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When: 13/06/2013 - 13th June 2013 | 4pm-10pm

Genre: Scratch Orchestra

Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: Free

Funder: Bradford Council

A daytime into evening event where the audience was invited to work alongside artists to transform the church space into an immersive installation that formed the playspace for an evening performing with community orchestra Dales Jam.

A large multi-media structure was created using grand techniques such as lighting, set design and projection. The musicians gathered at 7pm to work together on an original piece utilising the participants’ unique musical talents, shared skills and interests, and love of music – and, of course, instruments.

An ephemeral, eclectic musical performance in an extraordinary, aesthetic setting. A great and fun session that worked beautifully with the installation giving the participants a very special experience.

This was a free event as part of the Bradford Festival Xtra Programme.

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When: 15/06/2013 - Saturday, 15th June 2013 | 10am - 4pm

Genre: Family Activity

Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: Free

Funder: Bradford Council

A Saturday daytime workshop for families to share an experience and create together in a choice of workshops in the church space at the Delius Centre.

Workshops were led by four new Bradford-based community artists.

This was a free event as part of the Bradford Festival Xtra Programme

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A great session type to introduce new artists to community arts, easy to monitor and evaluate effectiveness, would be ideal for post- CPD training for new community artists/facilitators.

Parents and children had a great time working together and making a variety of items that they could then take away with them.

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When: 31/07/2013

Genre: Exhibition

Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: Free

Funder: Foyle Foundation

A specially commissioned musical and movement installation and performance piece to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer Frederick Delius, written, produced and performed by local artists Chemaine Cooke, modern space-responsive dancer, and Seth Bennett, musician and composer.

‘FRITZ: A System of Weaving’ explored the various tensions in Delius’ life which impacted his compositions and will also explore the relevance of Delius in today’s Bradford. It included new material generated by the two artists’ responses to various sites in the city associated with him and his family, as well as improvisations based on his works.

Performed in front of an audience of 50

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Testimonials

This event was supported by the Delius Society with its inclusion in their programme of events for Delius’ 150th Anniversary. A 4-page article of the commission and performance was featured in the internationally distributed ‘The Delius Society Journal’. Chris Green, Project Adviser for the Anniversary attended the performance said: “The event featured a specially-commissioned musical movement and text-based performance piece to commemorate Delius’ life which impacted on his composition – it also explored Delius’ relevance to Bradford today with sound bites from members of the community taken at a number of sites associated with him and his family. A very contemporary way to finish the year – a new piece performed to a new audience of young people. We must hope that through events of this kind we really can draw in a future membership to keep our society alive and well.”

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When: 17/08/2013 - 17th August 2013 | 12pm-3pm

Genre: Family Activity

Cost: Free

Funder: Foyle Foundation

A family friendly event with the aim of families learning DJ skills whilst having fun together. A great workshop to help all ages develop a love of music, bond and build memories.

Children and adults tried their your hand at playing records on decks and created their own set which was played live to the dance-floor. Their was also an activity to create their own poster and LP cover which could be taken home as a souvenir of their day.

The session enabled families to build relationships whilst being creative together.

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When: 05/04/2014 - 5th April 2014 | 3pm

Genre: Family Activity, Classical

Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Partner: Midori Komachi

The English composer Frederick Delius (1862-1934) was born in Bradford, and
later on moved to France, where he interacted with many painters,
including Paul Gauguin

Through music and art, the family friendly concert with Midori Komachi and Simon Callaghan explored the life of Frederick Delius and his artistic friends.

This performance was supported by the Delius Trust and ACE Grants for the Arts.

When: 20/08/2015 - 20th August 2015 | 7.30pm – 11pm

Genre: Folk, Live music

Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: Tickets £6 | £4 concession

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn

Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish musician, primarily a singer, guitarist, songwriter, composer, arranger and interpreter of traditional songs and ballads. In 1996 he released his first 7” single on Will Oldham’s Palace Records imprint; since then he as gone on to produce some 13 full-length albums of music, primarily working with Drag City Records of Chicago.

Alasdair has collaborated with a wide variety of fellow musicians as well as with other artists including poets, puppeteers, film-makers and painters. He has toured widely at home in Scotland and abroad – in USA, Canada, Europe, Brazil and Australia – both solo and with various bands.

Supported by Sound of Yell, based in Glasgow and can number as many as twelve. The debut album Brocken Spectre is out now on Chemikal Underground Recordings.

Doors open at 7.30pm

A well-attended mid-week live music performance. Alasdair Robert’s romantic melancholy style suited the atmospheric surroundings of a candlelit church.

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When: 05/01/2016 - 28/11/2017 - 1.30pm

Genre: Wellbeing Creative Arts Group

Cost: FREE

Funder: Champions Show The Way

Every Tuesday afternoon

1.30-3.30pm

A fine blend of art and craft served every afternoon at the Delius Arts and Cultural Centre

We would like to invite new people to join our friendly group, to meet new friends and try new creative activities in a relaxed and informal environment. All abilities welcome.

If you would like more information then please call: 01275 256 919 or email: info@artworkscreative.org.uk

When: 21/01/2016 - 8pm

Genre: World Music

Cost: £10/£7 Concession

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Partner: M@BU - Music at Bradford University

M@BU – Music at Bradford University presents:

KING AYISOBA (Ghana)
Traditional kologo music from the Upper East Region of
Ghana brought with the energy and flavour of the twenty first century. The kologo is a two string guitar with a calabash gourd resonator, it is rhythmic and melodic at the same time. King Ayisoba sings in Frafra, Twi and in English and is a big star in Ghana. If you caught him at Fuse Art Space as part of Recon festival a couple of years back you’ll know not to miss this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy1zVY-mxHc

https://soundcloud.com/makkumrecords/sets/king-ayisoba

http://www.kingayisobamusic.com/

Ayuune Suley (Ghana)
Another traditional musician on Kologo guitar, playing authentic music from East of Ghana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5BrkEqcBio

ZEA (Netherlands)
Solo performance from Arnold de Boer of legendary post-punksters The Ex deploying guitar
and sampler for an almighty bout of high energy songs. Urgent lyrics
over guitar, roughshod beats and grimy bass lines. This is fat-free
music with no words wasted; joyfully obstinate, wonderfully bonkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEvEmf7m42g

https://soundcloud.com/zea/sets/the-swimming-city

http://www.zea.dds.nl/

Dean McPhee
Blisfull ambient solo guitar compositions from Bingley. His influences include British Folk, Dub, Krautrock, Post Rock, Moroccan Trance and Modal Jazz, and while his sparse, melodic and echo-laden playing has been compared to Vini Reilly, Fripp & Eno and Loren Connors, his singular approach to the instrument is very much his own. Respected dub connoisseur, “On the Wire” presenter and champion of unusual and esoteric music Steve Barker recently described Dean as being “definitely one of the leading contemporary guitar stylists in the UK, and in the world” and his albums have been widely praised by The Wire, Uncut, Record Collector, Music OMH, Dusted Magazine, Brainwashed, DOA, Drowned in Sound, MOJO Magazine, ATTN: Magazine and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekHznRoR_4
http://www.deanmcphee.com/

This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 23/01/2016 - 19:30

Cost: £5

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Laura Cannell plays fiddle, overbowed fiddle and double recorders. Drawing on ancient transcendental and earthly musics, her sense of space, dynamics and working with acoustics is highly attuned, often utilising a fragment from a medieval theme to her own end, embracing the apparitional, historical or the otherworldly. Her current live music show finds her performing improvisations on ‘over-bowed’ fiddle and double-barrelled recorders creating spell-binding new interpretations and breathing new life into lost and forgotten melodies from the 5th – 14th centuries. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3, 4 and 6Music including performances on Late Junction, The Early Music Show, Stuart Maconie’s Freakzone, In Tune and Radio 4’s 15 minute play. She has also appeared on ITV, Sky Arts and BBC Four. Laura regularly collaborates and was recently awarded a PRSF Beyond Borders grant to work with the Welsh violinist Angharad Davies in a new project which spans England, Scotland and Wales.

Magpahi is the solo project of Todmorden based multi-instrumentalist Alison Cooper. Transposing falsetto fairytale folk songs and 16th century poems from the black and white birds nest Alison joins the dots between Victorian parlour music and a dreamy tone world inspired by forays through the mossy undergrowth, liminal space, and eternally vibrating string that is the Yorkshire/Lancashire boundary line. With solo releases on Bird Records and Devon Folklore tapes, a collaborative streak that has seen her produce some mesmerising performances accompanied by the crystal light refractions of artist Emma Lomax, original soundtrack commissions for the Moomins no less, and releases with Sam and the Plants and N Racker on labels such as Twisted Nerve and Pre-Cert Entertainment, this first performance of 2016 promises to be special indeed.

Singing out from an early age, across a variety of genres, Stephanie Hladowski has slowly surfaced as an enigmatic interpreter of British folk song – most notably through her collaboration with guitarist C Joynes on the album ‘The Wild, Wild Berry’ (Bo’ Weavil) which was nominated for several awards and featured as editor’s choice in fRoots magazine. She has previously released one solo EP, ‘The High High Nest’ on Sheffield’s Singing Knives Records, and has collaborated with a range of acts from A Hawk and a Hacksaw, The Family Elan, and Scatter, to the dub sound system Inspirational Sound, also sharing the stage with such luminaries as Shirley Collins and Martin Carthy. Her last live performance also featured a cameo from new addition to the family Jonah Charlie Smith. Typically performing unaccompanied, Stephanie’s mesmerising, direct performance of balladry tells tales of love, life and loss sure to conjure up a wealth of emotion.

This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 23/01/2016 - 12pm

Genre: Family Activity

Cost: Activities vary from FREE to £3/£10 donation

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

A day of herbal inspiration led by local Medical Herbalists, Heather Ware and Helen Rideout.

Come in from the cold anytime throughout the day to experience a range of activites that will empower you to use herbs for healthier and happier winter living. Just sit and relax with a tea or join in a workshop.

Free cups of Herbal Tea! Herbal Footbaths! Chats! Library! Hands-on workshops for adults and kids!

Workshops:

12.30 – 13.15 Fire-cider (non -alcoholic) making: learn how to make a stimulating immune tonic herbal vinegar. Bring your own jam jar to take what you make away.

14.00 – 14.15 Herbal Balm making for kids and adults. Make a yummy lip balm (that actually does stop your lips chapping) or a magical healing balm to take away.

15.00 – 15.45 Intuitive herbal tea tasting. A guided sensory experience where you learn about a mystery herb. FREE.

Just come along. No need to book!
Practical workshops £3 – £10 suggested donation.

This event is supported by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

We’ll be carrying on the herbal antics into the evening’s gig at Delius, where a variety of herbal teas will be served for your pleasure.https://www.facebook.com/events/421311724733806/

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When: 19/02/2016 - 8pm

Cost: £5/£4 concession

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Partner: M@BU - Music at Bradford University

M@BU – Music at Bradford University presents

Za! (Spain)
Two people in front of your eyes, yet a transoceanic, futuristic/primitive orchestra in your ears the duet from Barcelona known as ZA!, keep on with their post-world music conquest of PachaMadreTierraWAH.

Two years after releasing WANANANAI (Rockdelux’s Album of 2013), ZA! present a record that defies many conventions, even their own. The title LOLOISMO comes from ‘Loloiza’, the Spanish phrase for the chants that echo out from football fields, where often the collective act of singing holds more value than the lyrics. The only premise the band set themselves was to avoid repetition of songs. To accomplish this, Spazzfrica Ehd(drums/keyboards/vocals) and Papadupau (guitar/trumpet/samples/vocals) have explored new genres and tried new ways of playing and filtering their instruments. The result is ten hits, ten individual worlds that continue to evolve with each listen.

There is no set style: industrial meets dubstep, hip hop, clicks n’cuts electronic music, math-rock. Diversity is key, from the old-shool hardcore clichés to Asian, Arabic or invented landscapes, sometimes sampling live guitar, sometimes passing the whole drumkit through the amplifiers. The elements have been recorded live, on the same take and in the same room, only adding vocal overdubs.

ZA! call it “Loloizable experimental music with a chorus”, because until LOLOISMO the band’s lyrics had never evolved beyond a concept or a single word. As expected, these newly unearthed lyrics match with the experimental language of music, with repetitions, encrypted metrics and neologisms. The will is always to “loloize” rather than to pontifícate; to sing freely, collectively, and in tune with the Halfmighty Silly Sister of Wisdom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlTj59TSYSM
https://www.facebook.com/putosza
http://www.theaudaciousartexperiment.com/za/

NOPE
On tour with Za are another band from the Audacious Art Experiment stable; krautrocking underground ‘supergroup’ NOPE. Featuring members of That Fucking Tank, Hookworms and COWTOWN NOPE have been pummelling ears and expanding minds for a while now with two albums of duel-drumming psychedelic repeato-rock performed with post punk intensity and a dash of early nineties alternative rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdhGKCC7Dvo
https://soundcloud.com/obscene-baby-auction/nope-walker
www.justsaynope.co.uk

F.A.L.C.O
Zizek Stardust and her band from another time return to Bradford to teach us in the ways of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Three teenage girls making a polticised postpunk riot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVJ6uZCnKBE&feature=youtu.be
https://www.mixcloud.com/andyabbott/the-mirrored-hammer-postcapitalism-and-postwork-futures-special-part-one/

Bradford Scratch Orchestra
A performance from the open platform for musicians and non-musicians of all level of experience to make collaborative and improvised music.
https://bradfordscratchorchestra.wordpress.com/

This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 20/02/2016 - 5pm

Genre: Live Music - Jazz

Cost: £5

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn

An early evening/matinee performance from one of the most uniquely wondrous voices in music – free jazz legend Linda Sharrock! Singing alongside her current band (In) The Abyssity Of The Grounds, consisting of Mario Rechtern (saxophones), Theresa Eipeldauer (voice), Didi Kern (drums) and Margaret Unknown (guitar, electronics and voice), this is a rare opportunity to witness one of the most powerful voices of the 20th Century avant-garde.

