Oyster Land
Saturday 22nd March
Plus Live Music, 7pm 
Tickets £5 Booking Required

Oyster Land is a film that spends time with the oystermen of Mersea Island, Essex and explores the ancient oyster culture of the city of Colchester. It's an atmospheric journey of working on the waters of an estuary that has sustained a local trade for thousands of years. The film has been touring the coastal communities of Essex and Suffolk.
Matthew John Harrison is a filmmaker from Colchester. He started Eudo Films to make home-grown documentaries.

Mask Painting Workshop with Catalina Carvajal 
Thursday 13th March
6.30pm-8pm
Free, booking required

Join us on Thursday 13th March, from 6:30pm to 8pm for a fun and hands-on creative experience! Paint your own mask inspired by Colombian traditions.

Catalina Carvajal is a Colombian illustrator and mural artist. She was born in Bogota, Colombia, and lived in Mexico City before moving to the UK. @catalinacarvajalr. All ages are welcome. Admission is Free, and all materials are provided. (All children should be accompanied by an adult.) Limited to 10 participants.
Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund

To book, contact: eleanor@thenose.org

MARCH 2025
Wifedom, Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life.
By Anna Funder
Wednesday 12th March 2025
6.45pm Soup, 7pm Book Club

Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own, and when she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. But why - and how - was she written out of the story?

Slow Stitch Club
Start date Friday 14th March, then meeting every fortnight
Fridays, 12–2pm 

Slow stitching is a wonderfully creative and calming process, where you stitch intuitively and become experimental with stitching. It's a place to just enjoy the feel of stitching and explore the "what if?" There will be a group project to take part in, exploring local themes and aiming to produce wallhangings for exhibitions at the Nose,  and also individual projects for your personal enjoyment. We will look at different stitches and approaches as we go along. 

Codename: Rendlesham
Deconstructing the UFO legend
Saturday 15th March, 7pm
By Chill Factor Films
Film length: 50 minutes
Tickets £5. Booking Required.

The story of an incredible series of events that took place in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England. The incident involved USAF personnel in a close encounter with unknown craft at the very perimeter of RAF Woodbridge. Being leased to the USAF at the time the twin bases of RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters were highly sensitive as they ( although denied at the time ) housed nuclear weapons.

Gossip
By Hannah Renton
Saturday 29th March, 7pm
Film length 17 minutes
Plus live folk music from Saltings.
Tickets £5  Booking required.

East Anglia, 1584. When a young woman goes into labour a group of women, led by the local midwife, gather to guide her through the trials of labour. But as they celebrate the safe arrival of new life, a greater danger arrives at the door. A 16th century tale of community, power and resistance. Gossip tells the untold story of witches as they really were - midwives, healers, women with knowledge and power. Shot on location in Essex and Buckinghamshire.