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Dec
18
Mon
2023
Harwich & Dovercourt Camera Club
Dec 18 @ 7:30 pm
Every Monday from 7.30pm – new members welcome – all skill levels suitable.  £3 plus membership.
Visit www.harwichcameraclub.co.uk to find out more.
Dec
19
Tue
2023
Ballet Barre Class (Adults)
Dec 19 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Adult Ballet Barre Class Tuesday mornings at the Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre.
Barre Class Harwich
10am to 11am.
Get fit for FREE. No experience necessary.  Everyone welcome!
Call 01255 507131
Christmas Quiz At Kingsway Hall.
Dec 19 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Come and join Harwich Museum on the 19th December 2023 8PM – 10PM at Kingsway Hall.
If you would like to take part please email [email protected]
Dec
25
Mon
2023
Harwich & Dovercourt Camera Club
Dec 25 @ 7:30 pm
Every Monday from 7.30pm – new members welcome – all skill levels suitable.  £3 plus membership.
Visit www.harwichcameraclub.co.uk to find out more.
Dec
26
Tue
2023
Ballet Barre Class (Adults)
Dec 26 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Adult Ballet Barre Class Tuesday mornings at the Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre.
Barre Class Harwich
10am to 11am.
Get fit for FREE. No experience necessary.  Everyone welcome!
Call 01255 507131
Dec
28
Thu
2023
Harwich Library Coffee Mornings.
Dec 28 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Harwich Coffee Mornings – A chance to make new friends and have a chat over a cup of coffee. Everyone welcome.

Upper Kingsway, Dovercourt, Harwich CO12 3JT. Free event! No need to book. Every Thursday 10AM-11:30AM.

 

Dec
30
Sat
2023
Harwich Shanty Festival Treasure Hunt
Dec 30 @ 12:00 pm
Harwich Shanty Festival Treasure Hunt at The Alma Inn Harwich. 30th December from 12pm.
A walking tour of Old Harwich with cryptic and picture clues. Suitable for all the family.

£5 per adult or £12 per family (max 2 adults)

Dec
31
Sun
2023
New Years With Parkeston Railway Club.
Dec 31 @ 7:00 pm
Join The Parkeston Railway Club on 31st December to celebrate New Years!
Adults £5 – Children £2
7:30PM till late at The Parkeston Railway Club Hamilton Street, Harwich, United Kingdom.
New Years with The British Flag Harwich
Dec 31 @ 7:00 pm
The British Flag Harwich are inviting you to a tickets only event to celebrate New Years on 31st December 9PM-1AM. 56 West Street, Harwich, Essex, CO12 3DD.

Tickets £5 this includes first drink!

Please contact The British Flag Harwich to book your tickets.
Harwich Quay New Year Fireworks Spectacular
Dec 31 2023 @ 11:45 pm – Jan 1 2024 @ 12:30 am
The Harwich Quay New Year Fireworks Spectacular is organised by the Harwich Quay Fireworks Committee.
For more information contact Betty at 01255 503349.
📸 The Harwich Society – website
Jan
4
Thu
2024
Harwich Library Coffee Mornings.
Jan 4 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Harwich Coffee Mornings – A chance to make new friends and have a chat over a cup of coffee. Everyone welcome.

Upper Kingsway, Dovercourt, Harwich CO12 3JT. Free event! No need to book. Every Thursday 10AM-11:30AM.

 

Jan
11
Thu
2024
Harwich Library Coffee Mornings.
Jan 11 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Harwich Coffee Mornings – A chance to make new friends and have a chat over a cup of coffee. Everyone welcome.

Upper Kingsway, Dovercourt, Harwich CO12 3JT. Free event! No need to book. Every Thursday 10AM-11:30AM.

 

Jan
18
Thu
2024
Harwich Library Coffee Mornings.
Jan 18 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Harwich Coffee Mornings – A chance to make new friends and have a chat over a cup of coffee. Everyone welcome.

