Spring Events Programme Coventry Cathedral

COVENTRY CATHEDRAL

Step Springinto

In January, spring may still feel on the distant horizon, but look closely and you will see signs of the earth renewing itself against the odds - the incremental lengthening of the days, the defiant snowdrop blazing a trail out of the cold earth.

Our programme this season is all about looking for signs of new lifethe new community emerging from our Spectrum project, light blazing in the Ruins as Easter Day dawns, new friendships formed as we host another Iftar in the Ruins. And our programme this season is about mobilising to see life flourish as we hold a spring festival in the Ruins on World Earth Day, and swap seeds and sing songs about cherishing this wonderful earth we share.

Spring into new life with us this season!

Mary Gregory

Canon for Arts & Reconciliation

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Wed 18 th Jan –

Wed 15 th Feb 2023

7:30pm - 8:30pm

Tickets full block at £36 or £8 per class

A 5-week course of uplifting, warming yoga to beat the winter blues. Gentle movement, breathing and meditation to boost your mood.

Mary Gregory, Canon for Arts & Reconciliation

International Childrens Games (BMX) 2022

Broken Angel 2022 Harvest Festival 2022

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JANUARY

Broken Angel: Between

Until 20th February

Cathedral opening hours Free

‘Between’ by Abigail Reynolds is a free-standing sculpture set against Hutton’s West Screen. A door like form which is tall and fragile, itself broken into pieces. The glass allows for moments of reflection and recognition.

Spectrum

14th-15th January, 2pm-4pm Free Spectrum invites the LGBTQIA+ community to work with artist Andi Walker, sharing experiences and collectively creating a Pride flag.

Action Rayz Fahrenheit 451

18th January, 7pm Chapter House Pay as You Feel

A 1966 British dystopian science fiction like no other directed by François Truffaut, set in the future where no one will get upset and no one will be educated.

Compline for Epiphany Tide

18th January, 8pm

An atmospheric and meditative service of Compline by candlelight.

Collage workshop Let’s Make: Collage

21st January

2pm-4pm

Free drop in Create the year you want on paper or just pop in for the quickest little collage ever. Come and go as you want.

Baby Sensory Let’s Chill

24th January, 10am-12pm Free

Let your little ones be mesmerized by the shapes and colours of Coventry Cathedral. Time for a cuppa and chat.

Mirrors by Paul Daly

28th January

Sat Sat

7:30pm start

Free

Shot over seven years on 16mm film, Mirrors is a lucid diary and poetic map, a journey across an island.

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Cathedral for the wonderers and the wanderers — exploring what we believe through the arts.

FEBRUARY

Cèilidh in the Cathedral

17th February, 7pm-10pm

Tickets £10

The Cathedral's your dancefloor as we come together for a jolly knees up. An evening of merry jigging, new friends and lots of fun. Enjoy 3 hours of the best fun – a live band keeps you moving and a caller guides you through the steps – it’s perfect for the absolute beginner or the experienced ceilidh dancer.

Let’s Watch Gnomeo and Juliet

4th February

10am-12pm

Chapter House Free ticket

Glorious gardens and grumpy gnomes, let’s craft our own flower bouquets or heart envelopes, followed by the animated film Gnomeo and Juliet.

From Pub to Pulpit

11th February

7pm

From £10

Celebrate composer Vaughn Williams as we raise the roof with a fusion of folk music and hymns.

Compline

Broken Angel

15th February, 8pm

An atmospheric and meditative service of Compline with John Hutton’s West Screen by candlelight.

Action Rayz Odds Against Tomorrow

15th February, 7pm

Chapter House

Pay as you feel

This is a story that walks with a gun in its hand and slams with a fist full of fury.

Broken Angel Talk Between: Closing Conversation

19th February

12pm-1pm

As the final Broken Angel installation, ‘Between’, comes to an end we will be reflecting on the project in conversation with the artist Abigail Reynolds.

Spectrum showing Spectrum Pride Flag

25th February4th March

10am-4pm

Chapel of Industry

Sat

Craft & Flea

18th February 10am-4pm

£2.50

Sat

Shop local with local independent makers, collectors and creatives all under one roof!

At the centre of every community is storytelling. We invited the LGBTQIA+ community to co-create a Pride flag with artist Andi Walker over a series of six workshops.

The finished flag will be on display for the end of LGBTQIA+ History Month.

Baby Sensory Let’s Chill

28th February 10am-12pm Free

Odds Against Tomorrow

Lent, Holy Week & Easter

Experience the special meaning of Holy Week and Easter by joining us at one of our services! All are warmly invited!

