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Culture Coventry Space
Friday 29 January 2021 – Wednesday 30 June 2021
Location: Online Event
Culture Space Coventry brings together online exhibitions and digital content from each Museums across Coventry,
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Hideous History Walking Tours of Coventry
Wednesday 14 April 2021 – Wednesday 30 June 2021
Location: Coventry
Dark tourism is alive (or is it…) take a walk and uncover Coventry and its grisly past. On a Hideous History Tour, you will hear tales of time, death and darkness ranging over 700 years.
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Coventry Dining Club
Friday 23 April 2021 – Monday 31 May 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
Digbeth Dining Club is a multi-award-winning street food event that has transformed the city's food landscape by turning some of the Midlands most unique venues, into vibrant, street food destinations
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In Paint We Trust
Saturday 15 May 2021 – Sunday 1 May 2022
Location: Coventry
See the streets of Coventry awash with colour in this city-wide street art festival. Local, nationally and internationally renowned street artists will be given access to unique and unexpected spaces.
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The Show Windows
Saturday 15 May 2021 – Sunday 1 May 2022
Location: Coventry
Produced by Coventry UK City of Culture in Partnership with Coventry Business Improvement District, curator Charlie Levine, and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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The Self-Portrait Prize 2021
Monday 17 May 2021 – Monday 28 June 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
Visit Coventry Cathedral between Monday 17 May and Monday 28 June 2021 to see the Ruth Borchard Collection’s Self-Portrait Prize 2021.
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Concrete collar by Tom Illsley
Monday 17 May 2021 – Wednesday 30 June 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
Concrete Collar is an exhibition by Tom Illsley featuring photographs of the Coventry ring road.
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Folklorica - free digital installation
Wednesday 19 May 2021 – Friday 31 December 2021
Location: Warwick Arts Centre Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL
Folklorica is a new augmented reality experience for visitors to Warwick Arts Centre, created by Coventry-based artist Edie Jo Murray.
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'Do the Little Things' By Jake Lever
Saturday 22 May 2021 – Sunday 27 June 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
Do the Little Things’ is an installation made by artist Jake Lever for the Chapel of Gethsemane.
The installation comprises a multitude of tiny boats made of wire, tissue paper and gold leaf.
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UnNatural History
Friday 28 May 2021 – Sunday 22 August 2021
Location: Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QP
Herbert presents a major exhibition exploring natural history and climate change curated by Invisible Dust.
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Community Radio Takeover
Tuesday 1 June 2021 – Tuesday 31 August 2021
Location: Coventry
Celebrating community, student and hospital radio across Coventry and Warwickshire as eight local stations take over BBC Coventry and Warwickshire.
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Sound Systems
Tuesday 1 June 2021 – Sunday 31 October 2021
Location: Coventry
A celebration of Coventry’s rich cultural links to its twin city of Kingston, Jamaica, and the unique influence Sound System culture has had on Coventry and the wider UK’s music landscape.
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The Tides Within Us
Tuesday 1 June 2021 – Saturday 31 July 2021
Location: Coventry
This journey of self-discovery follows the flow of oxygen through the body, reactivating forgotten connections between humans and nature.
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The Walk
Tuesday 1 June 2021 – Wednesday 30 June 2021
Location: Coventry
Good Chance, Stephen Daldry, David Lan and Tracey Seaward present a Good Chance Theatre Production in association with handspring Puppet Company Produced.
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UK Asian Film Festival
Tuesday 1 June 2021 – Wednesday 30 June 2021
Location: Coventry City Centre
The UK Asian Film Festival (UKAFF) is the world’s longest running and UK’s most loved South Asian film festival.
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The International Booker Prize
Tuesday 1 June 2021
Location: Coventry
Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 will work with The Booker Prize Foundation to bring the world’s leading book prizes to the city in an unprecedented partnership.
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Life on The Breadline
Thursday 3 June 2021 – Wednesday 28 July 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
The exhibition arises from the Life on the Breadline project, which began in 2018, led by researchers from Coventry University, the University of Manchester, and the Queen’s Foundation.
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Coventry Moves
Saturday 5 June 2021
Location: Coventry
An opening, epic, city-wide moment, Coventry Moves, heralds the start of our year as UK City of Culture on Saturday 15 May.
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Coventry 2021 AR Trail
Sunday 6 June 2021 – Monday 6 September 2021
Location: Coventry
An augmented reality trail allows people of all ages to #ExploreCoventry in the new Coventry 2021 art trail.
