First Word Warwickshire December. qxp.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 12:01 Page 1
News from around the region
Further funding announced for Coventry City of Culture Coventry City of Culture Trust has announced that it has received a further £175,000 in grant funding to support the staging of events and programmes during its year as UK City of Culture. Backstage Trust initially awarded £100,000 but then released another £25,000 to match a generous donation from David & Sandra Burbidge. The Eveson Charitable Trust, meanwhile, has donated £15,000, with a further £10,000 coming from The Radcliffe Trust.
Caravan & Motorhome Show returns to the NEC
NEC hosts festive film drive-in cinema event
New South Pacific tour heading to the Midlands
After a two-year hiatus, the Caravan, Camping & Motorhome Show will return to Birmingham’s NEC from Tuesday 22 to Sunday 27 February. Campervans, motorhomes, caravans, tents and holiday homes all feature at the event, with more than 350 exhibitors on hand to showcase their latest creations. To purchase a ticket for the show, visit ccmshow.co.uk
The Luna Drive-In Cinema is this month presenting a programme of Christmas films at NEC Birmingham (3 - 22 December). Featured festive favourites include Love Actually, Home Alone, It's A Wonderful Life, The Holiday, Elf, Frozen and Last Christmas. Younger film fans are catered for with special screenings of The Gruffalo, Stick Man, Zog, The Snail And The Whale and The Snowman. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: lunawintercinema.com
The critically acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific is coming to Birmingham next autumn as part of a UK tour. The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is a powerful love story set on a South Pacific Island during World War Two. South Pacific will show at The Alexandra from Tuesday 27 September until Saturday 1 October. Tickets are now on sale.
Going Cuckoo at Warwick Arts Centre
Griff Rhys Jones running late at Malvern Theatres Griff Rhys Jones visits Malvern Theatres next spring in An Hour And A Half Late - a comedy about a couple whose five minutes of candid conversation ‘launches an outpouring of emotions, home truths, wine, nibbles and anarchy’. Olivier Award recipient Griff - who shot to fame in 1970s’ sketch series Not The Nine O’ Clock News and has since forged an impressive career as an actor, writer and presenter - is joined in the production by fellow Olivier winner Janie Dee. The show runs in Malvern from 14 to 19 March. For tickets, visit malvern-theatres.co.uk 04 whatsonlive.co.uk
A show which takes audiences on a journey through the last 20 years of Korean history as told by ‘a bunch of talkative rice cookers’ is visiting Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, this month (Wednesday 8 & Thursday 9 December). Performed in Korean with English surtitles, Jaha Koo’s Cuckoo combines ‘personal experience with political events and reflections on happiness, economic crises and death’. For more information and to book tickets, visit warwickartscentre.co.uk
Broken Angel on show in Coventry Cathedral A site-specific installation titled Broken Angel is now available to view at Coventry Cathedral. The installation, by Anne Petters, is temporarily replacing the Angel of the Eternal Gospel, a window destroyed in an act of vandalism in 2020. Anne’s broken piece of window glass is magnified and projected onto the screen where the original Angel used to be, appearing as an abstract reflection of an angel’s wing. The Broken Angel project will next year feature the work of two other artists.
