Keep Colchester Cool

Star Wars Unlimited League
2025-10-11 12:15 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | ACE Comics, 42 Culver Street East, Colchester, CO1 1LE, GB
New to the calendar Star Wars™: Unlimited league. Join for our Star Wars Unlimited league day & challenge your inner light or dark side.
How it works
Our bi-weekly league session for Star Wars™: Unlimited will give you plenty of casual play opportunities throughout the weeks. This is a great opportunity to meet new players, trade cards and pick up new stock while available. All you need to do is challenge a fellow player to a best of 3 match and you will both receive a weekly play booster (1 per week per player). Then each win will gain you 2 points on our league chart & 1 point if you lost. At the end of a set cycle we will then give out some extra prizes to the top 2 and some random prize going to anyone that has a point on the league chart.
Whats the cost?£5 each week, but everyone gets a Star Wars™: Unlimited booster during the event.
Start time: 12:15
Please note all of these events have limited spaces of 24 people, so to avoid missing out please either click attend on this event, come in and speak to a member of staff of call us on 01206 561912 to make sure you don’t miss out.

An Introduction to Screen Printing
2025-10-11 10:30 - 13:30 | Trinity Works,24 Trinity Street,Colchester,CO1 1JN,GB
Learn the basic principles and different techniques of screen printing.
Come away with an original screen print that you’ve designed and printed yourself!
About the Associate Artist leading the session: Katie is a graphic designer and workshop artist, running her own design business alongside delivering art, design and architecture workshops with museums, galleries, schools and festivals across the UK. Katie is inspired by all kinds of things; architecture, nature, street art, great design… Specific print inspirations are: Hatch Show Prints, Print Club London, Anthony Burrill, Abram Games, Andy Warhol, Strawberry Luna… the list goes on. Website: www.katiekennedy.co.uk
New to Colchester Makerspace? We’re a community workshop with ceramics, printmaking and a vibrant program of classes. Explore our website: www.makercampus.co.uk
Join Our Creative Community: Enjoy up to 50% off classes and 24/7 access to our space and equipment. Memberships start at just £15 per month. Learn more: www.makercampus.co.uk/membership
Please take time to read our refunds policy: www.makercampus.co.uk/refunds-policy
Support Creativity: Donate to our kiln fund and help us keep making amazing things happen: https://gofund.me/1d2f2158

Letz Zep - Led Zeppelin Approved Tribute Band
2025-10-10 20:00 - 23:00 | 63 High street, Colchester, 63 High street, Colchester
Friday 10th October. CODA welcomesLetz Zep
‘The best tribute to Led Zeppelin’ – BBC Newsnight
‘A proper rock concert, ten outta ten’ Chris Evans BBC Radio 2.
‘it’s like watching myself on stage’ – Robert Plant
‘That was ambitious but you pulled it off’ – Jimmy Page
Ages 18+
Doors 7pmBand 8pm

DJ Bobe's Rock-Indie Request Session
2025-10-10 20:00 - 2025-10-11 00:30 | Queen St Brewhouse, 7 - 9 Queen Street, Colchester, CO1 2PG, GB
The Bobemeister is back on the stage!😀 He will be playing a crazy selection of 70s and 80s and 90s rock, Soul and Electronic tunes for afabulous night for you and him at The Brewhouse. Requests welcome! Starts at 8pm

Colchester Rugby Club CRFC 100 Presents Big Jim's Interactive Centenary Pub Quiz
2025-10-10 19:30 - 22:15 | Colchester Rugby Club, Cuckoo Farm Way, Colchester, CO4 5YX, GB
Doors Open at 7pm Quiz starts at 8pm
Colchester Rugby Club in partnership with Big Jims Pub Quiz presents The Real 60 General knowledge quiz. The 2nd Friday of every Month.
“Get your phone’s or tablets charged and ready”
CRC presents a new way to quiz in a new Rugby Club in the heart of the new sports park in Colchester. Basket Meals avaiable on the night
Big Jim’s interactive quiz ditches the pens and papers and all your answers are put on your phone or any WiFi device.
60 general knowledge questions and the bonus game called the Quizzy 8.
So let’s get Quizzical without the need to scrum down all quizzes include both audio and picture questions.
Fun for all the family PG13 quiz fun. £2 per person
doors open at 7 quiz starts at 8.
quizzy quiz lovers

