St Mary’s Guildhall Open Mic

St Mary’s Guildhall Open Mic

What a marvellous Medieval inspired 🎤Open Mic🎤 at St Mary’s Guildhall🎶🎭

Through 12 Creative Café drop-in workshops members created and performed their Open Mic showcase. They co-created a song about the Guildhall, wrote poems, painted mini stained glass widows, devised drama pieces and one member even wrote their own medieval rap!

Together they created an impressive and varied Open Mic which was enjoyed by a large audience. Several audience members also got involved and performed their own creative work.

✨“Enjoyed the energy, ideas, positivity, courage, imagination! So wonderful to see everyone performing in such a beautiful historic venue” Audience Feedback

It was exciting to have been inspired by the history and heritage of the building. Thank you to St Mary’s Guildhall, and their wonderful staff for making us so welcome, and the Heritage Lottery for making this possible.

🌱As the summer term ends we also say a sad goodbye to our wonderful workshop placement students Cai and Philip from Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick, and marketing whizz Nat from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama

The open mic was out of this world

I felt that you were very accepted

Guildhall Song

co-created by UL Members and Wes

This building has a long history

Built long ago in the 14th century

Rich men, merchants and royalty

Have trod on these stone floors

Built for the guild of St Mary

St Michael and Holy Trinity

When Coventry was a capital city

Many years ago

Chorus

Guild Hall in the heart of the city

Many years of history

Rich and poor, old and new

Side by side like you and me

 

Halls and corridors to roam

Built with the bricks of the red sandstone

Dungeons and passages down below

But we don’t know where they go

Antique paintings on the wall

With eyes that follow you down the hall

They’ve all been here, the rich and poor

If only walls could talk

Chorus

 

Elephant carvings that look so strange

Gargoyles, green men, bishops and kings

Faces carved in the old kitchen

Like creepy medieval CCTV

Now there’s plasma screen TVs

A gift shop – you can buy a souvenir

A cafe – you can meet a friend for cake

Everything is here!

Chorus

It was interesting and good for my mental health

Photography by Mandip Seehra