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ISSUE 16

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Bradford Review ISSUE 16|JUNE 2016

Contents 5_NOTE FROM THE EDITOR 6_In the news 10_the ivegate revival 14_A tribute to scouse 18_small world film festival 20_michael stewart 26_tribute acts 30_drunken film festival 34_picks of the month 38_what’s on?

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Hopefully you will have got your breath back following a jam-packed May bank holiday and the fantastic Bradford Literature Festival.

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If you were at the Bradford Literature Festival last month you may even have bumped into author Michael Stewart, who has given us an in-depth insight into his work and his connection to Bradford. Thanks to Tim Walker for a fascinating interview.

As the cultural offeringcontinues to grow, so too does the city’s physical regeneration.

This month is set to see the opening of Sunbridge Wells and a number of new venues on Ivegate. Gerry Crookes keeps us up to date with the new developments on page 10.

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In the news City Park announced as Olympics fan zone Bradford’s City Park has been unveiled as an official Team GB Fanzone for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio. Members of the public will be able to get together and catch all the action on the big screen between August 6 and August 2, which will hopefully throw up some memorable moments to match the last games.

Bradford is one of eight cities to be chosen to host Fanzones and Bradford Council’s Executive Member for Environment, Sport and Culture Sarah Ferriby has said, “We are absolutely delighted that Bradford is being confirmed as just one of eight cities around the country being confirmed as an official Team GB FanZone. We are keen to inspire youngsters to get behind Team GB and support their amazing efforts to win medals during the Olympic Games.”

New venue brings live acts to Bradford

Hinchcliffe takes over as leader of Council

A new live music venue is opening on the site of the former Gasworks club on Duke Street.

The Underground will host live music covering various genres, with the aim of showcasing local talent from Bradford and Yorkshire. Manager Matthew Booth said, “We are introducing a venue which is able to bring in signed artists and bands which Bradford hasn’t been able to facilitate in the past. So keep your eyes peeled as we have some big announcements to come over the next few months!”

Bradford Council has a new leader, with Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe taking over the post from David Green following the May local elections.

Labour retained control of the council with 15 out of the district’s 30 seats, including the City ward.

“We aim to provide a good friendly environment for people to drink good beer, while enjoying high quality live music.”

“Now I want to take us to the next level. As a Bradfordian who has had great opportunities from a comprehensive education and an upbringing here, I want even better for future generations. I want Bradford to fulfil our potential - to be known for our distinct brand of energy, diversity and entrepreneurialism.”

“The Underground Team all have a real passion for live music and are hoping that the venue is a reflection of that passion, we have all been working round the clock to get the venue to its true glory and we are excited to show everyone what we have done on opening weekend.”

Cllr Hinchcliffe said: “I’m hugely proud to have been chosen by my fellow Labour councillors to lead my home city at this challenging but exciting time.

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Ivegate revival

By Gerry Crookes

As new life is breathed into Bradford city centre section by section, one area that has been crying out for some TLC is historic Ivegate.

Once a quirky little thoroughfare, Bradford’s oldest street is now held up as a beacon of dilapidation. Which of course makes it ripe for an Independent Quarter-style revival.

Discussions on community Facebook groups have concluded that it should be Bradford’s own version of York’s Shambles, with its nooks and crannies and old buildings.

Recently there have been real signs of something stirring. In a massive leap of faith the highly successful and award-winning Menston restaurant The 1875 upped sticks and moved to Ivegate at the end of last year.

An extensive refurbishment of the former Gasworks bar has created an expansive bar, eatery, music and event venue, serving tapasstyle Indian and international street food.

The temptation to relocate from the safe environs of a more affluent suburb may well have been partly the benefits of the City Centre Growth Zone scheme. But another factor, says owner Manjinder Sarai, was the chance to get a foothold at the beginning in the next new ‘destination’.

He said, “With the growth potential that’s expected in Bradford, we thought if we don’t take part now in five years’ time it could be too much for independents to take that risk. I think if ever there was a chance for a big revival it’s now. There’s already a new buzz since the arrival of Bradford Brewery, especially around the recent end-of-season match days when both venues opened up early to serve breakfast to City fans.”

After all, eyebrows were raised when The Sparrow bar opened on North Parade, pretty much in isolation. But that well-loved venue is now hailed as the catalyst of a successful rebirth.

Having just celebrated its fifth birthday it now

The new Made of Bradford pop-up bar is one of a number of new venues opening up on Ivegate.

sits happily at the heart of a buzzing scene, one of the city’s most popular nightlife areas.

