Bradford City Centre guided walking tour

Bradford City Centre

Follow Bradford’s history, origins, and its transformation into the city it is today on this guided walking tour.

Turner Prize Curator Tours

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Join a guided Curator Tour of the Turner Prize 2025 exhibition.

Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali Group

St George's Hall

The torchbearers of Qawwali music visit Bradford for their only show in the North this year.

STRIKE: Banner-Making and Printmaking Drop-In Workshops

MEK SUMMAT

Lister Mills, Bradford

Join MEK SUMMAT for a series of creative, drop-in workshops at Lister Mill.

STRIKE

Urban Projections

Lister Mill

A spectacular light and sound show celebrating the women who made modern Bradford.

John Grant

Plus support

St George’s Hall

John Grant makes his Bradford headline debut.

Youth Pass: Letterpress Printing Workshop – sold out!

Salts Works, The People Powered Press

Learn how to create your very own letterpress print using the largest letterpress of its kind in the world.

Turner Lates: October

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

The first in a series of special evening events to celebrate the Turner Prize 2025 in Bradford.

CUPPA T

509 Arts

Loading Bay

Conversations about creativity and ageing.

BBC Introducing Live in Bradford

National Science and Media Museum

A day of panels, Open Deck and Industry Feedback sessions

Bradford LGBTQ+ History Walking Tour

Alice Parsons, Castles in the Sky Projects

Meet at Common Space

If the streets could talk, what would they have to say?

Big Nights OUT

Castles in the Sky Projects

Bradford Playhouse

Learn how nightlife spaces supported community building with panels from activists, past and present.

OUT All Night

Castles in the Sky Projects

Basement, Loading Bay

Explore the Back in the Pink pop-up exhibition.

Talking Buildings Workshop

National Science and Media Museum

Personify the buildings of Bradford in this interactive family friendly workshop.

Life Class

509 Arts

Loading Bay

Every body has a story.
Everybody sings a song.

Pink After Dark

Castles in the Sky Projects

Loading Bay

David Hoyle heads up a celebration of the long-lost and much-missed spaces with a cabaret party.

CBeebies Panto – Cinderella

CBeebies

Alhambra Theatre

Back in the Pink Cinema Special

Castles in the Sky Projects

Bradford Playhouse

Step back in time to enjoy recreations of screenings from the 80s.

Wild Uplands

Penistone Hill Country Park, Haworth

Striking new art for the moors above Haworth.

Earth & Sky

Opera North

Penistone Hill Country Park

An immersive sound walk over the moors above Haworth.

Earth & Sky: borrow a device

Collect from Brontë Parsonage Museum

Use this page to reserve a device and explore the audio world of Earth & Sky on one of our pre-loaded devices.

In Other Words

Kirsty Taylor

Skylight Lounge

Free, friendly creative writing workshops for all abilities.

Between the Lines

Kirsty Taylor

Cardigan House, Bingley

Free creative writing workshops

Heart and Hands Studio

St James's Community Hub, Baildon

A series of free creative workshops

Cirque Eloize: iD Reloaded

Alhambra Theatre

Dance Consortium presents Cirque Eloize: iD Reloaded. Directed and curated by Jeannot Painchaud.

Otherhood

Old Bird Theatre

Venues across Bradford District

A story of radical love and found family.

Hardy and Free

Carolyn Mendelsohn

Kirkgate Shopping Centre

The Kirkgate Shopping Centre turns gallery for a monumental exhibition celebrating Yorkshire women and the natural world.

BBC New Comedy Awards

The Alhambra Theatre

An epic night of free comedy at The Alhambra Theatre.

Guided Walk: Five Rise Locks

Bingley Railway Station 

With Canal & River Trust.

Plug It Up

Bradford Sound Wom*n Network

Theatre in the Mill

Discover different ways of working with sound at this DIY festival.

You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know, Do You?

Bradford Resource Centre

Reflections on the history of Bradford Resource Centre (BRC), a key hub for community action in Bradford.

OUR TURN: Practice Bradford

Loading Bay

A group exhibition showcasing new work by four of Bradford’s most exciting emerging artists

BRAVE Festival 2025

Tricia Arthur-Stubbs

Bradford Arts Centre

Celebrating Black culture through arts events and workshops.

Open Hands

Bradford New Church

A relaxed time to share a cuppa, learn sign language, and make friends.

Alive & Kicking Drama Adventures

Home educator session

Bradford New Church

A special session for home educated learners.

Frontline 1984/1985: A Panel Discussion with Victor Wedderburn

Small Hall, University of Bradford

Panel discussion delivered in partnership with The University of Bradford and Bradford Black Heritage Arts and Culture Group (BHAC).

Bring It Back

Natalie Davies

Bradford Arts Centre

An immersive theatre experience exploring Bradford's musical heritage.

The DRAW! Tour: October Workshops

Venues across Bradford District

Hands-on drawing workshops across the district, part of Our Patch.

Frontline 1984/1985

Victor Wedderburn

National Science and Media Museum

A fascinating exhibition exploring Bradford's African Caribbean communities in the ’80s.

The Others (2001)

Milner Field Manor Ruins

Nicole Kidman stars in a truly terrifying ghost story. Part of Open-Air Cinema at Milner Field Manor Ruins.

We Will Sing

Ann Hamilton

Salts Mill

Ann Hamilton transforms the immense top floor at Salts Mill for her largest solo UK installation to date.

Elmet

The Javaad Alipoor Company

Loading Bay

An explosive Northern drama – created especially for Bradford 2025 by The Javaad Alipoor Company.

