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Other highlights of the summer will include:
• The Show Windows introduces audiences to Coventry’s post-war precincts and other areas of the city-centre (from May 2021). Local, national and international artists and architects will create artworks for shop windows, alongside the loan of artworks from national art and craft collections including Crafts Council.
• In Paint We Trust (from May 2021), a citywide street art festival, will feature local, regional and national street artists, with 20 extraordinary new artworks transforming vertical and horizontal spaces across the city centre.
• Several events embrace and celebrate the people who have made the UK’s city of sanctuary their home. Coventry Welcomes (14 – 20 June 2021) will present a week-long programme of music, dance, drama, food, literature, poetry, workshops, storytelling and more to mark national Refugee Week.
• Can You Hear Me Now? (June 2021) will be a new outdoor production by Stand and Be Counted, the UK’s first Theatre Company of Sanctuary, who will launch this new show created with people seeking sanctuary in Coventry - locally connected, globally relevant.
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• Nest Residencies will mark the opening of the Daimler Powerhouse this summer (August 2021), a new creative hub for the start of City of Culture located in a former car factory in the UK’s ‘Motown’. The residencies will result in a series of commissions across the year.
• Performances and festivals from the region’s best artists and creative communities will bring to life the streets and parks of Coventry. Music project Sound Systems (October 2021) will celebrate Coventry’s sound systems culture, rooted in reggae and West Indian sounds and connected to its twin town of Kingston (Jamaica), with heats taking place over the summer.
CALL FOR CITY HOSTS
‘Coventry needs you!’ that’s the message to people of all ages and backgrounds across the city who want to get involved in the historic UK City of Culture year by signing up to be a City Host volunteer.
Coventry City Culture of Trust in partnership with EnV and CUSU, are looking to recruit more than 5,000 volunteers to be part of its City Hosts Programme.
Recruitment is now underway and will see the first cohort of City Hosts signed up by the end of this month.
City Hosts will perform a variety of roles in Coventry and Warwickshire, which include providing a friendly welcome and supporting visitors and event spectators to navigate around the city. City Hosts will be present at key transport hubs to provide an initial welcome and a farewell to visitors, while others will provide information on artworks, installations and events.
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The City Hosts programme is completely flexible for those who want to get involved, with the option to commit to supporting as little as three events between May 2021 and May 2022 or the opportunity to volunteer for more if they want to.
To sign up to be a City Host, go to
www.coventry2021.co.uk/cityhosts or contact the City of Culture hotline on 02476 998221 and choose ‘option 6’ for City Hosts.
• The Allesley Silas (July 2021) is a new, site specific largescale outdoor musical theatre production by From the Heart Theatre. Based on George Eliot’s Silas Marner, adapted by Coventry Playwright Alan Pollock and directed by Nick Walker, it will be created alongside local communities.
There will be many more events later in the year across the city, celebrating various aspects of its cultural identity offering endless opportunities for everyone to get involved.
Chenine Bhathena, Creative Director of Coventry UK City of Culture, said: “Coventry was once the capital of England, and this year we’re the city of culture. After the year our citizens and communities around the world have had, our people-powered programme is a much-needed celebration and show of hope for the future. Locally driven, socially resonant and globally connected. Tune in, take part, and when you can come and visit.”
For more information on Coventry City of Culture, visit the website
coventry2021.co.uk/
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