Coventry Welcomes Festival & Partners – Visual Displays

What does it mean to be a Refugee?  

Longford Park Primary School CV6 7AT 

Coventry Refugee & Migrant Centre have been working with Longford Park Primary School to explore this provocation. Pupils’ response will be displayed in a live gallery on their school fence and on social media. 

From 14 June 

Zatoboua and I Never Walk Alone

West Midlands Police pop-up museum, 26 Hertford Street 

Two poems from Good Chance Change the Word collective who have worked with two Coventry poets, Landry Affton and Tanisha Chopra, who have created poems written in response to this year’s National Refugee Week theme, We Cannot Walk Alone. Drawing on their heritages, from Ivory Coast and Afghanistan respectively, they explore what it means to be part of a community and what it means to find a new community - or shape your own - in these changed times. 

From 14 June 

Zatoboua and I Never Walk Alone window displays. Image by Freddy Junior.

Out in the UK and GRAIN Photography w/ CRMC & Grapevine window displays. Image by Freddy Junior.

A display from Out in the UK & GRAIN Photography with CRMC and Grapevine

45/46 Hertford Street 

A display from Out in the UK exploring the statement: 'Did you know it is illegal to be LGBTQ+ in a third of the world's countries?'

Also a display from GRAIN Photography working with young people from Coventry Refugee & Migrant Centre and Grapevine.

From 14 June

Putting the Flags Out for Coventry Welcomes 

Carriers of Hope, City Arcade            

A display of flags made by refugee and migrant women in Coventry working with Chrysalis Craft CIC and FWT – Foleshill Womens Training.

From 14 June 

Various work from Positive Images Festival

Ziferblat CV1 3BB 

A display of work created through activities as part of Coventry Welcomes. 

From 24 June