28 Nov 2025 Coventry Peace Festival and Blitz Remembered
As part of Coventry Peace Festival we were excited to run a songmaking workshop with Wes and Johnnie. This saw people come together and explore themes of ‘peace’ and ‘reconciliation’ before working as a group to create a song. The workshop atmosphere was beautiful, fun and reflective, thoughtful and creative.
Friday 14th November 2025 marked the 85th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz and to help commemorate this event, which saw over 500 loose their lives, homes, factories and medieval buildings of Coventry destroyed, a huge cardboard installation was built, inspired by Coventry Cathedral and to act as a symbol of ‘unity, remembrance and hope’.
Susan, long term member and Skill Ambassador at Underground Lights, got involved in this exciting project volunteering daily to help build the structure!
‘What a great pleasure to be part of the big build, from learning how to cut and shape the cardboard boxes, to the actual big build, to seeing all the volunteers lift the pieces onto each of the sections.
It was a great experience when it all was eventually built up. It was a very impressive sight.
But it was sad to see it pulled down to be recycled. A lot of the volunteers took pieces which were signed by the artist to keep a piece of history which we’d spent hours making. It would be great to see other historic buildings like this in the future.’
As a city of peace and reconciliation we were glad to support the festival and to remember Coventry’s history and to celebrate it’s strength and future in this way.