Last month saw another big sign of positive change with the arrival on Ivegate of Bradford Brewery, well-known for being at the forefront of the Big Up Bradford renaissance movement.

At this stage the Brewery presence is the pop-up Made Of Bradford bar, first opened in The Broadway over the festive season. But the newly-painted frontage, replacing that of a former charity shop, already gives a more contemporary, trendy feel to the Ivegate street scene.

And the pop-up heralds a much bigger scheme, with the Brewery planning to turn the adjoining former Old Crown pub – used for some time as an amusement arcade - into a bar,

restaurant, bottle shop and 12-bedroom hotel.

The Made Of Bradford bar currently serves Bradford Brewery beers on tap, plus a range of ciders, wines and spirits, and hosts a craft beer bottle shop. The pop-up is expected to be open for around four months while work goes on to progress the Old Crown project, and it’s planned that it will later be incorporated into the main complex.

Bradford Brewery managing director Matthew Halliday said, “Ivegate is the oldest and we think the prettiest street in Bradford city centre and it’s crying out to become a focal point for visitors. It’s got very run-down over the years, and we wanted to play our part in its revival, which is now tentatively underway since the opening of The 1875 bar opposite us.”

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Ivegate is the oldest and we think the prettiest street in Bradford city centre and it’s crying out to become a focal point for visitors.

“We’re very excited about the Sunbridge Wells tunnels development, which will bring an amazing mix of bars, restaurants and shops.

Having two main entrances into the site from Ivegate will really help to bring this quirky street back to life. When the opportunity arose to take on an iconic building like the Old Crown that was something we simply couldn’t resist.”

The Sunbridge Wells development of bars, shops and restaurants is projected to open later this summer, with two entrances to the ambitious underground development at the top of the street.

This is expected to enhance the Ivegate street scene as well as boosting footfall.

Local businessman and Independent Quarter champion Matthew Crowther said, “If we compare a potential Ivegate revival with the Independent Quarter I would say that Ivegate had hit rock bottom, with a bad reputation for anti-social behaviour due to some of the previous venues on the street, plus a predominance of charity shops and mobile phone shops which create a poor impression.

“Prior to North Parade being uplifted with a vibrant nightlife scene, it retained an unspoilt

Victorian streetscape, and was already known for quality independent specialist shops, businesses and coffee shops. The regeneration of the area ‘top of town’ now known as the Independent Quarter has spilled out onto neighbouring streets such as Rawson Place and Westgate, with a growing number of quality independent venues helping to create an even greater and appealing social scene in the city centre. Can this be mirrored now on Ivegate? I really hope so.”

The new Leader of Bradford Council, Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe – who’s been very much involved in the regeneration under her previous portfolio, confirmed that Ivegate was part of the city centre and still benefiting from the Growth Zone funding scheme. That contributed greatly to the successful revivals in both the Independent Quarter and the West End around the Alhambra Theatre.

What other public sector plans are in the pipeline to spruce up this historic part of the city on and around Ivegate remain to be revealed, but as far as local businesses are concerned an Ivegate revival is very much on its way.

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Scouse A tribute to a true champion of live music in Bradford

By Alec Marlow and Michael Dunn

Harold George Roberts - aka Scouse was a well-known and much-loved sound engineer, spending many of his later years working in the venues of Bradford.

He was a unique character with a wicked and mischievous sense of humour which got him into trouble from time to time but, as anyone who knew him will testify, his heart was always in the right place.

His time in Bradford stretches back about 20 years when he had retired from the sound engineering business and was working as a sheet metal worker. He first came out of retirement at The Peel pub in the early-tomid 2000s, where he started off doing bits of karaoke. When The Peel closed he started up at The Black Swan, where he laid his heart. He was to continue with live sound at that venue on and off until very recently.

He moved from the Black Swan to the Zuu bar in 2010, where he worked for another year or so. After the Zuu closed he decamped back to

the Swan again, until in the summer of 2013 he started doing bits at the Love Apple and moved into Vampire as resident sound engineer in September. The following year he moved along with the Vampire team to the Tavern In The Town on Barry Street where he worked for a while. He later moved on to Trash on Sackville Street and continued with bits of work at the jam sessions at The Black Swan. He mixed hundreds of bands in those few years alone and he was a very well-known face in the city.

However, what many people don’t realise is his rich and varied history in sound engineering.

