The ‘ How Great Thou Art’ community arts festival, organised by Churches Together in Earlsdon and Chapelfields (CTEC) starts in 10 days. Go to www.hgta.org.uk for more information on events from 1- 17 October.
Category: Arts
Hear Coventry Singer Songwriters on Radio 4 today
The radio programme featuring Coventry Singer Songwriters (see ECHO’s August cover story) is broadcast this morning at 10.30 on BBC Radio 4 FM. If you miss the show, it will be available to hear via BBC iPlayer for a further 28 days: Will Gompertz Gets Creative: Hit Songs and Love Songs
Vote: Would you pay a couple of quid to save Coventry’s Godiva Festival?
Coventry Telegraph is holding a poll about future funding for the Godiva Festival. Some might find the results so far a little surprising… With the council having to make deep cuts, we might have to fork out a little something to keep the city’s best weekend going Source: Vote: Would you pay a couple of …
Festival site map – Coventry Godiva Festival
A map of the Godiva Festival site has just been published. Source: Festival site map – Coventry Godiva Festival
Coventry weather: Forecasters warn of severe thunderstorms on Friday night – Coventry Telegraph
Some bad news for revellers going to the Godiva Festival at the weekend. Heavy storms are expected between 7pm on Friday through to noon on Saturday Source: Coventry weather: Forecasters warn of severe thunderstorms on Friday night – Coventry Telegraph
Godiva Festival line-up confirmed
The complete entertainment and events line-up for this weekend’s Godiva Festival has been announced and is available on the official website.
Cartoonist Nick
Earlsdon based cartoonist Nick Shingler has been featured regularly in the Coventry Telegraph recently after the Telegraph invited cartoonists to submit their work to be considered for publication. Nick’s creation the Cov Kids has proved popular with readers. Nick, who moved to this area from Wolverhampton in the 1980s, is a building surveyor by profession, …
Calling all artists
Albany Theatre is launching an exciting new project for the summer and is offering opportunities to get involved. Applications are invited from people over 60 with a personal story to tell, digital artists and creative performers aged between 16 and 25. Storytellers If you’re in your 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s or indeed your 100s …
Chapelfields woman back from Russia looks for help
Coming back to a rainy Coventry seemed a breeze for Chapelfields resident, Carol Brown, who braved temperatures of -20ºC in Moscow on route back to the UK. Carol, who was in Volgograd at the time of a series of terrorist bombings, has been putting the finishing touches to a musical programme between young musicians from …
Criterion mindgames
The Criterion Theatre in Earlsdon is gearing up for its latest production, Mindgame, which opens on Saturday 1 February and runs until Saturday 8 February. The story revolves around true crime writer Mark Styler, who believes he has snared the coup of his career when he gets an interview with a notorious psychopathic serial killer. But when he arrives …