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• Category: Brain Fresh
  • Brain Fresh: Think differently about being creative
  • Brain Fresh: Think Differently about Togetherness
• Category: News
  • Colchester’s Young Cultural Ambassadors Programme: Ignite Your Passion for the Arts
  • Antiques Roadshow returns for another spectacular search at Firstsite
  • Firstsite Collectors’ Group Bursary Awards 2024
  • Antiques Roadshow’s return to Essex after eight years will broadcast this Sunday
  • Leonora Carrington returns to the region that helped inspire her surrealist world
  • Discovering Art with Jevan Watkins Jones: Preview of his upcoming workshop at Firstsite
  • BBC One’s Antiques Roadshow is coming to Firstsite!
  • Catching up with EA Sustain founder, Joanne Ooi
  • Save cash and support the arts* – Firstsite launches Mosaic Membership scheme
  • Firstsite announces new exhibition – Claire Cansick: You and I Are Earth
  • Firstsite Collectors’ Group Bursary Awards 2023
  • Exciting upgrades are coming to our cinema!
  • Interview with Samantha Barnes – Find out more about our Everyone Can Draw workshops
  • HERE FOR NOW – Shape Your Mind
  • Join the Kids in the City Holiday Fun Art Activity at Firstsite!
  • Announcing our upcoming exhibition EVEWRIGHT: Libation
  • BIG WOMEN take to the street!
  • Firstsite Collectors’ Group Bursary Award Winners Announced
  • The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme celebrates it’s 20th Anniversary at Colchester!
  • “Flourishing localism is key to decarbonisation” – An interview with EA Sustain founder, Joanne Ooi
  • New Exhibition BIG WOMEN – opens 11 February 2023
  • Take a Festive Spin at Firstsite
  • Firstsite awarded £829,515 funding from Arts Council England
  • Young Art Kommunity (YAK) – ‘Home Grown’ Festival
  • Visiting the Firstsite Cinema – our customers’ feedback
  • Volunteering at Firstsite – Pamela’s Volunteering Story
  • Firstsite receives £696,524 from Arts Council’s Capital Investment Programme
  • Firstsite announces 2021 Collectors’ Group Bursary Award Artists
  • Sculpture at Firstsite – Opens 20 November
  • Firstsite is 10!
  • Firstsite wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021
  • The Duke of Gloucester visits Firstsite
  • Press release: @background_bob and his amazing friends – guess who’s back!
  • Firstsite shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year
  • The Great Big Art Exhibition hits the big screens
  • Press Release: New Exhibition Opens – Michael Landy’s Welcome to Essex
  • Press release: New Exhibition
  • Brain Fresh: Journeys through your imagination
  • In Depth with the artist – Rachel Spender: Essex Saltmarsh from the Air
  • Brain Fresh: Think differently about the world around us
  • Brain Fresh: Think differently about community
  • Brain Fresh: Think differently about the home
  • We remain open online to help keep your brain fresh!
  • Firstsite Director Sally Shaw Awarded MBE
  • Peer to Peer: UK/HK
  • The Golden Globe Nominees Come To Firstsite
  • New Art Classes for the New Year: Workshop Leader Interview
  • Art Classes: Autumn 2019
  • Firstsite is shortlisted for Freelands Award
  • Rosie Millard OBE Appointed Chair of Firstsite’s Board of Trustees
  • Artist interview: Emily Mulenga
  • Screen Play
  • BP PORTRAIT AWARD COMES TO FIRSTSITE
  • Who is Zhang Enli?
  • Rare screenings of iconic Crass films at Firstsite coming up
  • Crass Co-Founder Penny Rimbaud to Perform at Firstsite
  • Stevphen Shukaitis Q & A on Gee Vaucher’s Introspective.
  • Eve Libertine with Charles Webber perform Room of Worlds
  • Penny Rimbaud – I AM YET I AM NOT
  • Gee Vaucher Introspective – Curator Q & A
  • Jeremy Deller we’re here because we’re here
  • Category: Press releases
    • Exhibition opening soon – David Lock: In-between Us
• Category: Uncategorized
  • New exhibitions coming up in 2025
  • Firstsite Collector’s Group Bursary Awards invests in exciting projects for tenth year
  • A new exhibition co-curated by Firstsite’s YAK community opens 4 November
  • What happens during a life drawing class?
  • Libation Walking Drawing
  • We’re extending our opening hours!
  • Deaf for 4’33’’ – Interview with artist Chisato Minamimura
  • Arts Council Collection and YAK
  • Benton End | A Space for Artistic Inspiration in East Anglia
  • Firstsite shortlisted for £100,000 national arts award
  • Our commitment to anti-racism
  • Black Lives Matter at Firstsite
  • Painting by numbers: Interview with artist Kevin Howbrook
  • Independent films at Firstsite
  • Firstsite Collectors’ Group Award Winners 2019 Announced
  • Welcome to the new Firstsite website!
  • Cultural Traffic what is it?