Letz Zep - Tribute to Led Zeppelin
2025-10-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Coda Colchester, Coda Colchester
Letz Zep are internationally recognized as the Number One tribute to Led Zeppelin, and Baby they ain’t foolin’
When Robert Plant says it is like watching himself onstage, ‘I walked in, I saw me’ was his comment about vocalist Billy Kulke,.
Jimmy Page says ‘That was ambitious but you pulled it off’ to guitarist Andy Gray when he attended a show by Letz Zep.
When legendary Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant once described Toby Sadler as ‘The New John Paul Jones’ when Toby played in a band with Jason Bonham.
With drummer Jake Blackwell being the son of Robert Plant drummer Chris Blackwell. Chris performed recorded and wrote with Robert on his Now and Zen, Fate of Nations and Manic Nirvana era
Then there can be no closer proximity to the Led Zeppelin experience
The authoritative Ticketmaster organisation awarded the band ‘The Most Popular’ and ‘The Most Highly Rated’ tribute to Led Zeppelin today.

A Musical Iliad
2025-10-10 18:30 - 21:30 | 74 High Street, CO1 1UE Colchester, United Kingdom, 74 High Street, CO1 1UE Colchester, United Kingdom
“It was the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the year that Calchas, the soothsayer, had predicted that the city would fall.”Paris of Troy chose Aphrodite the Goddess of Love as the fairest of all and gained Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, as his reward. However Helen’s furious husband, determined to get her back, assembled a fleet of a thousand ships, sailed to Troy and laid siege to the city. Now, all the mightiest Princes of Ancient Greece are camped before Troy’s high walls in their black, beached ships.“A unique, powerful and compelling piece of time travel.”“It was breathtaking and awesome!”Award-winning storyteller Clare Goodall and historical musician Lizzie Gutteridge combine forces to bring you an epic tale of love, tragedy and loss in an energetic and punchy adaptation, where the characters come to life even if that life then ends brutally in bloodshed.Atmospheric musical accompaniment adds to the impact, with a mixture of ancient Greek music and improvisation on aulos (ancient double pipes) and lyres.This is the epic that everyone has heard of but few have read. Our adaptation brings it to life, showing why it’s been so well known for 3,000 years, and how it deals with issues that are still relevant today…This event is in our main downstairs gallery, with step-free access via the back gate

The Coda Thursday Jam
2025-10-09 20:30 - 23:59 | Coda Colchester, Coda Colchester
🎶 Thursday Night Jam Sessions @ CODA Colchester! 🎶
Calling all musicians! 🎸🥁🎤 We’re turning up the heat at our Thursday Night Jam Sessions! Whether you’re a musician or a music lover, join us every Thursday night from 8:30 PM to midnight for an evening of incredible live music, creativity, and community vibes.
🌟 What to Expect:A welcoming space for local musicians to connect and perform.An open jam session to showcase your talent and vibe with others.A supportive audience of fellow music lovers.
🆕 Whats New:🎸 Our band showcase season is over for now but watch this space for the next one …
🎟️ FREE ENTRY – Just bring your instrument and your passion for music!Let’s make Thursdays the heartbeat of the local music scene. Bring your friends, your instruments, or just your love for great music!
🎵Tag your crew and join us for a night to remember! 🎶
📍 CODA Colchester, 63, High Street, CO11DN.
🕗 Doors open at 7:00 PM See less
https://www.facebook.com/events/1699413431448262/?event_time_id=1699415601448045

The Haar - Colchester Arts Centre
2025-10-09 20:00 - 23:00 | Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester Arts Centre
A radically fresh, boundary-pushing take on traditional songs.‘We need more music like this; spontaneous, alive and affecting’ – FRUK
Anglo/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 of Hands/Seth Lakeman), Adam Summerhayes, and Murray Grainger (both of the FATEA award-winning The Ciderhouse Rebellion).
Known for taking a familiar tune and turning it into something breathtakingly fresh and ambitious, this band of high level improvisers produce ever-changing musical soundscapes, while Molly lets her sublime vocals flow to stunning effect.
Latest album ‘Where Old Ghosts Meet’ received multiple rave reviews and has paved the way for outstanding festival appearances at Shrewsbury, Beardy Folk, and at other prestigious stages during their successful UK tours.
Expect a magical evening of stunning, made-in-the-moment renditions of some of the world’s most incredible songs.
“This is not a dyed-green-Guinness-and-a-bit-o’-craic Ireland, this is the coast of Connemara Ireland, this is watching the fog roll in around The Skellig Islands Ireland… devastatingly beautiful” Bristol 24/7
“The Haar conjuring magic that had long been hidden in plain sight, responding melodically in a mesmerising impromptu arc of artistry” Irish Music Magazine
‘A sweeping panorama of Irish traditional music and song’ – Songlines

