31st July, 2012
A bar, jumble stalls and a DJ’s – sounds like our idea of a perfect Saturday afternoon here at The Chronic. Which is why we have ring-fenced 8th September from midday through until 5pm when Jumble Fever comes to the ACE Judge and Jury bar down at the foot of Magdalen Street. The idea is [...]
30th July, 2012
Ideas, ambition and anything but APATHY seems to be the order of the day when it comes to the Destination Colchester endorsed bid for Sunny Colch to receive City of Culture status for 2017. We’re treading over old ground (and blog posts) here – but as a basic recap: The Department of Media, Culture and [...]
30th July, 2012
To The Minories! …on Saturday afternoon for the opening weekend of The Masters. Nope, nothing to do with golf – and thank the chuffers for that – but the prestigious end of year show from the postgraduate students at the Colchester School of Art. Masters at The Minories is quite simply immense. With all four [...]
28th July, 2012
Here’s the Sunny Colch catch up from Robert Needham, the official Town Crier of Colchester, following his big day out as part of the 2012 opening ceremony yesterday: “What a day! My reporting time at Portcullis House, Westminster was 07:15. That meant catching the first available train out of Wivenhoe at 05:38. A reliable Circle [...]
27th July, 2012
Psst! Wanna blag £1,500 to help regenerate St Botolph’s? If only it were that easy, Comrades… Our friends from Colchester Borough Council are putting up the short term funding for anyone within Sunny Colch that can come up with some ideas to help patch up the process of turning this part of the town into [...]
26th July, 2012
And so what do you do if you are a lovely hyperlocal organisation that wants to help out Colchester in Bloom but are rather *ahem* reared in by the Sunny Colch weather over the past few months? Make some tea towels of course. Which is exactly what the fine folk of the Level Best Art [...]
25th July, 2012
Time for another update on how the Colchester City of Culture bid for 2017 is shaping up. If effort and output alone are of any significance, the Sunny Colch bid being prepared by Destination Colchester should make Britain’s Oldest Recorded a genuine contender in the cultural beauty contest. The background is that the Department of [...]
25th July, 2012
We’re a bit unsure here at The Chronic about a dedicated campaign called Love Colchester Parks Week. Isn’t the very definition of a public place somewhere that you can love all year round? Guess who never sends out Valentine’s Day cards… But yeah – Love Colchester Park Week, Sunny Colch. Our friends from Colchester Borough [...]
24th July, 2012
*shhh* The Secret Vintage Fair is coming to Sunny Colch. We have been sworn to secrecy as to the exact location – actually, we don’t even know ourselves. It could be in the grand splendour of the old bus station, underground in the vaults of the Castle, or perhaps even at the top of Jumbo [...]
24th July, 2012
And so we’ve been struggling all summer to try and find that missing link between Britain’s Oldest Recorded and the London 2012 Olympics. To be fair so has Colchester Borough Council… The Olympic spirit came within touching distance during that *ahem* Sunny Colch #essextorchrelay morning back at the start of the month. The Sunny Colch [...]