Events

• The Foreign Invention of British Art - Leslie Primo
• Carmen Comes Home (JFTFP25)
• Ichiko (JFTFP25)
• Let’s Go Karaoke! (JFTFP25)
• Bushido (JFTFP25)
• Stay Mum (JFTFP25)
• The Scoop (JFTFP25)
• The Inugami Family (JFTFP25)
• Tea Friends (JFTFP25)
• All the Long Nights (JFTFP25)
• 99% Cloudy… Always (JFTFP25)
• (Ab)normal Desire (JFTFP25)
• Ghost Cat Anzu (JFTFP25)
• What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? (JFTFP25)
• The Fragility of Freedom: The Dora Love Prize 2024
• A Girl Named Ann (JFTFP25)
• Oil Painting for Beginners with Jevan Watkins Jones
• Words from Art Poetry Workshop
• Boozy Brushes – Paint Your Pet
• Boozy Brushes – Paint in Pairs
• Better Man
• Better Man (Captioned)
• Mufasa: The Lion King (Relaxed)
• Mufasa: The Lion King (Captioned)
• Mufasa: The Lion King (Parent & Baby)
• Nickel Boys
• On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
• Bird
• Queer
• Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat
• The Contestant + Q&A
• The Contestant
• The Flight of Bryan
• Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Parent & Baby)
• How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
• Spirited Away (Relaxed)
• Spirited Away (Parent & Baby)
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• All We Imagine as Light
• Conclave
• André Rieu’s 75th Birthday Celebration: The Dream Continues
• Inspirational Women Talk and Portrait Workshop
• TASAF Lecture Series: Visual Magic in the Musicals
• TASAF Lecture Series: Roots of Jazz
• TASAF Lecture Series: Mirror Mirror on the Wall
• Writing the Self – Creative Writing Workshop
• National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove
• Bonnie & Clyde The Musical
• A Night With Janis Joplin The Musical
• Nicola Burrell: Concrete Dreams
• The Art Café
• TASAF Lecture Series: A History of World Art in 5 Symbols
• Introduction to Collage
• Halla Groves-Raines: Life in Patterns
• Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo
• TASAF Lecture Series: Arts Hidden Secrets
• Leonora Carrington: Avatars & Alliances
• Colchester Library Rhymetimes at Firstsite
• Exhibition on Screen: Michelangelo: Love and Death
• Exhibition on Screen: Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
• National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest
• YAK | Young Art Kommunity
• Billy Elliot The Musical Live (20th Anniversary)
• Jesus Christ Superstar Live
• Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (40th Anniversary celebration)
• Jane Ostler: Finding the Hand of Kindness
• MET Opera Live: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
• MET Opera Live: Salome
• MET Opera Live: Le Nozze di Figaro
• MET Opera Live: Fidelio
• MET Opera Live: Aida
• The Royal Ballet: Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works
• The Royal Opera: Die Walküre
• The Royal Opera: Turandot
• The Royal Ballet: Romeo & Juliet
• The Royal Ballet: Swan Lake
• Mini Movers & Makers Toddler Group
• Tim Noble & Sue Webster: Love and Hate at Firstsite
• Nature drawing workshop with Lisa Temple-Cox
• Life Drawing with Justine Moss – all levels
• Folk & Bespoke Artisan Craft Market
• Drag Life Drawing with Sirena Hart
• Boozy Brushes
• Dance and Movement for Well-being
• MiniCLIP Colchester
• Art in the Community

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• Claire’s story
• Hayley's story
• Alec’s story
• Alexis' story

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