Abundance
A spectacular Carnival of Lights procession across the north of Coventry, Abundance was a family-friendly event celebrating light, hope and freedom. Abundance was co-created by 10 Coventry-based South Asian artists.
7th November 2021
Beneath The Trees
Co-created by Coventry Arts Collective, Beneath The Trees was an urban village fete of music, food, dancing, performance, people, and storytelling for the whole family.
28th August 2021
Caribbean Reggae Fever 2021
Co-created by Coventry Caribbean Association, ArawaK Community Trust and ArawaK Radio, Caribbean Reggae Fever was a live music event and procession celebrating traditional Caribbean culture, lifestyle, food and music.
21st August 2021
Community Connectors
We’re delighted to welcome 10 more Coventry residents onto the Community Connectors programme, who will join our existing 8 Connectors in delivering their own projects in neighbourhoods across the city.
November 2020 until May 2022
CVX Festival: I Am A Real Person
OverReactors react in a way you might not think they will. A Mish Mash of stigma and statistics, recreating the authentic voice of us.
26th February 2022
Eastern European HeARTS Festival
Co-created by New Start 4 U, Eastern European HeARTS Festival transformed Riley Square into a marketplace of music, art and food, sharing Eastern European cultures with people of all ages and backgrounds.
14th August 2021
GENERATE Festival of Community Performance
GENERATE Festival took place across 5 weekends in 2021 supporting dozens of local amateur, community, student and grassroots performance groups to showcase their skills.
31st July to 30th August 2021
Celebrate Holi 2021
Sahyadri Friends Group, a collective of Indian families based in Coventry, have created a range of exciting activities to help you celebrate Holi safely from home.
March 2021
Love Ireland
Sun 15 - Sat 21 May, across Coventry
A week-long festival celebrating all aspects of Irish culture in Coventry, including sports, dance, music and language.
Passports of Kindness - spreading love for February half-term
Coventry schoolchildren are being challenged to undertake acts of kindness during the February half-term break as part of a stickerbook project called Passports of Kindness.
Schools Sign Up - Passports of Kindness Packs
A project co-created with local artist Matt Hesling-Gibson, ‘Passports of Kindness’ allows children the chance to celebrate ten of their own acts of kindness with sticker books based on Coventry and its history.
Presence Poetry Festival
Sat 30 Apr, 12pm - 8pm, Hawkesbury Junction & The Greyhound Inn, Longford
Listen, rest, and enjoy the vibes. Presence is gathering at Hawkesbury Junction for a one-day poetry festival hosted by a cohort of local artists.
Radford Bubbles
We invite households and support bubbles in Radford to appear in a new exhibition showing a snapshot of Radford life during the pandemic.
July 2021 - May 2022
Radford Bubbles Exhibition (Jubilee Crescent Community Centre)
Co-created by Jubilee Crescent Community Centre, this project captured images of ‘support bubbles’, families and other groups of residents that supported each other during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020-21.
Ongoing until May 2022
The Home Spun Festival
Local people and community groups in Spon End have come together to make the Home Spun Festival.
Join three artists: a local dancer, musician, and spoken-word poet for 3 morning workshops at Koco Community Centre on Mon 30 May - Wed 1 Jun.
The Sound of Cov: Live
A day of live music, food, drinks and sunshine, brought to you by seven of Coventry’s community, student and hospital radio stations. This event was also broadcast live on BBC CWR.
7th August 2021
The Sound of Cov: On Air
Between 4pm and 8pm on Sat 7 Aug and between 12pm and 4pm on Sun 8 Aug, tune in to BBC CWR and hear from a range of local voices telling the stories that represent their stations and their communities.
7th & 8th August 2021
The Coventry Model - Embracing Co-Creation Conference
A free conference with Coventry City of Culture Trust in association with 64 Million Artists
Thursday 26th May 2022
Theatre Next Door
Coventry’s community centres have joined forces to bring high quality performances to communities across Coventry throughout our year as UK City of Culture. Theatre Next Door will see local community centres programming exciting interactive shows both online and in person at their centres, bringing all the excitement of professional theatre to your neighbourhood.
April 2021 to May 2022
Try It!
Try It! is a programme encouraging Coventry residents to have a go at a range of new, and often quirky, health-giving creative activities during our year as UK City of Culture.
September 2021 to May 2022
Unapologetic
Unapologetic is a pioneering new multi-art festival celebrating Brown women as joyful, strong, powerful and beautiful. Unapologetic has been co-created with local communities in Coventry. It is a ground-breaking festival representing visual arts, spoken word and activism.
23rd April - 21st May 2022
Window Wanderland 2022
Following on from the success of Window Wanderland in 2021, this year streets across Coventry and Warwickshire once again lit up their front windows and gardens and became beautiful night-time walking trails.
19th February to 25th March 2022
Window Wanderland + Artist On My Street
As part of Window Wanderland, Coventry Artspace have commissioned 21 artists to transform windows in residential areas across the region.
August 2021 - May 2022
