Fri 1/28 @ 4:30PM
The Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Campus is a years-in-the-making project to re-make the former Coventry Elementary School in Cleveland Heights’ Coventry Village into an arts/culture/education/community center. It’s currently home to a plethora of groups such as Lake Erie Ink, Artful Cleveland, Reaching Heights, the Singers’ Club of Cleveland, The Heights Observer newspaper, the Cleveland Heights Teachers Union, and more.
Sadly, it’s had to jump through a lot of hoops and confront numerous obstacles. Just before Christmas, it encountered a new and unexpected one when its landlord, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library, voted against the agreement made with the tenants, despite tenants saying they met all of the requirements laid down by the library for the project to proceed.
This Friday, the Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Campus is hosting PEACE Pops, the first P.E.A.C.E. Summit — A Community Conversation, to help make its case to the public and share some of what they’re making happen in the community.
“P.E.A.C.E. Summit is a new series that connects community stakeholders with Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Campus and its nonprofit tenants,” they tell us. “We invite you to tour the building in small groups and meet the nonprofit organizations housed there to learn about the ways they serve the community.”
In addition to tours every half hour from 4:30-7pm, PEACE Pops will offer open studios at Artful, a pop-up roller skating rink, Lunar New Year Dragon Dance performances, and a Q&A session about what’s happening on the campus.
They’ll be hosting these events quarterly in conjunction with Coventry Village Third Fridays.
Sign up for the tours at coventrypeacecampus.Learn more about what’s going on at the Coventry P.E.A.C.E. campus, including the background on their current situation, here.