First tickets for UK City of Culture events go on sale
Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture 2021 kicks off on May 15 - here s all you need to know about getting tickets
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UK City of Culture will kick off on May 15, and opening ceremony, Coventry Moves will take place on June 5, The Allesley Silas (July 2021) is a new, site specific largescale outdoor musical theatre production by From the Heart Theatre.
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A member of the public viewing Melanie by artist Grayson Perry in the roof void in York Art Gallery in 2017. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire. Inset: Grayson Perry A series of ‘lost pots’ by one of Britain’s best known artists will be the star attraction when York Art Gallery officially re-opens on May 28. The gallery’s opening show will be ‘Grayson Perry: The Pre Therapy Years’ - featuring some of the artist s earliest works. The touring exhibition, developed by Bath s Holburne Museum, is the first to celebrate Perry’s earliest forays into the art world and will re-introduce the explosive works he made between 1982 and 1994.
A group of nervous fish sellers got very close to La Soufrière, the volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, on the morning of May 7, 1902.
“The top of the mountain was covered in mist, and the foremost of them followed the path up to the base of the summit cone,” according to a written account of their experience. “Some went up to quite near the lip of the crater, or possibly even to the actual edge. What they saw there was enough to dismay the stoutest hearts.″
The volcano was about to erupt explosively, devastating swathes of the island. Last week, La Soufrière once again started spewing hot torrents of gas, ash and rock, forcing thousands to evacuate to government-run shelters and private homes.
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CRAVEN farmers took a bit of convincing when the whole idea of the Women’s Land Army (WLA) and ‘land girls’ was presented to them back in the hard days of the Second World War. Farmers were ‘more than a little sceptical about the wisdom of employing lasses’ reported the Craven Herald 75 years ago, in April, 1946. The paper was following up reports from the WLA that it had received a ‘raw deal’ from some authorities, which was a pity said the Herald, which concluded that the land girls had done an excellent job, many had settled down in the area, and that their efforts were still needed in peace time.