Sharrock’s vocal work on her deceased ex-husband Sonny Sharrock’s albums ‘Black Woman’, ‘Monkey Pocky Boo’ and ‘Paradise’ augured a transition from the old jazz toward a revisionary and visionary smashing of form and idiom. It blended her rich gospel heritage with a drive toward the avant-garde that stood as a hugely powerful symbol for the African-American experience, as the United States moved from the subtlety of the early civil rights movement to the sociopolitical primal scream that was Black Power! Melodic moans and wails slowly unfurled into waves of shrill, powerful screams that mirrored and battled with the ferocity of Sonny’s guitar.

Linda divorced Sonny Sharrock in ’78 and moved to Vienna where she she worked with Franz Koglmann, Eric Watson, and Wolfgang Puschnig into the 1990s. In 2007, after forging a now long-running musical partnership with saxophonist Mario Rechtern, Sharrock suffered a life-changing stroke that not only impaired her ability to move freely but also to sing. It’s no understatement to say that her recent return to performance has been more of a rebirth than a rehabilitation. Gone are the Gospel-infused exultations. In their place a deep, rising moan that extends and draws itself out into a final, lengthy primal wail that illustrates the sociopolitical position of Sharrock’s disability as clearly as the records she made in the ’70s illustrated her position as a Black Woman in America.

This performance precedes the release of a brand new triple album on Golden Lab Records (out March 2016), credited to Linda Sharrock / (In) The Abyssity Of The Grounds – Sharrock’s first major work in years. Needless to say, it is an unmissable event for anyone even vaguely interested in the 20th Century avant-garde, Free Jazz and African-American history.

This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation www.artworkscreative.org.uk

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When: 04/03/2016 - 12.45pm

Genre: Jazz

Cost: £3 (£2 Conc.) on the door | children are free

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Bradford jazz pianist Imani Hekima has a diverse musical background, and takes us on a journey across genres. His performance blends jazz influences with soul, reggae, Bollywood & Middle Eastern music.

Join us for a lunchtime jazz session and BYOF (bring your own food)

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When: 05/03/2016

Genre: Live Music

Annual SORM fest
Plus SORM record label grand launch!!!
Bands tbc

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When: 12/03/2016 - 12pm

Genre: Event

Cost: Conference: Free Evening event: £10/£5 concession

Join us for a day dedicated to the women of Palestine in this special event for International Women’s Day.

Conference (women only): 12 noon doors open for soup and to browse the exhibition. 1pm for conference opening.

Through film, music, poetry and women’s personal accounts, we will explore the daily trauma endured by Palestinians and celebrate how Palestinian women survive and thrive against the odds supporting each other, their families and their communities by being active both politically and creatively.

This event, at the Delius Centre, is the grand finale of a week of events across the north of England. Come and meet:

• Reem Kelani, the Palestinian singer
• Arwa Haikal from Hebron
• Kholoud al Ajarma from Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem
• Kholood Ersheid from Nazareth
• and view a new a film from The Freedom Theatre of Jenin, who recently toured the UK to great acclaim.

The event is organised by Northern Women for Palestine – a group of activists from seven towns across the north of England committed to campaigning for justice for Palestinians.

Our key message is that all of us, whatever our circumstances, can contribute to the cause of justice for Palestinians – so come along and find out more on March 12th.

The evening celebratory meal, beginning 6 for 6.30pm, is open to all and is £10/£5 concession

Tickets and further info available from hillyfletcher@btinternet.com or call 01422 881 436

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When: 17/03/2016 - 7pm

Genre: Jazz

Cost: £5 (£3 concession)

Partner: M@BU & Pleasure Grounds

Pleasure Grounds and M@BU – Music at Bradford University – present atDelius Arts & Cultural Centre

Inclusion Principle
Martin Archer – electronic keyboards, laptop, saxophones, clarinets, recorders
Hervé Perez – laptop, saxophones
Peter Fairclough – drums and percussion

Inclusion Principle operates in a space between electronics, nu-jazz, contemporary electroacoustic music and free improvisation tending towards a minimalist approach. In performance you will hear pure jazz skill, electronic beats and areas of texture and abstraction all seamlessly woven into a fascinating tapestry of sound.

Both Martin and Hervé play a similar set up of laptop and woodwinds and yet have a different approach to their instruments. Put together, there is a chemistry that inspire and drive their improvisations towards a wide range of soundscapes.

The choice of instruments and sounds on their palette allows them to dramatically change their music between beat driven electro, minimal and microtonal improvisation via electroacoustic experimentation and nu-jazz.

Long time collaborator Peter Fairclough fills a space in the soundscape that was meant for him, bringing a range of sounds and acoustic instruments. His inventive use of hand percussion, cymbals sculptures and bells blend perfectly with abstract textures while establishing definite jazz grooves that sit comfortably amongst electronic beats.

https://www.facebook.com/Inclusion-Principle-110752295685776/

Sophie Cooper
Sophie Cooper is a West Yorkshire based musician influenced by psychedelic pop, weird noise and drone, whose main interest is in experimenting with conventional song writing. Cooper’s music is written to reflect her life and more often than not is inspired by the people around her. The songs have a dreamlike quality, with sounds and vocals drifting in and out of clarity. Cooper has been making music since her early teens and has been in a string of acts including Cooper Jones and Leopard Leg.

http://sophiecoopermusic.com/

Chris Bywater
Part of the stupendous Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere, (with Martin) , Transient Vs Resident and Bradford Scratch Orchestra among many. Synthesised electronic immersive environments a speciality.

7pm – 10pm. at Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, Great Horton Rd, Bradford. £5/£3 concessions on the door.

Tickets: http://estore.bradford.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=9&catid=530&prodvarid=110

Attendees of ‘Reflections on the Work of Albert Hunt/Within the Art School and Without’ (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reflections-on-the-work-of-albert-huntwithin-the-art-school-and-without-tickets-22032647241) at Bradford College during the day can take advantage of the concessionary rate.

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When: 18/03/2016 - 7pm

Genre: Jazz

Cost: £4 (£3 concession)

DALES JAM
Friday, 18th March

World music and jazz orchestra Dales Jam return to the Delius Centre with Spring in their step and two completely new sets of music for your delirious enjoyment.

Time: Doors open at 7.00pm (band on at 7.30pm)
Tickets: £4 (£3 concession) on the door

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When: 14/04/2016 - 12.45pm

Genre: Jazz

Cost: £3 (£2 concession) - Children Free

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn

Bradford jazz pianist Imani Hekima has a diverse musical background, and takes us on a journey across genres. His performance blends jazz influences with soul, reggae, Bollywood & Middle Eastern music.

Join us for a lunchtime jazz session and BYOF (bring your own food)

Cost: £3 (£2 Conc.) on the door | children are free

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When: 16/04/2016 - 12pm

Genre: Family Workshop

Cost: £0-£3

Funder: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

A day to explore Spring Wild and Urban Gleaned foods, led by Grow Bradford and Plenty Preserves.
…zingy tonics, hedgerow salads, wild food pizza and perfect pestos!

Spring has sprung and shoots and leaves are appearing! Learn how to find and make foods from what’s right on your doorstep and make delicious foods which have added micronutrients and can give you a boost after winter.

Free zingy tonic concoction! Hedgerow salads! Perfect pestos! Wild food pizzas! Come in and have a chat, make your own wild food lunch and contribute to our community foraging map! Hands-on workshops for adults and kids!

Make your own spring tonic – fun for all ages – make a concoction that is guaranteed to put a zing in your step! FREE to all…

Wild food lunch
Make your own perfect pesto – perfect healthful and delicious topping for pasta or pizza £3

Hedgerow salads – learn about where you can find foods right on your doorstep through foraging and urban gleaning.
Make your own salad – £3

Wild food pizza – make your own pizza with wild food pesto and foraged leaves – £3

Wild food lunch – make all the above for £7.50

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When: 27/04/2016 - 8pm

Genre: Jazz

Cost: £10/£8 concessions

Virtuoso award winning American jazz guitarist Howard Alden is making a rare appearance in the area.

TICKETS £10 and £8 conc

Sat 30th April 2016 (2pm)Workshop at theYorkshire Music School Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire BD18 3LA Tele: 01274 595954Email: info@ymss.co.ukwww.ymss.co.uk

“He may be the best of his generation,” Owen Cordle in JazzTimes.

George Kanzler of the Newark Star Ledger proclaims that he is “the most impressive and creative member of a new generation of jazz guitarists.” And Chip Deffaa of the New York Post observes that he is “…one of the very finest young guitarists working today.”

As well as on many albums Howard can also be heard on the soundtrack to the 1999 Woody Allen movie “Sweet and Lowdown”, starring Sean Penn, who was also nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a legendary jazz guitarist in the ’30s. Howard not only played all the guitar solos, but also coached Mr. Penn on playing the guitar for his role in the film.

Jazz critic Wayne Thompson writes simply, in Jazzscene, “If there are better young jazz guitar players in America than Howard Alden, I have yet to hear them.”

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When: 30/04/2016 - 8pm

Genre: Live Music

Cost: £5 advance / £6 on door

Debut album launch

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When: 25/05/2016 - 7.30pm

Genre: Pop/Psychedelic Rock/Psychedelic Pop

Cost: £7/£5 concession

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Partner: M@BU - Music at Bradford University

M@BU – Music at Bradford University in association with Constant Flux present a Bradford Threadfest lead-in gig with ..

Daniel Wakeford

Pure and ecstatic pop from a charismatic, charming and honest individual. Daniel Wakeford is a singer-songwriter from Brighton who has written and recorded over 5 albums. He has been performing in and around Brighton and London for years and due to the purity in Daniel’s songs and performances, he wins over pretty much every audience he plays to. His songs are about his life and the things he loves, from his family and friends, to Beethoven. Daniel is an important part of the learning disabled music scene in Brighton, centred around a night called The Rock House, and through celebrating Daniel as an artist who has autism, it will portray a much needed positive image of learning disabled people in the media and will help highlight the challenges faced by musicians with learning disabilities.

“Daniel Wakeford brings heartfelt euphoria wherever he goes. His seemingly bottomless well of material offers up classic after classic in the shape of relentlessly catchy pop naivetes. It’s the delivery that sets Daniel apart, anyone with a shred of a soul can’t help but be won over by his unbounded joy and enthusiasm.” – Supernormal Festival

“The music has a real 1st Television Personalities LP vibe, but the vocals are utterly unique! I love the lyrics too… they’re so blunt yet so poetic.” – Daniel Lupton, Sorry State Records

https://rockhouserecords.bandcamp.com/album/daniel-wakeford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzFfu6WDP6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGnkJzuFYWU

STEARICA (Italy)
Post-prog-psychedelic-experimental instrumental rock outfit from Turin who have been on tour with legends of the independent scene like NoMeansNo, GirlsAgainstBoys, Suzuki Damo, Ex El, Karate, Acid Mothers Temple (with whom they shared a 32 gigs on a European tour) and Tarentel.

Francesco Carlucci: guitar, bass, piano, loops, vibraph.
Davide Compagnoni: drums, piano, loops,marimba.
Luca Paiardi: bass, electric piano, synth.

http://aloudmusic.com/en/artists/stearica/

FLING
Off kilter psychedelic pop from Bradford with members of NGOD and Illusory Centre in a Syd Barret era Pink Floyd vein.
https://soundcloud.com/flinggg

7:30pm. £7/£5 concessions.

Tickets comings soon to www.brad.ac.uk/music

This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 28/05/2016 - 4pm

Genre: Dance/Film/Music

Cost: £5/£3 concessions

Artist Bryony Pritchard presents a new movement piece developed from workshops with local Gujarat-connected dancers, graphic artist Anna Peaker and Joanne Armitage (Yorkshire Sound Women Network) using material from Tim Smith’s India’s Gateway exhibition at Gallery II , University of Bradford.

The sharings of the performance in progress will also be accompanied by film and music works from the India’s Gateway exhibition and musician Alison Cooper (Magpahi) perfoming a live soundtrack to footage from Yorkshire Film Archive shown as part of the I Am No Bird exhibition at South Square Gallery, Thornton.

Presented in association with Bradford Literature Festival and Bradford Threadfest.

4pm – 6pm @ Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Rd.

