Events

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! [...]

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 [...]

Impious Spirit Productions presents an afternoon of Live Music with Bag of Bones, at Kings Arms in Colchester, on Monday 5th May!We're excited to present Bag of Bones, for our first afternoon show this Bank Holiday Monday!Playing rock and pop covers from 1pm to 4pm!Free Entry!

Discover Colchester off-road, from Camp Folley North to Kendal Road Folley, Childwell Alley and thence to The Moors; Parsons Lane to Love Walk (coffee stop at Old Heath Rec) and on to Camp Folley South. Plenty of geography, history, legend and gossip along the way!With Des Bowden and Phil Hitchins.Meet: 2.30pm, Napier Road North carpark [...]

One Man, Two Guvnorsby Richard BeanBased on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo GoldoniWith popular songs from the era and Grant OldingHeadgate Theatre ProductionsDirector: Sally BroatchProduction week: w/c Sunday 5th October 2025Rehearsals: Monday and Wednesday evenings starting 14th July.Read Through: Monday 5th May, 2025 @ 4pm at The HeadgateAuditions : Audition workshops are scheduled [...]

It’s now possible to book pay as you feeltickets for the Corinne Fowler event.https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/headgatecommunity/t-jzaomxgWith Corinne Fowler, Professor of Colonialism and Heritage at the University of Leicester. Corinne specialises in colonial history, decolonisation and the British countryside’s relationship to Empire. She is perhaps best known for her work with the National Trust to record their property’s [...]

Tickets £19.50 / £18.50 concessions.Doors open 7.30, starts 8pm.This gig is for a seated audience.ANDY CUTTING • SAM SWEENEY • ROB HARBRON“You won't find English folk music played better than this.” R2Leveret are a highly acclaimed English folk trio renowned for their innovative approach to traditional music, blending consummate musicianship with captivating spontaneity. Formed in [...]

We are delighted to have regular walk host and ‘walk motivator’ Shawn Leek (Walk, Talk, Support), join our Jane’s Walk 2025 programme. Enjoy our beautiful Castle Park and the companionship of new friends on this open to all walk. Then do it again the week after if it suits you!Meet: 11am, Firstsite entrance, CO1 1JH [...]

Join us for a Curators’ tour of the 'Call It Love' exhibition.MA students from the Department of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies will lead a tour of their show, expanding on the works on display and the ideas behind them.Free admission and no need to book, all welcome!This event is a part of the public [...]

A trail launched in partnership with Colchester Young Archaeologists Club, the result of an English Heritage challenge to deliver ‘a little known or forgotten’ local story. It tells the tale of some ordinary people - artisans of Tudor Colchester - whose lives took an extraordinary turn, at a shocking event in the town more than [...]

Join natural voice singing quartet Voce Silva in a walk through Westlands Country Park and beyond, stopping to learn acapella songs together in harmony. Songs will be taught by ear, no singing experience necessary. With Lorraine Francis & Julie Linton. Meet: 6.30pm, inside entrance gate in James Carter Rd, opp. Shillito Close CO3 9XA (1.3m, [...]