Coventry Creates Celebratory Event
During the Resonate Festival in April 2022, we invited all Coventry Creates artists, researchers, team members, together with other local arts and cultural organisations, creatives and interested researchers to join us in celebrating the Coventry Creates Digital Exhibition.
We heard directly from team members about how the projects worked and what they meant to them. Sherrie Edgar and Navkiran Mann performed their poetry, Life on a Deadline and Imagine Equality Create Change.
Attendees enjoyed food and drink whilst visiting the exhibition and chatting with Coventry Creates teams in the new Faculty of Arts Building. For many project partners, this was the first time they had met in person, as the project was launched in response to the first UK lockdown in Spring 2020. Coming together after all this time resulted in a vibrant event full of energy, connections, and knowledge exchange.
The University of Warwick is committed to continuing to develop collaborations with the arts and cultural sector, share learning and inspire others. Further information can be found in the Coventry Creates Evaluation. We also produced a short knowledge sharing document that includes cases studies from Coventry Creates and will be helpful for any artists or researchers considering collaboration - Artist-Researcher Collaborations: Lessons and Challenges.
The project team would like thank all the artists and City of Culture University Partnership researchers and professional services staff that made Coventry Creates happen. We would also like to thank Arts Council England for helping to fund Coventry Creates 2021.
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Professor Jackie Hodgson - Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research, UoW Academic Lead
Peta Murphy - Associate Head of School: Enterprise & Innovation at Coventry University, CU Academic Lead
India Holme - UoW Project Manager for Coventry Creates
Artists who contributed to Coventry Creates
Sherrie Edgar delivering a talk on Coventry Creates project Imagine Equality, Create Change
Left to Right: Ed Collier, Rochi Rampal and Izzy Taylor presenting on their Coventry Creates project Thresholds
Artists, researchers and project team group photo
Navkiran Mann performing poem Life on a Deadline
Jane Bryan presenting on Coventry Creates project Say My Name
Left to Right: Emily Warner, Ed Collier and Izzy Taylor
Delegates viewing the exhibition
Emily Warner delivering a talk on Coventry Creates project Things Change, Things Changed
Professor Mel Jordan delivering a talk on Coventry Creates project Art and the Urban Commons
Professor Mel Jordan and Duncan Whitely presenting on their collaborative project Art and the Urban Commons
Artist John Bernard - Coventry Creates project Lost Museums?
Gabrielle Freeman - event coordinator
Peta Murphy in conversation at the event
Navkiran Mann performing poem Life on a Deadline
Left to Right: Jane Bryan and Verity Pabla presenting on their collaborative project Say My Name
Professor Nirmal Puwar, Co-Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London and Visiting Fellow of Centre for the Study of Women and Gender University of Warwick, who contributed to the Coventry Creates Boliyan project
Delegates viewing the exhibition
Delegates listening to talks on the Coventry Creates 2021 projects
Left to Right: Emily Dunford, Paul Daly (Coventry Creates project Furniture of My Imagination) and Verity Pabla (Coventry Creates project Say My Name)
Celebratory Event in action
Sherrie Edgar - Artist on Coventry Creates 2021 project Imagine Equality Create Change
Celebratory Event in action
Shahnaz Akhter presenting on Coventry Creates project Life on a Deadline
Duncan Whitely - behind the scenes interview
Delegates in conversation
Artists, researchers and project team who contributed to Coventry Creates