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The Canley Parade returns! To sign-up to parade with us, come to a workshop or apply for a micro grant for your group to join us, please click here.

Get Creative in Canley with us this Spring and Summer in the lead up to the Canley Parade on Saturday 10 June. We have workshops in Samba Band Music, Arts and Crafts, Dance and Poetry. All workshops are free and open to all. We can’t wait to see you there!

The Canley Pop-Up Cafe is taking over Warwick Arts Centre with free food and activities on Sunday 12 March and we can’t wait! Here are all the things you need to know…

GETTING HERE:

FREE MINIBUS: We are putting on a free minibus from Canley to Campus for the Pop-Up café. It will run continually throughout the event so you can come and go as suits you. Timings are detailed below. If busy we may run slightly late, but wait for us and we shall be there!

• Quarter past and quarter to the hour: Every half an hour, stops outside Canley Community Centre, goes via the Sovereign Pub on Charter Avenue then on to campus. First bus at 1.15pm.
• Half past and on the hour: Every half an hour, stops outside Warwick Arts Centre at the bus interchange to travelling back to Canley via the two stops above. Last bus approx. 4.30pm.

DRIVING AND PARKING: If you’re driving this link will tell you how to get to us and where to park. Getting here | Warwick Arts Centre Parking charges apply, and there are parking meters located inside Warwick Arts Centre, so don’t worry about using the app… just remember your registration number! Ask a member of staff when you arrive if you are unsure.

WALKING: As you approach campus, look for signs that say ‘Warwick Arts Centre’, or ‘events’. We are situated on Gibbet Hill Road, just by the Bus Interchange on campus.

It’s all free! Warwick Arts Centre is the home of the Playing Out team when we aren’t with you in Canley! We can’t wait to welcome you! 😊

GET CREATIVE AND LEARN:

• Creative arts activities with Warwick Volunteers and Family Sundays: Spring 2023 | Warwick Arts Centre
• British Science Week activities Slice of Science — Resonate Festival

Join us for a free our next community event, a screening of Disney’s ‘Encanto,’ on Saturday 3rd September at Prior Deram Park!

We will also be having a wonderful creative workshop beforehand, hosted by Olu who you might remember from the Canley Parade!

Canley residents and Warwick Arts Centre present a community parade, activating the streets with costumes, puppets and music from the samba band.  This years theme is ‘Dreaming Differently’! 

The Parade will start at the top of Glebe Close outside Willowbrook Retirement Village at 11.00 am and will end at Prior Deram Park at 12.30 where there will be creative activities, performances and food until 4.00pm. 

It’s going to be a lovely day and we want you to be part of it! Please see the posters below for more information. You can come to our free workshops, join the Canley Samba Band or walk the Parade and wave our stars, flags or even our giant whale! 

The route has been announced below.  To see an interactive map, click this link

You can get in touch with us at playingoutcanley@gmail.com and follow up on Facebook @playingoutcanley