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A black and white portrait of Saima Mir

 

The Book of Bradford

Ten short stories by Bradford writers.
A woman wearing headphones looking at a film camera and screen.

 

Northern Lens (working title)

A film season exploring the northern female lens.
A yorkshire moorland scene showing heather, grass and bushes. The weather is overcast.

 

Wild Uplands

Striking new art for the moors above Haworth.

 

A Portrait of Us

A photographic celebration of our unsung heroes.
A piece of carved bone depicting a mammoth spear thrower

 

Ice Age Art Now

Travel back in time at this British Museum Partnership Exhibition.
A man walking as part of a parade playing a brass instrument. He is wearing a blue t-shirt

 

The Big Brass Blowout

Join us to celebrate the best in brass.
A shot of four people performing at Contains Strong Language

 

BBC Contains Strong Language

The UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival comes to Bradford.
A group of adults and children stood a priest who is reading from a book.

 

Tu i Tam/Tyt i Tam

An exhibition documenting our Polish and Ukrainian communities.
A crowd of people with their hands in the air in a dimly lit room, dancing to a DJ set.

 

Dialled In

A celebration of South Asian music and culture.
A group of smiling people sit at a table with laptops.

 

Online information session: Artist-Led Project Awards

Learn more about our upcoming funding awards.
A photograph of the outside of Cartwright Hall art gallery. Osman Yousefzada's installation covers a statue in front of the gallery, in a blue textile-like material.

 

Where It Began

A personal look at migration, identity and community.

 

Eight amazing music venues in Bradford District

Bradford is home to so many iconic music venues – plan your next night out in Bradford, Bingley, Saltaire and beyond.

 

Introducing the Bradford 2025 Networkers

Our 10 community ambassadors are celebrating culture in Bradford’s neighbourhoods.
A black woman with her hair tied back sits among rows of orange chairs in a white hoodie with the Bradford 2025 logo on the front. She is smiling.

 

Volunteers – Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture needs you!

Clayton resident Melba tells us why she’s signed up as a Bradford 2025 Volunteer.
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Our household survey – and why it matters

Learn more about this major research project happening across Bradford District.

 

Terms and conditions

 

In your community

We’re bringing creativity and joy into communities, towns and villages right across our district.
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Skills and training

Discover how we’re supporting Bradford’s creative sector and building the next generation of cultural leaders.

 

Meet the team: Bradford 2025’s Community Connectors

We’re supporting culture in the community thanks to our teams of Community Connectors and Creative Practitioners.
A black and white photograph of a printed artwork. In large type in all capital letters, the artwork has the words 'NOTHING FOR US WITHOUT US'

 

Artist-Led Project Awards

A giraffe model crafted from yellow paper and google eyes is glued together by two young children

 

Creative Communities Fund projects

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Register as a Bradford 2025 freelancer

Join our freelance database!
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Funding opportunities

Explore and apply for our latest awards and funding opportunities.
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Opportunities

See our latest jobs, freelance opportunities and contracts – and apply today.

 

Learn

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Volunteer

 

Sign up

 

Accessibility

 

About us

It's our time

 

What’s on

Check out what’s on in 2025.

 

Home

This is culture. This is Bradford.

 

Privacy policy

 

Request For Proposals – National PR Tender

We are looking for Requests for Proposals for a National PR Tender.
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Heritage Skills Programme

We are offering a Heritage Skills programme.

 

Venue Technical Manager

We're searching for a Venue Technical Manager.

 

Venue Operations and Event Manager x2

We are searching for two Venue Operations and Event Managers.

 

Press & PR Apprentice

We are searching for a Press & PR Apprentice.
A musician plays a saxophone in the street. They are surrounded by other musicians playing brass instruments.

 

Bradford District artist-led projects call out: Round two

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Volunteer Area Co-ordinator (x5 roles)

Be an ambassador for the Volunteer Programme of activities and events
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EOI – Technical Equipment Supplier

Bradford 2025 are looking for suppliers to provide Lighting, Sound, Staging and Rigging equipment for two new venues.

 

Request for Proposals – Provider of Volunteer and Staff Uniforms & Related Items

Design and supply a uniform and supplementary items for our volunteering programme and events staff.
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Join our Young Creatives Programme

18-24 year olds - are you creative and passionate about Bradford? Our Young Creatives programme may be for you.

 

Join Bradford 2025’s Cultural Learning Steering Group

We're looking for education experts to support our Cultural Learning team.

 

Deputy Ticketing Manager

Join our Ticketing team.
A street poster showing the Bradford 2025 branding. A portrait of a young woman is in the centre of the poster.

 

Designer

Join us as a Designer and share our message with the world.

 

Main Contractor for The Beacon

Help us bring The Beacon to life.
Two volunteers wearing Bradford 2025 merchandise are smiling. Cartwright Hall can be seen in the background.

 

Volunteer Programme Officer

Help us make our volunteering programme effective, inclusive and rewarding for people in Bradford.
A group of people wearing Bradford 2025 branded clothing in the Bradford City football stadium.

 

Bradford 2025 Networkers (at least 10 roles)

Connecting local people with all things Bradford 2025.
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Engagement Producer

Work to develop and deliver a Bradford district-wide creative engagement programme.
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Venue Technical Managers x 2

Join our Production and Events team!
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Venue Managers x 2

We're looking for two Venue Managers to join the team.
Close up photo of a DJ's hands.

