Shuff n Byng: A Celebration of two Drag Pioneers

The Electric Palace King’s Quay Street, Harwich

Harwich based Slaget Theatre is thrilled to announce its next production in development. Shuff & Byng is an exploration of the lives, work, and enduring legacy of Douglas Byng and Mrs. Shufflewick – two iconic figures who pioneered the art of female impersonation long before the era of RuPaul's Drag Race.Douglas "bawdy but British" Byng was the UK's...

Free – £15

The Foraging Fan Club

Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre Main Road, Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

Join Helen Wood as she heads into the great outdoors, with her trusty trug, on a quest to become an expert forager. In this quirky, feel-good comedy all aspects of foraging are unearthed and celebrated – the challenges, the dangers and the joy of discovering a new type of berry to turn into jam.Even if...

£10

Harwich Festival @ The Artisan Market

Orwell Place Dovercourt Town Centre, Essex

Join us at the Artisan Market at Orwell Place for a fantastic day of music, arts and market stalls.Acts include Balkan Hill (Balkan music), She Brings the Rain, Sandalstick Theatre,...

Free

Teen Blackout Poetry Workshop

Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre Main Road, Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

For all you budding authors and artists - Join us for a creative workshop transforming discarded book pages into poetry. Using the text already on the page and blacking out the words you don’t need you can create your own poem - and it doesn’t even have to rhyme!The finished work can be as simple or...

Free

The House of Evening Light

Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre Main Road, Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

Veteran comedy duo Open Secret (James Poulter, Phil Knight ) have reformed and teamed up with Musician songwriter  Mike Gosling to create the ‘House of Evening Light’.Rollicking Romp through our existential worries. From AI to climate change, the kitchen sink, to the edge of the Galaxy.This trip through the Zeitgeist is not quite like anything you...

£10

Jazz & Blues Day

New Bell Inn Outpart Eastward, Harwich, Essex

🎷 JAZZ AND BLUES DAYSponsored by:The New Bell Inn, Thai Up at the Quay, Seaview B&B, Peartree Carpet, Chris & Celia Strachan, Pete Woodman, Andy Schooler, Richard Flatt1:00 PM – JACK MONCK TRIOElectric bassist Jack Monck leads a specially formed trio featuring:Jack’s storied career began with the band Delivery, playing alongside Steve and Phil Miller...

Free

Film 183: Caravaggio

The Electric Palace King’s Quay Street, Harwich

The Harwich Festival has joined forces with Film183, a film society established to support the Electric Palace cinema, to present a special movie day for all-comers.The Film183 committee elected to show two bio-pictures reflecting both art and music.The afternoon screening will be of Derek Jarman's 1986 film Caravaggio, a fictionalised account of the life of...

£8

Film 183: Mahler

The Electric Palace King’s Quay Street, Harwich

The Harwich Festival has joined forces with Film183, a film society established to support the Electric Palace cinema, to present a special movie day for all-comers.The Film183 committee elected to show two bio-pictures reflecting both art and music.The afternoon screening will be of Derek Jarman's 1986 film Caravaggio, a fictionalised account of the life of...

£8

The Seeds of Love – Music for a Magic Garden by Alva

Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre Main Road, Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

Join us in our community garden at the Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre.The Seeds of Love - Music for a Magic GardenBritish folk and early music, with songs of nature, love, fairies and spirits, interwoven with lively jigs and reelsVivien Ellis – voice | Giles Lewin – fiddle & voiceVivien Ellis and Giles Lewin first...

£15

CVST Walk (Dovercourt)

West End Lane Car Park

The sun is sure to be shining so why not join the CVST Walking Group? You might just see some Art on the way!

Free

Peter Clayton: Organ Recital

Redoubt Fort

"Peter Clayton first played the organ when he was a young chorister at Waltham Abbey, but it was only after retiring from teaching that he switched his allegiance from flute playing and...

Free