Crowns and Carriages
St John’s will be helping to get the city into party mood for the Coronation with our Crowns and Carriages Event at St John’s on the eve of the Coronation, Friday 5th May. This will take place both inside and outside St John’s between 4 and 8pm. There will be music, a fashion show with historic costumes, flower displays, craft activities, carriages, and other exhibits including vintage cars and two chairs used at previous coronations. Refreshments will be available. There’s no need to book for this event, which you can also find on Facebook here.
There’ll be music in the church between 4pm and 4.45pm, with four musicians from Thomas Deacon Academy, and Lithuanian violinist Aldona Baltruniene.
Then from 4.45pm until 8.15pm there’ll be music and dancing in St John’s Square, with performers/performances including students from Young Technicians Academy, classical singer Gabriella Pineda-Rodrigues (5.30pm), Swahili and Kenyan tribal songs from Reanah Okono (6pm), Peterborough Morris (6.15pm), Afghan dancing from Ziba Tabrizi (6.40pm), Lithuanian folk-dance group Raskila (7pm), more Morris dancing (7.25pm), and finally Pennyless folk duo from 7.45pm until 8.15pm.
The Church will be open for mini screenings with refreshments throughout the weekend: Saturday 10am to 4pm and on Sunday from 2pm to 4pm.
Crowns and Carriages is part of a weekend of celebrations to mark the Coronation. To find out more read on…
Peterborough’s Coronation Celebration
To mark the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III on Saturday 6th May Peterborough will be holding a weekend of celebrations, organised jointly by Peterborough City Council, Peterborough Cathedral, St John’s, and Peterborough Museum. There’s lots of information about the various different events in the Coronation Celebration Weekend Flyer.
The centrepiece will be a screening of the Coronation both indoors and outdoors from 10m at Peterborough Cathedral, which will be followed by a community parade around Cathedral Square from 1pm and then a picnic. You can find out more, and book a free place, through EventBrite. There are several other events at the cathedral, including a concert given by Gabriella Pineda-Rodrigues. You can find out more about all these events on Peterborough Cathedral’s Coronation Events page.
Meanwhile, over at Peterborough Museum, there’s an exhibition of memorabilia from past coronations in the Community Gallery, and a Royal Family Trail for exploring the royal connections of items in the museum’s collection.