Coventry Peace Festival 2025

Oct 25, 2025 | Community Events, Coventry, Events | 0 comments

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Celebrating Peace in Coventry: The Coventry Peace Festival 2025

Coventry peace festival 2025

The Roots of Peace

Every November, the city of Coventry pauses to remember. The Coventry Peace Festival marks not only the anniversary of the devastating Blitz of 14 November 1940, but also celebrates the city’s ongoing commitment to peace, reconciliation and community renewal. This year—on the 85th anniversary—it holds a special resonance: the festival emphasises Coventry’s resilience, cultural creativity and role as a “City of Peace and Reconciliation”.

The official festival website describes the event as a “programme of public events and activities that promote peace, unity, understanding and positive community relationships.”

Its Influence and Impact

Over the years, the Coventry Peace Festival has grown in both scale and purpose. Key features of the 2025 programme include:

  • A monumental installation inspired by Coventry Cathedral, comprising 1,300 cardboard boxes crafted by local residents—a powerful symbol of memory, hope and communal creativity.
  • The Lord Mayor’s Peace Lecture, delivered by Mandy Sanghera OBE on 6 November, exploring her work with victims of honour-based violence and cultural abuse.
  • A diverse programme of walks, workshops, exhibitions and performances—offered free of charge—inviting Coventry’s inhabitants and visitors to reflect together, learn together and build stronger connections.

The practical community impact is significant. These events:

  • strengthen inter-faith, inter-cultural and inter-generational dialogue
  • provide accessible creative and mental-wellbeing activities in shared public spaces
  • remind the city of its legacy while inviting a future of active peace-making

Join Emerald Book Club

As part of this year’s festival, the Emerald Book Club is proud to present Stories of Peace: A Community Storytelling Walk in the Park. This event is rooted directly in the festival’s themes of peace and reconciliation.

By choosing to gather in Red House Park and offering a walk that intersperses live storytelling, poems and open-mic sharing, we are:

  • promoting togetherness and listening in a relaxed outdoor environment
  • creating a safe space for participants to reflect on peace, forgiveness and unity
  • connecting ours to Coventry’s broader story of resilience, recovery and hope

Why this Matters

Our involvement is more than just an event—it’s a contribution to Coventry’s identity. Through the Emerald Book Club’s walk:

  • Local voices will be heard—those of poets, storytellers and community members alike
  • Public space becomes an active site of inclusion and cultural exchange
  • Attendance and interaction nurture the festival’s goal of cultivating positive community relationships around peace

Join Us

📅 Saturday 8 November 2025
🕐 1–3 PM
📍 Red House Park, Coventry
💚 Free event | All welcome | No booking required

Come share your story, listen to another’s, and walk with us as part of Coventry’s ever-evolving peace journey.

Emerald Book Club Stories of Peace

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