City of Culture 2021 events
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
Lunchtime Organ Music With Colin Druce
Monday 17 May 2021 – Monday 18 October 2021
Location: Coventry Cathedral Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB
Join Coventry Cathedral every Monday or a free 30-minute recital featuring emerging and world-renowned organists playing the cathedral’s magnificent organ which has 5000 pipes.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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’.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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).
View full details
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.
View full details
Generate Festival
Friday 30 July 2021 – Saturday 31 July 2021
Location: Blue Coat School Blue Coat School Terry Road, Coventry, CV1 2BA
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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
View full details
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.
View full details
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
View full details
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
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
View full details
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.
