Birmingham to host six-month arts festival for Commonwealth Games

More than 200 events to take place as city invests 12m in programme hoped to aid post-pandemic recovery

Birmingham will benefit from the great gift of the mega-event", said the creative officer of the Commonwealth Games at the launch of a concurrent six-month-long cultural festival.

Birmingham 2022 festival will include more than 200 events from March to September across the West Midlands and will involve more than 100,000 participants, making it one of the largest cultural programmes to ever surround the games.