Free

17 - 19 Oct 2025

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

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

Event Details
Date 17 - 19 Oct 2025
Times 17 Oct, 6-8pm
18 - 19 Oct, 11am-3pm
Location Bradford Resource Centre

This film explores BRC’s legacy in the aftermath of a 2024 flood, which damaged the BRC space and archive.

The film follows the people who organised around the task of sorting through vast swathes of material housed within the BRC building.

Developed through Adam Lewis Jacob’s ongoing interest in counterculture movements, archives, and radical history, the film splices together a rich variety of materials—VHS tapes, photographs, flyers, minutes, and music—animating the political questions and shifting aesthetic and technological visions of this vital history. The film connects this material to contemporary workshops (with producer Joel White and youth film collective Toothless Films) and archival projects, disrupting what it means to engage with the archive and how this might inform future political struggles.

This special premiere screening will see the film projected within the BRC space itself, alongside another chance to see material from the exhibition Resources for Democracy: A People’s History of Bradford Resource Centre.

Location

Bradford Resource Centre
17-21 Chapel St,
Little Germany,
Bradford.

Credits
Organised by Friends of Bradford Resource Centre, with support from Bradford 25, the Lipmann-Milliband Trust and the British Art Network. Facilitated in partnership with People’s Property Portfolio, who are overseeing the next phase of BRC’s life.

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Bradford Resource Centre has accessible toilets and ramp access on the ground floor, where the exhibition and a small-screen version of the film (with captions) will be shown all weekend. The main screening of the film and Q&A on Fri 17 will be on the first floor, which is up one flight of stairs. We regret it is not possible to provide wheelchair access to this space. Stewards will be on site for the duration of the event.

Please get in touch with Friends of Bradford Resource Centre if you have any questions about the event or access on: Joel White – [email protected]

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