Cultures GRP

Further funding opportunities in collaboration with Connecting Cultures GRP

In addition to our Community Partnerships Fund, we were also able to work with the university’s Connecting Cultures GRP to fund a series of projects working with the regional creative sector and grass-roots organizations. The following six projects were able to integrate academic research with creative practitioners to present work through a different lens, both with and for new audiences.

Alan Chalmers Professor, WMG

Jo Trowsdale

Karen Simecek Associate Professor, Sociology

Associate Professor, Philosphy

Louise Campbell Emeritus Professor, History of Art

Margaret Low Professor, WMG

Meleisa OnoGeorge Associate Professor, History

Showcasing Coventry’s medieval weaving within Coventry’s City of Culture Built Environment exhibition

Art-making: Coventry’s past, present and future

A high-fidelity virtual reconstruction of medieval weaving in Upper Spon Street, Coventry in 1540 is created including weaving reenactors captured in 3D. The resulting animation formed an important part of Coventry City of Culture Built Environment exhibition at Metropolis.

This project gathered the views of the city’s people, sharing them at CoC21 events at the Daimler Powerhouse Creation centre opening.

Re-voicing words: Embodying voices through poetry

Designing and delivering a series of workshops for the poetry community focusing on voice, embodiment and performance space for its potential to empower those who have been unjustly marginalized in society. Was part of the Words and Voices Roadshow in Sept 2021.

Modern Mercia: Post-war art and design in Coventry and Warwickshire, 1945-70 exhibition at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

Modern Mercia: Post-war art and design in Coventry and Warwickshire 1945-1970 is an exhibition showcasing paintings, sculpture, architectural designs and homeware owned by LSAG&M, Coventry Cathedral, the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Warwick university’s Art Collection and private collectors. This project pools expertise in order to create an exhibition examining post-war art and design in a regional (rather than national) context. It lends a valuable historical dimension to the City of Culture’s programme and provides a model for cooperation between different cultural organisations in the region.

Stitch in Time and Place An ongoing project which connects groups of young people in different parts of the world, to create designs through coding and stitching, to explore aspects of their own cultural heritage. Photographs of the final pieces of work will be exhibited as part of the Resonate Campus Festival. Turtlestitch is freely available software that enables the generation and stitching of patterns using a digital embroidery machine, giving programmatic control of the machine.

Coventry’s Windrush Stories

Using digital storytelling technique, this project worked with community participants in the curation and telling of their own ‘Windrush Stories’. This project used a community-engaged approach and centred the authority of members of the Windrush generation in the telling of their own experiences and histories.