COMING VERY SOON: SPRINGBOARD FESTIVAL!
25th March to 1st April 2023
Springboard Festival will be a week-long string of performing arts events over eight days from Saturday 25th March to 1st April. Held at the Criterion Theatre, amongst the restaurants and bars of Earlsdon (a local gastro destination, to the south of Coventry), Springboard will bring together a collation of professional and community companies and individual artists. It offers a chance to try out something different in a dynamic and supportive setting. The aim of Springboard is to “blur boundaries, move margins and expand fringes”.
Jasmine Gardosi, Wes Finch, and John Bernard come together with plays by Lucy Kirkwood, Fin Kennedy, Martha Haddon Allpress and a premiere by Karen Ewing. You can enjoy a preview of a masked retelling of Pe’er Gynt, together with visiting productions by Srabani Sen (another premiere) and Beverly Andrews.
Come and listen to singer-songwriter/comedian Keith Donnelly, pianist Mikael Petersson plus Coventry Poet Laureate Emilie Lauren Jones. Or The Sonoplasts, featuring vocalist Amy Kakoura, renowned violinist Simon Chalk and composer Derek Nisbett. Nicky Cure collaborates with annA rydeR to bring you the fabulous Fat Chance show – and Nicky is also exhibiting and embedded, with poet Dangermouse# and sketch artist Paul Chokran. Springboard also features performance of a new work devised by the Coventry Resource Centre for the Blind.
This fabulous little theatre and its community are striving to provide opportunities for emerging artists of all ages and backgrounds, and support the creative economy of Coventry and Warwickshire.
Criterion Theatre is committed to producing diverse and inclusive art and serving as a catalyst for community creation though an active workshop and resident artist programme (details being finalised at present).
For tickets and more information, visit the Criterion Theatre website.
Coming in from out of town for a few days’ short break? Coventry offers plenty to see and do within a couple of miles, accessible via good public transport links. Kenilworth old town, new town, and Castle are also just a short bus or train journey away.
Coventry Cathedral (old and new). Herbert Art Gallery and Musuem. The Albany Theatre. Coventry Music Museum. Independent arts space FarGo Village, including Twisted Barrel Brewery. The Belgrade Theatre (and, around either corner: Town Wall Tavern pub and Hops D’Amour micropub). The Transport Museum. The Old Windmill pub (situated in a 15th-century building). The Golden Cross pub (one of the longest-established alcohol-serving venues in England). Warwick University Arts Centre. St Mary’s Guild Hall. Midland Air Museum. Coventry Watch Museum. The Weaver’s House. Draper’s Hall. War Memorial Park.