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- We’re making changes to our cinema prices with new ways to save for our audiences.
- Firstsite Collectors’ Group Bursary Awards 2025
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- We have been selected to join the prestigious Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator Programme!
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- Discovering Art with Jevan Watkins Jones: Preview of his upcoming workshop at Firstsite
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- 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
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- 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
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- Firstsite shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year
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- Brain Fresh: Journeys through your imagination
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- Firstsite Director Sally Shaw Awarded MBE
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- Firstsite is shortlisted for Freelands Award
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- Who is Zhang Enli?
- Rare screenings of iconic Crass films at Firstsite coming up
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- Stevphen Shukaitis Q & A on Gee Vaucher’s Introspective.
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- Firstsite Collectors’ Group Bursary Awards invest in eight more exciting talents from our region
- Make Double the Impact: Inspire the Next Generation of Artists
- New exhibitions coming up in 2025-26
- 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
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- Die My Love
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- The Choral
- Palestine 36 (Captioned)
- Palestine 36
- CBeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella
- Holiday Fun: December 2025 - Make
- Pets On A Train (Parent & Baby)
- David Downes Drawing Live
- Merrily We Roll Along
- Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (Captioned)
- Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
- The Smashing Machine
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- Roofman
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- After The Hunt
- The House of Mirth (25th Anniversary)
- Souleymane’s Story
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- The Mastermind
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- After The Hunt (Captioned)
- OperaGlass Works: La Traviata
- Romanian Film Festival Screening: Traffic + Q&A
- Air Dry Clay Decorations
- Family Card Making
- Nutcracker Gingerbread Decorating
- 12 Months in Essex + Q&A with Simon Carter and Noah Carter
- TASAF Lecture: The Art of Ballet – Jennifer Toynbee-Holmes
- Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape
- André Rieu’s 2025 Christmas Concert: Merry Christmas
- Picasso: A Rebel in Paris. Story of a Life and a Museum
- Into the Orchard
- How to Paint with Tissue Paper
- Urban Sketching and 3D Workshop with Nicola Burrell
- Urban Sketching Workshop with Nicola Burrell
- Ghafar Tajmohammad: If you throw a stone in the crowd, someone's going to get hurt
- Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo; the Making of an Icon
- Exhibition on Screen: Caravaggio
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- Exploring Watercolour with Simon Carter
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