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- The lights are on! The Firstsite Shining Project is now complete
- We have been selected to join the prestigious Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator Programme!
- 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
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- 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
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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
- 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!
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- Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe
- Holiday Fun: Summer 2025 – Drumming
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- Late Shift
- Bring Her Back
- Savages
- 2000 Meters To Andriivka
- The Bad Guys 2
- Hidden Master: The Legacy Of George Platt Lynes
- Dying
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- Four Letters Of Love
- Modigliani – Three Days On The Wing Of Madness
- Superman
- Holiday Fun: Summer 2025 – Afromoves
- Relaxed Hours: Voyager 2000: Worldbeing & Wonder?
- The Goonies (40th Anniversary)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (4K Re-release)
- Holiday Fun: Summer 2025 – LEGO
- Holiday Fun: Summer 2025 - Make
- John Cleese Packs It In
- Amadeus (4K Restoration)
- Next to Normal
- Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo; the Making of an Icon
- Exhibition on Screen: Caravaggio
- Exhibition on Screen: Turner and Constable
- National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step
- National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
- National Theatre Live: Hamlet
- R.E.M. X Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr.
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- Exploring Watercolour with Simon Carter
- Drawing with Charcoal
- Decorate a Trinket Dish with Posca Pens
- YAK: Culture of Curiosities
- Customise your Clothes with Posca Pens
- Voyager 2000: Worldbeing & Wonder?
- MET Opera Live: Eugene Onegin
- MET Opera Live: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
- MET Opera Live: Andrea Chénier
- MET Opera Live: I Puritani
- MET Opera Live: La Sonnambula
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- MET Opera Live: La Bohème
- André Rieu’s 2025 Maastricht Concert: Waltz the Night Away!
- Colchester Record Fair
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- National Theatre Live: Inter Alia
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