When Scouse passed away, he was 70 years old and was coming up to celebrating 50 years in the entertainment industry as a sound engineer. He started off in a band in Liverpool in the early 1960s in which he played the drums. He didn’t feel as though his talent lay in this role and decided that being a roadie was where his heart was. He was one of the first people in Liverpool to own a mixing desk. In the 60s they were all valve and very

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When Scouse passed away, he was 70 years old and was coming up to celebrating 50 years in the entertainment industry as a sound engineer.

cumbersome with only four channels but he could see the value in using one for a rock band. Marshall were hesitant to let him buy it at first as they intended the product to be for the BBC and such like, but after his persistent nagging of the various sales executives, they agreed to sell him one. In the late 60s and early 70s he worked in London and Liverpool, doing sound for many up-and-coming bands and often going on tour with them.

He also worked as a junior sound engineer in the early 1970s at some big gigs in Hyde Park in London. They were known as the Hyde Park Free Concerts and the bill featured such heavyweights as King Crimson, Soft Machine and The Rolling Stones.

He went on tour with Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Kool and the Gang, The Real Thing and Supercharge. He loved mixing brass and vocal harmonies more than anything and his favourite band was the Eagles.

Of course we only knew him in recent years

and the facts above were compiled from various stories and anecdotes. We believe in all those years he must have worked with many well-known acts and had probably forgotten more than most people experience in a lifetime.

He was never one to brag or name drop and would only talk about his time on the road when asked and (usually) under the influence.

He was a very passionate man who lived and breathed music. He paid for all of his own equipment from his pension and built all his speaker cabs from scratch. He was also a master carpenter and watching him at work was a joy.

For all that in his latter days his ears sometimes failed him - he left many a ringing ear after some of his gigs - his heart never did and he particularly loved watching new upcoming artists. He also passed on some of his knowledge to budding young sound engineers and was always happy to help and teach anyone who wanted to listen. Rest well old friend, we will miss you.

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Small World Film Festival

By Julie Gatenby

Bradford Small World Film Festival promises to bring a treasure chest of films from across the globe to delight audiences in City Park this summer, with screenings every day from 1.15-2pm and from 6pm on the Bradford Big Screen.

In its second year, the festival has been deluged with entries from around the world, crossing continents from Africa to Australasia with filmmakers contributing from some of the remotest places on earth.

The brief to filmmakers from festival director David Wilson was for short films about their homes and lives that would emotionally connect with people worldwide.

David said, “When you ask filmmakers about what emotionally moves them it’s so often the issues happening on their doorstep. This festival has acted like a telescope focussing in

on people’s doorsteps across the world. The end result has been fascinating - with films covering everything from environmental issues in the Galapagos, India and Tobago to the destructive power of war in West Azerbaijan.

“Then we have stories about fascinating individuals like Yavuz Özer’s film Master Kezban, which focuses on a carpenter living in a remote Anatolian village. We have uplifting stories like that of the Ugandan boxers Hussein and Hassan, directed by Jamillah van der Hulst.

“There’s a universality to many of the films so they translate well across cultural and geographical divides. The subject in Canned, directed by Ivan Joy, Tanya Zaman and Nathanial Hatton, is graffiti – but in this beautiful animation set in Rio de Janeiro the street artist’s mural comes alive. In the short comedy I Could Eat A Horse, directed by Jake

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Hovell, a student searches for something to eat in his dirty digs. In Anxeyety, directed by Arden Barlow, the subject of social anxiety and lack of eye is explored by cleverly telling six people’s stories through animation.”

SWFF16’s films have been divided into four categories - documentary short, animated short, and Make Us Laugh. The fourth is a special showcase of films from our UNESCO network, specifically Sydney City of Film, which explores what it is to live with and overcome disability every day.

David said, “The films from our partner UNESCO city Sydney really moved me. All of them feature stories about people who live with disability and often prejudice but in each one there is warmth and an ability to find joy in life. The result is awe inspiring.

“We hope Bradford enjoys this festival which - through the powerful medium of film - shares individual experiences and moments of happiness, sadness, humour and elation which we can all - as citizens of the world - connect with.”

In the spirit of a festival about the people for the people, it’s been decided that the winners will be judged this year by the people of Bradford.

Around 60 people will be invited to a special screening at City Hall on Tuesday 21 June 2016 from 6.30pm to help make the final decision.

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Michael

Stewart Award-winning Bradford novelist speaks to Tim Walker

Bradford-based novelist Michael Stewart’s new book of short stories, Mr Jolly, is out now. King Crow, his first novel, won the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize in 2011 and his second novel Cafe Assassin also received wide critical acclaim. I first met him in 2008 when he was an artist, his dark cartoon style gracing the pages of Bradford’s now demised Mono magazine and CD covers for indie band The Sneakypeeks. I caught up with him in the Jacobs pub for a pint and a chat about his writing career.