Hidden in Plain Sight – Full Day CPD for Educators

Farfield, Farfield Road, Shipley, BD18 4QP

Inspire your learners by unlocking the heritage learning on your doorstep with this full day CPD.

We Are Still ASAFO

Theatre In Flow

Loading Bay

A theatre performance with live music and dance, that reminds us we are never truly alone.

BD: is LIT

Bradford City Centre

Watch as Bradford city centre is transformed by a stunning series of light and sound installations.

Bradford Made Conference

Bradford Live

Celebrating cultural learning and local stories.

Loaded Laughs

Loading Bay

Bradford 2025's comedy night.

Radio 1 Anthems Live

Bradford Live

Radio 1 Anthems Live lands in Bradford for the first time ever.

Tech Styles 10

Tech Styles International

Bradford Arts Centre

Celebrate 10 years of uniting the world’s finest Bboys, Bgirls, Crews, DJs, MCs and Graffiti Artists.

Nisbet Road Tailor Shop

Zain Ali

Loading Bay

Step inside an immersive recreation of a South Asian tailors.

A Good Yarn

Luke Jerram & Bloomin' Buds

Bradford Industrial Museum

Get up close and personal with an extraordinary new artwork – made in BD10 from the fabric of Bradford.

Urooj Ashfaq: How To Be A Baddie

Loading Bay

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer Urooj Ashfaq is back, but this time she’s different.

BBC Introducing at The Underground

The Underground

BBC Introducing gigs at Bradford's iconic The Underground.

Pins for Peace

Mek Summat & The Peace Museum

The Peace Museum

A supersized celebration of the pin badge.

If All the World Were…

Tutti Frutti Productions and Bradford & Leeds Libraries

Various locations

A beautifully performed reading of "If All the World Were..." by award-winning children’s writer Joseph Coelho.

REPLAY

The Herd

Damart Mill, Bingley

Enter an endless world of play in this interactive experience.

REPLAY: Early Years sessions

The Herd

Damart Mill, Bingley

Early Years sessions for children aged 6 months to 5 years.

The Keighley Chorus

Hannah Butterfield and Shane Durrant

Airedale Shopping Centre

Come along to a community singing session around the piano.

EGGS COLLECTIVE’S DARK NIGHTS

Loading Bay

Twisted cabaret nights at Loading Bay.

Built by Sound

No Ghost, Dialled In and Bradford 2025

Loading Bay

A mixed reality experience where memory moves to a beat.

Make Yourself at Home

Impressions Gallery

Ten young people curate a major exhibition at Impressions Gallery.

Turner Prize Home Educator Session

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

A special interactive tour and workshop session, especially for home educated learners.

Turner Prize Art & Play for under 5s

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Join these free, family-friendly Museums for Play and Growth sessions at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery inspired by the Turner Prize.

The Power of Public Sculpture

with Henry Moore Institute

Venues across Bradford

Celebrating public sculpture through a series of talks and symposiums.

Growing Care Gathering

Our Patch

One City Park, BD1 1SD

We value and listen to people who receive care, are carers, or do not get the care they need.

Brighter Still

Myrtle Park, Bingley

The finale! Join us for our big closing event - and look ahead to a brilliant Bradford future together.

OUR TURN: Bradford Art Show

Loading Bay

A dynamic exhibition of artwork from artists across Bradford responding to the theme of Our Place.

Wandering Imaginations: Exhibition

Brontë Parsonage Museum

A special display at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

HOPE/ACT

People Powered Press

Venues across Bradford

Installations from the world’s largest letterpress printing press.

Augmenting Bradford’s DNA

Razwan Ul-Haq

Various locations

Homegrown artworks, made using calligraphy and community participation.

Harvest of Harmony and City of Dreams

Ruth Agbolade and Mod One

Darley Stret Market

An eye-catching pair of murals designed to welcome visitors to the new Darley Street Market.

Wayfinders

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15 Park Road, Bingley

This striking new mural is a stark consideration of our connection to the natural environment and the ways in which we navigate physical and emotional spaces.

Roots

Peachzz

MAPA

A vibrant street-art homage to a Bradford legend.

Serving the District

Local creatives

Morrisons, Bradford Road, Idle

New street art at the Morrisons store in Idle.

Come on in my friend

Jemima Spence

Buttershaw Youth Centre

New striking street art inspired by the people of Buttershaw.

RAVO

Alastair Flindall

Ravenscliffe Youth Centre

New street art celebrating the energy and joy of the Ravenscliffe community.

Balancing Acts

Sam Shendi

MAPA Bradford
1 Coates St
Bradford
BD5 7DL

A bespoke, playful structure created to celebrate the community and history of BD5.

Growing Together

Sven Shaw

Girlington Community Garden

New street art capturing the community spirit of Girlington.

The Portal

NeSpoon

Church Bank House, near Bradford Cathedral

New street art inspired by old traditions.

FORGE Shorts

Filmed across Bradford District

New films from Bradford writers and directors.

Flesh and Flamingos (working title)

Dominic Leclerc

To be announced

The hidden history of northern queer culture.

The Local (working title)

Kim Hopkins

To be announced

Step inside a Bradford landmark…

Wool City Rockers

Bradford Live

New Model Army, Terrorvision and Paradise Lost co-headline a one-off show at Bradford Live.

Turner Prize

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

We’ve teamed up with Tate to bring the Turner Prize to Bradford - tickets available now.

Tower of Now

Saad Qureshi

Hall Ings, Bradford

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

YOU:MATTER

Marshmallow Laser Feast

National Science and Media Museum

Explore how we’re all connected at this spectacular immersive experience.