Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, Bradford Producing Hub and Yorkshire Contemporary are delighted to announce the launch of Practice: Bradford. A focussed, tailored intervention designed to accelerate development and professional progression for four talented, early-career visual artists who live, work or make work in Bradford, or have a clear and demonstrable connection to the Bradford district.
Bradford 2025 will help to make Bradford one of the most welcoming places in the UK for artists, producers and creative entrepreneurs to flourish, through international exchanges, development programmes and investment in new cultural hubs.
Practice: Bradford builds on Yorkshire Contemporary and Bradford Producing Hub’s exceptional track records of transformational artistic opportunities through a carefully designed, holistic mix of development funding, mentoring, peer-to-peer reflection/support and network building, culminating in the public presentation of new work.
This special edition of Practice is designed for and with Bradford and delivered in partnership with Bradford Producing Hub. It will add an additional opportunity alongside a planned programme of showcasing Bradford’s entire visual arts community.
Applications open today with a closing date of Monday 16 December 2024. Find out more and apply here.
About our partners
Bradford Producing Hub
Founded in 2019, Bradford Producing Hub (BPH) is an arts development organisation that tests radical new approaches to producing work, supporting talent, developing a local arts workforce, and partnering with communities across Bradford to reimagine the city as a thriving creative hub.
BPH supports artists, producers, and small companies through funding, grants, mentoring, training, development, and networking opportunities to establish Bradford as a city that nurtures homegrown talent.
In 2023, Bradford Producing Hub was appointed as the Cultural Capacity Partner of Bradford 2025, UK City of Culture.
Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture
Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture (Bradford 2025) runs from January 2025 to December 2025 and is a celebration of Bradford city and district, taking place across its city, towns, villages and greenspaces. It will showcase the rich history of the area and spotlight its dynamic contemporary culture in all forms; dance and theatre, music and film, visual arts and crafts, food and sport.
It is set to have a lifelong impact through its reshaping of the local curriculum, skills and training programmes, investment in existing and new creative spaces, and open up opportunities for cultural participation. Many of the events in the programme involve its residents in performances, profiles local theatre and dance companies, and has Bradford born artists at the centre.
The City of Culture designation has already brought significant investment to the region and been a catalyst for development. It is predicted that Bradford’s cultural programme in 2025 will attract 15.5m visitors to the district and bring in an additional visitor spend of £136.9m into the local economy. Overall, the increased cultural and economic activity is expected to deliver up to £389m of growth for Bradford District.