Wild Essex Imaginarium
2025-09-27 11:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Essex Business School, University of Essex

Wild Essex Imaginarium at Common Ground Colchester
2026-02-12 18:30 - 22:00
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.

Neighbourhood Health & the Maldon District
2026-03-13 11:30 - 14:00 | Maldon and Tiptree Football Club, Park Drive, Maldon, Essex, CM9 5JQ, United Kingdom
Hear about Neighbourhood Health planning and what the future opportunities might be for community, voluntary and cultural/heritage sectors
This event is organised in partnership between Maldon & District CVS and Cultural Engine CIC.
The event is all about awareness raising relating to the changes in relation to the NHS and wider health sector – what this might mean for community, voluntary, culture/heritage and environmental organisations in the future, and how they can help to support public health outcomes.
Find out more about ongoing work to develop Neighbourhood Health Plans, what is happening with the restructuring of the NHS and Public Health systems (including Integrated Care Boards), and discover more about what opportunities there could be for community and voluntary sector, as well as related sectors such as cultural, heritage, environmental to play a role in Neighbourhood Health delivery over the coming years.
Information and outputs from the event will help to inform the Maldon District Culture & Heritage Strategy, and there will be a focus on developing creative health initiatives at the event.
Aimed at the community, voluntary, creative and heritage sectors across the Maldon District (and beyond). This event will explore the concept of ‘Neighbourhood Health’ in relation to the Government’s 10-Year Plan for the NHS. This will include reflecting on a broad interpretation of ‘Neighbourhood Health’ and the importance of ‘prevention’ in relation to public health outcomes, considering how there is likely to be an increased focus on the community and voluntary sector, and opportunities for a holistic approach to prevention including participatory activities such as creative health and environmental engagement.

Maldon District Arts & Cultural Gathering - Culture and Heritage Strategy
2026-03-30 18:00 - 20:30 | Datum Attitude Brewery & Taproom, The Causeway, Unit 8, Maldon, Essex, CM9 4XL, United Kingdom
Gather with others working/volunteering in the arts and cultural sectors across the Maldon District. Update on Culture & Heritage Strategy

A gathering event for anyone working or volunteering in the arts and cultural sectors in the Maldon District. Held at the excellent Datum Attitude Brewery & Taproom in Heybridge. Hosted by Cultural Engine CIC who are working on a Culture & Heritage Strategy for District, this is a chance to get updated on progress and to feed in thoughts and issues.
Format will be – A short presentation on the strategy, introductions to local art groups, a presentation on creative health, and network/discussion and food!
This covers arts and culture in a comprehensive sense – art, dance, performance, drama, literature and spoken word for example. Join others from across the District and let us know what you think the challenges and opportunities are for cultural development. It will be an opportunity for networking and to hear what Cultural Engine CIC and others have to say about the work on the strategy so far. This will include insights on events, creative health, collaboration, space, environment/nature recovery, changes to local government and funding. It will all be relevant!