You’re not Bradford-born and bred are you? So what are your roots and what brought you to Bradford?

I was born in Salford in 1971. I left in 1994 and I went to do my degree in English and the history of art at Leeds Uni. I moved to Otley and worked at Highroyds mental hospital, then did a post-graduate teaching certificate, then got some teaching work at Bradford College and moved to Thornton.

I’ve been at Huddersfield University for the past nine years, teaching creative writing.

Do you stay in Bradford because you like it, or because of other commitments?

If I’m honest, one of the things that brought me to Bradford was cheap accommodation.

Having said that, when we were looking at houses in Thornton, we went to the local pub.

We had a young child at the time and everyone made us extremely welcome. Everyone was really friendly and also quite interesting.

For me as a writer it was full of characters.

There was a guy with one eye and another with a club foot and I just thought – this is material. I can write about this.

So what I look for as a writer is not necessarily what someone would look for in a nice area. I’m not looking for somewhere that’s full of pleasant experiences. I write about dark material and madness and insanity.

One of the things I like about Bradford is it’s very earthy – there’s not much snobbery here. Would you agree?

It’s very down to earth. People speak their minds. They look you in the eye and tell you what they think of you and it’s very unpretentious.

I moved from Leeds at the point when it was getting very gentrified. There were a lot of people sipping champagne from ice buckets at five in the afternoon - to be seen, basically. Then I moved to Otley and that kind of thing was even creeping in there – that conspicuous affluence. That idea of displaying your wealth, which I’ve always found quite distasteful. You don’t get that in Bradford.

Actually, when I came to Bradford it was in decline – lots of places were closing down, but there was a real sense of community and people being loyal to it, despite the fact it was not a successful place.

There’d been a riot and lots of negative press, but I saw that it was a media construct to an extent. It was like seeing the kid at school who’s getting bullied and you want to stick up for them. I thought Bradford was getting unfair treatment in the press and it made me warm more to a city that I already had affection for.

Did you get a sense that Bradford is a place of historic creativity, perhaps more so than other cities of a similar size?

Well I moved into a place that was virtually

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opposite the birthplace of the Brontes and the Bronte sisters had a huge influence on me. One of the first things I ever got into as a kid was Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

I got my first tape recorder in 1978 and filled a C-60 with that song. I was obsessed by the song. I had no idea it was a book by Emily Bronte. Then my mother gave me the book and I was seven years old and I didn’t get very far with it, but then I came back to it as a teenager and it blew me away.

So what were the first books you remember getting into?

Well it would have been, quite embarrassingly, the ones on my sister’s bookshelf. She had every single Enid Blyton book – every Famous Five, every Secret Seven, every Mallory Towers – everything, and I read all of them.

Then when I was twelve I had glandular fever and I was off school. I can’t remember how, but I came across Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales Of Mystery And Imagination and I read them as I was convalescing. Certain stories obsessed me and still to this day I think Edgar Allan Poe is a huge influence on me as a writer.

What made you want to start writing your own material and when did it begin?

I think I must have been writing then, when I was ill, as I was on my own. There was no telly but I had a radio and Smash Hits. One of the great things about Smash Hits is that they printed the lyrics. Most of them were really banal but I remember there was an XTC song called Senses Working Overtime. I just thought the lyrics were really clever – it wasn’t a love song – it seemed really off the wall.

So the first things I wrote were song lyrics.

Were you quite studious at school – in English language etc?

I was in the bottom group for English and the bottom group for Maths. I was excluded from school for a year. When I was at secondary school the English teacher said - I want you to write a description of a room – any room you like. So I wrote a story about a guy who wakes up in a room and doesn’t know where he is or who he is but he’s in a darkened room with a red, crimson glow. He can hear distant sounds but he’s captive in the room. The reveal at the end is that he’s a foetus being born and the room is a womb.

I was quite pleased with this and took it in the next day. The teacher drew a big red line through it and said – detention. So what that did was make me take everything she said and try to subvert it in some way and that led to my exclusion from school!

A lot of your work has dark subject matter.

Is there any specific reason for this?

When I write I’m trying to get to some kind of truth. To me the job of art is to reveal something about ourselves and what that invariably involves is the dark side.

A simple love story is really hard to write because to me it’s not as simple as that.

There are all kinds of dependencies and inadequacies and power struggles. When love stories are told properly there’s a conflict in that. The idea of a Mills & Boon-type narrative is fundamentally untruthful about human relationships.

