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  • Cherry Orchard Country Park

    WI Hall Rochford West Street

    An open session to discuss how future Events and Cultural programming at Cherry Orchard Country Park could support broad engagement with Culture and Heritage. With free food and drinks! The Cultural Engine are holding an event to discuss the potential for an events programme at Cherry Orchard Country Park, and how this can play a…

    Free
  • CERG Talk at Royal Geographical Society – 1st September 2023 (2pm)

    A Cultural Engine Research Group talk, we will present an initial paper blending interdisciplinary emotion research (from mental health, social psychology and affect theory) and ‘on the ground’ non-academic expertise of delivering local heritage projects in Essex. The ambition will be to influence and impact local policy around levelling-up and pride in place policy. Giles…

  • CERG Event at Conway Hall London – What is the point of Modern Universities?

    A Cultural Engine Research Group Event - Is Toby Young, former non-executive director at the Office for Students, right to denigrate (modern) university provision when he states, ‘why spend three years doing media studies at a second-rate university when you could find a better-paid job after getting a qualification in a skilled occupation at a…

  • Wild Essex Imaginarium at Common Ground Colchester

    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,…