£5/£3 concessions

Tickets coming soon to www.brad.ac.uk/music

India’s Gateway exhibition
http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery/whats-on/

Bryony Pritchard
http://www.artfever.org.uk/performance.html

Joanne Armitage
https://soundcloud.com/joannnne

Yorkshire Sound Women Network
https://yorkshiresoundwomen.wordpress.com/

Anna Peaker
http://www.annapeaker.co.uk/

Magpahi
https://soundcloud.com/magpahi

Bradford Threadfest
http://www.bradfordthreadfest.com/

When: 03/08/2016 - 7.30pm

Genre: World Music / Folk / Poetry

Cost: £5

Partner: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Born in Tbilisi and now based in the Borcali region of Southern Georgia, Nargile Mehtiyeva aka Asiq Nargile has been playing saz (long-neck lute) and singing since the age of 15. Fluent in Azerbaijani, Georgian, and Russian, Nargile represents the cosmopolitan heritage of old Tbilisi, a city once known as a meeting point for multilingual aşıq bards who would travel through the region serving as conduits for news, ideas, music and culture. A powerful solo performer, her vocal recital of epic folk poetry is by turns ecstatic and deeply expressive, and is interspersed with bursts of virtuosic, highly ornamented saz.

Equally comfortable performing moving laments or upbeat folk dances, Nargile is currently the only female aşıq living and performing in the ethnic Azeri region of Georgia, and has been teaching the art to new generations. A recording of her live performance at Cafe OTO, which took place during a hugely successful UK tour with kindred folk channeller Richard Dawson in 2015, is out now on the OTORoku label.

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When: 09/08/2016 - 10.30am

Genre: Stroke Recovery / Creative Arts Group

Cost: FREE

Come along to the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre to learn about all about who the Creative Stroke Recovery Group are, and what they get up to in their sessions every week.

There will be tea and cake, creative activities and a tombola.

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When: 01/10/2016 - 8pm

Genre: Ambient Folk

Cost: £5 | £3.50 Concession.

Partner: M@BU - Music at Bradford University

Tomorrow We Sail is a group of musicians based in Leeds, UK. Formed in 2009, their sound has developed into what is now an impressive landscape of billowing, reverb-soaked guitars, orchestral strings, piano, organ and multi-layered group-harmony vocals.

Folk, slowcore, neo-classicism, minimalism, ambient and post-rock are all apparent in the music Tomorrow We Sail create together. If you’ve ever been moved by albums like Talk Talk’s ‘Spirit O…f Eden’, Sigur Ros’ ‘( )’ or Low’s ‘Secret Name’, you may find yourself falling for this music.

After releasing their debut album, ‘For Those Who Caught The Sun In Flight’, to high acclaim in 2014 via Gizeh records the band have spent the last year tucked away working on new material. They will be returning to the stage later this year with new songs in tow.

“Rich in texture and atmosphere, delicate and ethereal, and nothing short of magnificent” Whisperin & Hollerin

“Simply Breathtaking.” The Guardian

Website: http://www.tomorrowwesail.co.uk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomorrowwesail

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/tomorrowwesail/

Support by Gerrard Bell Fife

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GerrardBellFifeMusic/

Bandcamp: http://gerrardbell-fife.bandcamp.com/

This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 08/10/2016 - 4pm

Genre: Student Event

Cost: FREE

Partner: Bradford Brewery, The Brick Box, Westgate Social, Oi!,

An immersive miniature City experience; the Delius Centre brings together a taste of local venues and organisations so you can get to know your new City.

Fun and exciting things to expect:

• Discount Voucher Booklets
• Venue passports
• Face Glittering
• Competitions
• Activities
• Free Snacks!
• Free Boozy Samples!
• Brick Box’s Temple to Toast!

When: 08/10/2016 - 11am

Genre: Urban Growing, Family Friendly Event

Cost: FREE

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When: 09/10/2016 - 2.30pm

Genre: Acapella Performance

Cost: FREE

Bradford Women Singers (our very own radical acapella group) are joining with a German women’s choir Picanta in a very special one off concert at the Delius Arts and Cultural Centre on Sunday October 9^th from 2.30pm to 5pm.

Picanta are touring their special brand of powerful songs from around the globe and have chosen this venue for their sole Bradford concert for its historic role as the German Church, its glorious acoustics and for its welcoming atmosphere.

This wonderful afternoon of singing, song sharing, lovely cakes and refreshments is free entry and will be raising funds in support of the awesome BIASAN Women’s Group. This Group of women asylum seekers, refugees and their supporters has been meeting weekly for over 15 years; providing support, sustenance and sisterhood on a voluntary basis.

All are welcome at this unique, uplifting and inspiring event.

When: 15/11/2016 - 6pm

Genre: Training Opportunity

Cost: FREE but spaces are limited so please book

Artworks Creative Communities and enterprising professional Jane Wynn bring you a programme of creative enterprise training sessions to help people who are trying to make a go of their creative small businesses.

First up is SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CREATIVE ENTERPRISES.
The trainer is Becky Moore who has many years’ experience working in the voluntary and community sector, as an educationalist, writer, event manager, community worker, and PR manager.

Becky explains “This workshop will be interactive, participatory and hopefully fun too! We will look at how you can maximise the potential of your social media marketing, marrying it with your business plan and desired outcomes. By the end of the session, you will have the tools to build your own social media plan, and resources to help you create engaging and effective content.”

There will be hot drinks on arrival and the chance to socialise and network with the other creatively enterprising after the session from 8-9pm. The bar will be open and we can all practise tweeting!

Although this is a free event there are limited spaces available so please book by emailing: thealternativeshop@yahoo.co.uk to book.

This is a free workshop sponsored by Artworks Creative Communities and Two28.

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When: 17/11/2016 - 7pm

Genre: Film

Cost: £5 | Pay As You Feel On The Door | Free to Students

Partner: M@BU, University of Bradford

This screening brings together three moving-image projects produced in Bradford during the ‘70s which present alternative documentary viewpoints on ideas of education and work.

Programme:
The Unteachables (aka. Open Night) (Media in Education Unit, c.1971, c.30min)
An experimental ‘educational documentary’ produced by the Media in Education Unit, a group led by Albert Hunt which grew out of the Bradford Art College Theatre Group.

[Two studies from] A Documentation of Bradford Working Life (Darcy Lange, 1974, c.20min)
Lange produced a series of 15 anthropological video studies of single workers performing tasks across four different Bradford factories, with the unfulfilled intention of presenting the work in this context too.

Black Future (Jim O’Brien, 1977, 40min)
Jim O’Brien’s film Black Future (1977) imagines England in 1983, where modern industry has destroyed the labour market leaving millions of young people permanently unemployed and living in controlled ‘welfare zones.’

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When: 25/11/2016 - 3pm

Genre: FREE! Community Event

FREE! FREE! FREE!

Coinciding with the world wide phenomenon Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day was created as an international protest to consumerism. People around the world celebrate the day by engaging in low-cost or free events and activities that often promote happiness and wellbeing.

A creative exploration of value and worth.

Artworks welcomes you to come and enjoy a few hours of costless fun at the Delius Centre, the perfect antidote to the Black Friday craze…

Take the weight off your credit card and rediscover just how much fun you can have without spending.

Featuring workshops, activities, food and festivities – All ages welcome.

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When: 02/12/2016 - 3pm

Genre: Family-Friendly Festive Fair

Cost: FREE

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When: 03/12/2016 - 10am

Genre: Training Opportunity

Cost: FREE but spaces are limited so please book

 A self taught photographer from the 1970’s, I picked up a camera and never put it down. Born in Bradford and still live here now and would never think of living anywhere else.

Getting the image is more important than developing or printing it. Without an image you have nothing. I process images very little now and try and achieve the image in the camera. The digital camera has taken over and everyone wants to take photos so I teach people how to get the best out of their cameras and themselves. I teach on the basis of workshops dealing with product images for those selling on the internet. For those who want to just take better photos generally, I also lead photo walks in Saltaire.

Although this is a free event there are limited spaces available to allow for one to one tutoring from the photographer so please book by emailing: thealternativeshop@yahoo.co.uk to book.

This is a free workshop sponsored by Artworks Creative Communities and Two28.

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When: 08/12/2016 - 8pm

Genre: Art / Music / Technology Events in Unusual Spaces

Cost: £5 | Pay As You Feel On The Door

Partner: M@BU, University of Bradford, National Media Museum

After party for National Media Museums Lates exploring wearable technology in a German Church with …

Immersive Virtual Reality audio visual exploration for smartphones from Annabeth Robinson and Marlo De Lara.

Dead Air Party silent gig featuring Chrononautz, Algobabez and more.

DJs, drinks, and more TBA.…

UnCommons is a series of events from Recon, Bradford Threadfest, M@BU – Music at Bradford University bringing together live music, performance, installations, interactive technology, food, drink and good vibes in unusual spaces in and around Bradford.

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When: 11/12/2016 - 7pm

Genre: World Music

Cost: £15 | £12.50 - Discounted group tickets available

Join us for an uplifting evening to celebrate Mevlana Rumi’s return to the Beloved with sacred music, poetry and whirling dervishes.

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When: 13/12/2016 - 7pm

Genre: Film + Discussion

Cost: £2 on the door

A night of music, film, discussion and crafts.

Music from the barrios of Venezuela. 45 minute film followed by Q&A with the presenter Magú Guzman. Bar , empanadas and Latin American crafts.

Viva! Bradford in partnership with Artworks Creative Communities and financial support from Film Hub North, through Live Cinema UK’s programme of Bradford community screenings, presents Son de la Zona film and Q&A with its presenter. Guided by Magú, we get to know the barrios and alleyways of Venezuela, and immerse ourselves in the lifestyles of their inhabitants and how they emerge through music:

“We went deep into each parish to find out the sound of the people, what their talents and their flavours are; that research resulted in experiences which are not commonly known, but are teeming throughout Venezuela.”

That is how we are able to witness the creative process and the work of the main characters and cultural collectives, living in different communities in Caracas and other parts of the country. Magú is not only a musician himself, a player of Venezuelan ska band Desorden Público, but also a curious recorder of the rhythms, sounds, flavours, colours and traditions of Venezuela, Latin America and the world.

This programme of music is nourished by day to day stories of life in barrios and parishes of Venezuela such as Petare, San Agustín del Sur, El Cementerio, El Valle, and outside Caracas: Los Teques in Miranda State, and the more distant Aragua, Yaracuy and Lara.

Son de la Zona was awarded the National Prize for Journalism Simón Bolívar in 2015, for Best Television Show. It is a co-production between Ávila TV and Calalú Estudio Creativo.

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When: 16/12/2016 - 7.30pm

Genre: Music | Festive Fundraiser

Cost: £5 On The Door

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, we’re having a party, and also raising funds for a new sensory room at Midland Road Nursery School where the (very) small Kipling hangs out.

A catch up with friends and some snacks, and some music – what’s not to like. Festive drinks, possibly Gary Stewart as Singing Santa, Joe Cox back on drums as a one off after his world tour. Funk & Soul DJ from London! All in the lovely German Church that is Delius Arts and Cultural Centre.

Oh and there will be a festive performance of Fairytale Of New York, with special guest…

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When: 16/01/2017 - 10.30-12.30

Genre: Training Opportunity

Cost: FREE

A learning opportunity for creative individuals and enterprises with Samantha Martin. 

This workshop will cover topics such as:

– Book-keeping, including setting up systems and maintaining your records.
– Suggested templates and spreadsheets.
– General accounting procedures, such as self-assessments, HMRC and Companies House.
– Other useful information such as what can be claimed on expenses, managing payroll, etc.

If participants have specific questions, please e-mail them in advance (no later than Monday 9 January) as this will give Sam the opportunity to prepare the information most useful to you.

This workshop is a collaborative effort by Bradford Independent Creative Enterprise Network, Artworks Creative Communities and Two28.

To book your place, please e-mail thealternativeshop@yahoo.co.uk

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When: 18/01/2017 - 6.30pm

Genre: Film

Cost: FREE

Partner: UNESCO City of Film

The second film in the series is ‘leave to remain’ – three teenagers forced to leave their family, friends and homes behind learn to live in yet another hostile country. That country is the UK.

Omar, a charismatic afghan teenager, is at the precarious juncture of having his refugee status decided, when the arrival of a boy from back home threatens to change everything. Forced into a position where the outcome may be the difference between life and death, his only options are to tell the unbelievable truth or to tell a good story? For Omar, and thousands like him, who arrive alone and scared to our shores each year, the asylum system is a cruel game of chance.

Film rated ages 15+

Learn more about the film HERE, and watch the trailer HERE.

When: 07/02/2017 - 6pm

Genre: Annual General Meeting + Film

All are welcome to attend, meet us and find out more, get involved!

Starting at 6pm with food, there will be reports on our activities in 2016 and discussion of the priorities for 2017, followed by a screening of Balls, Barriers and Bulldozers – a journey into women’s football in Palestine

“What is it like to live and play football under occupation? What is it like to play football if you are a woman in Palestine… Illustrated by interviews and footage, this documentary follows the personal journey of the Easton Cowgirls and Republica Internationale FC during their week inside the West Bank”

This is a free event and open to all. Only members can vote.

When: 11/02/2017 - 10am

Genre: Training Opportunity

Cost: FREE

A learning opportunity for creative individuals and enterprises with Geoff Tynan. 