Bradford-based author Michael Stewart

When you start to write something of whatever length, how much of that story is formulated in your head before you put pen to paper?

Quite often the first and last scene. I often have the end goal in sight but I think it’s different for everything you do. Sometimes it’s just nice to take a line for a walk and see where it takes you.

King Crow was very thought through and schematic. The same with Cafe Assassin, because you’ve got two story lines – one looking forwards and one looking back and it was quite difficult to get those two things to coincide, so I had to sit down and plot that quite fastidiously. What’s

nice about short fiction is that you can just start to write and see where it goes.

Ultimately, what do you want your readers to take from your work?

I want people to read the work from any sort of background and any sort of reading preference and enjoy it, but be challenged by it as well. I think a lot of art does one of two things - I think it either excludes people who don’t get it or it doesn’t challenge the people it addresses. I’m always trying to marry style with substance. I want it to be stylish but I want it to mean something as well.

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Tribute Acts

By Beverley Haigh In the New Labour aftermath of broken promises Tribute Acts explores what happens when our heroes let us down.

The men in suits, Tony Blair, Pierce Brosnan, absent fathers. Theatre State’s Cheryl Gallacher and Tess Seddon interview each other’s dads searching for answers and ‘epic understanding’.

Set somewhere between outer space - a metaphor for the distance they feel from their estranged fathers - and the ‘Kangol

and Kickers’ 1990s, Tribute Acts allows scope for plenty of New Labour scepticism and cultural references, humorously brought to life by the gifted performers along with their ‘co-stars’, in the form of their fathers’ video footage joining them on stage.

Technically the show is a triumph, with magnificent stage management. Seddon and Gallacher interact with the talking heads intrinsically and aren’t afraid to acknowledge the audience, engaging with them as they

divulge the details of their childhoods.

However their performing talents and comedic delivery, key strengths of the piece, are somewhat under-utilised due to the constraints of the piece which determine they fall more into the roles of narrators.

On the one hand the piece could be construed as egotistical and self-indulgent as they question their fathers, looking for insight into their relationships and how they’re perceived by others. But the answers are not necessarily the ones they were looking for. Amidst the humour and light-hearted delivery there’s poignancy. Both men sail through the political questions with ease, no doubt in their minds about who would fill their government cabinet, yet stumble and fail to answer when probed about even the most trivial details about their daughters.

Tess and her father are working at their reunion, her dad even becoming a willing member of the audience in what must be a quite cathartic process of rebuilding a relationship with his daughter, becoming witness to the mistakes he made. At this performance he was watching the show for the fifth time. Cheryl’s happilyever-after seems more elusive. We don’t learn the outcome of the reunion with her father but it must be concluded that he’s less than comfortable with his portrayal on screen.

Tribute Acts is not attempting to radicalise the world but as an autobiographical and brave piece of theatre it forces us to re-examine our relationships with our own loved ones in the hope we don’t repeat the mistakes Tess and Cheryl’s fathers made.

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The Drunken Film Fest

By Phil Lickley

The Drunken Film Fest, rising from the ashes of the cancelled annual Bradford International Film Festival, has been launched by film-maker Jax Griffin. The five-day event starts on 25 July with films showcased, for free, at bars across the City of Bradford.

moving to the Library Bar, Record Café, Delius Lived Next Door and the Theatre In The Mill, then wrapping on Saturday 30 July with the awards party. Highlights of the week include a discussion panel at Brewhaus and Forks Café and Bavarian screenings at Bierkeller.

The event has partnered up with many local organisations, including the Bradford Brewery, Theatre in the Mill and Al’s Dime Bar, and declares itself to have been ‘established to get back to what film festivals are meant to be about - independent filmmaking’.

“The Drunken Film Fest aims to remind us all that great art and a great time aren’t owned by big establishments and don’t have to happen in ‘art’ spaces,” said Jax.

Jax gave us a feeling of the wider festival, “We’ve got films from all over the world.

We’re approaching 900 entries now from over fifty different countries, but we’ve also got a lot from local film makers,” she told us ahead of the latest planning meeting for the event. Jax herself has a background in the film industry and graduated with an MA from the University of Bradford. She works locally with a partner in a media company and creates her own independent movies.

