On this week

16 Oct 2025 - 22 Feb 2026
Hardy and Free
Carolyn Mendelsohn
The Kirkgate Shopping Centre turns gallery for a monumental exhibition celebrating Yorkshire women and the natural world.

9 Sep - 21 Oct 2025
Open Hands
A relaxed time to share a cuppa, learn sign language, and make friends.

23 Oct 2025
Frontline 1984/1985: A Panel Discussion with Victor Wedderburn
Panel discussion delivered in partnership with The University of Bradford and Bradford Black Heritage Arts and Culture Group (BHAC).

Various dates in Oct 2025
Bradford City Centre guided walking tour
Follow Bradford’s history, origins, and its transformation into the city it is today on this guided walking tour.

6 - 27 Oct 2025
The DRAW! Tour: October Workshops
Hands-on drawing workshops across the district, part of Our Patch.

22 Oct - 2 Nov 2025
Elmet
The Javaad Alipoor Company
An explosive Northern drama – created especially for Bradford 2025 by The Javaad Alipoor Company.

8 Oct - 26 Nov 2025
Heart and Hands Studio
A series of free creative workshops

14 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
REPLAY
Families of all ages welcome!
Enter an endless world of play in this interactive family experience from The Herd.

Dates between 14 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
REPLAY: Early Years sessions
For ages 6 months to 5 years
A recycled playground without limits! Join a session just for little ones.

Various dates
The Keighley Chorus
Hannah Butterfield and Shane Durrant
Come along to a community singing session around the piano.

26 Oct - 14 Dec 2025
Youth Pass: Padel Session
Free court hire at Bradford's first premium indoor padel centre.

24 Sep - 31 Dec 2025
Wandering Imaginations: Exhibition
A special display at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Highlights

14 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
REPLAY
Families of all ages welcome!
Enter an endless world of play in this interactive family experience from The Herd.

Dates between 14 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
REPLAY: Early Years sessions
For ages 6 months to 5 years
A recycled playground without limits! Join a session just for little ones.

31 Oct 2025
In Conversation with Ann Hamilton and Guests
Join international textile artist, Ann Hamilton, as she shares her inspiration and processes creating We Will Sing and asks what does the future need to know?

21 Nov - 14 Dec 2025
Built by Sound
No Ghost, Dialled In and Bradford 2025
A mixed reality experience where memory moves to a beat.
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Meet Our Mothers
An interactive cookbook celebrating Bradford’s heritage.

Halloween Cinema
Step into the shadows this October for Bradford’s Halloween Cinema season.

OUR TURN
Bold, experimental and authentically Bradford, explore a brand-new visual arts festival coming to Bradford.

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

31 Oct - 23 Nov 2025
Nisbet Road Tailor Shop
Zain Ali
Step inside an immersive recreation of a South Asian tailors.

3 May – 2 Nov 2025
We Will Sing
Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton transforms the immense top floor at Salts Mill for her largest solo UK installation to date.
27 Sep 2025 – 22 Feb 2026
Turner Prize
We’ve teamed up with Tate to bring the Turner Prize to Bradford - tickets available now.

16 Oct 2025 - 22 Feb 2026
Hardy and Free
Carolyn Mendelsohn
The Kirkgate Shopping Centre turns gallery for a monumental exhibition celebrating Yorkshire women and the natural world.

From 26 Apr 2025
Tower of Now
Saad Qureshi
This soaring sculpture explores what it means to be British – and celebrates Bradford’s dazzling diversity.

3 Apr 2025 – 28 Feb 2026
YOU:MATTER
Marshmallow Laser Feast
Explore how we’re all connected at this spectacular immersive experience.

Until 31 Dec 2025
HOPE/ACT
People Powered Press
Installations from the world’s largest letterpress printing press.
Loading Bay

22 Oct - 2 Nov 2025
Elmet
The Javaad Alipoor Company
An explosive Northern drama – created especially for Bradford 2025 by The Javaad Alipoor Company.

7-9 Nov 2025
We Are Still ASAFO
Theatre In Flow
A theatre performance with live music and dance, that reminds us we are never truly alone.

22 Nov 2025