youve never played [...]

  • ABF Essex Christmas Concert 2025

    St Botolph's Church Walk, Colchester, CO2 7, United Kingdom St Botolph's Church Walk, Colchester, CO2 7, United Kingdom

    The Army Benevolent Fund’s Essex Committee invite you to join us for our annual much-loved Essex Christmas Concert. The concert has taken place every year for over 20 years’, even taking place in 2020 during the Covid lockdown when British Army Band Colchester performed a concert virtually in aid of supporting the Army family.This year’s [...]

  • The Jazz Duo Live At The Brewhouse

    Queen St Brewhouse 7 - 9 Queen Street, Colchester, GB

    Vocalist Laura Wyatt and guitarist Darrel Mayhead perform a selection of their favourite jazz and swing classics. Expect to hear songs from the like of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Doris Day and many more.

  • Peoples of Essex Exhibition – Patrick Denney – Talk

    Colchester Library and Community Hub 21 Trinity Square, Colchester, GB

    A fully illustrated presentation looking at the early Roman settlement and Boudican revolt, in Colchester, followed by some of the major archaeological discoveries over the past few decades.This talk is part of our Peoples of Essex exhibition, celebrating the diverse stories and communities that shape the county.

  • DM Lab Colchester – DIY Electronic Instruments

    Firstsite Colchester Firstsite Colchester

    Experiment with building your own instrument, with a custom MIDI controller!At this months DMLab we'll play with simple circuits and Arduino programming to create custom interfaces to control computers, also [...]

  • Red Riding Hood: a Christmas Pantomime!

    Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Square 5, Colchester, CO4 3SQ Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Square 5, Colchester, CO4 3SQ

    Get ready for this Winter show full of pantomime fun!Are you ready to go into the woods? Join Red Riding Hood as she goes on this exciting adventure, meeting both [...]

  • Goodiepal + Valhallans

    Church St, CO1 1NF Colchester, United Kingdom

    Tickets £8 / £7 concessions.Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8pm.This gig is for a seated audience.Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, whose real name is Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, is a [...]