CODA Thursday Jam
2025-10-09 20:00 - 23:45 | 63 High street, co1 1dn Colchester, United Kingdom, 63 High street, co1 1dn Colchester, United Kingdom
🎶 Thursday Night Jam Sessions @ CODA Colchester! 🎶Calling all musicians! 🎸🥁🎤 We’re turning up the heat at our Thursday Night Jam Sessions! Whether you’re a musician or a music lover, join us every Thursday night from 8 PM to midnight for an evening of incredible live music, creativity, and community vibes.🌟 What to Expect:A welcoming space for local musicians to connect and perform.An open jam session to showcase your talent and vibe with others.A supportive audience of fellow music lovers.🆕 Whats New:🎸 Our band showcase season is over for now but watch this space for the next one …🎟️ FREE ENTRY – Just bring your instrument and your passion for music!Let’s make Thursdays the heartbeat of the local music scene. Bring your friends, your instruments, or just your love for great music! 🎵Tag your crew and join us for a night to remember! 🎶📍 CODA Colchester, 63, High Street, CO11DN.🕗 Doors open at 7:00 PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/1157799362902952/?event_time_id=1157799386236283

commoner -Finbar Ansbe
2025-10-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Queen St Brewhouse, 7 - 9 Queen Street, Colchester, CO1 2PG, GB
commoner welds skater punk vibes with folk sentiments of Woody Guthrie and Jesse Wells. Finbar Ansbe is flying solo away from his Cheap Dirty Horse project. He brings politically charged Queer Trash Folk Punk to the stage at The Brewhouse.£5 contribution on the door would be much appreciated😀

An Evening with Laura Purcell Hosted by JJA Harwood
2025-10-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Waterstones Colchester High Street, 12-13 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1DA, GB
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, some early readers have promised the new novel will be even better. A new generation returns to the Bridge to rescue it from ruin, only for buried secrets and past injustices to lay their chill hand upon the families hopes. A perfect blend of the picturesque, the supernatural and dark folk-lore. Are the children safe in the shadow of “the silent companions”? Don’t miss this spooky, gothic masterpiece.Doors will open at 6.45pm for a 7pm start. Tickets are £5 or £3 for people with the Waterstones Plus card, and you can purchase the book and ticket option for £20.

ABF Quiz Night
2025-10-09 18:30 - 21:30 | Colchester Rugby Club, Cuckoo Farm Way, Colchester, CO4 5YX, GB
Come and test our your general knowledge in support of soldiers, veterans and their families…
Join us for our ABF Quiz Night at Colchester Rugby Club, CO4 5YX, for an evening of food, fun and quizzing in aid of the Army family. Teams of 6 max (£90per team). INC. One-course meal (Food choices will be taken on the night)
With prizes up for grabs you’ve got to be in it to win it!
BOOK: eastanglia@armybenevolentfund.org

Blood Bowl @ Dice & a Slice
2025-10-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Dice & A Slice, 37 Queen Street, Colchester, CO1 2PQ, GB
Come and join us for some casual games of the legendary Fantasy Sports Game BLOOD BOWL!
Bring your teams and block dice, or just come along and learn how to play!
Beginners welcome!
£5 to play

