HUGELY POPULAR ASSEMBLY FESTIVAL GARDEN IN THE HEART OF COVENTRY OFFERS A PROGRAMME OF INCREDIBLE EVENTS
A whole host of new family favourites, stunning spectacles and familiar faces (remember The Choir of Man?) is programmed for the Summer.
Also featuring a mouth-watering selection of local street food, an exciting drinks selection and buzzing atmosphere, the Festival Garden is the perfect place to catch up with friends, enjoy a family day out and see some of the most exceptional music, theatre, circus and comedy from around the world.
Located opposite the Council House and a short walk from both Broadgate and Coventry Cathedral, the Festival Garden plays host to the remarkable, double-decker, Queen of Flanders spiegeltent, the largest of its kind in the world, the Treehouse bar, and the bijou Piccolo spiegeltent.
THE UK’S FIRST PERMANENT IMMERSIVE DIGITAL ART GALLERY IS NOW OPEN
The Reel Store is a brand new, family-friendly, visitor attraction in Coventry.
Area 1 opens with Machine Memoirs: Space, a 360-degree cinematic experience by internationally renowned artist Refik Anadol in collaboration with NASA.
In Area 3 you can also find The Tides Within Us, a real-time interactive exploration into the world beyond the limits of our senses, by Marshmallow Laser Feast.
The Reel Store
UK City of Culture is a competition run by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Every four years, cities compete to be awarded the prestigious title. The first UK City of Culture was Derry/Londonderry in 2013 followed by Hull in 2017. The title brings with it a huge amount of opportunity to place your city on a national and international stage.
Coventry was awarded the title in December 2017 after competing against eleven other cities. The bid was won on the strength of our city's diversity, its youthfulness and the opportunities that being so centrally located bring. Coventry's year in the spotlight will run from May 2021 - May 2022.
We, at Coventry City of Culture Trust, are the independent charity responsible, alongside with our partners, to deliver an extraordinary year.
Urban Astronaut by Highly Sprung (2016) Photo by Andrew Moore.