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Mainstay YTC Workshops
Tuesday 8 June 2021 – Tuesday 13 July 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
Are you aged 11-14? Do you enjoy being creative, performing and having lots of fun? If so, these workshops are for you!
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No Colour No Contrast: Exhibition
Sunday 13 June 2021 – Sunday 25 July 2021
Location: Blue Door Gallery Unit 10, Kensington Court, Kensington Road, Earlsdon, Coventry Cv5 6gg
It explores the use of colour and contrast to produce textile designs using the moiré weaving technique.
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Pride - Classically Queer
Thursday 17 June 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
Classically Queer, commissioned and produced by Coventry City Of Culture Trust in partnership with Coventry Pride and supported by Coventry Cathedral.
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I am Kalam (PG)
Sunday 20 June 2021
Location: Coventry
Part of Coventry Welcomes Festival 2021.
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We are searching for life
Monday 21 June 2021
Location: Online Event
Associated with Coventry Welcomes Festival 2021. Delivered as part of live digital events outside of Coventry Welcomes week.
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Observations on Being
Tuesday 22 June 2021 – Sunday 15 August 2021
Location: Coventry
Observations on Being was commissioned by Coventry City of Culture Trust and produced in partnership with York Mediale.
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Building Community Resilience Amid The Pandemic: A Research-Art Response
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Location: Online Event
Associated with Coventry Welcomes Festival 2021. Part of the live digital events outside of Coventry Welcomes week.
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FÉILE 2021
Friday 25 June 2021 – Sunday 27 June 2021
Location: Coventry
Join Irish communities across Coventry and the UK for a weekend of traditional music, dance, activities and storytelling.
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No Direction Home: Coventry Showcase
Friday 25 June 2021 – Sunday 27 June 2021
Location: The Tin Music and Arts Units 1 - 4 Canal Basin, Coventry, CV1 4LY.
An incredible night of co-created comedy featuring stand-up comedians from refugee and migrant backgrounds, mentored by award-winning comedian Tom Parry (Pappy’s; Badults; The Lost Disc)
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Conversation Café
Friday 25 June 2021
Location: Online Event
Associated with Coventry Welcomes Festival 2021. Part of the live digital events outside of Coventry Welcomes week.
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Exploring Coventry’s linguistic landscape
Friday 25 June 2021
Location: Online Event
Associated with Coventry Welcomes Festival 2021. Part of the live digital events outside of Coventry Welcomes week.
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We are warriors – African cultural night
Friday 25 June 2021
Location: Coventry University - University Square Priory St, Coventry CV1 5FB
Associated with Coventry Welcomes Festival 2021. Part of the live face to face events outside Coventry Welcomes week.
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Rcta Coventry Year Of Culture Floating Market
Saturday 26 June 2021 – Sunday 27 June 2021
Location: Canal Basin
Roving Canal Traders are back for a 2 day Floating Market to join in Coventry’s Year of Culture celebrations. Saturday just the Floating Market, Sunday, Floating Market plus live music & land stalls.
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Midsummer Fire Gardens
Saturday 26 June 2021 – Sunday 27 June 2021
Location: Caludon Castle Park, Coventry Farren Rd, Coventry CV2 5EH
Part of 'Summer of Suprises'
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No Direction Home: Coventry Showcase
Sunday 27 June 2021
Location: The Tin Music and Arts Units 1 - 4 Canal Basin, Coventry, CV1 4LY.
Co-commissioned by Coventry City of Culture Trust, Counterpoints Arts and Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre with funding from Spirit of 2012.
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Terry Hall Presents Home Sessions
Thursday 1 July 2021 – Saturday 31 July 2021
Location: Coventry
Terry Hall will return to Coventry to curate a three-day music event in the heart of the city.
It will showcase international legends and shine a light on the Coventry music scene.
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The Choir Of Man
Thursday 1 July 2021 – Saturday 31 July 2021
Location: Coventry Assembly Festival Garden The Queen Of Flanders Little Park Street, Coventry CV1 2UR
Imagine the most incredible pub gig you've been to, then multiply it by ten, and you'll still be nowhere near the fun that this show exudes throughout.
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Coventry Geeks Meet Up
Thursday 1 July 2021
Location: Fargo Village Far Gosford Street, Coventry, CV1 5ED.