Stories from an Invisible Town - A wild and wonderful collection of dark comic stories
2025-10-08 20:00 - 23:00 | Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester Arts Centre
Step into a kaleidoscopic universe full of wonder, nostalgia and magic as we enter the imaginary town Shôn lived in as a boy.
Written by “the great Welsh storyteller” (The Stage), Shôn Dale-Jones, Stories from an Invisible Town is charming, unsettling and full of surprises. Shôn’s storytelling will take you on a curious journey turning everything into fiction – into a world where all reality disappears… funny and thoughtful, it is a fantastic story about letting go and moving on.
Part theatre, part storytelling, part stand-up, the show embraces our vulnerability, celebrates difference and helps us rediscover the wonder of childhood’s unpredictable mind.
“A captivating storyteller” – TIME OUT
“Genius” – Pick of the Week, BBC Radio 4
“Winning performer” -The Guardian

Brewhouse Wenesday Reels- Movie and Pizza Night
2025-10-08 19:00 - 22:00 | Queen St Brewhouse, 7 - 9 Queen Street, Colchester, CO1 2PG, GB
Following on from last Wednesday’s screening of Get Out (2017), as part of our Horror Film Season this October, I’ll be showing The People Under The Stairs(15) (1991) next Wednesday at Queen St Brewhouse at 7:30pm. The People Under The Stairs is a horror comedy film written and directed by Wes Craven (Nightmare On Elm Street, 1984) and starring Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, Ving Rhames and A. J. Langer. The plot follows a young boy and two thieves who break into a house owned by the neighbourhood’s landlord and discover a dark secret hidden beneath the house. Wes Craven’s classic film is widely recognised as an underrated gem in the horror genre and his body of work.
In a local community in the heart of Los Angeles,California, a young African-American boy called Poindexter “Fool” Williams (Brandon Adams) and his family are close to being evicted by their white landlords Eldon Robeson (Everett McGill) and Mrs. Robeson (Wendy Robie). A friend of Fool’s family Leroy (Ving Rhames) suggests that he and an associate of his, along with Fool’s help, break into the Robeson’s house to steal a collection of gold coins to save Fool’s family and his dying mother. When Fool breaks into the house, he finds himself trapped inside due to the Robeson’s extra security and learns about the couple’s dark and sinister lifestyle. As Fool seeks a way out, he meets Alice (A. J. Langer), the Robeson’s daughter, who tries to help him escape.
According to director Wes Craven, The People Under The Stairs was inspired by a real-life story about two thieves who broke into a house and discovered two children who had been held captive. The irony of the situation intrigued Craven, where the burglers were not the real monsters but the family they targeted who looked ordinary on the surface. This formed the basis of the film’s story about corruption hidden within a wealthy facades including themes of gentrification, racism and class disparity. Jonny Coleman of LA Weekly called the film “a satire of late capitalism specifically in an L.A. run ragged by the free market of the ’80s and the violence it created” and compared the Robeson’s to the Reagans. On a director’s commentary track for the film’s Blu Ray release in 2015, Craven describes the Robeson’s house as representing “the whole society of the United States”.

SPACE: Peer-to-Peer (in person)
2025-10-08 12:00 - 14:00 | 37 queen street, CO1 2PQ Colchester, United Kingdom, 37 queen street, CO1 2PQ Colchester, United Kingdom
The SPACE Peer-to-Peer sessions are a space for sharing work in progress, peer support and feedback and networking.
The sessions are open to all creatives and are free to attend.

Dick’s Audio Visual Evening
2025-10-07 19:30 - 22:00 | Ireton Road, CO3 3AT Colchester, United Kingdom, Ireton Road, CO3 3AT Colchester, United Kingdom
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 and the Essex Audio Visual Group Chairman.
(Visitors £5.00)

Italy Wine & Food Pairing Evening
2025-10-07 19:00 - 22:00 | 60 High Street, CO1 1DN Colchester, United Kingdom, 60 High Street, CO1 1DN Colchester, United Kingdom
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 Street Wines, Neils Dubro. Together, they will draw on their knowledge and experience, taking you on a journey of the world through wine, investigating the new and old worlds of wine and discussing what it is that makes food and wine work so well together.
Our Italy Wine & Food Pairing Evening begins at 7pm on our restaurant floor
Tickets are priced at £35. The wines tasted will be available to purchase and take home on the night
Over 18s only.
Guests with specific dietary requirements or with allergies should contact the team via info@twmcolchester.com prior to ticket purchase.
Access – There is no lift to access the restaurant floor of Three Wise Monkeys. There are two flights of stairs to reach the restaurant floor.