This introductory session with Geoff Tynan will help you create photographic images of your products for sale, without any fancy gear. This is a vital skill particularly if you are developing online sales.

This workshop is a collaborative effort by Bradford Independent Creative Enterprise Network, Artworks Creative Communities and Two28.

To book your place, please e-mail thealternativeshop@yahoo.co.uk

When: 11/02/2017 - Doors at 7pm

Genre: Music | Interpretive Jazz

Funder: The Delius Trust

Dales Jam plays Delius at the Delius Arts and Cultural Centre

This will be a very special evening of unique interpretations of Bradford born composer Frederick Delius’ music. His family have a long association with the German Church, in which the Delius Arts and Cultural Centre is based.

Community Jazz Band Dales Jam have been playing concerts at the Delius Centre for several years. This has led to the band creating a number of unique pieces inspired by the music of Delius (Koanga, Brigg Fair, The First Cuckoo In Spring) all with a Dales Jam twist and space for improvisation by members of the band. The concert will be completed by a set of Dales Jam’s own arrangements of world music, in keeping with Delius’s enthusiasm for other musical cultures.

Dales Jam is led by multi-instrumentalist and award-winning Yorkshire Jazz Musician Richard Ormrod.

This commission has been generously supported by The Delius Trust.

When: 18/02/2017 - 7pm

Genre: Poetry

Cost: FREE

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Join us for an evening of art and spoken word performance set to the theme of love, loss and longing.

Poetry performances on the night from Jane Steele and new work showcased by members of the Delius Writers Crew.

The source material for work at this event is very relevant to the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre and reveals part of composer Frederick Delius’ life from a viewpoint that has not yet been explored.

In 1997 an article by violinist Tasmin Little was featured in The Telegraph titled ‘The loss at the heart of his about the life of Delius. In the article she explains her search for evidence and accuracy about the relationship Delius is believed to have had with a black woman called Chloe, and the son they may have had together, while Delius was living at the Solano Grove plantation in Florida. The romance of this unproven relationship developed into the theme of ‘Love, Loss and Longing’.

New work by printmaker Ruth Fettis will be unveiled at the event, a piece that will be part of the centre’s permanent collection.

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All ages welcome

This event was commissioned by Artworks Creative Communities with funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 21/02/2017 - 6pm

Genre: Training Opportunity

Cost: FREE

Partner: BICEN + Two28

A learning opportunity for creative individuals and enterprises with Jane Wynn. 

Pricing your own creative output for market can be really tricky. This workshop will give you an opportunity to discuss the issues, look at production, wholesale and retail pricing and help you structure your own pricing methods. After all that there will be some convivial networking with drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic).

This workshop is a collaborative effort by Bradford Independent Creative Enterprise Network, Artworks Creative Communities and Two28.

To book your place, please e-mail thealternativeshop@yahoo.co.uk

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When: 22/02/2017 - 6pm Doors for 6.30 Showing

Genre: Film Showing

Cost: FREE

Partner: UNESCO City of Film

Running the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefoot Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country, this soldier and quiet son of a shepherd is considered by many the greatest long-distance runner in history.

Join us for this evening showing of The Athlete; Ethiopia’s first submission to the Academy Awards, and winner of the “Best of Fest” award at Edinburgh International Film Festival. Refreshments available.

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When: 25/02/2017 - 7pm

Genre: Film Experience Event

Cost: £15 (£12 Earlybird ) | £3 Film Only 15-18 Ticket

Warm up your glittery cockles this February and join us for PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DELIUS EXPERIENCE, the ultimate get away from the winter blues. Make your way through the chilly night to the warm oasis that is the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre!

Happening on Saturday 25th February as part of LGBT History Month this movie night experience will have a whole host of warming activities including themed food, drinks, décor and drag entertainment, competitions and after party hosted by Bubbles! Step into a winter wonderland like you’ve never seen before.

The film will run from 7.30-10pm with an interval to refresh your cocktails. After that, get your dancing shoes on for the after party, and entertainment for just us grown-ups. We’ll be crowning our very own (YOUR NAME HERE) Queen or King of the Delius – dress up fancy and show us your best frock to be in with a chance of winning. We have a special late night licence just for this event so you can dance ‘til you drop!

This film is certified as ages 15 and over so unfortunately we can only offer tickets in this age bracket.

The Delius Centre is completely accessible including bar and toilets. Please let us know when purchasing your tickets if you have any accessibility requirements that we can help with.

GOOD VIBES AND LOVE ONLY PLEASE!

When: Sat. 25 Feb | Doors 7pm – Late (10.30 onwards 18+)
Where: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, BD7 1AA.
Tickets: http://www.drunkenfilmfest.com/shop

We are very excited to have this event as part of LGBT Bradford – A celebration of LGBT History Month 2017.
http://lgbtbradford.co.uk/events/category/all/

Thank you to all of our amazing partners and sponsors:

LGBT Bradford, Drunken Film Fest, The Equity Centre, Live Cinema UK

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When: 09/03/2017 - 7.30pm

Genre: Palestinian Music

Cost: £13 | £7 Concession)

Partner: The Miktab limited

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When: 24/03/2017 - 7.30pm

Genre: Acoustic Pop

Cost: £10

Partner: Scars on 45

Scars on 45 are coming back to home to Yorkshire to play a one off intimate acoustic show in our lovely hometown Bradford!

We’ll be debuting a load of new songs as well as favourites from the first and second record in this beautiful converted church in the centre of the city.

Seating is strictly limited to this show and sold out quick last time so book now to avoid disappointment.

Tickets are £10 and available online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scars-on-45-intimate-acoustic-performance-tickets-32038880153

**Full paid bar available on the night

Please let the venue know ahead of time if you have access needs.

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When: 27/04/2017 - 7pm

Genre: Community Interest Event

Lots of us in Bradford are looking not just for a decent house to live in but a community we want to be part of and where we can feel at home.  A few of us have come together as Bradford Cohousing Group to try to find a way of creating a community where we can support each other to live sustainably.

We would like to meet with others who are also looking for positive ways forward for housing in Bradford by inviting anyone who is interested to come to an information and networking opportunity

We will be looking at cooperative approaches to housing and hearing about what is working elsewhere. We are hosting the meeting together with Leeds Community Homes who are supporting groups like ours to build affordable, sustainable homes for young and old alike. Lilac and Chaco, two cohousing schemes in Leeds, will be with us on the 27^th April to tell us about what they are doing.

Most importantly we want to hear from you if you live in Bradford about what you want and to share ideas.

To find out more about Leeds Community Homes, Lilac and Chaco, visit their websites:

http://leedscommunityhomes.org.uk/

There are ways forward for housing, come along on Thursday 27^th April at 7 pm and help us to find them for Bradford!   There will be tea and cake!

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When: 27/04/2017 - 12.30pm Doors

Genre: Lunchtime Concert

Cost: Free with collection for artist.

The Delius Arts and Cultural Centre presents 4 free events that are open to all!

Bring your lunch and enjoy a soulful treat from this versatile Bradford pianist mixing standards with reggae, soul, pop and his own compositions.

Light refreshments will be available available to purchase and there will be a collection for the musician. 

When: 28/04/2017 - 7.30pm

Genre: Music / Film Event

An exploration of protest, walking and song. Raise your voice and stretch your legs and join the historic and contemporary fight for change. Stalls, speakers, films and song combine to make this a unique evening.

Bar available to purchase refreshments.

When: 01/05/2017 - 7pm

Genre: Community Interest Event

Join the Bradford branch of the Industrial Workers of the World in celebrating May Day. Classic documentary film on the Wobblies and a fine selection of May Day tunes from our very own Wobbly Brothers.

Bar open, food available. Come and find out why we are Bradford’s fastest growing Trade Union

When: 20/05/2017 - 8pm

Genre: Experimental Percussion

Cost: £5

LIMPE FUCHS

Limpe Fuchs is a legendary experimental percussionist, instrument builder and violinist from Germany. In the late 1960s she formed the group Anima Sound who created spontaneous, anti-formalist avant grade performances of wild percussion, vocals and horns. They also pioneered DIY touring, at one stage travelling across Europe on a tractor with stage and mobile home in tow.
Her recent solo performances feature an amazing assortment of wood and granite marimba blocks, skin and bronze drums, resonant metal pendulums and a host of other clanging, clanking homemade instruments.
Rare chance to see her live in the UK, don’t miss this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUSO_7wzuI
http://www.limpefuchs.de/en/

SAM MCLOUGHLIN

Instrument-builder, sound-machine creator from the borderlands between Yorkshire and Lancashire. Sort-of-songs and compositions deftly formed with percussive gizmos, home-made harps, repurposed household objects, warbling synth-lines and controlled feedback.
http://samandtheplants.com/
https://soundcloud.com/rural-colours/sam-a-mcloughlin-the-dawn-trance-snippets

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When: 25/05/2017 - 12.30pm

Genre: Lunchtime Concert

Cost: Free

TCHA bring their Django inspired music featuring guitar, violin, vocals and double bass. A lunchtime delight.

When: 25/05/2017 - 7pm

Genre: Film Showing with Live Music

Cost: £5

Partner: Camera Shy CIC

Artworks Creative Communities and Camera Shy CIC present this film screening and live music performance.

Film screening of biographic documentary that looks at the extraordinary life and music of American guitarist Robbie Basho, with performances by special musical guests Gerrard Bell-Fife and Helen McCreary.

When: 27/05/2017 - 2pm

Genre: Arts & Community Festival

Cost: Pay as You Feel / £7 suggested donation

Partner: University of Bradford

Running from 2-7pm Threadfest 2017 will be an afternoon of live performances and activities at Delius Arts and Cultural Centre. The venue itself is the home of community arts charity Artworks Creative Communities. The Delius Centre is a stunning German Church with a capacity of 120 people standing that has coordinated numerous arts and community events.

The day will involve a mixture of performances from a variety of Bradford community members. Threadfest aims to be a safe social space to allow for the sharing of experiences from every community. The organisers strongly believe that music has the ability to bring people together, across cultures, across languages and across borders.

Supported by University of Bradford, Artworks Creative Communities and Arts Council England. All profits go to Bradford Refugee and Migrant Support Groups.

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When: 18/06/2017 - 7pm

Genre: Community Celebration Event

Cost: FREE

Funder: Postcode Local Trust

Partner: Bradford Refugee Week

As part of The Big Lunch and The Great Get Together 2017 Artworks Creative Communities bring you a free event fit for the whole family.

A FREE family friendly celebration brought to you as part of Refugee Week 2017 and the Delius Community Gardening Project. This event will feature gardening activities, a film screening of Grow Your Own, and a FREE communal meal to break fast when the sun goes down.

We want to make the most of this community initiative! Invite your friends, your family, your colleagues, and share the event with anyone you would like to come. Everyone is welcome!

Grow Your Own (2007) is rated PG for Parental Guidance.

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When: 22/06/2017 - 12.30pm

Genre: Lunchtime Concert

Cost: Free with collection for artist.

Artworks brings you the last Lunchtime Jazz Concert of the programme with…SCHWA!

A refugee week special treat, Schwa presents Threshold: Songs and Stories of Hospitality.

When: 24/06/2017 - 7.30pm

Genre: Fundraiser, Folk Chamber Choir

Cost: £9/ £6 Concession / £1 (under 18s)

For this concert renowned Hebden Bridge-based chamber choir The Hepton Singers are having fun with folk songs as well as supporting White Ribbon Campaign (UK), a charity which has close links with local communities, and especially with Bradford College and Council.

Being the adventurous choir we are we decided to explore some of the lesser-known regions of the genre, as well as one or two classics including Bushes and Briars and The Iona Boat Song. We’ve broadened the definition of folk song to include Pseudo-Yoik by the Finnish composer Jaako Mäntyjärvi, and Thea Musgrave’s incomparable Subway Piranhas.

The programme will also include a mellow arrangement of The Parting Glass by Anne Heath, one of our tenors, and three new and original folk song settings by the choir’s musical director, Alison West.

Please come and support White Ribbon, hear about their important work, and have fun while you’re at it!

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When: 15/07/2017 - 3pm

Genre: Film Festival

Cost: Free

Partner: Camera Shy CIC, Drunken Film Fest

Artworks Creative Communities brings you a film festival featuring short films from around the globe. This event is run in two halves in line with the following themes:

Perspective 3-6pm

Darkness 7-10pm

For information about the films featured at this event check out the full festival programme.

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When: 19/07/2017 - 8pm

Genre: Film Festival

Cost: FREE

Recon, Lumen and M@BU – Music at Bradford University present as part ofDrunken Film Fest – Bradford, West Yorkshire

An Evening of Out There Sights and Sounds

Leeds and Bradford’s Recon Festival, Lumen and M@BU join forces to bring a heady mix of experimental film, live performance, music and digital experiences to the awesome surroundings of the Delius Arts and Cultural Centre German Church. Plus alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks from the Delius bar.

Bradford Scratch Orchestra: Improvising ensemble for musicians of any level of experience provide live soundtracks to a selection of short films.

Golden Meat: analogue audio and visual experimentalism by James Islip from That Fucking Tank.