The Film Fest begins on Monday 25 July with a launch party at the Bradford Brewery before

The full schedule for the Film Fest will be announced in June but already the

Filmmaker Jax Griffin has put together a five day festival of independant films, which will be shown in bars and venues accross Bradford.

organisers have teased several of the films to be shown. These include Dave Gilbank’s Bradford-filmed Polterheist which has been winning awards at other festivals, including best actor for Kathryn Hanke at this year’s Discover Film Festival in London, Deborah Kampmeir’s new feature film, plus a piece from a female Muslim director from Qatar which deals with female body image and the pressure that Muslim women face in Qatar.

When it was revealed that Bradford would not be hosting its annual International Film Festival Jax began conversations with interested parties. “It wasn’t good for Bradford. It’s the arts being taken away. I reached out to a couple of the bar owners. Bradford needs it, Bradford deserves it, it’s the place to have this!”

The idea behind the festival is for patrons to get ‘drunk on film’, hence the name, and of course many of the films are being shown in bars. Naturally it’s up to everyone whether they drink or not. Alongside the films there’ll be live music throughout the week, including local artist Dave McKinley who’ll be playing at the launch party at the Bradford Brewery. Ben Peel will be performing at the Record Café which will also be hosting a day showcasing music videos. There’ll be a festival wrap-party on the Saturday after the event, at Trash with Rubber Kazoo, a fun local covers band, playing. “They’re fronted by Anna Watkins who’s just got this amazing voice.”

The Drunken Film Fest has also been getting lots of local support from a fundraising

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It’s important to have an independent fringe festival in the City of Film. I’d love to see the Bradford International Film Festival come back but a City of Film should have more than one festival.

Kickstarter campaign. Jax told us, “The Festival is all off my own back. Any merchandising, any programmes, any marketing material is all coming out of my own pocket. The Kickstarter is to help us make the festival be a proper festival. I don’t want it be like someone just put a couple of films on their laptop. I want people to come in and enjoy this festival like a proper festival and to see it continue in Bradford for years to come, and this Kickstarter is helping us to do that.”

The Drunken Film Fest looks set to be a really exciting event for the city, both in encouraging people to come out and support the local businesses showcasing the films, including those on vibrant locations like North Parade - one of the finalists of the most recent Great British High Street awards - and in highlighting local film-makers. “These are people going out there making films. Some of them might have a budget, some of them not, and they might not necessarily know each other. This festival is a way for them to come together to network and meet people.

“It’s important to have an independent fringe festival in the City of Film. I’d love to see the Bradford International Film Festival come back but a City of Film should have more than one festival.”

Jax hopes the Drunken Film Fest will become a regular date in Bradford’s calendar, “I hope to increase the networking opportunities, to implement aspects of the festival that encourage production. I’d really like to see this continue as it’s great for the city.”

With lots of events and films at the event I was keen to find out what Jax was most looking forward to over the five days. “It’ll be the conversations that are going to happen around the films. It’s a unique situation to talk about these films. I think people are going to be very relaxed and that’s the whole point.

I’m really looking forward to the discussions.”

You can find out more about the Drunken Film Fest at www.drunkenfilmfest.com and www.facebook.com/ drunkenfilmfest

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Picks of the month The Nile Project @ The Alhambra The Nile Project brings together forwardthinking musicians from the 11 countries across the Nile River Basin to create the new sound of a shared Nile identity.

Inspired by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, Egyptian musicologist Mina Girgis and Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero created this stunning concert experience to raise awareness of the cultural and environmental challenges along the world’s longest river.

Together they combine the polyrhythmic styles of Lake Victoria and the pointed melodies of the Ethiopian highlands with the rich modal traditions of Egypt and Sudan that support vocals in more than ten languages.

7.30pm at the Alhambra Theatre, on Saturday 18 June.

Scousefest @ The New Beehive

Belly laughs at Stein Bierkeller

Harold George Roberts - aka Scouse - was a well-known and much-loved sound engineer, spending many of his later years working in the venues of Bradford. Following his recent passing the New Beehive will be hosting an event in his memory with several local bands and DJs.

Stein Bierkeller continues its mission to bring lots of laughs to Bradford, with a new comedy club launching this month.

Bands include Lizard Tongue (pictured), May Moon, Dawn of Elysium, Galores, The Fugitives. DJs include Migsy (Trap Door, Trash, Rios, Tavern, Vampire), Lloyd Spencer (Frog & Toad, Northern), Emma Hedley (Swan, Zuu, Exchange), Andrew Brown (Trash, Rocks of Ages, Gasworks), Mick Dunn (Paradise City Radio 104.9fm, Mannville, Zuu). Free entry.

