What's On

Get ready for an incredible year of events in Southend! From unique family-friendly experiences to world-class street art and energetic live music, 2025 is set to be unforgettable.

Southend Halloween Parade – Is back for the fifth year and promises to be bigger and better!

Poppies on the Pier – New for 2025 Poppies on the Pier will see thousands of hand crafted red poppies cover Southend Pier in remembrance of the 80 anniversary of VE Day.

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Oktoberfest 2025

Priory Park

Last of the Lizardmen & Monumental

The Palace Theatre

Cartoon characters from British comedy series over the years

Best of British Comedy Dinner

The Royal Hotel

Thu 12.00am

Southend City Fireworks

Southend Seafront

Thu 12.00am

Southend Life Drawing – Halloween

The Royal Hotel

Thu 12.00am

Woman holds a pink and white striped paper cup with a cocktail inside. Drink has an umbrella, black straw, and sweets coming out of the top.

Southend Food and Drink Festival

Southend High Street

Thu 12.00am

Southend Halloween Parade

Southend Seafront

Thu 12.00am

Southend City Fireworks

Southend Seafront

Thu 12.00am

Fright Fantastic

Adventure Island

Pumpkins on a hay bale next to a historic building

Prittlewell Pumpkin Patch & Petting Farm

Prittlewell Priory

Thu 12.00am

Cartoon disco ball hanging from an orange sky with black trees and and black jack-a-lantern in the background

Halloween Disco

Park Inn by Radisson Palace

Thu 12.00am

A cartoon illustration of a small alien inside a colourful flying saucer hovering near a grey moon-like planet with craters. A yellow-orange flag with a skull symbol is planted on the planet’s surface. The background is dark purple, representing outer space.

Spooky Space Day

Southend Central Museum

Thu 12.00am

The Next Wave

Chinnerys

Thu 12.00am

Crimson Peak

Prittlewell Priory

Thu 12.00am

The Shining

Beecroft Art Gallery

Thu 12.00am

Southend City Fireworks

Southend Seafront

Thu 12.00am

The Big Beach Bang

Shoebury East Beach

Thu 12.00am

SOLD OUT Vulcan VIP Visit

London Southend Airport

Thu 12.00am

Poppies on the Pier

Southend Pier & Railway

Thu 12.00am

L.A.P.D. Improv

The Royal Hotel

Thu 12.00am

Chris Robson band & AJE

The Palace Theatre

Southend City Fireworks

Southend Seafront

Thu 12.00am

Darren Jones & Rosie Barrett Dulake & Leo Walrus

The Palace Theatre

The heads of an animated cowboy waring a hat next to a blonde lady with a pink bow in her hair with a tiny policewoman on her shoulder

Toy Story 4

The Palace Theatre

Thu 12.00am

A man in a blue suit stands between a woman in a long green dress and a woman in a pink showgirl outfit

Pal Joey

The Palace Theatre

Thu 12.00am

A man wearing a jacket and tie stands before a blackboard. On a desk next to him is a penguin

The Penguin Lessons

The Palace Theatre

Thu 12.00am

A theatre stage with closed red curtains illuminated by stage lights, with the silhouettes of an audience seated in the foreground

Pal Joey

The Palace Theatre

Thu 12.00am

Southend City Fireworks

Southend Seafront

Thu 12.00am

Southend Switch On

Southend High Street

Thu 12.00am

Vulcan VIP Visit

London Southend Airport

Thu 12.00am

Southchurch Hall – After Hours

Southchurch Hall

Thu 12.00am

Leigh Pop Up Christmas

Leigh Community Centre

Thu 12.00am

School of Rock

Beecroft Art Gallery

Thu 12.00am

Little Shop of Horrors

The Palace Theatre

Four artists: Jonathan Ansell, Michael Christie, Duncan Sandilands, Michael Conway standing side by side, dressed in matching ornate black jackets with gold military-style trim. They are posing against a dark, textured background, looking in different directions with serious expressions.

Phantoms of the Popera

The Palace Theatre

Thu 12.00am

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