 

Freelance call out: event production and project management

Production, Event and Project Managers - let's work together.
A group of adults and children wear home-made costumes in Bradford City Centre. They are reaching their hands into the air with happy expressions on their faces.

 

Health and Safety Partner – request for expressions of interest

Can you provide us with Health and Safety support, consultancy, and reporting?
A woman throwing paint during Holi festival celebrations

 

Creative Practitioners – Specialists in Socially Engaged Practice (x5)

Work to enrich and develop creativity in the heart of Bradford's communities.

 

Assistant Creative Technologist

Join the team and support our Creative Technologists with an exciting programme of work.
An image of a glass building with people walking outside it. Broadway Shopping Centre photographed by Visit Bradford.

 

Digital Content Producer

Join the team and support our Audiences team by capturing and creating digital content.
Stairwells and people walking in the Impressions Gallery

 

Procurement Assistant

Join the team and support our Procurement Specialist to oversee Bradford 2025's procurement activity.
A close up image of a William Mitchell mural in Bradford

 

William Mitchell Gallery Feasibility Study – Request for Proposals

We're looking for a partner to deliver a feasibility study for a new gallery of the artist William Mitchell's work.
A group of men are stood together watching a performance featuring dancers climbing onto scaffolding in a busy city centre at dusk

 

Access and Inclusion Partner – Request for Proposals

We're looking for a partner who can deliver Access and Inclusion support, consultancy, and reporting for our creative programmes.
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Box Office & Information Hub contractor

Request for proposals for an experienced and qualified contractor to create a box office and information hub for Bradford 2025.
A large heart shaped red inflatable structure is in the middle of a sunny public square and two women in black outfits walk towards it.

 

Community Participation Manager

Develop and manage creative community engagement and participation programmes that are people-led.
An audience are all clapping at an event. The person in the middle of the photo is a young woman smiling and clapping.

 

Production Coordinator

Play a crucial role in the successful delivery of Bradford 2025's creative programme from indoor and outdoor performances to digital and broadcast initiatives.
Dancers performing outside in a public square. There is a blue sky above them with light cloud cover.

 

Evaluation Assistant

We’re looking for someone to assist the Evaluation Team with a wide variety of tasks supporting the effective and efficient implementation of our evaluation plan.
A series of Hockney artworks in an exhibition space. The colourful artwroks are in frames hung on a white wall.

 

Data Analyst

Join the team and help us generate actionable insights from a range of data being collected for the evaluation of Bradford 2025.
A view across the heather towards the Cow and Calf on Ilkley Moor, on a sunny day.

 

Sustainability Partner – Request for Proposals

Help us to be the most sustainable UK City of Culture to date.
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Apprenticeships: Programme & Engagement, Audiences, Operations

Apply for one of the first five Bradford 2025 Apprenticeships.
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Youth, Skills and Training Manager

Help us place young people at the centre of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.
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People Advisor

Help us to build a brilliant team to deliver Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.
Performers pose together on a stage, reaching their hands up

 

Venue Programme Coordinator

Join our team and help us bring a brilliant year of culture to Bradford.

 

First Programme announced for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

The Brontës, David Hockney, Andrea Dunbar, Steven Frayne (FKA Dynamo), Akram Khan, Jeremy Deller, Clio Barnard & The Turner Prize feature in the year-long programme.
Large red puppet girafes tower over a group of performers wearing red.

 

Giant Giraffes to visit Bradford city centre this August bank holiday

Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture’s event ‘Les Girafes’ will take place in Bradford city centre on Saturday 24 August.
A photograph of the outside of Cartwright Hall art gallery. Osman Yousefzada's installation covers a statue in front of the gallery, in a blue textile-like material.

 

Artist Osman Yousefzada creates new work for Bradford, in his exhibition Where It Began.

Osman Yousefzada takes a deeply personal look at migration, identity and community in Where It Began.
A group of people wearing Bradford 2025 branded clothing sit on seats in the Bradford City football stadium.

 

Kickstarting the countdown to 2025

We've announced some major news ahead of 2025.

 

Introducing the new Bradford 2025 brand

We've got a brand new look…
A group of people wearing Bradford 2025 branded clothing in the Bradford City football stadium.

 

West Yorkshire leaders back Bradford 2025

The West Yorkshire Combined Authority shows support for Bradford 2025.
A group of young people stand in a line in a Bradford street

 

The UK’s youngest city counts down to 2025

We're creating opportunities for young people throughout our year as UK City of Culture.

 

RIBA Beacon winner announced

The winner is Carter Gregson Gray with Studio Three Sixty, Structure Workshop and Studio 4215.
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Cultural Capital grants distributed

21 organisations across Bradford District are receiving grants from our Cultural Capital Fund.

 

£20m funding boost for Bradford 2025

The investment will support the delivery of our programme in 2025.

 

Bradford is UK City of Culture 2025!

We won!

From the mills to the hills

We’re taking culture right across Bradford District in 2025.
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PLAY

Our year-round programme for children and families.
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Film

Celebrate cinema in the world’s first UNESCO City of Film.

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