Capturing The Commons – Free 3-session creative labs
Ludic Rooms is bringing back Roam + Dwell - our Summer Programme of fun, experimentation, making and play at Coventry Canal Basin every Friday from 17 June-19 August, 2.00-6.00pm. . Ludic Rooms is committed to building creative skills and for Roam + Dwell 2022, ...
Waterways – May Day Weekend
Ludic Rooms is inviting Crewdson & Cevanne to return Coventry Canal to celebrate the launch of their EP and book, Rites for Crossing Water on Friday 29 April, 8pm at the Tin, Coventry Canal Basin. Tickets cost £12 and available here. This forms part of...
Future Ecologies – Nest Residencies
Ludic Rooms has teamed up with Talking Birds to create two Nest Residency opportunities for artists who live in the CV1-6 postcode to take time to explore ‘Future Ecologies’ around Coventry Canal. Nest Residencies have been running since 2019 and prioritise D/deaf,...
Art of Place – Artist Callout
Ludic Rooms, in partnership with Coventry Artspace is inviting local artists to explore ‘The Art of Place’ with them in a free course and commissioning opportunity. This is part of Ludic Rooms’ Random String programme and the Coventry Artspace Artist Development programme 2021-22.
Walkshops – App-enabled waterside wandering in Coventry and Sao Paulo
In a time when we’ve all enjoyed the power of getting lost, Ludic Rooms’ Walkshops project will offer the opportunity to do so around Coventry Canal, in parallel with walkers on the other side of the world. Ludic Rooms will work with international artist...
What’s it like to live by the water in the most landlocked city in the country?
To complement the main Random String Programme Ludic Rooms has developed some hyper local opportunities for communities that live overlooking the Coventry Canal. Landlocked is funded by Coventry City Council and asks just what it's like to live by water in what is...
RSx invites CV artists to embrace digital creativity on their own terms
RSx is our creative development programme, giving access to this high quality video production equipment as well as training sessions for CV-based artists and arts organisations. This equipment will enable artists to to experiment and promote themselves – presenting demos of their craft and making processes, workshops, music videos, drama productions and live performances.
Work with us – Digital Content Creator
We are seeking a Digital Content Creator to work with the creative team to contribute to the production of digital media content for social media, documentation and community engagement. This will include the design and production of assets from existing material from...
Random String 2021: The Canal Network(ed)
Ludic Rooms are absolutely delighted to announce Random String: The Canal Network(ed) for UK City of Culture 2021. Connecting artists, technologists and local communities along the Coventry Canal throughout 2021. Creative activities outdoors and online; performances,...
Data Miners: Digital creative skills and new directions
Data Miners is a free project run by local arts organisation Ludic Rooms, for unemployed people to explore ways in which they can gain more control over data and make something creative. The project is funded by the European Social Fund and the Education and Skills Funding Agency, and supported by the Local Enterprise Partnership.
Permission to Play at the Wellcome Collection
Reflecting on an incredible weekend – exhausting and inspiring in equal measure – for the Permission to Play weekender at the Wellcome Collection. We built an interactive playspace from cardboard boxes, centred around a carousel of interactive activities that challenged visitors to use different technologies to challenge issues of democratising access and invitation to play.
Light Painting from Canoes!
For the next two weeks we are playing with sound and light on Coventry Canal in a series of R&D sessions - watch out for updates as the project develops.