Casual meet up of like-minded people, members and non-members of Coventry Geeks. We're a group of people who all have an interest in geeky and nerdy pop-culture and we're meeting to have a casual chat
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Warwickshire Open Studios Summer Art Weeks
Thursday 1 July 2021 – Saturday 3 July 2021
Location: Coventry
2021 is Warwickshire Open Studios 21st birthday year, during Summer Art Weeks 320 artists will be exhibiting at 117 venues across Coventry and Warwickshire.
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Castaway
Thursday 1 July 2021 – Tuesday 31 August 2021
Location: Coventry
CastAway is a new, environmentally led outdoor spectacle from Highly Sprung, designed to challenge our ‘Throw Away Society’.
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Small Bell Rings
Thursday 1 July 2021 – Saturday 31 July 2021
Location: Coventry City Centre
Small Bells Ring invites you to hop aboard the RV Furor Scribendi, a floating library crammed full of short stories.
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Roundabout
Thursday 1 July 2021 – Saturday 31 July 2021
Location: Coventry City Centre
Paines Plough’s Roundabout is a unique, intimate pop-up theatre coming to Coventry in 2021.
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Circolombia
Friday 2 July 2021 – Saturday 31 July 2021
Location: Coventry Assembly Festival Garden The Queen Of Flanders Little Park Street, Coventry CV1 2UR
Fresh from Bogotá, one of the world's leading circus companies brings you extraordinary feats and seamless acts, all performed with breathtaking skill.
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Summer Outdoor Cinema
Friday 2 July 2021 – Sunday 4 July 2021
Location: Coombe Abbey Brinklow Rd, Coventry CV3 2AB
Spend a summer night with a smile on your face and a song in your heart as we present the ultimate feel-good movie at the beautiful Coombe Abbey Park.
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The Spirit of Elvis
Friday 2 July 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
There’s only one Elvis Presley and there’s only one artiste who captures his spirit on stage – the inimitable Gordon Hendricks.
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Kidztopia ‘A World of Fun for Kidz'
Saturday 3 July 2021 – Sunday 4 July 2021
Location: Stoneleigh Park NAEC Warwickshire CV8 2LZ
The event is coming to Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July 2021 and this family event will transform into a ‘World of Fun for Kidz’
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Flock Together
Saturday 3 July 2021 – Saturday 14 August 2021
Location: Charterhouse Priory London Rd Coventry CV1 2JR
Explore Charterhouse Field with this series of scouted bird watching walks.
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Radford Bubbles
Saturday 3 July 2021
Location: Coventry
Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 invite you and your support bubble to appear in a new exhibition showing a snapshot of Radford life during the pandemic.
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FarGo's Food Festival
Saturday 3 July 2021 – Sunday 4 July 2021
Location: Fargo Village Far Gosford Street, Coventry, CV1 5ED.
Welcome to a stunning food lover’s wonderland!
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Macbeth: A Shakespeare Double Bill
Thursday 15 July 2021
Location: The Albany Theatre 53 Butts Road, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 3BH
That’s two productions in the same sitting, all in the space of two hours!
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Calling Planet Earth
Saturday 17 July 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
A New Romantic symphony that goes on a journey through one of the greatest musical eras of all time – the electrifying '80s.
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NDFA National Drama Festival 2021
Sunday 18 July 2021 – Saturday 24 July 2021
Location: The Albany Theatre 53 Butts Road, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 3BH
The cream of UK amateur theatre competes in the National Drama Festival Associations’s British All-Winners Finals in the Albany main house, with an additional exciting daytime programme.
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The Handlebards: Macbeth
Thursday 22 July 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
Enjoy theatre-like never before! This outdoor production of Macbeth will bring Shakespeare tragedy to life. Bring your blanket and picnic, this events is must-see.
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The Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Thursday 22 July 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
The Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is a spectacular high-pitched celebration of timeless music from one of the biggest selling groups of all time.
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The Carpenters Story – Goodbye to Love
Friday 23 July 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
This highly acclaimed production continues to captivate audiences across the UK with its spectacular celebration of the classic songbook that made The Carpenters a legend in the world of popular music
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Coventry Food Festival
Friday 23 July 2021 – Sunday 25 July 2021
Location: Coventry City Centre
Cooking up a storm: Coventry Food Festival set to return this July with TV celeb chefs.