Short animation and immersive experimental films selected by
Lumen
(contains content some viewers may find disturbing and flashing images)

Supported by Lumen, Artworks Creative Communities and University of Bradford with funds from Arts Council England and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 12/08/2017 - 4pm

Genre: Film Showing with Family Friendly Activities

Cost: FREE

Partner: Bradford City of Film and the National Science & Media Museum

Happening as part of Bradford Family Film Festival 2017, Artworks Creative Communities brings you this FREE family friendly event with free crafty recycling activities and film screening of Wall-E. 

Child friendly craft activities from 4pm, followed by the film screening at 5pm.

Refreshments and food will be available to purchase.

This is a FREE and open session all are welcome.

The workshop is part of the Postcode Local Trust funded ‘Delius Community Garden Project’.

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When: 23/08/2017 - 11am

Genre: Community Celebration Event

Cost: FREE

The Butterfly and the Bird – The Fragile and The Free

Come and enjoy free, family art activities and explore our unique, multi-sensory, inflatable art installation by local artist Sarah Jane Palmer, children from Martin House Children’s Hospice and nine schools across the region, including two from the Bradford District – Eldwick and Farnham.

Commissioned to celebrate 30 years of Martin House caring for children and families with serious illnesses, the inflatable pod incorporates designs of butterflies – the universal symbol of the children’s palliative care movement – and the House Martin – an important symbol for Martin House.

Bringing it all together is an animated butterfly, created with all 300 frames, designed by children from primary schools across the region.

This event is in partnership with Artworks Creative Communities, as part of an Esmée Fairbairn Foundation funded programme.

When: 20/09/2017 - 21/03/2018

Genre: Wellbeing, Refugees & Asylum Seekers

A new weekly group for women refugees and asylum seekers interested in being creative, meeting new friends and learning new skills with artist Musarat Raza.

This is a closed group that accepts people via invitation only.

When: 29/09/2017 - 29/09/2017 - 7pm

Genre: Classical Music

Cost: FREE

Funder: The Delius Trust

An evening of guitar music featuring Darren Dutson-Bromley and the Nonsuch Guitar Ensemble. The programme will include original music by Darren inspired by Fredrick Delius’ orchestral work North Country Sketches and a set of specially commissioned arrangements for classical guitar trio and double bass taken from his 1923 piano pieces, Lullaby for a Modern Baby, Mazurka and Waltz for a Little Girl.

Join us for a special evening of music featuring the work of Bradford-born composer Frederick Delius. These specially commissioned arrangements will be premiered at the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, based at the Grade 2 listed German church in which the Delius family worshipped.

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When: 25/10/2017 - 12pm

Genre: Family Learning Festival Event

Cost: Free

Partner: Family Learning Festival, World Wide Women of Bradford

Design, print and send a postcard (snail mail or digital)

to someone you want to stay in touch with.

Post a picture of your postcard. Play with your image on an iPad.

Join Artworks’ World Wide Women of Bradford group for refugee women and children for an afternoon of arts and activity!

When: 26/10/2017 - 1pm

Genre: Family Learning Festival Event

Cost: Free

Funder: Esmee Fairbairn

Partner: Family Learning Festival

Steve and Gabe Manthorp are father and son.

Gabe is a performer, writer and director.

Steve is a digital artist. Pelagic is their first collaboration –

a durational performance exploring what it means to be  lonely in an always-connected world.

Intrigued? Bewildered? Come and contribute to this unique and inspiring project.

All ages welcome.

When: 27/10/2017 - 2pm

Genre: Environmental & Wellbeing (with Film Screening)

Cost: Free

Funder: Postcode Local Trust

Partner: National Science & Media Museum and Bradford Family Learning Festival

Delius Community Garden is going UP in the world.

Happening as part of the Delius Community Gardening Project and Bradford Family Learning Festival we bring you an afternoon of gardening activities; with demonstration on making bird feeders and how to look after birdlife and decorated seed balloon release to get the whole family in the mood for watching the wonderful movie UP.

Fit for the whole family come along for a screening later at 4pm of the stunning Pixar movie UP, with gardening activities and a (biodegradable) balloon release!

This is a FREE and open session all are welcome.

The demonstrations and activities are part of the Postcode Local Trust funded ‘Delius Community Garden Project’.

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When: 28/10/2017 - 3pm

Genre: Performance

Cost: FREE

Funder: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

by Gabe Manthorp and Steve Manthorp

Commissioned by Artworks Creative Communities

(with funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation)

No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man

is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;

if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse

John Donne

Pelagic is a live sound and projection performance, exploring contemporary loneliness in a world more connected than ever before.

In an age of social media connection, the whole notion of loneliness has been uprooted. If time and place no longer stop us from communicating with each other, why do we still find ourselves feeling alone?

Pelagic arose from digital artist, Steve Manthorp’s 2016 digital artwork, Archipelago.  A custom-built micro-computer streams every use of the word ‘lonely’ on Twitter.  The constant stream of tweets rising up the screen is a testament to the fact that, despite John Donne’s words, many of us do feel like islands, after all.

Writer, director and actor-musician Gabe Manthorp – Steve’s son – was intrigued by these endless cries into the void, along with the more mundane messages, quotes from songs and tweeted advertisements for dubious online entertainments and services.

When Artworks advertised a residency for two artists work in different disciplines to work together for the first time, the two of them jumped at the chance.

As Steve and Gabe’s first creative collaboration, Pelagic combines their creative disciplines to build a multi-layered collage of image and sound using audio loops, live streaming, digital projection & VR.  Pelagic also offers its audience the opportunity to interact directly in the work.

Showing in Artworks’ striking German Church performance venue on October 28^th at 3:00pm and 7:00pm, Pelagic is a fast-paced reflection on loneliness in the 21^st century.

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When: 27/11/2017 - 7.30pm

Genre: Zimbabwean Mbira

Cost: £10 / £7 concessions plus Pay As You Feel available.

Partner: Music At Bradford University

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe – The Queen of Mbira music from Zimbabwe – is the first female artist who gained prestige in a music tradition that’s been dominated by men. Her Solo work has established herself as one of the most original artists in the contemporary African scene using mbira music to show the depth and power of her traditional spiritual music at home and abroad.

This event is supported by University of Bradford and Arts Council England and is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 07/12/2017 - 07/12/2017 - 7.30pm

Genre: Jazz

Cost: £10/£7 concession/PAYF available for low-income

Funder: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Partner: Jazz at the Delius

We are very excited to have the brilliant guitar duo of Pete Oxley and Nicolas Meier who have agreed to give a concert at the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre.

Tickets prices are £10/£7 concession/PAYF available for low-income

Expect a dazzling display of contemporary fare, ranging from Turkish panache to soundscapes of latin America to English pastoralism. Hear this played on nylon string, steel string, electric, 12 string, fretless, slide, guitar-synth, glissentar guitars and more!
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For their live gigs, the Oxley-Meier Guitar Project aim to entertain by playing with a spontaneity and an intuitive interplay between them that keeps them fresh and fired up from gig to gig. The duo therefore comes to the performance with what they hope are the audiences anticipations: to expect the unexpected!

‘A fascinating fusion opulent with evocative splendour’: MOJO ★★★★
(Listed as No. 3 in the top 10 jazz albums of 2015)

‘CD of the week’: The London Evening Standard ★★★★

‘Top ten CDs of the year’: The Telegraph ★★★★

‘’This album captures the lightning in a bottle effect created by the union of two perfectly matched artists and is already the front runner for my album of the year.’: Jazz Views ★★★★
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Pete Oxley ~ Guitar

Pete began his musical career in Paris in the mid ‘80s before relocating to the UK in 1997. Shortly afterwards he opened The Spin jazz club in Oxford which in 2012 won the Parliamentary jazz award as ‘The Best Jazz Venue In The UK’. Pete regularly performs with some of the world’s leading jazz artists including Chris Garrick, Gilad Atzmon, Tim Whitehead, Dave O’Higgins, Bobby Wellins, John Etheridge and his own band Curious Paradise. He has now released 14 critically acclaimed CDs featuring his original compositions.
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As a composer, Pete was recently selected as one of only a handful of British jazz musicians to have his compositions included in the definitive ‘European Real Book’ (Sher Music). www.peteoxley.com
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Nicolas Meier ~ Guitar
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With his unique style that is a blend of Metheny-esque jazz and Turkish inspired world music, Nick has toured extensively around the world with his band the Meier Group. This wonderful band (featuring sax maestro Gilad Atzmon and Dave O’Higgins) won the overall prize for ‘best band’ at the Juan-les-Pins jazz festival!
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His recent album Kismet is a wonderful heady mixture of Flamenco, jazz, Latin and Middle Eastern music. His prodigious jazz talent is matched by his other great passion: playing heavy metal guitar in his scorching group ‘Seven7’.

Nick was, for the last three years, guitarist in guitar supremo, Jeff Beck’s band, with whom he toured all over the world, performing at major venues and festivals. He has recently recorded a stunning album with the A-lister rhythm section of Jimmy Haslip (Yellowjackets) and Vinnie Coliauta (Sting, Frank Zappa etc.). www.meiergroup.co

This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 15/12/2017 - 7.30pm

Genre: Poetry & Dance

Cost: £5

Rumi’s Circle with Mevlevi whirling dervishes from The Threshold Society are pleased to announce the 2017 celebration of Mevlana Rumi’s Urs, the anniversary of his union with the Beloved.

Join us for an evening of remembrance with zhikr, poetry, music, and whirling. We will be sharing poetry on the theme of “Spiritual Thirst”.

Tickets: £5

Friday 15th Dec: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Rd, Bradford BD7 1AA
Doors open at 7pm, we begin promptly at 7.30pm.

Bring your family and friends (not suitable for children under 5).

Book now: rumiscircle.com

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When: 27/01/2018 - 3pm

Genre: Environment & Wellbeing

Cost: FREE

Funder: Postcode Local Trust

Artworks invites you to…

‘Be Hygge Together’

An afternoon/evening of winter wellbeing inspired by Danish Hygge.

Hygge (pronounced hue-gah) is a Danish word that originates from the Norwegian word for wellbeing. It is used to describe a feeling or mood that comes with taking genuine pleasure from the everyday things.
This practice is especially beneficial in the darker and colder months and makes a good time to socialise by wrapping up warm and going for crisp walks and spending time with people drinking mugs of tea and hot chocolate.

’Be Hygge Together’ aims to bring us together and increase our awareness of what we can do to enhance our wellbeing and positivity during the dark British winter and help us embrace the season.

We invite individuals, friends, families and older people to come together to reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness in the safe, welcoming meeting place of the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre.

Warm up with a hot drink and a slice of cake and take part in some of the activities and workshops that will be on offer.

There will be demonstrations on how to forage and make decorations from nature, also an introduction to self care and healing with a tent ceremony.

This is a FREE and open session all are welcome.

This workshop is part of the Postcode Local Trust funded ‘Delius Community Garden Project’.

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When: 16/02/2018 - 5.30pm

Genre: Family friendly event

Cost: FREE

Funder: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

DELIGHT
The Tale of Persephone and the Return of the Light

A FREE family event suitable for all ages.

An evening of joy, light and wonder in the darkness of the winter months. Exploring the Greek myth of Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, and how she came back from the darkness.

Local artists Shaeron Caton-Rose and Katie Jones transform the space of the Delius Centre into a rich tapestry of colours and light with lanterns, projections and stories.

Illuminated lanterns made with local groups will be on show with activities to make your own and join in the storytelling.

Light food and refreshments will be provided.

When: 5.30pm – 7pm, Friday, 16th February 2018
Where: Artworks Creative Communities, Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Road, Bradford BD7 1AA

Commissioned by Artworks Creative Communities (with funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation)

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When: 22/02/2018 - 7pm

Genre: Film

Cost: PAYF (Suggested donation: £2)

Partner: CameraShy CIC

Cert. 15

Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.

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Join Artworks Creative Communities and CameraShy for a special screening of God’s Own Country to celebrate LGBT History Month here in Bradford.

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When: 06/03/2018 - 6pm

Cost: FREE

Bradford Palestine Solidarity Campaign

#IWDBradford

A rich evening of poetry, presentations, short films, photo exhibition, art installation and accounts of Palestinian women’s personal experience of exile.

With Kholoud al Ajarma from Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem.

Food available

Free entry – Donations welcome

6 – 9pm (doors open 5.30pm)

No booking necessary

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For queries please text to 07471 907969

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When: 07/03/2018 - 7pm

Cost: Pay as you feel, suggested entry £2

Funder: CBMDC and Bradford City of Film

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school’s Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Cert. PG

As part of the programme to celebrate International Women’s Day here in Bradford.

#IWDBradford

Pay as you feel, suggested entry £2

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neU-ycIOCWY

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When: 08/03/2018 - 12pm

Cost: FREE

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When: 09/03/2018 - 7.30pm

Genre: FILM

Cost: PAYF (Suggested donation £2)

Funder: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Partner: CameraShy

Rita O’Grady (Sally Hawkins) works for the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dagenham, England. Despite performing the specialized task of sewing upholstery for car seats, women are classified as unskilled labor and paid much less than men. Encouraged by a sympathetic union representative, Rita agrees to bring the women’s grievances to Ford. The meeting goes badly and, outraged by the company’s lack of respect for them, Rita leads her colleagues to strike.

