City of Culture 2021 events
Theatre Next Door Presents A Circus Zoom With Lucas Jet
Saturday 24 April 2021 – Sunday 25 April 2021
Location: Online Event
Theatre Next Door’ will see local community centres programming exciting interactive shows online.
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Like There's No Tomorrow
Saturday 1 May 2021 – Wednesday 30 June 2021
Location: Belgrade Theatre Belgrade Square Corporation St Coventry CV1 1GS
Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 is proud to have invested in the Belgrade programme.
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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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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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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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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 Show Windows
Tuesday 1 June 2021 – Friday 31 December 2021
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 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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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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Can You Hear Me, Now?
Saturday 5 June 2021 – Sunday 20 June 2021
Location: Coventry
A Stand and Be Counted Theatre Production, commissioned by Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. In partnership with Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre.
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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 Welcomes 2021
Monday 14 June 2021 – Sunday 20 June 2021
Location: Coventry
Celebrate Coventry's heritage, traditions and diversity.
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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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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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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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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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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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In Paint We Trust
Sunday 1 August 2021
Location: Coventry
See the streets of Coventry awash with colour in this city-wide street art festival.
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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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FAITH
Wednesday 1 September 2021 – Thursday 30 September 2021
Location: Coventry
Faith is a 24-hour invitation to find out what keeps each of us going in tough times, and together we will explore how people of faith, and of non-religious world views.
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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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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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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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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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Turner Prize 2021
Wednesday 29 September 2021 – Wednesday 12 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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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.
