Coventry City of Culture: Coventry Welcomes begins
The festival is lasting for a week.
Today marks the start of the Coventry Welcomes festival.
The week-long event is celebrating the contribution refugees have made to the city.
It has been created with over 30 partner organisations across the city including Positive Images Festival, Coventry Asylum and Refugee Action Group (CARAG), Coventry Refugee & Migration Centre (CRMC) and Counterpoints Arts.
Events taking place this week include;
No Direction Home - Mon 14 June at The Box, FarGo Village
A comedy night created by Camden People’s Theatre, Counterpoints Arts, and award-winning comedian Tom Parry, which offers support to aspiring comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds.
The event will be hosted by Coventry-born comedian Stella Graham, supported by Yuriko Kontani, Edin Suljic, Yasmin Moradi and headlined by Shappi Korsandi, one of the country’s finest comedians.
Can You Hear Me, Now? Sun 20 June at Swanswell Park
Can You Hear Me, Now? is a celebratory, large-scale outdoor performance.
It will be an immersive experience, made with and for the people of Coventry. Expect live music, dance, spoken word, storytelling and spectacle.
Stand and Be Counted, the UK’s first Theatre Company of Sanctuary, have been working with people seeking sanctuary in the City to create an urgent response to what it feels like to be silenced and how society can and must learn to listen.
There's more details on what's happening this week here.
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