Events

Go wild, enjoy games & fun activities with Forest School leader, Jean Quinn. Children of all ages (up to 12 years accompanied by an adult). May be too long for [...]

Communities divided by road building. Rich and poor in separate roads. Local people’s stories, wartime from siege to WW2, rags to riches, the nurses home, changes in demography and character. And some local history… With Sheila Kelly.Meet: 11.30am, Abbeygate St. by underpass. End: former Essex County Hospital (1.5m, 2hrs)ACCESSIBILITY:This walk is fully wheelchair friendly, pavements [...]

Our all day music event returns! Multiple bands over the course of the day - come and discover someone new!

An alternative look at our city’s history, this time from below. How did the people - & not the kings, queens, lords & generals - forge our city’s story? With Bryn Griffiths.Bryn is not a professional historian and he only claims to be making a small contribution to our city’s story but he hopes to [...]

Join us on the first Sunday of the month for a little calm at Colchester Castle.These sessions are suitable for visitors with ASD, providing an opportunity for them to explore the museum at a quieter time. We aim to minimise sensory stimulation on the galleries by turning off audio and visuals, whilst providing a sensory [...]

The boys are back!!Free gig and donations encouraged!!

With British writer and social historian, Ken Worpole ('Brightening from the East: Essays on landscape & memory', 2025), 'a literary original... whose books combine the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition’ (The New Statesman). The relentless global relocation from countryside to cities, means 'rural life will be increasingly inhabited by an ageing population', [...]

Tickets £15.50 / £13.50 concessionsDoors open 7pm, show starts 7.30pmThis show is for a seated audienceDavid Preston: GuitarSeb Rochford: DrumsConor Chaplin: BassLondon based guitarist and composer, David Preston has been described by the Guardian as “Virtuosic” and TimeOut as “A superb modern jazz guitarist”. He released his debut album ‘Purple / Black’ on Whirlwind Recordings [...]

It's skank-holiday month in the UK.... Two beautiful days for the banks to rest their weary heads - all in a few weeks.We all know that this means the summer is practically here....Also, what better way to salute the hard working (rhymes with) bankers... than to come dance with your favourite horn blowin' quintet? Festivities [...]

Join us at Twisters Bar on Sunday, May 4, 2025, for a hard-partying selection of The 1975's biggest anthems, deep cuts, and collaborations, plus tunes from their friends and influences! DJ Rom Atkin will be spinning all the indie-pop magic you love.🍻 Bar & Beer Garden open from 5 PM🎧 DJ kicks off from 9 [...]

Join us this coming Sunday night when we party into Bank Holiday Monday!It’s FREE Entry all night and lots of Drinks deals! DJ Jez will be mixing up the Biggest Dance Floor Bangers of all time! Expect everything from 70s Disco, 80s Retro, Throwback 90s & 00s Pop, Party and Dance plus the big floor [...]

What are we missing when we don’t look up at the buildings and skylines around Colchester City centre? Discover new vistas on a walk inspired by the work of Richard Arnopp and Adrian Rushton, who in 2024 took a series of photographs to record Colchester’s town centre buildings ‘from the first floor up’ (published on [...]