Arts for Social Change
14 - 22 February 2026
A community-led week of arts, nature, and technology co-creating fairer, more connected futures for Coventry.
DAO CreaTech Festival Coventry 2026 is a new community-led festival linking love, language, nature, social justice, and creative technology during the February half-term.
Across one week, local people are invited to join walks, workshops, performances, and a one-day symposium exploring how arts and digital tools can support fairer, more participatory ways of making culture in Coventry.
The programme is rooted in the city’s communities and green spaces, with accessible venues, low-cost tickets, and bursaries to encourage wide local involvement.
Exploring rivers, woods, and urban wild spaces for health and connection.
From spoken word poetry to hip hop and experimental early music.
Cooking, basket-weaving, and papercutting workshops for all ages.
Marking World Day of Social Justice with community gatherings.
Explore our week of events. Times and final venues to be confirmed.
Spoken-word performance and community event inviting Coventry residents to share poems on love, hope and togetherness.
Hands-on cooking and storytelling session where participants share memories, recipes and culture while preparing simple dishes.
Guided wellbeing nature-exploration walk along the River Sherbourne for intergenerational groups.
Storytelling and creative-response walk in an urban green space, inviting adults to share tree-related memories.
Hands-on audio workshop where adults explore heritage, belonging and nature-connection through simple recording.
Sound-art/radio commissions by young people on “Diversity in Action”, shared live on community radio.
A one-day, hybrid symposium bringing together community organisers, artists, technologists, funders and investors to explore how DAOs, AI and ethical CreaTech can help co-finance and co-design creative and community projects.
Intentionally mixed audience with reserved low-cost tickets for Coventry communities.
Neighbourhood walk and basket-weaving session using local plants, linking craft to ecology.
Drop-in family workshop using Eastern European papercutting traditions to explore nature-inspired designs.
Gathering of grassroots groups marking World Day of Social Justice with workshops, makers tables and shared food.
Hip Hop and Breakin’-led walk, workshop and performance connecting local habitats and youth voice.
Workshop where participants respond (including in different languages) to nature-themed artworks.
Evening open mic bringing poets and musicians together across languages and cultures.
Community music jam bringing multiple Coventry bands and performers together.
Immersive evening performance blending medieval instruments and electronics.
Whether you want to perform, volunteer, or just enjoy the events, there's a place for you at DAO CreaTech Coventry.