Tuesday Art Social
2025-10-07 10:00 - 12:30 | 74 High Street, CO1 1UE Colchester, United Kingdom, 74 High Street, CO1 1UE Colchester, United Kingdom
Find your Creative Tribe with Art Social!
1. Learn to use different media including charcoal, collage and paint with artist Samar F. Zia2. Explore and develop your personal style of art-making.3. Co-design and collaborate on large scale mixed-media artwork to be exhibited at the Minories!
Six weeks creative mixed-media course for people of all abilities, beginners, intermediaries & seasoned artists, all welcome!
Dates:October – Tuesdays 7th, 14th, and 21stNovember – Tuesdays: 4th, 11th and 18th
10.30am – 12.30pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/733213686421101/?event_time_id=733213706421099

Hejira play Joni Mitchell
2025-10-05 19:30 - 22:30 | Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester Arts Centre
Hejira: Celebrating the Music of Joni Mitchell
Share this showDates5 Oct 2025Venues:Colchester Arts CentreCategories:JazzTickets £23.50 / £21.50 concessions.Doors open 7pm, starts 7.30pm.This gig is for a seated audience.
‘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 ‘Court And Spark’ ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’ and ‘Hejira’, Joni toured briefly in 1979 with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous musicians (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker, Jaco Pastorius and Don Alias). The tour was recorded, producing the much-lauded live album, ‘Shadows And Light’; it is from these works that the band Hejira is drawing the spirit and body of its repertoire.
Comprising highly experienced, world class musicians, Hejira is fronted by the brilliant Hattie Whitehead who not only has – in her own way – assimilated the poise, power and beauty of Joni’s vocals, but also plays guitar with Joni’s stylistic mannerisms.
Expect an evening of the truly great songs from Mitchell’s back catalogue, such as ‘Amelia’, ‘Help Me’, ‘A Case Of You’, ‘Song For Sharon’, ‘Hissing of Summer Lawns’ ‘Hejira’, ‘Free Man in Paris’ etc.!
Hattie Whitehead ~ vocals & guitarOllie Weston ~ tenor & soprano saxophonesChris Eldred ~ keyboardsPete Oxley ~ guitarDave Jones ~ bassRick Finlay ~ drumsMarc Cecil ~ percussion
Have a listen…Just Like This Train:https://youtu.be/DURr8Mr-POU?si=gga1vTuU0efwRGbf
Free Man In Paris:https://youtu.be/Mc48imlvsU4?si=WLAGYcijBv_SX11u
In France They Kiss On Main Street:https://youtu.be/dTjfE9F2KIE?si=2gztadxyDiWB5S-4

Songs of Praise
2025-10-05 18:30 - 21:30 | St Botolphs Church, Colchester, GB
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.

Cover Story (part 2)
2025-10-05 14:30 - 15:30 | Church Lane,Marks Tey,CO6 1LW,GB, Church Lane,Marks Tey,CO6 1LW,GB
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 know why these pieces wedged themselves into the cultural background of medieval Europe. The music is fabulous.Cover Story tracks connections between people, places, texts and music. It follows the evolution of popular late medieval melodies across Europe as they are copied, rearranged and repurposed over years, and even decades.Catchy dances and lyrical chansons, ingenious rounds and dazzling divisions by Machaut, Dufay, Wolkenstein, Bedyngham, Binchois, and many unnamed masters.Inspired by the virtuosic wind players of the Middle Ages, Blondel bring you their signature rousing blend of shawms and bagpipes, and introspective mix of recorders.Since bringing Cover Story to Colchester Early Music in February Blondel have been busy finding more wonderful music, making new arrangements, performing all over the counrty and recording an album. Now they’re back to share their latest discoveries with us!Refreshments will be served after the concert, with donations to church funds

The Rec Halloween Community Market
2025-10-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Colchester old heath Recreation Ground, Colchester old heath Recreation Ground
🎃 The Rec Community Market – Sunday 5th October 🎃📍 Old Heath Recreation Ground, Colchester🕙 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Get ready for a spook-tacular day at The Rec Community Market this Halloween weekend! Join us for a fun day of local traders, and family-friendly vibes.
Here’s what’s brewing:
🛍️ Over 25 stalls – handmade crafts, ghoulish goodies, spooky homeware & more🍔 Delicious hot food and drinks from local vendors🍰 Cakes, bakes, treats, and other wickedly sweet delights🎈 Bouncy castles and kids’ activities
Come in costume or just come for the fun – there’s something for everyone!
Free entry – everyone welcome!
Let’s support our local makers, enjoy fang-tastic food, and celebrate community spirit together 🕸️🙌

Unbelievable Truth - Arts Centre, Colchester
2025-10-04 19:30 - 22:30 | Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester Arts Centre
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.

