Jag 2.0 – A Plug and Play Venue
coventrysociety 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…
Culture
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…
Antiques – Dusty, Smelly, Haunted and Expensive?
The next monthly lecture presented by the Arts Society Coventry brings a familiar face to Coventry. Mark Hill, well known from ‘the Antiques Roadshow’, presents a persuasive introduction to buying…
Christmas Market
The Coventry Observer has reported that there will be mistletoe, mulled wine and marshmallows when a Christmas Market comes to Coventry City Centre later this month. Thanks to the Coventry…
Coventry and Dresden through Modernist postcards
Coventry and Dresden in Germany were twinned following the mass destruction of both cities from bombardments during the Second World War. The twinning relationship is being celebrated at a talk…
New Sculpture in Recognition of Ira Aldridge
A new public artwork has been revealed on the former Ikea building. CovSoc founder member Paul Maddocks writes: “Landmark” was a recent television series on Sky Arts. The series featured…
Lighting up the Canal
A spectacular one Kilometre trail of lights, projection, music and reflection is planned for the Coventry Canal in November. Random String is Ludic Rooms’ biennial festival of arts and technology.…