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Creative Europe - School Of Participation
Saturday 24 July 2021
Location: Coventry
Coventry UK City of Culture 2021’s School of Participation will bring together creative practitioners from Coventry and nine European partner cities.
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FarGo Village Simply Sustainable
Saturday 24 July 2021
Location: Fargo Village Far Gosford Street, Coventry, CV1 5ED.
FarGo Village would love to invite you all to attend this event, whether you’re an expert in living a sustainable life or you’re a complete novice.
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Roundabout - Really Big And Really Loud
Tuesday 27 July 2021 – Sunday 8 August 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
Presented as part of Roundabout 2021 - a festival of new world-class plays and community-led activities taking place this summer in Wood End, Coventry.
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Sport Fest
Tuesday 27 July 2021 – Sunday 1 August 2021
Location: Broadgate Broadgate Coventry City Centre CV1 1NF
The event will have free activities and will feature a wide range of sport and wellbeing activities that are suitable for all ages and abilities.
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Roundabout - Black Love
Tuesday 27 July 2021 – Sunday 8 August 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
Presented as part of Roundabout 2021 - a festival of new world-class plays and community-led activities taking place this summer in Wood End, Coventry.
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The Allesley Silas
Wednesday 28 July 2021 – Sunday 1 August 2021
Location: St. John the Baptist Church Fleet Street, Coventry, CV1 3AY.
Silas Marner or The Weaver of Raveloe is one of the great stories by one of Coventry’s most celebrated writers – George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans).
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Roundabout - May Queen
Thursday 29 July 2021 – Sunday 8 August 2021
Location: Moat House Leisure & Neighbourhood Centre Winston Av Moat House Leisure & Neighbourhood Centre Winston Ave, Coventry CV2 1EA
May Day in Coventry, 2022. Sixteen-year-old Leigh has been chosen as May Queen, she’s buzzin, as is the rest of the city.
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Roundabout - Hunger
Friday 30 July 2021 – Sunday 8 August 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
Presented as part of Roundabout 2021 - a festival of new world-class plays and community-led activities taking place this summer in Wood End, Coventry.
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Generate Festival
Sunday 1 August 2021 – Tuesday 31 August 2021
Location: Coventry
Coventry and Warwickshire community performers are being given the chance to take to the stage and showcase their talents at an exciting new outdoor festival during UK City of Culture 2021.
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Dragons and Mythical Beasts
Thursday 5 August 2021 – Saturday 7 August 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
Calling all brave heroes! Enter into a magical world of myths and legends in this fantastical new show for all the family.
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Romeo & Juliette
Thursday 5 August 2021 – Friday 6 August 2021
Location: The Albany Theatre 53 Butts Road, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 3BH
A bilingual, reimagined, modernized version of a Shakespeare classic.
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Wonder With Grimm
Friday 6 August 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
It’s Grimm Night and the forest spirits are wandering abroad. Never heard of the Grimm? It used to live in the Black Forest, but now travels through forests across the UK looking for children’s voices
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Adventure Cinema - Dirty Dancing
Saturday 7 August 2021
Location: War Memorial Park Kenilworth Rd, Coventry CV3 6PT
An amazing outdoor cinema experience at War Memorial Park in Coventry with a showing of the classic Dirty Dancing!
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The Greatest Showman Sing-A-Long
Sunday 8 August 2021
Location: War Memorial Park Kenilworth Rd, Coventry CV3 6PT
This is the greatest show! An amazing Sing-A-Long outdoor cinema experience at War Memorial Park in Coventry with a showing of the movie that has sold out cinemas all over the world!
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Teach Rex Coventry
Tuesday 10 August 2021
Location: Fargo Village Far Gosford Street, Coventry, CV1 5ED.
Teach Rex are delighted to announce they are returning to Fargo Village this summer for an educational dinosaur show like no other.
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CVX Festival
Thursday 12 August 2021 – Sunday 15 August 2021
Location: Coventry
CVX Festival is a pioneering three-day arts activism festival curated by young people in the city around the themes of community, unity and social change.
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Comedy Gala at FarGo Village
Friday 20 August 2021
Location: Fargo Village Far Gosford Street, Coventry, CV1 5ED.
3 Word Interviews are bringing their Comedy Gala to Coventry in May 2021!
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Joe Zalias and his Horrible Stunts for Kids Tour
Tuesday 24 August 2021
Location: The Albany Theatre 53 Butts Road, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 3BH
An interactive kids comedy show featuring stunts, magic, and jokes. How dangerous are the stunts? You decide. Guaranteed carnage, fun, and hilarity.
