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The Library and Modern Records Centre will highlight some of its unique archival content to celebrate the University’s 60th anniversary.

Modern Records Centre Opening Times:
Mon-Thurs 09:00 - 17:00
Fridays 09:00 - 16:00

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the University of Warwick, the Library has created a special collection of fiction books from the last 60 years.

Come to the Library's Breathing Space to browse at your leisure or discover the collection online by searching "University of Warwick 60th Anniversary Collection" on the Library website.

Dive into the words and worlds of popular authors!

We are inviting school children, their teachers, and families from the region to take part in a project which will make them think creatively about designing buildings, ancient and modern, and the role these buildings play in building communities.

The winning designs will be announced and displayed at FabFest Schools Day on Tuesday 17th June 2025.

Find more information on the programme of events: HERE!

We are proud and very excited to run Mother Tongue Other Tongue, a multilingual poetry competition that celebrates cultural diversity and the many languages currently spoken in schools across the UK.

This year we are working in collaboration with Coventry Cathedral to mark the 80th anniversary of the Second World War and Warwick's 60th anniversary. The competition will centre on the themes of embracing diversity, peace and justice and healing the wounds of the past. A display will be created in the cathedral with our entries.

The annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) will be held in the Oculus Building and online and at our participating institutions on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th June 2025.

Our event offers a drop-in style experience for staff, students, wider community members, and invited guests. There is truly something for everyone! You can engage with our Collective Creative Charter, surprise yourself with Blackout Poetry, get reflective with Test tube Telegrams, immerse yourself in the wonderfully crafted mindfulness sessions.

Join us at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum as we celebrate their 25th birthday alongside our 60th birthday!

With street art and parkour workshops, face painting and crazy scientists on… stilts! There's so much to explore.

More information can be found HERE!

This event is hosted by Theatre and Performance Studies.

Theatre and Performance Studies is turning 50, and you're invited to celebrate with us. Whether you were part of our very first cohort in 1975, or are one of our most recent graduates, this is your chance to reconnect, reminisce, and celebrate this milestone.

This is an informal, free event for Coventry School children and their adults to enjoy a range of activities linked to reading, sport and arts. Bring yourselves, any instruments or crowns you might have made and a picnic!

As a founding department of Warwick, the Department of Physics is excited to welcome our growing alumni community back to campus to celebrate our 60th anniversary alongside current staff and students.

Find more info on the event HERE!

Our staff team will be creating a set of multilingual resources for families visiting the cathedral during the school summer holidays to reflect on the themes of peace, reconciliation and embracing diversity. We plan this to be a celebration of how intercultural awareness and empathy for others can be a conduit for peace and are delighted to have enlisted support from the Coventry Young Poet Laureate Aamani Kanda. We have commissioned Aamani to contribute a poem for our visitor booklet.

Celebrating the work of current academics from Gibbet Hill and reflecting the expansion around Gibbet Hill, the trail will encourage people to explore wonderful but relatively less accessed green spaces, providing an opportunity for everyone to enjoy our beautiful campus - combining literature, biology and outdoor activity, promoting mental health & wellbeing.

Talk title:

Remembering the forgotten blitz: bombing and reconciliation in Paris and Normandy and how Coventry showed the way.

1 of 2 talks - other talk can be found for 24th September on the topic of "Why Language Matters: Propaganda and remembering German women's experiences of defeat in 1945)"

Both talks with more information on the speaker can be found and booked for free HERE!

Talk title:

Why Language Matters: Propaganda and remembering German women's experiences of defeat in 1945

1 of 2 talks - other talk can be found for 17th September on Remembering the forgotten blitz: bombing and reconciliation in Paris and Normandy and how Coventry showed the way.

Both talks with more information on the speaker can be found and booked for free HERE!

Book your ticket back to 1989 to share in an experience that shaped a generation; to feel the anticipation, the trepidation, the excitement, and the euphoria, that was Acid House.

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is currently touring around the UK and we're delighted to be able to host this immersive experience at Warwick Arts Centre.

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The Museum of Climate Stories is a project which encourages people to see the world around them differently.

*Dates and more information to be provided soon.

Part of Warwick Arts Centre's Words & Ideas programme and featuring celebrated authors, artists and campaigners, we present a series of talks to discuss race and identity, how these shape societies and affect individual and collective states of wellbeing and belonging.

More details to be shared soon - including booking links.

Warwick is a hub of innovation education and support. The natural next step is to develop and share our innovation facilitation capabilities, moving from delivery and training to empowerment and levelling up our innovation leadership development.

This event is part of the outreach and widening participation work delivered to local schools by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. We are collaborating on this occasion with Coventry Cathedral to design an event to mark the 80th anniversary since the end of World War Two and University of Warwick’s 60th birthday.

More information can be found HERE!

Part of Warwick Arts Centre's Words & Ideas programme and featuring celebrated authors, artists and campaigners, we present a series of talks to discuss race and identity, how these shape societies and affect individual and collective states of wellbeing and belonging.

More details to be shared soon - including booking links.

Part of Warwick Arts Centre's Words & Ideas programme and featuring celebrated authors, artists and campaigners, we present a series of talks to discuss race and identity, how these shape societies and affect individual and collective states of wellbeing and belonging.

More details to be shared soon - including booking links.

Part of Warwick Arts Centre's Words & Ideas programme and featuring celebrated authors, artists and campaigners, we present a series of talks to discuss race and identity, how these shape societies and affect individual and collective states of wellbeing and belonging.

More details to be shared soon - including booking links.

Join us for a dazzling international light procession, where you’re invited to join the rest of the Warwick community and create a luminous display, winding through the heart of campus. Let the rhythm of student musicians guide your steps as you carry your own handcrafted lanterns and light sculptures, lighting up familiar campus pathways with a creative glow.