The Urban Wild & Other Disturbances: An Evening of Performance, Conversation & Ecology

Following on from the first Wild Essex Imaginarium on Sept 27th 2025, we’re pleased to announce a further event on the evening of Thurs 12th Feb 2026 at Colchester’s Common Ground.

Our encounters with the neglected corners of urban decay, the rubble-strewn, derelict constructions, cracked concrete, and weed-infested edges, can sometimes feel like interruptions in the ordered experiences of city life. Yet this perturbing sense of uncontrollable, out-of-place, unsettled, and undesirable urban experience can often overlook broader modes of disturbance that function as forces, constantly transforming our environments, imaginations, and collective futures.

This free and open-to-all event invites you to consider concepts and practices of disturbance, not as unwelcome ruptures in predictable everyday urban experience, but as openings to something gainfully unintentional, unexpected, and perceptibly surprising.