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Join Artworks Creative Communities and CameraShy for a special screening of Made in Dagenham to celebrate International Women’s Day here in Bradford.

Pay as you feel, suggested entry £2

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD-MuEKbOAM

A special taster workshop will be held before the film at 7pm, with Lozzie Ozzie, to make your very own embroidered protest sampler. Spaces are limited and pre-booking is advised – email: Estelle@artworkscreative.org.uk

This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 11/03/2018 - 7pm

Genre: Improv Jazz

Cost: PAYF (Suggested donation £2)

Funder: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Treppenwitz is a project dedicated to improvisation and the exploration of sounds within open structures. The vision of the band is of a collective, organic approach to improvised performance, where each member is a leader, and can shape the direction of the music as such. Compositions are all contributed by the members, and are used as a springboard for exploration of sounds, textures, harmony and rhythm.

This performance is part of their Feb/March 2018 UK tour to promote their new record, Short+Long Ditties, which was released on New Jazz Records.

“Intense and fearless…the strong musical relationship between these three leading young jazz musicians allows them to delve deep into improvisation, with beautiful original melodies and fascinating rhythmic structures…” Ilkley Jazz Festival

“In something of a crowded market, the young piano trio Treppenwitz is making a fresh new case for the medium, with an ensemble sound and historical awareness that both builds upon and ignores what has come before. Their performance at mjf 2017 captivated the audience with its reflective miniatures and extended investigations into sound, not afraid of lyrical melodies – nor of avoiding them. It’s a band that will surely blossom over the coming years.” – Steve Mead, Manchester Jazz Festival

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTn6416NnM

Listen:
https://treppenwitzmusic.bandcamp.com/releases

**This is a Pay As You Feel event**

This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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When: 27/03/2018 - 11am

Cost: FREE

Funder: Postcode Local Trust

Artworks Creative Communities invites you to…

Join us as we welcome spring to our garden.

Our gardener Sam will be with us to help us welcome our new fruit trees and introduce them to their new planters.

Additional planting activities will be happening for you to take a bit of greenery home with you.

Complimentary soup and refreshments.

Artworks invites you to…

‘Be Hygge Together’

An afternoon/evening of winter wellbeing inspired by Danish Hygge.

Hygge (pronounced hue-gah) is a Danish word that originates from the Norwegian word for wellbeing. It is used to describe a feeling or mood that comes with taking genuine pleasure from the everyday things.
This practice is especially beneficial in the darker and colder months and makes a good time to socialise by wrapping up warm and going for crisp walks and spending time with people drinking mugs of tea and hot chocolate.

’Be Hygge Together’ aims to bring us together and increase our awareness of what we can do to enhance our wellbeing and positivity during the dark British winter and help us embrace the season.

We invite individuals, friends, families and older people to come together to reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness in the safe, welcoming meeting place of the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre.

Warm up with a hot drink and a slice of cake and take part in some of the activities and workshops that will be on offer.

There will be a demonstration at 11am of the ‘Hugelkulture’ a permaculture method for utilising garden waste for adding nutrition to raised planters.

This is a FREE and open session all are welcome.

This workshop is part of the Postcode Local Trust funded ‘Delius Community Garden Project’.

Venue:

Delius Arts & Cultural Centre,

29 Great Horton Road, Bradford, BD7 1AA

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When: 24/05/2018 - 7pm

Genre: Live Music

Cost: FREE

Bradford College Music’s showcase of talent across a range of Level 2 and Level 3 diploma students.

Solo and ensemble performances as well as EP launches.

LINE UP:

Jada Hill

Leah Smith

Leah Mellor

Sarah Laycock

Finlay McTaggart

There will be a bar at this event

This is a free event, attendees are encouraged to register via the Eventbrite ticket link

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When: 20/06/2018

Genre: FILM

Cost: FREE

Partner: Bradford UNESCO City of Film

As part of the Bradford Refugee Week 2018 programme

Artworks Creative Communities and Bradford UNESCO City of Film present:

An Evening of Short Films – inspired by and made with the refugee and asylum seeker community in Bradford.

Featured films include:

Trading Places – following a creative project with young unaccompanied asylum seekers

WOW the Movie – showing the work and stories of the Bradford Women of the World group

Unity & Community – featuring Sudanese refugee women

MYMUP (Make Your Mind Up) – Looking at the Refugee Peace Exhibition, a touring exhibition by BIASAN

Concludes with panel discussion led by David Wilson, Bradford UNESCO City of Film

This is a free event

Light refreshments will be available and the bar will be open.

Time: 6pm-8pm

Venue: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Road, Bradford BD7 1AA

For further information contact Deb Collett by email: deborah@artworkscreative.org.uk or call: 01274 256919

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When: 18/07/2018 - 1pm

Genre: FILM

Cost: FREE

Partner: Drunken Film Fest

As part of the Drunken Film Fest 2018 programme…

A film quote cross stitch workshop with Lozzie Ozzie and film screening.

Limited FREE tickets available: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stitch-up-w-lozzie-ozzie-tickets-46567923914

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When: 20/07/2018 - 8pm

Genre: FILM

Cost: FREE

Partner: Drunken Film Fest

As part of the Drunken Film Fest 2018 programme…

Screening of films surrounding identity with a panel discussion.

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When: 20/09/2018 - 6.30pm

Venue: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: FREE

Funder: Paristamen CIO

Partner: CameraShy CIC

Artworks invites you to join us for an evening of conversation and debate…

Be a part of our short documentary: EU Bah Gum! Yorkshire Voices on Brexit

Parliament seems to be bogged down with the Brexit, yet life goes on for us. The Referendum happened in 2016 was two years later it doesn’t feel any closer to resolution. Despite no progress in parliament what changes have you seen and experienced in your communities?

We want to know:
– What does being an EU citizen mean to you?
– How do you feel about no longer being an EU citizen after March 2019?
– How do you think the rest of the world views the UK at the moment?
– Opinions have tended to polarise, and division has been fuelled by the press. What’s been your experience of this and how can debate help?

The peoples’ take on Brexit is more in tune than the empty noises from parliament, we’re looking for a wide range of people with differing views and experiences to talk it out over tea and cakes (and other savoury offerings).

Arrive from 6.30/6.50pm for food and forms, group discussion will begin at 7pm.

Food and refreshments will be provided.

*Please be aware that this session will be filmed and footage would be included in a short documentary style film titled: EU Bah Gum! Yorkshire Voices on Brexit that will be screened at the Delius Arts & Community Centre in Bradford, the week before the official Brexit date, on Thursday 21st March 2019.

To give us an idea on numbers attending please email Estelle at estelle@artworkscreative.org.uk

For further information about the project please visit: www.eubahgum.uk

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When: 02/10/2018 - 5.30pm

Genre: Play and Workshop

Cost: FREE

Partner: Space2

Space2 presents…

JEANS – Whose Genes?
By Michelle Scally Clarke

A Play and Workshop

If you’ve never heard of Genomes… don’t worry;
it’s all in the jeans, I mean genes!

And once you know it might help your health now or in the future.

Find out how in our show – it’s full of information and laughs – yes it is really funny!

So join us and learn exactly how Genomes – your Genomes – might help you, your friends and family

This is a FREE event!

Venue:
The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Road, Bradford BD7 1AA

Date/Time:
Tuesday, 2nd October 2018
5.30pm – Refreshments
6pm-7.15pm – Show and Q&A

Contact Deborah for more information at Deborah@artworkscreative.org.uk | 01274 256919

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When: 11/10/2018 - 7pm

Genre: TALK & WORKSHOPS

Venue: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: FREE

Can we stop the destruction of our climate?

In this public talk, members from the Extinction Rebellion share the latest climate science on where our planet and our society is heading, discuss the some of the current psychology around climate change and offer solutions through the study of previous radical social movements.

The deadly heatwave that gripped the world over the summer is only a glimpse at what is to come if we do not properly address the crisis. The government and environmental NGOs have failed to properly deal with the crisis. We need a build a new movement that it prepared to accept what is actually happening and act accordingly. We need radical change. We need to rebel.

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When: 17/10/2018 - 09:00

Genre: Training

Venue: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: FREE

Community Action are currently leading on a project to bring the DIVA Directory up to speed and integrate this with other Directory providers in the District, predominantly Bradford Council and CCG’s.

What this means is, they will be running outreach sessions and attending various events across the Bradford and AWC Districts. The aim of these will be to encourage groups to add or update their listing with more detail. The Delius Centre will be hosting three of these sessions, the first being on Wednesday 17th October at 09:30-16:30.

If you would like to come to an event to update your listing, or if you feel you could provide support in any way to this project, whether it be carrying out your own mapping exercises or providing support at an outreach event, then please get in touch with Emma Taylor, Information Communication and Marketing Manager at Community Action on emma@cabad.org.uk or 07701 298741.

A full list of their upcoming events where you can come and see us to update your listings are listed here, these are drop in events and should take no longer than 10 minutes per listing.

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When: 18/10/2018 - 7pm

Genre: FILM

Venue: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: £3

Bradford District Green Party presents…

A Plastic Ocean is a feature-length adventure documentary that brings to light the consequences of our global disposable lifestyle.

We thought we could use plastic once and throw it away with negligible impact to humans and animals. That turns out to be untrue.

In A Plastic Ocean, an international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface our seemingly pristine ocean.

The result will astound viewers – just as it did our adventurers, who captured never-before-seen images of marine life, plastic pollution, and its ultimate consequences for human health.

Natalie Bennett will join talk about the work being done here in the UK to tackle plastic waste and what we can do as individuals to bring about change to government policy.

Natalie Bennett is former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. She edited Guardian Weekly between 2007 and March 2012. She’s a veteran blogger and environmental campaigner.

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When: 24/10/2018 - 11am

Genre: Family Event

Venue: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: FREE

Partner: Family Learning Festival

As part of the Family Learning Festival 2018 programme…

Help build the future at our fun, free, friendly, accessible venue.

Children and grownups can explore what they want for the future of Bradford, contributing to our giant map and banner. Plus, make your very own animal mask to take home along with the Artworks ‘Fun Craft Activities Book’ to keep you busy and entertained throughout the holidays and beyond.

This is a drop-in session, 11am-4pm, that is suitable for all ages.

View the whole Family Learning Festival programme here

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When: 26/10/2018 - 27/10/2018 - 4pm

Genre: Exhibition

Venue: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: FREE

Partner: MOBE (Marshfields, Odsal, and Bankfoot Enterprise)

October is Black History Month and MOBE (Marshfields, Odsal, and Bankfoot Enterprise) and Artworks Creative Communities are presenting a

Black Bradfordians Art Exhibition at Delius Arts and Cultural Centre.

It’s a small selection of the wealth of talent our city is blessed with. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, textiles and more.

It will be open on Friday October 26^th from 4-8 with a reception/ celebration from 6-8, and on Saturday October 27^th from 12-4. All are welcome and anybody wanting to find out more or to help with this endeavour, please contact Lincoln.anderson@blueyonder.co.uk or Deborah@artworkscreative.org.uk

Delius Arts and Cultural Centre is an accessible venue and can be found at 29 Great Horton Road, BD7 1AA (opposite My Lahore) artworkscreative.org.uk

When: 29/10/2018 - 6pm

Genre: Music CPD

Venue: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: FREE

Join PRS for Music and an expert panel of experienced music industry professionals, who have hands on experience from across the music industry including Management, Publishing, Composing, Funding, and, of course, PRS.

Event details:

6:00pm – Doors Open

6:30pm – 7:30pm: How To Manage Your PRS Account

The workshop is intended for PRS for Music members and potential members, and will take you through key areas of our website, explaining the essential functions you will need to carry out to get the most out of your PRS membership.

The topics we will be covering are:

• An overview of UK collection societies (PRS, MCPS and PPL)
• PRS for Music Overview
• PRS for Music Website Overview
• How to Register or amend Works
• How to Search our Works Database
• How to Report Performance Usage
• How to Claim Unpaid Royalties

8.00pm – 9.15pm: Panel – How To Make Your Music Pay

Evolution or revolution, the music industry is changing. Maybe you’re self-releasing or helping a mate book some live shows, managing your own band or managing someone else’s, handling the socials or building a promo campaign, writing the songs, creating the beats, sitting in the studio or running around on stage, whatever you’re doing, it’s crucial that you understand the way the industry works. Otherwise how can you make it work for you?

This panel will be discussing topics such as the importance of locking down your business, understanding and protecting your rights and the various ways making music can make an income.

Panellists:

Hannah Trigwell (Songwriter)

Andy Farrow (Northern Music)

Elizabeth Sills (PRS Foundation)

Matt Wanstall (Musicians’ Union)

9:15pm – 10:00pm – Networking

The evening closes with a networking session.

This event is free to attend and open to PRS for Music members and non-members, but numbers are limited so please ensure you book a space if you wish to attend.

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When: 02/11/2018

Genre: Theatre

Cost: FREE/PAYF

A centenary Play on Bradford Women Protestors for Peace 1918

‘Protestors for Peace’, written by Irene Lofthouse, is a duologue between two of the leading lights of the Bradford Women’s Humanity League, Esther Sandiforth and Fanny Muir.