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Heartbreak Productions Presents Mr Stink
Tuesday 24 August 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
You’re invited to celebrate Annabelle’s 10th birthday, hosted by everyone’s favourite MP candidate, Janet Crumb! (Almost) everyone is welcome… that is, everyone apart from Chloe’s particularly smelly
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The Three Inch Fools Present Robin Hood
Wednesday 25 August 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
Five actors, with all manner of musical instruments, struggle to remember Britain’s best-known folktale. This summer, a hapless troupe of actors hit the road with a new production of Robin Hood
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Theatre of Wandering
Wednesday 1 September 2021 – Thursday 30 September 2021
Location: Coventry
In a new production co-created and inspired by Coventry residents, this walk-about theatrical experience through the east of the city blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality.
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Rivers of the World
Wednesday 1 September 2021 – Saturday 1 January 2022
Location: Coventry
Since its creation in 2005, Rivers of the World has been delivered in thirty-five countries around the world.
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SeaView
Wednesday 1 September 2021 – Thursday 30 September 2021
Location: Coventry City Centre
SeaView is a six-part digital television series, developed through a groundbreaking collaboration between theatre and film production companies.
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FAITH
Saturday 11 September 2021
Location: Coventry
Faith is a 24-hour invitation to find out what keeps each of us going in tough times.
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Contains Strong Language
Thursday 23 September 2021 – Sunday 26 September 2021
Location: Coventry
A Co-Commission between the BBC, Coventry City of Culture Trust, Writing West Midlands and Nine Arches Press.
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Coventry Biennial 2021
Friday 1 October 2021 – Saturday 1 January 2022
Location: Coventry City Centre
The third Coventry Biennial will take place from October 2021 until January 2022 across Coventry and Warwickshire in a wide range of artistic, heritage, business and community locations.
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Turner Prize 2021
Friday 1 October 2021 – Monday 10 January 2022
Location: Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QP
One of the best-known prizes for visual arts in the world, Turner Prize 2021 is coming to the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry as part of UK City of Culture 2021.
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By The Waters Of Liverpool
Wednesday 13 October 2021 – Thursday 14 October 2021
Location: Albany Theatre Albany Rd Coventry CV5 6JQ
The Helen Forrester play based on the best-selling book will run from September 2021 visiting seventeen venues across the UK
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Sindhu Vee: Alphabet
Sunday 17 October 2021
Location: Warwick Arts Centre Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL
A brand-new show about the hair we want, the friends we have, and living the vast difference between virus and viral.
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The Lost Lending Library
Monday 25 October 2021 – Saturday 6 November 2021
Location: Coventry
A magical travelling library that celebrates books and the journeys they take us on.
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Men's World Cup: Australia Vs Scotland.
Friday 29 October 2021
Location: Ricoh Arena Ricoh Arena, Phoenix Way, Coventry, CV6 6GE
In a breakthrough moment for Rugby League, the men's, women's and wheelchair games will come together for the first time on the sport's biggest stage.
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Festival Of Running
Sunday 31 October 2021
Location: Coventry
The Coventry Festival of Running team are pleased to announce that the 2021 Coventry Half Marathon and 5k will take place on Sunday 31st October.
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Random String: The Canal Networked
Monday 1 November 2021
Location: Canal Basin
Random String: The Canal Networked’ is an extensive collaboration between local, national and international artists led by Coventry arts and technology organisation, Ludic Rooms.
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Luminate Coombe
Thursday 18 November 2021 – Friday 24 December 2021
Location: Coombe Country Park Brinklow Rd, Binley, Coventry, CV3 2AB
A spectacular, illuminated trail, full of wonder and intrigue, to delight and enthral your senses.
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Daliso Chaponda: Apocalypse Not Now
Friday 26 November 2021
Location: Warwick Arts Centre Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL
Finalist of Britain’s Got Talent and star of BBC Radio 4’s Citizen of Nowhere, Daliso Chaponda is back out of the house and on a stage with a new hour of the slickest, sharpest look at life.
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Rhod Gilbert: The Book of John
Saturday 29 January 2022
Location: Warwick Arts Centre Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL
It has been a while, but the multi-award-winning Welsh comedian is back, with a brand new live show. In a seven-year break from stand-up, a lot has happened to Rhod. Almost all of it s**t.