Holy Week

Palm Sunday

2nd April

10:30am Sunday Eucharist

4pm The Way of the Cross – music and readings for Passiontide

Monday 3rd April 12pm Litany & Eucharist

8pm Compline

Tuesday 4th April

12pm Litany & Eucharist

Lent Services

Ash Wednesday

22nd Febuary

12pm Eucharist for Ash Wednesday with the Bishop of Coventry 1pm Ashes to Go

7pm Sung Eucharist for Ash Wednesday

Organ meditations

Sundays

26th Febuary – 2nd April 5pm

Join our Evensong every Sunday at 4pm during Lent, followed by a special series of organ voluntaries offered as Lenten meditations at 5pm. Everyone is invited to listen and pray in silence.

Maundy

Thursday

6th April

10:30am Chrism Eucharist

7:30pm Eucharist for Maundy Thursday followed by the Maundy Watch

Good Friday 7th April

9:00am Passion Service

2:00pm Stations of the Cross in the Cathedral Ruins

Easter Day 8th April

8pm Compline

Wednesday 5th April

12pm Litany & Eucharist

8pm Compline

6am The Easter Dawn Eucharist

10:30am The Easter Day Eucharist

4pm Festal Evensong

MARCH

My New Brain

2nd-4th March

Cathedral Ruins Crypt

Collaborative portrait project by Jason Tilley and Jo Gane raises awareness through the visual stories of the lived experience of those with neurodiversity and stroke.

Compline for Lent

15th March, 8pm

An atmospheric and meditative service of Compline by candlelight.

The Myton Hospices

Bird In The Belly

2nd March

7pm doors

New Cathedral Tickets: £6

Launching their record written for our wonderful City, commissioned by Food Union.

Let’s Watch Shaun the Sheep

4th March

10am

Chapter House Free tickets

Sneaky Shaun is back!

Craft your own little sheep and enjoy the hilarious adventures of everyone’s favourite fluffy friend.

Abseil

18th March

Help raise £35k for charity by taking a walk on your wild side, 90ft down our Cathedral!

Action Rayz presents Wings of Desire

22nd March, 7pm

Chapter House Pay as you feel

An angel comes to earth to start a relationship with his beloved. But the film’s about much more than this!

Directed by Wim Wenders, with stunning visuals and dozens of sub plots.

Heaven’s Chimes Are Slow

Friday 24th March

7:30pm

BCMG’s this year NEXT young professional cohort performs music by living composers, addressing the metaphysical and spiritual.

The Spectacular Music of Harry Potter

25th March, 7pm From £14

Be enchanted by the magical music from all Harry Potter films with a live orchestra. Hedwig might give us a h-o-o-t.

Spring Festival

22nd April

12pm-6pm

Let’s step into Spring and celebrate World Earth Day with Food Union, through dance, music, art and food! From trading seeds to swapping clothes we can all play our part to help protect Mother Earth. Joined by our friends from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust there will be lots of crafts & fun for all of the family.

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Wings of Desire

My New Brain

The Myton Hospices Abseil

APRIL

Fleming

This Fragile Earth

4th April – 29th May

Cathedral opening times New Cathedral

This breakthrough exhibition by the Fleming Collection of Scottish art, focusses on a group of veteran artists who were ahead of their time in responding to the threat of climate change.

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Dinners, Concerts, Lectures, Meetings, Exhibitions, Theatre, Dances, Weddings

CCC Good Friday Bach: St John Passion

Friday 7th April, 6pm From £15

Experience the unbridled and raw emotion of the St. John Passion, Bach's oldest surviving Passion, sung by Coventry Cathedral Chorus.

Our magnificent Ruins and New Cathedral are available to hire with spaces which suit weddings, dinners, conferences, events, exhibitions, talks and beyond.

For more information on hiring our spaces contact: events@coventry.anglican.org

Let’s Watch The Lorax

22nd April 10am

Chapter House Free

Help us save the Truffula trees by creating your own tree, before being inspired by the colourful and moving film the Lorax, based on the book by Dr Seuss.

Easter Hunt

8th April 10am-4pm Free

Explore our green spaces this Easter as we forage for goodies, solve puzzles and get crafty.

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The Lorax

Learn with us

From exploring the Big Bang to awesome math’s workshops celebrating pi, to gothic literature festivals and Macbeth theatre workshops. There isn’t a topic we can’t teach in our magical Cathedral. Explore. Educate. Inspire. Get in touch Jessica Weale

Jessica.Weale@Coventry.Anglican.org

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