Set in 1922, following the unveiling of the Bradford War Memorial, the 1st July, they reflect both on that day and more especially on the Bradford Women’s Humanity League of 1916-18, as well as events in other post-war years. They make astute observations on those times, and then look towards their own futures.

The play takes the opportunity of this particular WW1 centenary year to remember those women of Bradford. It features actor Jen Banks as Fanny and Irene Lofthouse as Esther.

It is a script-in-hand performance of about 45 minutes, for one evening only, followed by the opportunity to ask questions and make comments afterwards.

FREE entrance with donations requested towards the cost of the play.

Friday 2nd November at 6pm at the Delius Centre for the Arts/the German Church 29 Great Horton Road, BD7 1AA, just down from Bradford College.

Come early!
Organised independently by Irene Lofthouse and Peter Nias,

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When: 23/11/2018 - 24/11/2018

Venue: The former Apire-I building - 1-3 John Street Bradford BD1 3SR

Cost: FREE

Friday 23rd November – 10am-6pm
Saturday 24th November – 10am-4pm

What is this event?
‘Buy Nowt Day’ – in collaboration with Bradford District Credit Union- is our Yorkshire twist on ‘Buy Nothing Day’, an international day of protest against poverty caused by consumer debt and excess. It is on the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, called Black Friday, which is viewed as the starting gun for Christmas shopping.

Buy Nowt is a currency-free zone where everyone is equal. Artworks held their first Buy Nowt event in 2016 inviting people to ‘take the weight off your credit card, and rediscover how much fun you can have without spending’. Since then, austerity has bitten deeper and universal credit looms large, increasing numbers of people are feeling the pinch! So, Buy Nowt is an alternative to the Black Friday shopping frenzy and a space to find solace in creativity, making and community.

What will take place?
Creative activities for all ages, with plenty of exciting projects you can make and take away, as well as contributing to a larger collective art piece inspired by David Medalla’s ‘A Stitch in Time’. Expect creative workshops and drop-ins, such as lantern making, zine + card making and cake decoration.

A Financial Inclusion theme by giving people debt, budget and benefit advice whilst exploring alternative banking through the Credit Union.

There will also be refreshments, movie screenings and a quiet/reading zone to take a breather between activities.

Lots of information will be at the event about where you can find free things in Bradford – from food banks to recycled goods.

Where and when will it take place?
We have decided to upscale the event and pleased to announce the kind offer from Bradford Council to use the former Aspire-I building on John Street.

This event is totally FREE – it’s a Zero Currency Zone (no tickets needed just turn up!).Buy Nowt has got a fantastic array of Bradford organisations on board: as well as Markets, Bradford Council’s facilities and anti-poverty strategy group. Funding also received from Manningham Housing Association, CNET, Bradford Trades Union Council and Lush Charity Pot. Groups taking part include Cecil Green Arts, Storehouse, In Churches, Carers Resource, The Linking Network and BCB broadcasting live.

When: 28/11/2018 - 6.30pm

Genre: Music Benefit

Cost: FREE/Donations

FREE ENTRY: Voluntary cash or food donations go towards Bradford University UNISON and Bradford College UCU strike funds and the Metropolitan food bank. Bar and nibbles available! Line up includes:

Kukubuna Harris (6:40 – 7:10 pm)
Richard Marriott (7:20 – 7:50 pm)
Ben Waters (8:00 – 8:30 pm)
Blood Royale (8:40 – 9:10 pm)
Nick Hall (9:20 – 9:50 pm)

Come and join us to support a great cause with some fantastic music!

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When: 05/12/2018 - 6.30pm

Genre: FILM

Cost: Donation

Partner: Global Justice Bradford

How Bradford welcomes migrants

and how the local fits into the global

Global Justice Bradford invites you to an evening of discussion with:

Paul Rogers, Peace Studies, University of Bradford

Penny Wangari-Jones, Migrants Organise

Furaha Mussanzi, The Millan Centre

Maggie Pearce and Barry Clark, BIASAN

Katy Armitstead, Beacon

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When: 15/12/2018 - 6.30pm

Genre: Poetry & Music

Cost: £5

Rumi’s Circle with Mevlevi dervishes from The Threshold Society invite you to celebrate Mevlana Rumi’s Urs, the anniversary of his union with the Beloved.

Join us for an evening of remembrance with zhikr, poetry, music, and whirling. We will be sharing poetry on the theme of “Warriors of Love”.

Saturday 15th December. Doors open at 6pm, we begin promptly at 6.30pm.
Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Rd, Bradford BD7 1AA
Tickets: £5 on the door

Do share the event and bring your family and friends.

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When: 13/01/2019 - 1pm

Funder: Paristamen CIO

Be a part of our short community documentary: EU Bah Gum! Yorkshire Voices on Brexit.

Artworks has been speaking with people from across the region and are inviting you to join us for our final conversation and debate over lunch…

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Will we be any nearer to knowing what is going on with Brexit by the postponed date of the ‘third week of January’?

Parliament seems to be completely bogged down with Brexit, yet life has continued for us. The Referendum happened in 2016 and two years later it doesn’t feel any closer to resolution. Despite little to no progress in parliament what changes have you seen and experienced in your communities?

We want to know:
– What does being an EU citizen mean to you?
– How do you feel about no longer being an EU citizen after March 2019?
– How do you think the rest of the world views the UK at the moment?
– Opinions have tended to polarise, and division has been fuelled by the press. What’s been your experience of this and how can debate help?
– How can we, as a community, come together after this?

The peoples’ take on Brexit is more in tune than the empty noises from parliament, we’re looking for a wide range of people with differing views and experiences to talk it out in a welcoming space.

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Arrive from 1/1.15pm for food and forms, group discussion will begin at 1.20pm, with a break half way and will finish at 3.30pm.

Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Road, Bradford BD7 1AA

Food and refreshments will be provided.

*Please be aware that this session will be filmed and footage would be included in a short documentary style film titled: EU Bah Gum! Yorkshire Voices on Brexit that will be screened at the Delius Arts & Community Centre in Bradford, the week before the official Brexit date, on Thursday 21st March 2019.

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To give us an idea on numbers attending please either confirm your attendance on the Facebook event page, email Estelle at estelle@artworkscreative.org.uk or call 01274 256924

For further information about the project please visit: www.eubahgum.uk

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When: 21/03/2019 - 6.30pm

Genre: Film

Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

Cost: FREE

Funder: Paristamen CIO

Partner: CameraShy

EU Bah Gum! Yorkshire Voices on Brexit
Documentary Film Premiere

#EUBahGum

When: Thursday, 21st March 2019
Time: 6.30pm-9.00pm
Where: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Road, Bradford BD7 1AA

Artworks Creative Communities, in partnership with CameraShy, and working with a team of local community volunteers bravely put together a project idea last year to address some of the issues that have arisen and divided public opinion and communities following the 2016 referendum.

‘EU Bah Gum: Yorkshire Voices on Brexit’ is a community-led project that travelled around the Yorkshire region (Barnsley, Batley, Bradford, Hull and Keighley) holding filmed debates that captured the state of limbo caused by Brexit. We invited people, from both the Leave and Remain perspective, to share their views and stories with each other. The film is a collection of these debate sessions and includes voxpops and interviews.

By and large the debates were positive; individuals were mostly respectful of people with differing opinions and importantly we all listened.

Reasons for voting were varied, responses were often emotional and some post-referendum experiences were troubling. We have invited a diverse panel to address some of the issues that have been expressed in the film including concerns regarding the NHS, opportunities for young people and employment, freedom of movement, ensuring on-going EU working, trade, maintaining workers’ rights and the rise in racism.

You may have been following, with interest, everything to do with the referendum and Brexit from the start, or you may just be looking forward to things being over so we can move forward. This event is an opportunity to watch a locally made film that captures a very specific moment of British history. You will hear the voices and opinions of people who share similar views to you and others that you might never have considered hearing before which you may or may not disagree with.

It is still unclear where we will be with the negotiations come the official Brexit date of the 29^th March and this event will be an opportunity to gain more understanding on what a post-Brexit Britain will mean for us individually and as a community.

The important question to consider will be: How we can come together as a community to support each other through these changing times? 

Panel Members:

We look forward to seeing you at this open and free event, there will be food and refreshments provided on arrival, to ensure that we have numbers catered for please confirm your attendance via email to: Estelle@artworkscreative.org.uk or call 01274 256924.

This community cohesion project has been made possible with funding from The Paristamen CIO (See www.paristamen.org.uk for further details).

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When: 06/04/2019

Cost: £10 (plus booking fee)

Scars On 45 perform acoustically in this very intimate venue in their hometown of Bradford.

**Limited tickets**

**all ages concert**

Follow the link for tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scars-on-45-live-in-bradford-tickets-57644977680

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When: 12/04/2019 - 6.30pm

Cost: £14.50

After the astonishing success of the recent crowdfunding campaign, the much anticipated Hidden Gems – Chapter 2 will be launched! Following up the critically acclaimed first chapter this will be a night like no other!

A few surprises and a truly wonderful setting in which to stage it all, the glorious Delius Arts Centre, an old chapel with wondrous acoustics, in central Bradford. This is a limited ticket event due to it’s intimate setting.

A seated event, bar & toilets, disabled access too, children welcome.

Doors open at 6.30pm.

www.CaptainoftheLostWaves.com

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When: 21/06/2019 - 6pm

Genre: Documentary Film

Cost: FREE

Partner: The Sudanese Community in Bradford

Artworks Creative Communities and The Sudanese Community in Bradford invite you to this powerful documentary film exploring how traditional musical forms are used in response and resistance to the repeated bombing of Darfur. A chance also to hear about and discuss the current situation in Sudan.

FREE EVENT

For more information email deborah@artworkscreative.org.uk or zuhairbashar@gmail.com.

This event is part of Bradford Refugee Week 2019.

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When: 22/06/2019 - 6pm

Genre: Documentary Film

Cost: FREE

Artworks Creative Communities presents… An astonishing film that immerses viewers in the heart of Gaza: an enriching portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives in the rubble of perennial conflict and punishing siege. With contributions from recent visitors to Gaza, discussion and stalls.

FREE EVENT

For more information email: deborah@artworkscreative.org.uk

This event is part of Bradford Refugee Week 2019.

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When: 28/06/2019 - 5.30pm

Genre: Comedy

Cost: PAYF

Partner: Bradford Fringe Festival

Come along and help us celebrate the launch of Bradford’s first ever Fringe Festival!

Enjoy live performances, speeches from the team and a chance to mingle!

Vegan friendly food!

Child friendly.

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When: 05/07/2019 - 7pm

Genre: Comedy

Cost: PAYF

Partner: Bradford Fringe Festival

Leeds-based improv comedy group bring their festival show to Bradford with totally improvised sketches and games all based on YOUR suggestions.

As featured on BBC Radio.

“Happiness and genuine belly laughter. Did everything the audience asked and more!” (9.5/10 Yorkshire Banteater blog)

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When: 06/07/2019 - 7pm

Genre: Comedy

Cost: PAYF

Partner: Bradford Fringe Festival

The mental health system in our country is not efficient or empathetic. Cynical performance artist, Dr Jenny presents her revolutionary, cost-effective, self-help guide for the chronically depressed.

With a blend of dark humour, government reports and terrifying statistics. This is a presentation like no other.

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When: 19/07/2019 - 6pm

Cost: PAYF

In Bay Bryan’s new solo show #GingerPrivilege he (through his many characters) seeks to understand his own personal privilege as well as the concept of privilege as a whole (with all the nuance that comes along with this sensitive subject).

Through combined elements of red-nose clown, sock puppets, acoustic music and more our shape-shifting ginger attempts the impossible: to once-and-for-all SOLVE EVERYTHING.

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When: 20/07/2019 - 7pm

Cost: £5

Partner: Even Poorer Theatre

Want to see a bit of funny? Of course you do! Want to help raise some money for Cancer Research? Yes, obviously, but you want to see a bit of funny too. We hear you! That’s why we’re bringing you two whole hours of local comedy acts for only £5, you lucky people! We have stand-up funnies, groups of funnies, improvised funnies and yes, even a singing funny! we guarantee to make your breath short and your jaw ache… with laughing!

Just rock up and pay at the door (cash only please). There will be a raffle and a fully stocked bar (which does take card), all proceeds go to CRUK to help fund research for children and teens undergoing cancer treatment – what an amazing cause!!

Acts to be announced, watch this space…

Can’t wait to see you there!

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When: 07/09/2019 - 7pm

Genre: Comedy and Spoken Word

Cost: PAYF

Partner: Bradford Fringe Festival

Join Amria and friends as they share stories, poems and prose from Amria’s #shawtyventures series.

The adventures/misadventures of a short Bradford lass out in the world, stories of the ordinary told from a unique perspective with the support of the wonderful Rashmi Sudhir and Uzma Kazi and others.

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When: 19/09/2019 - 7pm

Genre: Live music - Folk

Cost: TBC

Partner: The Live Room

Multi-award-winning Melbourne contemporary folk outfit, The Maes (formerly The Mae Trio) is the brainchild of sisters Maggie and Elsie Rigby. Born into the arms of the Folk music community in Australia, both sisters were side of stage at their first folk festival when they were four weeks old and have been absorbing and exploring folk music since that time.

