Events

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 [...]

People, cafes, vendors, street merchants, buskers, historic buildings, art installations and much more. The power of observation underpins the art of great street photography. Learning to "see" interesting detail is [...]

Gundam Card Game Starter Deck Launch Event Curious about the new Gundam Card Game? Join us on Saturday, 12th July for the Starter Deck Launch Event, and get your hands-on one of the 4 new starter decks for the game.Entry includes a Gundam Starter Deck (1-4) which you'll then use, unaltered, in a casual tournament [...]

The tour is approximately 30-45 minutes long and will run on Saturday, 12 July, at 2 PM.Colchester Castle is offering free* monthly tours focusing on LGBTQ+ historical figures and themes, open to anyone with an interest in new historical perspectives. Each tour promises a unique exploration of LGBTQ+ history, and no two tours will be [...]

Sausage and Cider Festival returns to Colchester on Saturday 12th of July 2025!🎟 - SOLD OUThttps://www.sausageandciderfest.co.uk/colchesterHEADLINERS:🎸REEF&🎸THE HOOSIERSSPECIAL GUESTS:🔥BARRIOKE - UK’s biggest Karaoke Host🔥KEVIN AND PERRY - 25 years of Kevin & Perry Go Large🔥BIG JOHN - Sausage eating contest special guest referee ⚡Queen Tribute⚡Elton John tribute⚡Fleetwood Mac tribute⚡Gerry Cinnamon Tribute⚡Oasis tributeJoin us for a day [...]

Design, typeset & print a card to take away!Using an original Adana letterpress printing machine, during the session you will learn the basic introductory principles of letterpress, how to use and set up the presses to print a business card and how you can access equipment at the Makerspace in the future.Led by our Associate [...]

Punks dead #2 all dayer comes to you from the incredible twm Colchester. Join us for a day of punk grunge and rock to help raise money for lighthouse women’s abuse charity. Tickets are £10 for the whole day For tickets please go here. https://www.skiddle.com/e/41113431

The Punk Freud are proud to be playing in support of anti racism in our society. Accurate times and details will be announced soon. ✊

Raz: An almost entirely instrumental 3-piece band featuring Dan Goldstone on guitar, Pera Frank on bass, and George Krethlow-Shaw on drums. Raz's original music is a blend of Jazz, Funk, Surf, Pop, Rock Fusion; with the mission of pushing musical boundaries."Raz is one of the most unique fusion bands in Essex. With their constant changes [...]

It’s Saturday night at the movies!We’ll be taking you through films with those iconic classical pieces: Apocalypse Now, The Blues Brothers, Brief Encounter, and Eyes Wide Shut to name just a few.With soloist Thérèse Miller on piano for Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2.ProgrammeRachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, IntermezzoWagner: Ride of the ValkyriesGrieg: Peer [...]

Tickets £23.50 / £21.50 concessions.Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8pm.This gig is for a seated audience.Making a welcome return to Colchester Arts Centre, this dynamic 10 piece will once again be ‘Reelin’ in the years’ performing a selection of songs from the canon of Steely Dan’s legendary catalogue including such wonderfully crafted classics as Rikki don’t [...]

Our biggest event of the year, a special one to celebrate 200 years of rail travel.Following in the success of our Chappel 175 event in 2024 where we bought the community together, we're doing it again.Come along and celebrate 200 years of rail travel, which will include the official opening of our new Exhibition Hall.As [...]