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A man wearing an apron stands in front of a deli counter.

The People of Bradford

A new digital series for Bradford 2025 from photographer Tim Smith.

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CHANNELS

Take a seat at our waterside listening benches and tune into audio artworks created especially for Bradford 2025.From summer 2025

Our Patch

We’re inviting the people of Bradford to learn skills, make connections and unleash their hidden artist with our free community creativity programme.

The black form of a figure interrupts projected faces on pieces of fabric hanging from the ceiling.

Unspun Stories

An immersive installation exploring Bradford's textile heritage.

A man talks to a group of children in a bus which has been converted into a library

Share Your Story: Bradford Stories Bus

We’re inviting children and young people to share their stories aboard a classic American school bus.

A smiling moon against a purple sky reads a book which says CBeebies Bedtime Story on the front cover

CBeebies Bedtime Stories Day

Once upon a time… Evie Pickerill and George Webster from CBeebies bring the magic of Bedtime Stories to The Beacon.

A black and white portrait of Saima Mir

The Book of Bradford

Ten short stories by Bradford writers.

Group image of young adults in a red and blue light

Public Interest

An urgent immersive show on youth culture.

Wandering Imaginations

The Brontës’ imaginary worlds reimagined for 2025.

Families queue to get on an old American school bus in a park

Share Your Story: On Board at The Beacon

The Bradford Stories Bus is coming to The Beacon for a one-day story spectacular.

Three people stood behind an ice cream counter, holding an ice lolly / ice cream. There is a pink sign in the background which reads the ice cream menu.

The Bradford Selection

Take a bite out of Bradford with our magnificent biscuits.

Bradford Digital Creatives

New digital artworks exploring what it’s like to grow up in 2025.

Bill Bailey sits in front of a large bush. He wears an aquamarine jacket.

Extraordinary Portraits with Bill Bailey

Breathtaking portraits – incredible personal stories.

A woman with a white painted face in a red shawl and headscarf holds a white flower. She is sat in front of a blue background covered in yellow feathers. To the left of the image is a yellow wooden chair

Nationhood: Memory and Hope

A modern-day insight into our four nations.

Performers in Claytime

Claytime

Welcome to a family show with a difference – an interactive play made out of clay!

Four dancers leaping in syncronisation with one arm up in the air.

Lay Down Your Burdens

Rhiannon Faith’s acclaimed dance theatre show explores hope, compassion and transformation through the prism of a local pub

A woman dances in traditional Indian dress

Roshni

A beautiful blend of South Asian dance and music

TESTO

Wet Mess, Wet Messifies transitions, testosterone and the edges of drag.

An image of a microphone in focus with a crowd of seated people blurred in the background

Say It As It Is

Speak up and listen in – Kirsty Taylor hosts a special open mic night for Bradford 2025

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.

Fighting to Be Heard

Boxing, calligraphy and the collections of the British Library.

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 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 man holds a plastic cassette tape.

Tape Letters

An exhibition exploring migration on tape.

Ginger Johnson’s Fun House

Welcome to the House of Fun.

An artist's impression of Tower Of Now.

Tower of Now

This soaring sculpture explores what it means to be British – and celebrates Bradford’s dazzling diversity.

Six young people stand in a line, against a pink background.

New Focus: Bradford Young Curators

Ten young people curate a major exhibition at Impressions Gallery.

Three individuals standing over a cooking hob, where two of them are flipping chapatis in the pan. One is being tossed in the air.

Meet Our Mothers

An interactive cookbook celebrating Bradford’s heritage.

A group of walkers wear matching blue t-shirts. They are standing in a line on a rocky hill.

Baildon Walkers

This welcoming walking group are striding out across Bradford.

Full body image of lady (Aida Muluneh) in all black, posing in front of a blue wall with 4 images in a line across the wall

Interview: Aïda Muluneh

Travel behind the camera with photographer Aïda Muluneh as she creates new work for Nationhood: Memory and Hope.

The hidden history of British South Asian lesbians in Bradford

LGBTQ+ history throughout time has been left largely undocumented and the presence of British Asian lesbians is no exception.

Drumroll please

Bradford young people’s honest thoughts about their hometown are to be celebrated in a new poster series.

The Ukrainian Club

Step inside the home of the Ukrainian community in Bradford.

Mariem pours tea from a metal pot. She wears a hijab and is smiling.

John Street Market

We meet the traders in this Bradford institution, now known as Oastler Market.

Tahir Shah looking out of a window

Tahir Shah

Tahir talks growing up in Bradford, his acting journey and the 2024 Venice Fellowship Programme

Artist Millicent Sanders holds a ball of wool.

Millicent Sanders

Millie, a textile designer-maker from Bradford, shares her Venice Biennale experience.

Two people stand in front of a large Bradford building, pointing and looking off to the right of the image.

Our household survey – and why it matters

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

A grainy, black-and-white portrait of Louie Haslam-Chance. Louie is wearing a striped, knitted scarf tucked into a Nike jacket.

Louie Haslam-Chance

Louie talks about his hyper-local projects and joining the New Focus: Bradford Young Curators collective.

Stories

Interviews and features from Bradford 2025.

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

Creative Communities Fund projects

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

Learn more about the projects supported by Bradford 2025 through our Artist-Led Project Awards.

12 children's hands facing palm up painted in various colours.

