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  • Duncan Grant: Worlds Through Desire: From Drawing to Cruising to DMs

    Firstsite Lewis Gardens, Colchester, United Kingdom

    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 [...]

  • Simon Carter: From the Landscape

    Firstsite Lewis Gardens, Colchester, United Kingdom

    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 [...]

  • New Face for Leprosy Exhibition

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

    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 [...]

  • Against the Tide

    Firstsite Lewis Gardens, Colchester, United Kingdom

    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 [...]

  • Polly Braden: Against the Tide

    Firstsite Lewis Gardens, Colchester, United Kingdom

    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

    The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester CO1 1UE The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester CO1 1UE

    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 [...]

    £12.50
  • The Void – Mercury Theatre, Colchester

    Mercury Theatre Balkerne Gate, Colchester, United Kingdom

    The Void brings sci-fi horror to the stage in a production combining theatre, illusion and atmospheric projections. Eight million miles from Earth, a mysterious distress call draws haunted space ranger [...]

    £25.00 – £27.50
  • Fright Night Essex 2026 Halloween Special

    Trilogy Colchester Trilogy Colchester

    🎃 ITS BAAAAAAACK!! 🎃Colchester’s most infamous Halloween party returns... and this year, the sh*t is about to get spooky!#FrightNightEssex 🩸 SOLD OUT 7 YEARS RUNNING! 🩸 💀 WHAT TO EXPECT: [...]

  • Maria’s Island Children’s Storytelling Session

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

    Children and families are invited to a special storytelling session at Colchester Library during the October half-term. Lepra historian Irene Allen will host a session focusing on Maria's Island, written [...]

  • Halloween Animation, Neurodivergent-Friendly: ages: 7 – 11

    Signals Media Arts Centre Victoria Chambers St. Runwald St, Colchester, GB

    Participants will create their own short Halloween-inspired animated film using stop motion software. With guidance from our expert tutors, they will use themed materials, props and backgrounds to design characters [...]

    £5
  • Holiday Fun October 2026: Drumming

    Firstsite Lewis Gardens, Colchester, United Kingdom

    Children can participate in this fun and relaxed session this October with Drumming at Firstsite Holiday Fun in Colchester! Most suitable for 4 – 11 years, but all ages welcome. [...]

  • Discover Maria’s Island – storytelling session

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

    Join Lepra historian and author Irene Allen for a storytelling session bringing to life the book Maria's Island. Maria's Island is a children's novel written by Lepra Ambassador and best [...]