Free

25-26 Jul 2025

BD: Festival

A jam-packed weekend of fun for all the family.

Event Details
Date 25-26 Jul 2025
Times Fri: 1-9pm
Sat: 11-8pm
Location Bradford City Centre
Ages All ages
Access
  • Wheelchair user access

It’s back, it’s brilliant and it’s Bradford – BD: Festival returns for a spectacular two-day takeover in the city centre on 25 & 26 July.

It’s all family-friendly, and it’s all totally free. Expect performances, music, activities, food stalls, craft stands and other fun stuff across two days in City Park and Centenary Square. Don’t miss high-wire act Cie Basinga on Friday night, plus Luke Jerram and Bloomin’ Buds’ A Good Yarn and the world premiere of Zee and the City on Saturday.

Programme Highlights

  • Cie Basinga – Soka Tira Osoa: Basinga develops, expands, transmits and communicates the art of tightrope walking which—more than anything else — reveals how we are only great when we come together.
  • Just More Productions – Do What Ya Mamma Told Yah!: A feast of food fusion and storytelling across geography and generations, in an immersive and vibrant comedy cooking show.
  • Electrico 28 – Full House: A modern fable using physical theatre, live music and a great amount of humour to tell the story of Dog, Horse, Koala, and new-to-the-block, Tiger living together door to door.
  • Firma Kodde – RoarRace: The louder you scream, the more you achieve. Our tricycles react to sound: when you scream you speed up. The louder you scream, the faster you go, the more people will notice you.
  • Pagrav Dance Company – One Sky: A sky filled with thousands of kites, a spirit of colours, and a celebration of togetherness. A vibrant outdoor dance show blending Neo-Classical Indian dance with modern aesthetics, inspired by India’s Kite Festivals.
  • Cirque Inextremiste – Damoclès: A participatory performance exploring risk, trust, and collective cooperation. The audience becomes both witness and actor, experimenting with tools of coordination and shared decision-making.
  • Ramshacklicious & Hijinx – Truth: A unique outdoor performance by a five strong, inclusive ensemble of playful troublemakers! The rebellion arrive – Full of hope, fiercely comic and on a mission to disrupt the public norm.

There’ll also be walkabout performances from Close Act, Cecil Green Arts, Actic, Noisy Toys, The Norbert Nannies and more, plus drop-in family friendly activities from the likes of Tombs Creatius, Artful Frizinghall, Kynd and People Powered Press.

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