Bradford Made

Home

This is culture. This is Bradford.

The Team

Our team are here to deliver Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture for audiences across the nation.

Learn

Children, young people, teachers, educators… Everyone’s invited to be part of Bradford’s year in the spotlight.

Where It Began: Audio description

Two audio descriptions of Where It Began, Osman Yousefzada’s exhibition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.

Creative Health projects

These innovative creative health projects, funded by Bradford 2025, are improving health and wellbeing through culture across the region.

A violin player plays as a woman in a loose dress dances. They are facing each other.

Lay Down Your Burdens – Content Advice and Resources

Find out more about the themes and content of Lay Down Your Burdens to prepare you for the show

A group of smiling people sit at a table with laptops.

Skills and training

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

A lady with white hair in a hi-vis jacket stands between two stacks of giant bales of wool

We Will Sing learning resource: write a Letter to the Future

Support your learners to write a letter to the future with this free resource. Suitable for ages 5+

Bradford Glow: English activity

Create poetry inspired by the colours of Bradford in this activity for ages 11–14.

A colour ful mural on the side of a building in a park

Historic England – History in the Making

Hand writing in blue ink on white paper

We Will Sing: Letters to the Future

What does the future need to know? Write your Letter to the Future and be part of a new artwork by Ann Hamilton.

An outdoor performer mimes drinking tea.

Heritage Skills Programme

10-month scheme for local heritage groups.

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

Volunteer Area Co-ordinator (x5 roles)

Be an ambassador for the Volunteer Programme of activities and events

Three people stood around a film camera communicating with each other.

Forge: opportunity for short film Producers

We are seeking applications from Producers for Forge: Short Film Development Lab & Fund.

Two people facing away from the camera looking towards rows of terrace housing. They are both wearing coats and hijabs.

Forge: opportunity for short film Writers and Directors

We are seeking applications from Writers and Directors for Forge: Short Film Development Lab & Fund.

A group of people stand around a table preparing food.

Meet Our Mothers – Submit your recipe!

A yorkshire moorland scene showing a pond, heather, grass and bushes. The weather is overcast.

Bradford On Foot: Open Call for your favourite Bradford walks

Tell us about your favourite Bradford District walks.

Wandering Imaginations: opportunity for emerging female fantasy and sci-fi writers exchange

Exchange for emerging female fantasy and sci-fi writers.

School girls and teacher opening boxes of Penguin Books for World Book Day

Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and Penguin Books distribute over 4,000 books to secondary schools across the district

The books, by a diverse range of authors, will help improve literacy skills in secondary schools and encourage young people to foster a deeper understanding of literature.

RIBA Beacon winner announced

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

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Bradford 2025 UK City Of Culture to launch with magical outdoor spectacle and reopening of the National Science and Media Museum

Bradford 2025 will celebrate contemporary culture in all forms and showcase the rich history and heritage of the area.

A photo of a Bradford street, taken from above. There is writing on the floor in capital letters that reads 'Bradford are you with me are you there?'

New Chair and trustees announced

Meet our new Chair and Board.

An external image of Bronte Parsonage Museum.

Cultural Capital grants distributed

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

Book open with black Arabic writing

Bradford 2025 exhibition explores the connections between boxing and the art of calligraphy

Fighting to Be Heard, a new free exhibition, that forms part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture's opening celebrations, explores the connections between boxing and calligraphy, through the eyes of a group of British South Asian Muslim men living in Bradford today.

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.

Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture is on the hunt for recipes

Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture invites the people of Bradford to submit their treasured family recipes for inclusion in a brand new cookbook.

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Bradford 2025 announces new pop-up arts space and a film partnership with BFI and the National Science and Media Museum

A pop-up arts space created specifically for the city’s tenure as UK City of Culture, Loading Bay takes over an empty storage depot on Duke Street to bring a true Bradford 2025 buzz to the heart of the city.

Loading Bay theatre

Bradford 2025 opens new pop-up arts space for the UK City of Culture

Opening today is Loading Bay, a new pop-up arts space created specifically for the city’s tenure as UK City of Culture.

Bradford 2025 announces projects to improve health and wellbeing through culture

The Creative Health programme harnesses the transformative power of culture and creativity to tackle some of the district’s most urgent health and social challenges

Bradford 2025 celebrates partnership with First Bus.

First Bus welcomes Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture volunteers aboard for celebration

First Bus joined in the celebrations as hundreds of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture volunteers gathered for a special event to share experiences and meet collectively for the first time.

The Ramadan Pavilion 2025 has been designed by Artist Zarah Hussain _l_ and Architectural Designer Fatima Mejbil _r_ Commissioned by Ramadan Tent Project and Bradford 2025 UK City Of Culture - credit Dav

Ramadan Pavilion Returns for Second Edition to Launch Ramadan Festival 2025 in Bradford

A major new site-specific artwork marking the holy month of Ramadan

Two young people in bright clothing smile as they climb up a wooden play tower.

Bradford 2025 launches its new Creative Health programme

This is our vision to transform health, wellbeing and culture across the district.

Boy drawing on paper with a pencil in his hand

Bradford 2025 launches Our Patch, and unveils David Hockney as the first artist for DRAW!

Bradford 2025 is ensuring as many people as possible can get involved in creative activities celebrating the district with the launch of two new initiatives.