Dookie a tribute to Green Day & Blinked 182
2025-10-04 19:00 - 22:00 | 60 High Street, CO1 1DN Colchester, United Kingdom, 60 High Street, CO1 1DN Colchester, United Kingdom
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 classics
Doors 7 PM
This 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 hand-railed flights of stairs to reach the top floor, with rest opportunities between each flight.

Willow Basket Weaving Workshop
2025-10-04 10:30 - 13:30 | The Lexden Crown, Bistro Pub – Colchester, The Lexden Crown, Bistro Pub - Colchester
Come and weave a Willow Basket at The Lexden Crown
Lunch or a Hot Beverage and Cake included.
All materials provided
Book your place via Eventbrite (fees apply), our website: https://www.thecreativeworkshopcompany.co.uk/event-details/weave-a-willow-basket
or email info@thecreativeworkshopcompany.co.uk and pay by Paypal or Bank transfer (No Fees Apply)

Folk & Bespoke Artisan Craft Fair
2025-10-04 10:00 - 15:00 | Firstsite Colchester, Firstsite Colchester
Artisan Craft Fair, on Saturday 4th October, 10am-3pm, free entry, at Firstsite, Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester CO1 1JH. Folk & Bespoke prides itself as being different, not the same boring shops that you see around town, bringing you the same cheap, unethical goods. Folk & Bespoke aims to bring you something different EVERY month! . We aim to be a unique shopping experience, a celebration of small independent businesses and time served craftspeople. My aim is to put you in the spotlight and support creative communities! My aim is for us to be the go to market for people to shop indie! . I hope that all of us small businesses will support other small businesses! . We are a small town community! You can’t go out without bumping in to someone you know or a familiar face. Our town will grow and this is the time for artisans, creatives and independents to flourish. . The demand is there, the talent is there. Let’s commit to being something different, something better, something great!

The Laughter Zone Comedy Club
2025-10-03 20:00 - 23:00 | Church St, CO1 1NF Colchester, United Kingdom
Tickets £15.50/ £13.50 concessions.Doors open 8pm, show starts 8.30pm.This show is for a seated audience.
Come on in for a riotous night of laughter where the bar will be open throughout.
We get all the big names of comedy on their way up – Eddie Izzard, Billy Bailey, Jimmy Carr and Michael McIntyre have all appeared at our club when they were in the early stages of their careers.
So catch the acts causing a stir on today’s circuit, and you might even be witnessing comedy greatness of tomorrow!
The acts performing are announced on the night.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1228580922300520/?event_time_id=1228580928967186

Beatlemania!
2025-10-03 19:30 - 22:30 | Colchester Charter Hall, Colchester Charter Hall
2025 sees the 60th anniversary of the Beatles 2nd film and 5th album “Help!” and also the 6th album “Rubber Soul”.
The “Ticket to Ride in ‘25” tour will feature a lot of songs from 1965 including Help, Yesterday, Day Tripper, Nowhere Man, and Norwegian Wood.
The rest of the show will include as many other massive songs as possible…She Loves you, I Want To Hold Your Hand, I Feel fine, Yellow Submarine, All You Need is Love, Penny Lane, Hey Jude, Something, Get Back and so many more. . .
Every song is a winner in this note-perfect musical love letter to the Fab Four.
From their mop-top beginnings to the psychedelic highs of Sgt Pepper and beyond, all the biggest hits feature.
This highly acclaimed production brings The Beatles to life, live on stage.
Stunning attention to detail – from the original musical instruments and stitch perfect costumes even down to Lennon and McCartney’s on-stage banter – combines with superb vocals and sublime musicianship.
Money can’t buy you love, but it can get you seats for an evening to remember featuring the biggest and best songs ever recorded, performed live in concert.
Get your ticket to ride back in time in style with the incredible Beatlemania.
