Press release: The first episode filmed at Colchester’s Firstsite, will air Sunday 8 September on BBC One at 20.00 An episode of one of the BBC’s most celebrated programmes, Antiques Roadshow, will be broadcast this Sunday, featuring…
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Press release: Leonora Carrington: Avatars & Alliances 26 October – 23 February 2025 This autumn, the first exhibition of Leonora Carrington’s artwork in the East of England will take place at Firstsite in Colchester. Leonora Carrington:…
Find out all the details about our limited series workshop Discovering Art with Jevan Watkins Jones in a special interview with the artist.
Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team will be back on the road this summer filming, and we are delighted that Firstsite has been selected as one of the locations for the series!
Open 23 March – 23 June 2024 The award-winning artist David Lock brings an exciting mix of existing work and new paintings to Firstsite in early spring for his first solo public exhibition. The Colchester setting is also…
With EA Sustain 2024 around the corner, we talked to Joanne Ooi, founder of the festival, about the upcoming event in January. EA Sustain is a weekend festival about Environment, Culture and Entrepreneurship that launched in January 2023…
To coincide with the reopening of its upgraded cinema on Thursday 23 November, Firstsite is launching a membership scheme that will give culture lovers UNLIMITED FREE access to all its standard film screenings over a 12-month period, along with…
Saturday 14 October 2023 – Sunday 14 April 2024 Claire Cansick’s (b.1971) new exhibition, You and I Are Earth – her first in a public gallery – acts as a stark reminder of the increasingly damaging effects of climate…
The Firstsite Collectors’ Group Bursary Awards scheme aims to support artists working in Essex and Suffolk with their professional career development. These annual awards are made possible through the Collectors’ Group continuing engagement and interest in contemporary visual art in the region.
We will be upgrading our cinema at the end of October to improve our sound system, lighting and projection system.