With the countdown at just one year to go, we’re helping set the West Midlands stage as our region hosts the Commonwealth Games in 2022. Information around volunteering for staff will follow in coming weeks.

See how an engineering research team at WMG have vividly brought to life one of Coventry’s medieval buildings using 3-D virtual reality technology, in a new City of Culture exhibition.

Interested in performing, designing and building, getting creative, stewarding or co-ordinating behind the scenes? See how you could be part of a Canley Parade on the morning of Saturday 4 September, winding its way through the streets of our local community in Canley.

This event, part of our Resonate Festival, is the first in a series of collaborations between our Department of Film and Television Studies, the Centre for Television Histories and the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. It brings the pioneering women of punk and 2Tone to Coventry Cathedral for an evening of lively discussion and film screenings. Book now.

Louise Campbell, Professor Emerita of History of Art, has jointly curated this new exhibition at the Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum which celebrates post-war creativity. The 60 exhibits comprise architectural perspectives, sculpture, drawings, paintings, stained glass designs, photographs, archive films, textiles, ceramics and homeware.

Find out how you will be able to help build a photographic map of Coventry to record a specific moment in time, the first two weeks in August 2021. Anyone will be able to submit photos to be included in the final photo grid, which will be part of an exhibition in the ‘Feelings of Freedom’ Festival at Warwick Arts Centre in November.

A new partnership between our university and University College Birmingham aims to greatly benefit to our region and help to meet the national and regional skills demand. It will also transform the lives of students from disadvantaged backgrounds through new alternative pathways to higher education.

A reminder that you have until 12 noon on 8 July to get your application in for a call for Coventry Creates, a set of commissions that capture the imagination and showcase Coventry's artistic and research talent. With funding from Arts Council England and in collaboration with Coventry University.

Challenge yourself to live for a whole month, (or longer) without single-use plastic by joining the #PlasticFreeJuly campaign this year. Find out what Warwick is doing to reduce single-use plastic and read some top tips on how you can take part.