The first acts and exhibitions for Bradford 2025 were announced tonight – round here there will be four huge installations on the moors near Haworth, plus an immersive music experience featuring contemporary reworking of Delius’s compositions.
There will be a pop-up exhibition space in Cliffe Castle, The Railway Children play on Oxenhope station with the audience arriving by train, and Ice Age now – an exhibition of Ice Age art in collaboration with the British Museum.
More widely, Steven Frayne (otherwise known as Dynamo) will be involved doing a show in City Park and a cook book of “mothers’ recipes” across the district will be created. A Windrush migrant aged 70 will hold his first photo exhibition, the Tate’s Turner Prize is coming to to Bradford’s Cartwright Hall, and Big Brass Blowout will feature a weekend festival of brass bands playing contemporary music.
Opera North has a children’s project, as does Penguin Books, and older people will be able to go to film-making classes.
There was so much more – and this is just the start of the announcements.
It was great to see Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy there to support the event. She was clear we have the full backing of the Government. What a year it will be!
