What's On
Until Jan 2 - Aladdin, Civic Theatre, Chelmsford. 01245 606505.
Until Jan 27 - Jack and the Beanstalk, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. 01473 295900.
Tuesday - Signals Shorts, Colchester Arts Centre. 01206 500900.
Wednesday - Ruins, Colchester Arts Centre. 01206 500900.
Wednesday - That'll Be The Day, Ipswich Regent. 01473 433100.
Wednesday until Friday - One for the Road and Far Away, Lakeside Theatre, Essex University. 01206 873261.
Wednesday until Saturday - Sleeping Beauty and The Time Machine, Headgate Theatre, Colchester. 01206 366000.
Wednesday until Jan 20 - Mystery of the Blood Beast Horror of Wolfbane Manor Mystery, Sir John Mills Theatre, Ipswich. 01473 211498.
Thursday - Late night shopping and Christmas light switch-on, High Street, Wivenhoe, 6pm to 8pm.
Thursday - Victorian Christmas evening, High Street, Maldon, 7pm.
Thursday - Christmas late night shopping, Clacton town centre.
Thursday - St Osyth School Christmas fair, 6pm.
Thursday - Comedy Hat Club with Griff Griffiths, Dave Zonk, Matt Rudge, Richard Coughlan, Ha! Ha! Bar, Colchester.
Thursday until Saturday - Peter Pan, Youth of Light, St Charles Hall, Clacton.
Thursday until Saturday - Winter ale festival, Kingsway Hall, Dovercourt, 11am to 11pm.
Thursday until Jan 13 - Jack and the Beanstalk, Mercury Theatre, Colchester. 01206 573948.
Friday - Silky, Christian Reilly and Jefferson and Whitfield, Colchester Arts Centre. 01206 500900.
Friday - Mersea Lights-Up, West Mersea, 6.30pm to 8pm.
Friday - Christmas procession and market, Connaught Avenue, Frinton, 6pm to 9pm.
Friday - Christmas Fair, Langenhoe primary school, 6pm to 8.30pm.
Friday - Late night shopping event, Harwich Town Centre.
Friday - Walton Farmers' market, Columbine Centre, 9am to 12pm.
Friday until Monday - A Winter's Tale, Maldon Town Hall. 01621 841491.
Saturday - Christmas Saturday Spectacular, Walton Town Centre, 2pm to 6pm.
Saturday - Christmas fair, St Osyth Parish Church, 10am.
Saturday - Christmas fair, Methodist Church, Crossways, Jaywick, 11am to 2pm.
Saturday and Sunday - A Bit of a Do, Museum of Power, Langford. 01621 843183.
Saturday and Sunday - Christmas tree festival, All Saints Church Brightlingsea.
Saturday until Dec 23 - Days out with Santa and Thomas, East Anglian Railway Museum, Chappel. 01206 242524.
Sunday - Dickensian Christmas Market, Grove Centre, Witham, 10am to 4pm.
Live Music
Tuesday - Forever Falling, Kill Jezebel, Ar, Death In Moscow, The Twist, Colchester. 01206 562453.
Tuesday - Dane Stevens, Stanway Rovers Football Club, New Farm Road, Colchester.
Tuesday - The Wonder Stuff, Sub Zero, Essex University.
Wednesday - Rainer Hersch, Colchester Institute.
Wednesday - Wayne Martin, Cramphorn Theatre, Chelmsford, 1pm.
Wednesday - Howbridge Junior School Choir and Instrumentalists. Witham United Reformed Church, 1pm.
Wednesday - Stour Choral Society, Mistley Parish Church.
Wednesday - First Notes School of Music. Copford Village Hall.
Wednesday - Jesus College Choir, St Andrew's Church, Halstead.
Thursday - Max Tundra, Bad Loader, Colchester Arts Centre. 01206 500900.
Thursday - The Rues, Cyclosarin, Nex, The Twist, Colchester. 01206 562453.
Thursday - Bocking Concert Brass, Braintree Male Voice Choir, Christ Church, Braintree.
Thursday - Pete Quin and friends, The Greyhound, Wivenhoe. 01026 827759.
Friday - Music and Readings for Christmas. Chelmsford Cathedral, 12.30pm.
Friday - Carved From Violence, Timefall, Overrider, The Twist, Colchester. 01206 562453.
Friday - FX, Malsters, Colchester.
Friday - Ruth Palmer (violin) and Alexei Grynyuk (piano), Constable Hall, East Bergholt. 01206 299448.
Friday - AloneMe, High Barn, Great Bardfield. 01371 811291.
Friday - The Mighty Resonators, Molly Malones, Colchester.
Friday - Colne Harmony Ladies Barbershop, St Michael's Church, Myland, 7.30pm. 01206 851743.
Friday - Cockney Jocks, The Blackhorse pub, Stratford St Mary.
Friday - Peter King Quartet, Jazz at the Fleece, Boxford. 01787 211865.
Saturday - Christmas Cracker Concert, Charter Hall, Colchester. 01206 282020.
Saturday - St Botolph's Music Society Mozart Concerts, St Botolph's Church, Colchester. 01206 577905.
Saturday - Orange Goblin, Quantum Bigfoot, Colchester Arts Centre. 01206 500900.
Saturday - Steffi Hayward, Ha! Ha! Bar, Colchester, 1.30pm.
Saturday - Harwich Royal British Legion Brass Band Christmas concert, Dovercourt High School, 3pm to 6pm.
Saturday - Abbatoir, The Amberplan, Traffic To Nowhere, The Twist, Colchester. 01206 562453.
Saturday - Mohawk, Molly Malones, Colchester.
Saturday - Essex Police Christmas Cracker Concert, Charter Hall, Colchester. 01206 282020.
Saturday - Bach to Brubeck, Trinity Free Church, Mistley.
Saturday - A Winter Tapestry concert, Trinity Methodist Church, Clacton.
Saturday - Coope, Boyes and Simpson, Fraser Sisters, Georgina Boyes, Cramphorn Theatre, Chelmsford. 01245 606505.
Saturday - Southern Soul Machine, The Rifleman, Braintree.
Sunday - Dave Lewis 1Up, Colchester Arts Centre. 01206 500900.
Sunday - Colchester Choral Society carol concert, Charter Hall, Colchester. 01206 282020.
Sunday - Rotary Carol concert, Princes Theatre, Clacton, 3pm.
Sunday - Washboard Syncopators, Colchester Jazz Club, New Farm Road, Stanway.
Sunday - Welsummer Singers, Read House day centre, Frinton seafront, 2.30pm.
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