During our visit to Dresden we were able to attend a conversation around twinning organised by Dresden Technical University as part of their Urban Conversations programme. Those taking part included: Tine & Günter Starke – photographers whose work provided the visual framework for the evening Sabine Coady Schaebitz from Coventry University, editor of Heritage and… Continue reading Urban conversations
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At the Priory Undercroft: Photographs from Dresden
Christine and Gunter Starke are renowned photographers from our partner city of Dresden where they have been documenting people and places for over 45 years. They are visiting Coventry this month and in advance they sent over sets of photographs which are now on show in the LTB’s St Mary Priory Undercroft near the cathedral. Christine and Gunter’s particular concern has been… Continue reading At the Priory Undercroft: Photographs from Dresden
My favourite place in Cov
This is another blog in the series ‘what my city means to me’. These posts offer a glimpse of the places and people that make up a city and are particularly interesting for readers in partner cities in other countries. In this blog I describe a place that has special meaning for me in Coventry. … Continue reading My favourite place in Cov
What does my city mean to me?
One of the purposes of our blog is to help those in Coventry find out more about the cities with which we are twinned. However, we are equally interested in shining a light on our own city, for ourselves and for friends who live overseas. In this blog we get the thoughts of Zsófia, a… Continue reading What does my city mean to me?
Verheih uns Frieden – Grant us Peace
In early June, thirty-eight Coventry Spires singers and our conductor, Jack Lovell-Huckle, stepped onto planes and trains in Birmingham, Belfast and Coventry and, after standing in queues in Birmingham, hiking across Frankfurt airport or searching Brussels for the night train to Prague, we all finally arrived in Dresden. A day later Coventry’s Deputy Lord Mayor,… Continue reading Verheih uns Frieden – Grant us Peace
My Coventry (1 – 8 April 2024)
CAIF was very pleased to host Patrick Wilden a writer and poet from Dresden, here he reflects on his visit. When I decided to go to Coventry, I had to cope with the fact that I didn’t possess a valid passport, which is yet inevitable to cross the threshold to the UK since so-called Brexit.… Continue reading My Coventry (1 – 8 April 2024)
Coventry and the FA cup
If you are visiting this blog from a partner city you might have come so wanting to know more about the social, political culture life of Coventry. But spare a thought for sport as the big news story in the city last weekend was a sporting one - the FA cup semi- final, played at Wembley. … Continue reading Coventry and the FA cup
Coventry Association for International Friendship 