Thousands of Coventry students celebrate being UK City of Culture 2021

Thousands of students have been making their mark on City of Culture celebrations after more than 100 Coventry schools engaged with and took part in creative projects with Coventry City of Culture Trust.

New ‘Try-It!’ programme to boost wellbeing across Coventry and Warwickshire

A brand-new creative wellbeing programme called ‘Try It!’ is launching across Coventry and Warwickshire this autumn inviting people to have a go at everything from skateboarding to chair yoga and from upcycling to enviro-art.

Summer of Surprises programme has positive impact on Coventry

Surprise events and pop-up performances have struck a summer chord with thousands throughout Coventry and the wider region after a survey revealed the positive impact of the latest round of City of Culture celebrations.

Assembly Festival Garden to reopen in Spring 2022

Coventry City of Culture Trust and Assembly Festival answer call for encore.

Walking Forest: A Tale of Two Trees

This weekend, Walking Forest is calling on women to stand up for nature and the future of the planet in a performance action that will move through the streets of Coventry.

From dawn until dusk on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 October, women activists will carry a felled tree through the city centre in an act of love and endurance, raising awareness of the threat to the natural world and asking urgent questions about how we can bring about change.

Utopia: Working towards a better future

On World Mental Health Day and World Homeless Day, our Creative Director, Chenine Bhathena, reflects on October's theme of "Utopia", and how we're working towards a better future.

How will arts, culture and creativity shape a better future for Coventry?

A blog about Art for the People, a Talking Birds project.

We’re hugely excited to be developing Art for the People with the support of Coventry 2021. This is a project that has been a very long time in the gestation - and for a while we didn’t know whether we would be able to convince people to invest and make it happen - because it doesn’t really take the shape of a traditional art project.

Walk With Us: Walking Forest Coventry 15th & 16th October

Will you be part of raising a collective voice for climate, racial and social justice? 

We invite Coventry & Warwickshire Women inspired by nature to be part of Walking Forest Coventry - a street-based, city-wide mobile performance happening from dawn to dusk on the 15^th and 16^th October 2021 created with local women.