Commongroundcoventry

03/03/2025

So we’ve finished the mammoth job of moving everything out of Commonground. We have a few bits and pieces left if anyone is interested.
Lots of screens (approx 40) - varying sizes and mesh counts and all need reclaiming. £10-25 each depending on size.
We also have our extendable 6 seat table which is free to a good home if anyone wants it.
Pick will need to be in the next few days.

05/02/2025

It’s Gallery Lates at The Warwick Arts Centre tomorrow night. See post below for details

We've taken a month off and have been tinkering away behind the scenes...This month would have been our 2nd anniversary of Cov Sauce at Commongroundcoventry we are sad to have lost our cafe disco which was so important in helping us create an inclusive club night, we miss you!!

However, we will be bringing you news of the return of Cov Sauce parties very soon!

In the meantime catch us at the Mead Gallery for the Gallery Late x Print Makers Market Warwick Arts Centre for 'The Future Is Today' on 6th Feb which celebrates six decades of University of Warwick’s art collection.

At this Gallery Late explore the free-thinking and radical spirit of the mid 1960’s when Warwick Uni was founded with live music from Tom Something, Batsch and Duke Keats alongside the Print Makers Market with lots of fantastic local artwork.

Cov Sauce djs will be spinning tunes throughout the event from 4.30pm to 10pm, including a 60s set from Alien She and 70s set from Tom Something and later our usual mix of disco, house and beyond!

Free to come, join us, dance 💃

https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/nev-gallery-latexprint-makers-market/

29/01/2025

So it's finally time for us to say a proper goodbye to commonground at fargo! Come join us this Saturday night for one last dance in our space with our favourite DJs. From 7pm till late

30/12/2024

Get your tickets for tomorrow evening’s NY celebrations! Only £8 for all 3 venues!

Tomorrow night! Only £8 advance - see bio for tix. The last planned Cov Sauce event while we figure out what to do next. Live jazz from the Catherine Nightingale Band! Feat Fargo’s regular Jazz band, then onto DJs also with as follows

7:00 The Catherine Nightingale band
9:00 Tom Something (Cov Sauce)
10:30 (Cov Sauce)
12:10 Sumwan (drft)
1:30 - 3:00 (drft)

Also with incredible live bands .cov with , and DJs at .

It’s taken a lot to pull this together. With .cov and many venues sadly closing we need all the support we can get to keep putting on nights like this.
Come and dance in the New Year with us across three venues for only £8!
🕺 💃 🪩

29/12/2024

FAMILY FRIENDLY NYE PARTY!
Want to celebrate the new year but also want to be tucked up in bed by 10? Got kids and want to enjoy the countdown with them? Then this might just be the party for you. We'll be open from 12-3 on Tuesday 31st playing family friendly tunes, projecting on our walls and firing up the confetti cannon ready for a 2pm 'midnight' countdown. Dress fancy or fancy dress (or not) We just hope you can join us!

28/12/2024

We’ve had a bit of time to let the dust settle on last week’s news. To read all of your messages, here, on your own pages, via text and emails has brought us such a huge amount of comfort during this really tough time for us. Commonground, and pmf before it, has been our life for nearly 7 years so it’s been hard for us to get our heads around what comes next.
It has made us so happy to hear the stories of how our space has been used and how much people have enjoyed visiting, so thank for taking the time to reach out.
We hope it’s not the end of our business but we will be taking some time out for now to reflect and consider our place in Coventry’s cultural scene. It’s an incredibly difficult landscape to traverse especially when there is little to no funding and high costs that seem to just keep on rising. Footfall has always been our biggest issue and unfortunately Far Gosford Street is a tough place to make work for a variety of reasons and there just aren’t many spaces within the city centre suitable for us.

We have had a lovely day today meeting lots of new people and chatting to our regulars - we are definitely going to miss our weekends here. Tomorrow is our last normal daytime opening (11-5) so if you have a few moments spare please do pop in to say hi!
We then have our New Year’s Eve parties on Tuesday - one in the daytime (details to follow)
and then our Fargo event in the evening.

Thank you again for your incredible support, well wishes and kind words. We will miss you all so much

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18/12/2024

Hey everyone. It is with the heaviest of hearts that we have to announce that commonground will be closing at the end of this year. We have tried as hard as possible to make our space work but unfortunately due to rising costs and a huge reduction in footfall over the last few months we just can’t find a way.
We have been supported so much through this process by many who have tried to find a way to keep us going including the Fargo team but it has to be our decision in the end and one that has been the hardest to make.
We will always be proud of the space we have created here at the village and have loved making it our second home. Our kids have grown up here and will probably miss it more than us!!
We have tried tirelessly to build a space that brings people together, creates conversation and encourages collaboration and we think we have done that, even if it wasn’t for as long as we’d hoped.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us, to the artists, the musicians, the poets, the promoters and our wonderful visitors – we have loved meeting you, getting to know you and sharing this space with you.

We will be open at the weekends until the 31st so please come down and share these last few days with us. Cov sauce is this weekend (21st) which is also Jon’s birthday so another reason to pop down and say hi! We also have a New year’s eve party on the 31st and maybe even a closing party if we can organise something in early January.

Our parting note will be this; Please don’t take these spaces for granted, behind the scenes are people working their hardest to keep them going. Times are incredibly tough and costs just keep rising – generally these places don’t make lots of money and many people, like us, work for free just to keep them going. So without your support they will keep on disappearing.

Please support the rest of the businesses at Fargo going forward your support means everything to us and them.

Kate, Jon and Tom.

05/12/2024

This Saturday at Commongroundcoventry
We have another fantastic evening of music for you.

Reign and Friends

Reign is formed of two best friends Lily and Siân who are set on bringing folky vibes your way this December. A duo of multi-instrumentalists, we blend folk and spanish-y guitars, with vocals and the ocassional ukulele.
They’ll be joined by Liam Lewis (and his magical harp), Serena Jasmine (and her stunningly enchanting vocals) and Duke Keats (stripped back and chill). Get ready for a intimate and festive gig with some of the most wonderful people in Cov! We can't wait!

Doors 6pm

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reign-and-friends-tickets-1079720827059?aff=oddtdtcreator