Upper Kingsway, Dovercourt, Harwich CO12 3JT. Free event! No need to book. Every Thursday 10AM-11:30AM.

 

Jan
20
Sat
2024
Digital Harwich Live!
Jan 20 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Join Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre Saturday 20th January 2024 for a jam packed day of FREE interactive fun at Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre.📣

Digital Harwich is a family friendly event celebrating digital creativity, with video games from local game developers, music from local electronic artists and animation and video game making workshop from Signals.

All for FREE!

 

Jan
22
Mon
2024
Harwich and Dovercourt Camera Club!
Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Harwich & Dovercourt Camera Club! A chance to improve your skills and make friends while doing it!

Main Road , Harwich, United Kingdom

Every Monday 7PM – 10PM

Contact 01255 507131 for more information.

Jan
24
Wed
2024
Safe Haven – Leslie Brent’ exhibition
Jan 24 @ 11:00 am – Jan 27 @ 3:45 pm

The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust (HKMLT) is pleased to present a very special exhibition at the Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre from Wednesday 24th – Wednesday 31st January 2024. The exhibition, “Safe Haven – Leslie Brent” highlights his amazing journey on the Kindertransport – one of the largest acts of rescue in the whole of the Nazi era – and the life he made for himself in Britain. He was one of the 10,000 mostly Jewish children who were sent to safety in Britain from 1938-1939, and like many of the children, he arrived in the Essex port of Harwich.

Safe Haven Exhibition Harwich

The exhibition coincides with and commemorates the 85th Anniversary of the Kindertransport as well as Holocaust Memorial Day 2024.  HKMLT unveiled a memorial ‘Safe Haven’ on the Harwich quayside in September 2022. For further information please visit www.kindertransport-memorial.org

Arts and Heritage Centre, Main Road, Harwich CO12 4AJ.
Times: Wednesday 24th January: 11.00am -3.45pm.
Thursday 25th- Wednesday 31st January: 10.15am – 3.45pm.
Saturday 27th January: 10.15 am – 3.00pm.
Free entry.

Jan
25
Thu
2024
Harwich Library Coffee Mornings.
Jan 25 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Harwich Coffee Mornings – A chance to make new friends and have a chat over a cup of coffee. Everyone welcome.

Upper Kingsway, Dovercourt, Harwich CO12 3JT. Free event! No need to book. Every Thursday 10AM-11:30AM.

 

Jan
26
Fri
2024
Holocaust Memorial Day
Jan 26 @ 11:00 am

Harwich Holocaust Memorial Day, Friday 26th January at 11AM on Harwich Quay.  All are welcome.

Kindertransport memorial. Photo credit Maria Fowler
Kindertransport memorial. Photo credit Maria Fowler

In addition, an illumination of Harwich’s High Lighthouse in purple will take place over the nights of Friday 26th, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th January.

 

For further information please contact:
Lucy Ballard, clerk to Harwich Town Council, on 01255 507211
Sue Daish of the Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust at [email protected]
Or visit www.harwichtowncouncil.co.uk

Organised by Harwich Town Council alongside the Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust.

‘Bells Across Cardigan Bay’ – Spoken By Jan Williams
Jan 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

‘Bells Across Cardigan Bay’ – spoken by Jan Williams! Taking place at: The Navigator Hall, Barrack Lane, Harwich. CO12 3NP at 7:30PM – 9PM.

For more information please contact The Harwich Society.

Jan
29
Mon
2024
Harwich and Dovercourt Camera Club!
Jan 29 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Harwich & Dovercourt Camera Club! A chance to improve your skills and make friends while doing it!

Main Road , Harwich, United Kingdom

Every Monday 7PM – 10PM

Contact 01255 507131 for more information.

Feb
1
Thu
2024
Harwich Library Coffee Mornings.
Feb 1 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Harwich Coffee Mornings – A chance to make new friends and have a chat over a cup of coffee. Everyone welcome.

