Birmingham City Council is planning an exciting festival to mark the one-year anniversary of the Commonwealth Games.
A programme of free events that plan to showcase the creativity across our communities will take place in Centenary Square over 10 days and will be announced in full in June.
In addition to live music, performances and creative activities, the Birmingham 23 festival will feature a big screen that will re-live some of the magical moments of the summer of ’22.
The event will take place between Friday 28 July and Sunday 6 August and is being put together by a number of companies that were involved in the Commonwealth Games Festival, including Outdoor Places Unusual Spaces (OPUS) and JA Productions.
Alongside Team England Netball Captain, Ama Agbeze, Steven Knight has been confirmed as a patron of the event.
“I’m proud to be a Patron for Birmingham Festival 23 and proud that Birmingham City Council truly values culture,” said Steven.
“The Games are still very fresh in people’s minds, it was such a joyful period in the city’s history. And now, with a great team pulling out all the stops to make this year’s events a celebration of the anniversary, people will again have something to look forward to that everyone can enjoy, and it’s all FREE. I can’t wait to see what the programme has in store.”
In the lead up to the festival, there’s an open call to creative community groups and artists to get involved in the festival programme. For more information, head to https://tinyurl.com/mvsze8jv.