Popular searches:
What's on Loading Bay Access Visit
A woman with a headband sings into a microphone.
Free

20 Sep 2025

Loading Bay

BBC Introducing Panel

At this panel event in 2025, we shared advice for artists on how to submit their music to BBC Introducing, BBC's platform for emerging talent.

Past event

This event has passed.

BBC Introducing Leeds and Sheffield hosted a panel discussion with brilliant emerging artists whose music and lyrics are inspired by their hometowns in Yorkshire.

Host Emily Pilbeam’s guests included Chiedu Oraka, Kenzo Jae and Joe Smith from Polite Bureaux.

Credits
BBC Contains Strong Language is a partnership between the BBC, Word Up North and Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. It is supported by Arts Council England.

Past event

Were you at this event?

Let us know what you thought on social media or find out what’s on soon!

See what's on
Poet Kirsty Taylor wearing a green jacket performs using a microphone. Poet Kirsty Taylor wearing a green jacket performs using a microphone.

Part of BBC Contains Strong Language

The UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival for new writing is coming to Bradford for the first time.

Related Events

What's on →
Part of Our Patch

20 Jul - 20 Aug 2026

Musical Stories

Music, movement and play for younger children and their families.

Part of The Beacon

15 Aug 2026

Hall Royd Band Afternoon Concert

Enjoy the warmth, heritage and unmistakable sound of a true community brass band.

Part of The Beacon

20 Aug 2026

Qawwali Night at The Beacon

Bridging cultures and generations through the power of Qawwali.

Three musicians wearing purple clothing and holding drums.
FREE Part of The Beacon

27 Aug 2026

Roots Sound Lab

with Punjabi Roots

Step inside a recording studio with Punjabi Roots and learn how a professional studio works.

Part of The Beacon

29 Aug 2026

Hot Caribbean Beatz in the Park 2

Windrush ska and reggae fest at The Beacon.

2 people sat in deckchairs on the far left. In the middle and across the rest of the image are cellos, suspended on large vertical poles
FREE

Wed 9 - Sun 13 Sep 2026

Harmonic Fields

Pierre Sauvageot

A unique symphonic experience set on the wild West Yorkshire moors

17 Oct 2026

JC Niala – The New Eden

Anthropologist, nature writer and historian JC Niala joins us for this talk, exploring how we can better celebrate nature in our cities.

Part of Loading Bay

15 & 16 Oct 2026

How Soon is Now

Box of Tricks

An indie musical about mates, music and magic – set to a live soundtrack of 90s classics.