Further events and partnerships have also been revealed, including the Booker Prize, a city-wide street art festival, a celebration of Sound Systems and community radio takeover.
It is the first major cultural programme of its scale, breadth and length to commence since the arrival of the pandemic in March 2020. It will start under restricted conditions and phase its events as the loosening of restrictions in the UK takes place.
Despite this, the Trust has reaffirmed its commitment to delivering on its promise to build and deliver a wide ranging, innovative and entertaining year-long programme and secure a longer-term legacy by transforming the city and supporting its diverse cultural sector to thrive. Coventry UK City of Culture will present new perspectives by giving voice to those seldom heard, encouraging action and engaging with new and innovative technologies.
All events are being planned in a flexible and responsive way, to allow them to be presented throughout 2021-22 in line with the guidelines at the time they take place.
Coventry City of Culture Trust has also reaffirmed its commitment to present several major and ambitious undertakings, previously announced last year. These include Terry Hall presents Home Sessions (July 2021), curated by the lead singer of the iconic Coventry band The Specials, in a weekend of music and arts that blends international legends with contemporary pioneers. Along with CVX, a radical three-day arts activism festival curated by young people in the city with Positive Youth Foundation and the rapper JAY1 (Aug 2021),
these will be some of the first music festivals presented in the UK under the government’s roadmap out of lockdown.
The Walk (October 27) will see a 3.5-metre-tall puppet of a young refugee called Little Amal voyage 8,000km from the Syria/Turkey border, across Europe and into the UK. Previously due to arrive in Coventry during summer, Little Amal will now arrive in October. It is a poignant and symbolic moment in The Walk, as Little Amal is welcomed into Coventry - a city of sanctuary and a city of welcome - by a participatory event designed with and for the local community.
The BBC is set to shine a spotlight on Coventry throughout the year and is bringing big events to the city, as well as delivering fantastic new content across TV, radio and online that reflects Coventry’s history, heritage and creativity.
This will include a range of new BBC Arts programmes including a film looking at the life and work of Delia Derbyshire, a Coventry-born composer who helped create the famous Doctor Who theme music and who was a pioneer of electronic music.
In September, the BBC Arts annual poetry and spoken word festival Contains Strong Language heads to the city for the biggest celebration of poetry ever seen in the region. BBC CWR and Midlands Today will be at the centre of the celebrations, bringing special programmes and events straight into people’s homes throughout the year – telling the story of the people of Coventry and uncovering what makes and shapes the city.
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