Upper Kingsway, Dovercourt, Harwich CO12 3JT. Free event! No need to book. Every Thursday 10AM-11:30AM.

 

Feb
3
Sat
2024
Two Man Ting
Feb 3 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

TwoManTing at Harwich Festival of the Arts,
📆Saturday 3rd February.
⏰7.30pm
🎟£12

More information at www.harwichfestival.com/

 

Feb
5
Mon
2024
Harwich and Dovercourt Camera Club!
Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Harwich & Dovercourt Camera Club! A chance to improve your skills and make friends while doing it!

Main Road , Harwich, United Kingdom

Every Monday 7PM – 10PM

Contact 01255 507131 for more information.

Feb
8
Thu
2024
Harwich Library Coffee Mornings.
Feb 8 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Harwich Coffee Mornings – A chance to make new friends and have a chat over a cup of coffee. Everyone welcome.

Upper Kingsway, Dovercourt, Harwich CO12 3JT. Free event! No need to book. Every Thursday 10AM-11:30AM.

 

Feb
9
Fri
2024
Treasure Island, A Swashbuckling Family Panto.
Feb 9 @ 7:30 pm

Dramatic Pause Productions presents in association with Ben Crocker Pantomimes, an adaptation of his family friendly pantomime version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s epic adventure novel; Treasure Island.

Friday 9th February, 7:30PM.

Saturday 10th February, 2:30PM.

Sunday 11th February, 2:30PM.

Tickets are £10 for adults, £5 for children/concessions.

To book your tickets please contact Dramatic Pause Productions at https://www.facebook.com/dramaticpauseproductions?locale=en_GB

Feb
10
Sat
2024
Treasure Island, A Swashbuckling Family Panto.
Feb 10 @ 7:30 pm

Dramatic Pause Productions presents in association with Ben Crocker Pantomimes, an adaptation of his family friendly pantomime version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s epic adventure novel; Treasure Island.

Friday 9th February, 7:30PM.

Saturday 10th February, 2:30PM.

Sunday 11th February, 2:30PM.

Tickets are £10 for adults, £5 for children/concessions.

To book your tickets please contact Dramatic Pause Productions at https://www.facebook.com/dramaticpauseproductions?locale=en_GB

Feb
11
Sun
2024
Treasure Island, A Swashbuckling Family Panto.
Feb 11 @ 7:30 pm

Dramatic Pause Productions presents in association with Ben Crocker Pantomimes, an adaptation of his family friendly pantomime version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s epic adventure novel; Treasure Island.

Friday 9th February, 7:30PM.

Saturday 10th February, 2:30PM.

Sunday 11th February, 2:30PM.

Tickets are £10 for adults, £5 for children/concessions.

To book your tickets please contact Dramatic Pause Productions at https://www.facebook.com/dramaticpauseproductions?locale=en_GB

Feb
12
Mon
2024
Harwich and Dovercourt Camera Club!
Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Harwich & Dovercourt Camera Club! A chance to improve your skills and make friends while doing it!

Main Road , Harwich, United Kingdom

Every Monday 7PM – 10PM

Contact 01255 507131 for more information.

Music Quiz Night
Feb 12 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

The next Music Quiz Night is on Monday 12th Feb and is for teams of up to eight at £2 per head.  The quiz will take place in the rear hall of the Royal Oak public house and will begin at 8PM. In aid of the Ark Centre.

Harwich Society music quizzes consist of 100 pieces of popular music in medleys of ten including songs from the 1960s to the present day and all teams have to do is name the artist. There is something for everyone and those taking part can be assured of an evening full of singing and laughter.

Feb
15
Thu
2024
Harwich Library Coffee Mornings.
Feb 15 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Harwich Coffee Mornings – A chance to make new friends and have a chat over a cup of coffee. Everyone welcome.

Upper Kingsway, Dovercourt, Harwich CO12 3JT. Free event! No need to book. Every Thursday 10AM-11:30AM.

 


These are not Harwich Haven Authority events. Please contact the event organiser directly with any queries.