Coventry City of Culture Trust produced programme:
Access tickets can be booked
If a customer requires a personal assistant/essential companion ticket(s) they can request this by email on [email protected], by phone on 07842 312886, or in person at Assembly Festival Garden.
City of Culture events no longer require disabled customers to register for an Access Card to book access tickets.
Review of Access Ticketing Processes
Peace Poem at University of Warwick
Belgrade Theatre
Belgrade Theatre and Warwick Arts Centre:
Access customers are advised to book directly with the venue.
Both venues have more information about their access provision on their respective website:
Belgrade Theatre
Warwick Arts Centre
Touch Tours, Relaxed Performances, Audio Description,
Captioning. BSL Interpretation
City of Culture events programme will provide BSL interpreted, audio description, captioned and relaxed performances where possible.
Where these are available, they will be detailed on the individual events page on this site in both text and using our accessible performance images.
FRI 13 MAY 2022 TO SUN 4 SEP 2022
The UK premiere of Refik Anadol's Machine Memoirs: Space, the product of a long-term collaboration with NASA, the exhibition uses artificial intelligence to reimagine two million publicly available images taken by satellite and telescopes, transporting visitors from the centre of Coventry to the deepest regions of outer space.
We endeavour to share access information and information regarding the content of the shows, including timings, interactivity and trigger warnings, on the events individual webpages. Access information is provided at the bottom of each event page.
If you wish to find out more about any performance please email [email protected]
You can discuss any access requirements or the accessibility of any events via email at [email protected], by phone on 07842 312886 or speak to a member of the team at the Coventry 2021 shop.
Additional supports could include, but is not limited to:
Larger events will be supported by Access Stewards, who will wear green high-vis jackets, who are a first point of call for anyone who requires assistance at our events.
In November 2021, Rinkoo Barpaga led a BSL tour guide of the House is a Feeling exhibition space that uses film, lighting and dry ice to recreate and comment on rave culture.
Here from some of the participants below:
“Thank you for an inclusive area to welcome those with additional needs, it made the night even more enjoyable and helped us to feel included. The show was so wonderful and full of hope. I am proud to be a Coventrian.”
“I thought that Wednesday’s viewing area was “the best seats in the house”. We were able to see (and hear!) the whole event unobstructed; all while seated. This meant that I was able to enjoy the entire event without either having to seek out somewhere to rest or to leave early.”
About the Event
Access Coventry is designed to help you up-skill and increase your understanding of the experiences or access requirements of audiences.
The 10-week programme culminated in us collaborating to create a Manifesto for Access which is the first step on our journey of making Coventry a more accessible place to experience culture.
A recording from each online talk can be viewed below:
View the Programme
Please do get in touch if there is anything else that could improve your experience of the City of Culture events programme.
You can speak to us at [email protected], via phone 07842 312886 or speak to a member of the team at the City of Culture shop.
Our website incorporates UserWay’s Accessibility Widget. This widget can always be found at the bottom right hand side of every page of our website. This is a free, optional choice for all visitors to our website to use if they wish.
The widget offers a broad selection of functions that you can mix and match to meet your individual accessibility needs.
Each of the functions below can be turned on or off and most can be set to your requirements.
The UserWay widget includes optional settings for:
UserWay's Accessible Widget
