Creative Writing Workshop
coventrysociety On Saturday 12th March, writer and academic Ruth Livesey is going to hold a creative writing workshop in response to artefacts and women’s stories found in the Coventry Archives and…
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Earlsdon Library
The Coventry Society held its February meeting at the recently refurbished Earlsdon Carnegie Community Library. Our Chair, Peter Walters, writes…. It’s a far cry from the ruthless business frontier of…
Epstein: Stories in Stone: 19th March – 31st May
This article was first published in the Friends of Coventry Cathedral Chairman’s newsletter. Martin Williams, CovSoc member and Chairman of the Friends writes… This Jacob Epstein exhibition in the Cathedral,…
Pioneering Coventry: the post-war photography of Richard Sadler
Photo Miners, a Community Interest Company, has announced plans for three consecutive exhibitions highlighting the work of Coventry photographer Richard Sadler as part of the City of Culture programme. The…
Crafty Coventry
Creative Lives are teaming up with Heritage Crafts for a programme of events and on-air coverage of crafts in Coventry, to coincide with Coventry City of Culture. The initiative is…
Jag 2.0 – A Plug and Play Venue
CovSoc members were invited to visit an exciting new facility at the Belgrade Theatre on Monday 20th January 2022. We were fortunate to meet the new Artistic Director of the…
Former CET Paper Store to Become Digital Gallery
Coventry City of Culture Trust has announced that the UK’s first permanent immersive digital art gallery, The Reel Store, will open in Coventry in April 2022, becoming a permanent new…
Culture at the Cathedral
The work of Anne Petters as part of the Broken Angel Project was unveiled on 6th November and will remain in place until 1st February. She is the first of…
Tiles of Hope
Coventry University is organising an interesting City of Culture activity that most Coventry people can get involved in. They are creating a mural comprised of 1000 photographs which will be…
Indian activists who helped change the face of modern Britain
This interesting story is from the BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Radio website and was written by Vanessa Pearce of BBC News, West Midlands. As Britain looked to recover and rebuild…