The Maes’ latest, self-titled record released in April 2019 is a return to the sisters’ folk music roots. Gentle, intimate and conversational, the album is an unadorned showcase of Maggie and Elsie’s superb songwriting as well as honest, relaxed and stunning vocal and instrumental performances.

The album was born on a two-month tour of Europe and North America in 2018 shortly after the band changed its name from The Mae Trio to The Maes after the departure of founding member Anita Hillman. The sisters started the tour with a recording session in Canada, intending to make a four track EP. Fired up by the changes in the band, inspired and bursting with new music they kept looking for new recording opportunities as the tour progressed. By the end of the tour they had two tracks from Nova Scotia, Canada, two songs from the Isle of Mull in Scotland, two songs from different studios in Ireland and four songs recorded in their home town of Melbourne.

The album features production from top roots music producers from around the world including, Daniel Ledwell (Oh Pep!, Jenn Grant, Good Lovelies), John Fitzgerald (Christy Moore, Crooked Still, Lisa Hannigan) and Brendon Love (Teskey Brothers). The album also features cello and harmony vocals by award-winning Brisbane musician, Monique Clare who regularly tours with The Maes.

“This is the album we never really intended to make” says Maggie (banjo, guitar, vocals) “we were struck by the ease and serendipity with which it came together, like it was just ready to come out of us. I love this record, I’ve never made anything that feels so comfortable and honest. I also reckon it’s our strongest collection of songs to date”.

“We were deep into making this album before we knew we were making an album. There is a beautiful absence of pressure and self-consciousness that happened as a result; like the opposite of having a camera pointing at you while you arrange your face into a ‘normal and happy expression’. We were truly playing in the studio. In a few senses.” ~ Elsie (mandolin, violin, vocals)

Their latest release follows on from their sophomore album, Take Care Take Cover, which was recorded in Nashville by Grammy nominated producer/engineer Erick Jaskowiak (The Waifs, Crooked Still, Darrell Scott) and featuring some of that music town’s finest roots musicians. The record won them the Age, Music Victoria Folk/Roots Album of the Year in 2017 as well as rave reviews in Australia and overseas.

Since 2014, The Maes have been full time touring in Australia and overseas, winning over audiences with their striking songwriting, intricate instrumental arrangements and stunning vocal harmonies. The band’s touring history includes a list of some of the worlds largest and most prestigious music festivals such as, the Woodford and Port Fairy Folk Festivals in Australia, The Edmonton and Vancouver Folk Festivals in Canada, Cambridge Folk and Celtic Connections festivals in the UK and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in the USA.

Tickets are, currently, only available to TLR members and will be available for general sale soon.

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When: 19/10/2019 - 10am

Genre: Environment

Cost: FREE

Funder: GROW Observatory and Film Hub North

Partner: Grow Bradford

Artworks Creative Communities and Grow Bradford invite you to…

Soil, seed, community (& citizen scientists/conscientious protectors…?!)

This event hosted by Grow Bradford is funded by the GROW observatory, a Citizen Science Project which is a Horizon 2020 research project between the University of Dundee, the Permaculture Association (Britain) and a large consortium of organisations of differing sizes across Europe.

It is part of the observatory’s ‘Changing Climate’ mission. We are hosting a local event in Bradford which is an opportunity for people to gather and share more about their experiences with soils; hear from local sensor users about their involvement in using soil sensors to better understand their soils.

We will talk about the combination of soil science, data science and citizen science, hear about some of the findings of the project and talk about ways we might like to continue work together locally as concerned citizens.

We will hear from sensor users, show the sensors we have been using as well as a DIY sensor, share experiences of being part of this process. We hope to be able to show a video from the recent Insights Workshop where Community Champions shared their experiences and insights.

This event has been combined with our postponed seed sovereignty event and have also invited a speaker and others from Extinction Rebellion Bradford to join us.

We will show the film ‘In Our Hands’ about seed sovereignty.
View the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/237904334

We will share locally saved wildflower seeds and have some seeds to give away from Horton Community Farm and if the demand is there we will start a seed saving circle.

A light lunch and refreshments will be provided.

We will post timings of our schedule next week, but for now please save the date!

We look forward to seeing you there.

This event is supported with additional funding from Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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When: 25/10/2019 - 6.30pm

Genre: Film

Cost: £3/PAYF

Funder: Film Hub North

Partner: Windrush Generations

Artworks Creative Communities with Windrush Generations presents…

Pressure (1976)
A film by Horace Ové
Cert. 15

Hailed as Britain’s first black feature film, Pressure is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted British-born black youths.

View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x61G0yGzyRw

£3/PAYF entry

This project is supported by Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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When: 29/10/2019 - 7pm

Genre: Film

Cost: £3/PAYF

Funder: Film Hub North

Partner: The Sudanese Community Association

Artworks Creative Communities with the Sudanese Community Association presents…

Akasha (2018)
A film by Hajooj Kuka
Cert. 15

Hajooj Kuka’s first narrative is a comedy about a Sudanese soldier caught between his love for his girlfriend and his AK-47. Kuka’s Beats of the Antonov was a documentary highlight of Refugee Week 2019

View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHf-mOMM3QI

£3/PAYF entry

This project is supported by Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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When: 31/10/2019 - 1pm

Genre: Film

Cost: FREE

Funder: Film Hub North

Artworks Creative Communities presents…

Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
A film by Michel Ocelot
Cert. U

Based on a traditional West African folk tale, this award-winning animated feature tells a story of innocence defeating evil, with a modern twist.

A huge hit in France and joint winner (along with Chicken Run) in 2002 of the British Animation Award for best European animated feature, Kirikou and the Sorceress is a children’s animated film that is a world away from Disney.

Based on a traditional West African folk tale, Kirikou and the Sorceress is the story of innocence defeating evil, with a modern twist. Glittering with gold and exuding malevolence, Karaba is a sorceress who has eaten the men-folk of the village and dried up the spring. No one seems able to stop her until a remarkable baby is born. The tiny but brave Kirikou delivers himself from his mother’s womb to emerge walking and talking and undertakes a perilous journey in order to disarm the sorceress by discovering the cause of her own pain.

Original music by Youssou N’Dour

View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jw9S5Ym10

Bring the family and join us from 1pm for a mask-making activity, the film will begin at 2.30pm.

FREE ENTRY

This project is supported by Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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When: 07/11/2019 - 6pm

Genre: Film

Cost: PAYF

Funder: Film Hub North

Partner: Bradford Branch of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)

Artworks Creative Communities with the Bradford Branch of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) presents…

The Take (2004)
A film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein
Cert. E

Written by Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, and directed by outspoken Canadian journalist Avi Lewis, this powerful documentary tells the story of 30 recently laid-off industrial workers in Buenos Aires who move into their old factory to protest its closing, eventually taking on their bosses, the banks, and the entire corrupt system of global economics.

View the trailer here: http://www.thetake.org/index.cfm?page_name=watch_the_trailer

This event is a benefit fundraiser for Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank.

PAYF entry.

There will also be a bar.

This project is supported by Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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When: 17/01/2020 - 6pm

Genre: Celebration Event

Cost: PAYF

An evening of live music, poetry, and dancing to celebrate the 200th birthday of Bradford-born Anne Brontë, one of the world’s greatest 19th century writers.

South Square Centre and The Brontë Parsonage Museum come together in this unique collaboration at Delius Centre. Come down to be entertained by an exciting lineup of musicians, poets and DJs, and try your hand at zine-making, badge-making and other DIY crafts.

This is a night to throw on your glad-rags, revel in performances, and enjoy amazing food and drink all for Anne Brontë’s birthday.

FEATURING:

• SONIA SANDHU’s vegan pop-up food stand
• Anne Brontë punch
• Glitter Tattoos to show your love for Anne
• Zine Making workshop with ROSIE MCANDREW
• SHARENA LEE SATTI – Poetry from the heart of Bradford
• KIRSTY TAYLOR – Spoken Word
• ALICE HUBBLE – progressive synth sounds and visuals
• PLUS DJ’s Jenny Harris & Maria Spadafora aka BUFFET DISCO

Anne is often thought of as the ‘other Brontë’, less famous than her sisters Charlotte and Emily, but she was a talented novelist, poet, visual artist and musician. This event is inspired by her creativity and the conviction with which she held her beliefs.

Full line-up of to be announced soon – watch this space!

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A Party for Anne Brontë’s 200th Birthday is a Pay What You Feel event, no booking required: there is no set ticket price, just pay what you would like to contribute during or after the event.

There will also be a pop-up bar at this event serving a range of alcoholic, soft and hot drinks.

All Welcome.

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When: 24/01/2020 - 7pm

Genre: Film

Cost: £5/£2.50 Conc.

Funder: Film Hub North

Partner: Bradford Transformed

Artworks Creative Communities with Bradford Transformed presents…

The Spirit of ’45 (2013)
A film by Ken Loach
Cert. E

Much acclaimed film documentary directed by Ken Loach charting the radical reforms carried out by Atlee’s post war Labour Government.

View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c86Gwsb5LY

Discussion introduced by Tony Pearson, UNISON Health organiser Yorks and Humber.

£5 (£2.50 U18, low income)

There will also be a pop-up bar at this event serving a range of alcoholic, soft and hot drinks. The bar is open from 6.30pm and the film introduction starts at 7pm.

This project is supported by Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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When: 02/02/2020 - 3pm

Genre: Social gathering

Cost: Donation

Partner: XR Bradford & Shipley

Share songs and poems of protest. When we come together in protest around the inaction on the climate and ecological emergency let us as XR, Youth Strikers, Woodies, other groups and individuals sing together so our message is heard loud and clear that we want action now.

Would you like to teach a song, do a short performance or enjoy learning with others then we would love you to join us. We might even throw in a little Disco-bedience practice, a dance to the tune of staying alive, for future awareness raising flash mobs.

3pm-6pm

There will also be a pop-up bar at this event serving a range of alcoholic, soft and hot drinks.

We will share some food at 5.30, bring a dish if you wish.

Suggested donation to cover costs £3 (£1 for young people).

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When: 14/02/2020 - 6.30pm

Genre: Film

Cost: PAYF

Funder: Film Hub North

Partner: Free 2-B ME

Rafiki (2018)
A film directed by Wanuri Kahiu
Cert. 12A

As part of the LGBT History Month in Bradford programme Artworks Creative Communities and Free 2B-ME present…

Rafiki (Swahili for “friend”) is a 2018 Kenyan drama film directed by Wanuri Kahiu. Rafiki is the story of romance that grows between two young women, Kena and Ziki, amidst family and political pressures around LGBT rights in Kenya.

View the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhuV3wlWSpU

7pm – Introduction from Shingai Mabhumbo.
9pm-11pm – Disco of Afrobeat sounds and more.

There will also be a pop-up bar at this event serving a range of alcoholic, soft and hot drinks. The bar is open from 6.30pm and the film introduction starts at 7pm.

£PAYF
EVERYBODY WELCOME!

This project is supported by Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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When: 18/02/2020 - 1pm

Cost: FREE

Funder: Film Hub North

Tuesday, 18th February

Zootropolis (2016)
A Disney film
Cert. PG

Free half-term activities for the family in Bradford. Artworks Creative Communities presents…

Come early to make a wild mask and watch Zootropolis whilst wearing it.
Family animation. Dreaming of becoming a respected cop in the bustling city of Zootropolis, a rookie police rabbit must prove herself by cracking a case with the aid of a wily fox.

View the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCDQRy1od30

1pm – Mask-making.
2pm – Film (Running time 1h 50m)

Soft and hot drinks available.

FREE
EVERYBODY WELCOME!

This project is supported by Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, 18th February 2020
1pm-4pm

Venue: The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Road, Bradford BD7 1AA

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When: 21/02/2020

Genre: Film

Cost: £5/£2.50 Conc.

Bradford Transformed presents…

The Harder They Come (1972)

A film by Perry Henzell
Cert. 15

This 1972 Jamaican crime thriller directed by Perry Henzell and starring Jimmy Cliff, is most famous for its reggae soundtrack, and is said to “have brought reggae to the world”. The film is recognised as being enormously influential and one of the most important films to come out of the Caribbean.

Discussion introduced by Courtney Hay, Bradford-based Black community activist.

View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imGkQdE7N2s

There will also be a pop-up bar at this event serving a range of alcoholic, soft and hot drinks. The bar is open from 6.30pm and the film introduction starts at 7pm.

£5 (£2.50 U18, low income)

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When: 08/03/2020 - 2pm

Genre: Celebration Event

Cost: Free

Partner: Bradford Transformed

Bradford Tranformed invites you to…

Celebrating Women’s Activism

Join us for International Women’s Day to celebrate the work of Bradford’s many powerful women through poetry, art, story and lived experience.

Featuring speakers: Cllr Fozia Shaheen, Kafayat Adegoke, Carolyn Mendelsohn and Vie Clerc

Artists: Saba Fatima (who created the beautiful cover image), spoken word artist Shareen Satti and musician Poppy Eaglesham.

Plus more…

We  want to hear the stories of as many female activists as possible so please do think about your experience if you’d be willing to share.

To facilitate the most inclusive atmosphere possible and help everyone feel able to share, we are running this as an event for all those who identify as women.

All are welcome

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