Compere for the launch event is North West comedy favourite Steve Harris, a finalist of the BBC new comedy awards and Channel 4’s “So you think you’re funny”. He will be joined by BBC New Comedy Award finalist Pete Otway, a natural and original comic, known for mixing a razor sharp wit with an affable charm and creative writing.

Saturday 4 June. 9pm - 2am at the New Beehive Inn.

The first Belly Laughs night is on Thursday, June 9, after which the events take place on the fourth Thursday of every month.

Doors open at 7pm with the comedians on stage from 8:30pm to 11pm.

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Joshua Burkett @ Fuse Art Space

Armed Forces Day @ City Park

Psych-folk connoisseur Joshua Burkett is one of the New Weird America scene’s early pioneers, affiliated with Sunburned Hand Of The Man. His mumblings are reclusive and lie buried under anxious banjo picking and quiet acoustic strums. Burkett used to play in noise band Vermonster and has a prolific solo career. Life Less Lost, his first record from 1998, was reissued in 2014 by Golden Lab Records. Burkett’s frenetic, impressively free-form and yet technical guitar playing is matched with a typically modest vocal performance.

Bradford stands together to remember the courage and bravery of our armed forces at this special drumhead service.

Support comes from contemporary folk artist Crystalline Roses and experimental Manchester musician Jon Collin.

Tuesday 21 June, 8pm, at Fuse, Rawson Place, Bradford.

The 144 Army Cadet Band will lead a parade of standard bearers into City Park to begin the service which will be followed by a display by the West Yorkshire Fire And Rescue Band.

There will be fabulous live music evoking the sights and sounds from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Enjoy performance poetry, music, dance and workshops inspired by internationally acclaimed Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi’s sculpture, Garden Within A Garden, part of the 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions.

Saturday 25 June, 11am - 4pm at City Park, Bradford.

A Syrian Love Story

Sam Kelly Duo @ Topic Folk Club

The film A Syrian Love Story will be shown at Bradford Cathedral on Friday 17 June at 7pm.

Sam Kelly has confirmed his status as one of the most exciting young prospects in the folk scene by winning the Horizon Award at the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Amer, 45, met Raghda, 40, in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. Over months they communicated through a tiny hole they’d secretly made in the wall. They fell in love and when released got married and started a family together.

This film tells the poignant story of their family torn apart by the tyrannical Assad dictatorship. Filming began in Syria in 2009, prior to a wave of revolutions and changes in the Arab world. At the time, Raghda was a political prisoner and Amer was caring for their young children alone.

Tickets £5 from the Cathedral and on the door.

Coming from a family largely made up of Norfolk dairy farmers, his meandering musical journey has ranged from reaching the final of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent as a teenager to being selected for the first ever EFDSS Artist Development Scheme.

Sam’s passion for discovering and rekindling the sounds of his musical heritage has gained him the respect of peers and audiences worldwide.

8.30pm on Thursday 30 June at the Topic Folk Club, Glyde House.

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GATHERED LEAVES BY ALEC SOTH UNTIL 26 JUNE, NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Alec Soth is widely considered one of the world’s foremost documentary photographers. Gathered Leaves is his first major UK show, a unique opportunity to see the journey his photographs make from the printed page to the exhibition wall. Free entry.

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UNOBTANIA EXHIBITION UNTIL 18 JUNE, BRADFORD CATHEDRAL An exhibition by Bradford-based artist Peter Robson who uses his surrealistic style to convey and critique the inhumanity of war. References to WW1 are particularly poignant at this time. bradfordcathedral.org

WEDNESDAY @ ONE ORGAN RECITAL 1PM, BRADFORD CATHEDRAL Organ recital every Wednesday from 1pm.

Free entry. bradfordcathedral.org

SMALL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL 1.15PM & 6PM, CITY PARK & CITY HALL Moving, heartwarming and humorous stories from across the globe, brought to one place in Bradford. Everyday on the Bradford Big Screen from 1.15pm until 2pm and from 6pm. Free events. See full programme online. bradford-city-of-film.com/enjoy/ smallworldfilmfestival

BRADFORD YOUNG WRITERS 4.30-6PM, BRADFORD CITY LIBRARY Aged 12-18 and love writing? Join Bradford Young Writers, every Wednesday during term time at Bradford City Library. www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk

THURSDAY 2 JUNE PEACE MUSEUM 10AM - 4PM, PIECE HALL YARD Open every Thursday 10am to 4pm. Free entry. peacemuseum.org.uk

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WUR BRADFORD 12PM - 3PM, KIRKGATE MARKET An art and social space in Kirkgate Market. Open every Thursday 12-3pm. wurbradford.wordpress.com

A TALE TO TELL 2.30 - 3.45PM, CITY LIBRARY A Tale To Tell is an enchanting journey into the world of storytelling and shadow play from Blah Blah Theatre. Suitable for

ages 7 plus. Places are free but booking is essential. 01274 433600

BROKEN HEARTS CLUB BAND 7PM, AL’S DIME BAR Skiffle-americana-folky-yolky goodness, with Jez, Dave & Craig. Remember to bring your fancy dancing shoes! Free entry. facebook.com/alsdimebarbradford

JAM NIGHT 8PM, BLACK SWAN Weekly jam night. Hosted by local musicians. House instruments available.

