THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE AT MELAN8 2025!

MELAN8 2025 |  Celebration of Black Arts and Culture in Coventry

• Date: Saturday 29 March 2025 | 11am until 7pm 
• Location: St Mary's Guildhall, Bayley Lane, Coventry CV1 5RN
• Find out more: https://www.weusi.org.uk/melan82025
• Buy tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/weusiltd/1603004

MELAN8 Festival is a celebration of Black Arts and Culture, focused on the themes and intersections of Common/Unity and Community, taking place at St Mary’s Guildhall from 11am until 7pm on Saturday 29 March 2025.

Whatever your heritage, this is your invitation to join in a joyful celebration of melanation!

MELANATION means

 ‘of skin; highly pigmented; containing melanin in high concentrations;
 of, relating to, or being a person of colour and especially a Black person’

MELAN8 Festival is all about sharing Black arts, culture and creativity and features more than 50 Black heritage influencers and leaders including:

CASEY BAILEY | COREY CAMPBELL | DOREEN FOSTER | MARCIA M SPENCE | ALLYSON WILLIAMS MBE | REUBEN COTTRELL | G3NNA | TEEDEMBA | LETITIA GEORGE | ROMANAH BUCHANAN | KAYFARAWAY | SMASH HESSON | GILROY BROWN |ANNETTE FAGON | ELIZABETH LAWAL | LAURA NYAHUYE | ERROL DRUMMOND | TONIA DALEY-CAMPBELL | EMMANUELLE COTTRELL | LATHAN FORRESTER| & MORE!

For just £5 entry, you can join in this day-long jam-packed Festival, featuring:

LIVE MUSIC | LIVE SINGING | DANCE PERFORMANCES | PANELS | TALKS | STAND-UP COMEDY | BOOK READINGS | CHILDREN’S ARTS & CRAFTS | FACE PAINTING & GLITTER TATTOOS | FILM | WORKSHOPS ON CREATIVE WRITING, THEATRICAL DIRECTION AND PUBLISHING | KIZOMBA DANCE CLASS | TOURS | AUDIO TOURS | & AN ETHIOPIAN COFFEE CEREMONY