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Afro Futures_UK: Unravelling New Futures
Saturday 25 January - Sunday 31 May 2020
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
During our temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be sharing our exhibitions such as this one online. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to discover featured artworks, see behind the scenes, listen to audio descriptions…
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Kevin Howbrook: Colour Coded
Saturday 25 January - Sunday 31 May 2020
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
During our temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be sharing our exhibitions such as this one online. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to discover featured artworks, see behind the scenes, listen to audio descriptions…
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Unboxing Alex Frost
Saturday 8 February - Sunday 31 May 2020
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
During our temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be sharing our exhibitions such as this one online. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to discover featured artworks, see behind the scenes, listen to audio descriptions…
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Mark Titchner: Some questions about Colchester
Friday 13 March 2020 - Monday 1 March 2021
Artist Mark Titchner is producing a new series of public artworks across Colchester, entitled Some questions about Colchester which will be placed in the windows of vacant shop units around the town centre. This follows on from Mark‘s recent…
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Tell me the story of all these things
Saturday 28 March - Sunday 28 June 2020
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
During our temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be sharing our exhibitions such as this one online. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to discover featured artworks, see behind the scenes, listen to audio descriptions…
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Boudicca: The Face of a Celtic World
Thursday 11 June 2020
6:00 pm
This talk is taking place as a Facebook Live event. Please visit our Facebook page to watch live on Thursday 11th June 6pm. Join historian and honorary fellow of the Department of History at The University of Essex,…
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Bazaar | Art and Food Market
Saturday 20 June 2020
10:30 am
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Please note: The Bazaar is currently cancelled as a precautionary measure due to the current coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
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Art in the Community
Wednesday 24 June 2020
2:00 pm
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Please note: some Art in the Community events are currently cancelled as a precautionary measure due to the current coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
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Colchester Record Fair
Saturday 18 July 2020
10:00 am
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Please note: Record Fair events are currently cancelled as a precautionary measure due to the current coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
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How refugees saved Colchester
Thursday 24 September 2020
7:30 pm
In the sixteenth century, large numbers of skilled craftspeople from lowland Europe made their way to Essex. As religious refugees, they sought peace – and the opportunity to ply their trades. Join historian and honorary fellow of the Department…
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Thatcher: The Colchester years
Thursday 26 November 2020
7:30 pm
A member of Colchester’s hockey club and the borough’s Young Conservative group, Oxford chemistry graduate Margaret Roberts wrote extensively from her lodgings in Cambridge Road, Colchester – as she secured the early stages of her political career. Join historian…
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