Free entry. facebook.com/blackswanbradford

TOPIC FOLK CLUB - SINGERS & MUSICIANS 8.15PM, GLYDE HOUSE A friendly and inviting live music event.

All welcome, food available. Free entry. topic-folk-club.org.uk

FRIDAY 3 JUNE BRADFORD POLICE MUSEUM 11AM - 3PM, CITY HALL The Bradford Police Museum provides an insight into the history of policing, criminal justice, civic enforcement and the development of crime and punishment in Bradford from the early 19th century onwards. Open every Friday (11am-3pm) and Saturday (12pm-4pm). bradfordpolicemuseum.com

FUNKIN’ SOUL 6PM, 1IN12 CLUB Funkin’ Soul - monthly night of funk, soul, reggae, ska, hip hop and breakbeat returns this time with live band Astral Trip (sludge disco/dance punk) alongside regular house DJ’s Hashfinger, DJ Jon G and DJ Sleazy G. £2 members / £3 guests on the door. Cafe open from 6pm. facebook.com/1in12

CRAIG BRAUNS BAND 7PM, AL’S DIME BAR Gritty, soulful, bluesy, poptastic sounds from Craig Brauns and the Craig Brauns Band. It’s like someone opened a whole can of awesome up in your face! Free entry. facebook.com/alsdimebarbradford

WILY BO WALKER 8PM, FACTORY STREET STUDIOS, BD4 9NW Wily Bo Walker is a solo artist, songwriter, composer and performer noted for his characterful vocals and swaggering live performances. factorystreet.co.uk

*Weather Dependent. Event may be postponed til Saturday 3rd September 2016

Summer Garden Party Saturday * 9th July 2016 New Beehive Inn Bradford 1pm - 11pm

ICE DISCO 7.30PM - 10PM, BRADFORD ICE ARENA Skating with an atmosphere - disco lights and loud music turn our ice pad into a groovy venue for all in attendance. Every Friday. bradfordicearena.co.uk

JATP JAZZ: THE WEAVE 8.30PM, GLYDE HOUSE A thrilling show of highly refreshing jazz - West Coast cool, hard bop and New Orleans flavours sautéed in exquisite Liverpudlian musicality and humour. £5 members / £7 guests on the door. jatpjazz.blogspot.co.uk

SINGERS, MUSICIANS & POETS 8.30PM, THE CASTLE Come and sing a song, play a tune, recite a poem or relax and listen and enjoy the atmosphere whilst supping a pint of quality real ale. Free entry. facebook.com/erebus77

LATE NIGHT BAR & BISTRO 1AM - EARLY, CAFE NICHE All night cafe serving homemade meals, hot drinks and alcohol. Open until the party is done! facebook.com/cafenichebfd

SATURDAY 4 JUNE BRADFORD PARK RUNS 9AM, LISTER PARK & HORTON PARK Free and friendly timed 5k run. Every Saturday at Lister Park and Horton Park. parkrun.org.uk/bradford

VOLUNTEERING GARDEN PARTY 9AM - 1PM, CARTWRIGHT HALL Come and meet 20 local charities and community groups for a friendly chat about volunteering and be part of the Volunteering Garden Party! Tickets are free online. peoplecanvolunteergardenparty.eventbrite.co.uk

SALTAIRE VINTAGE HOME & FASHION FAIR 9.30AM - 4PM, VICTORIA HALL, SALTAIRE

from the 1920s to the 1980s. Also on Sunday. Future dates: 17 & 18 September, 3 December 2016. £3 / £2 (concessions) on the door. www.roseandbrownvintage.co.uk

SATURDAY STOP 10.30AM - 4.30PM, IMPRESSIONS GALLERY Visit our exhibition, relax in the lounge overlooking City Park and enjoy free creative activities for children. Every Saturday at Impressions. impressions-gallery.com/events

INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE FESTIVAL 11AM - 4PM, THE AMP, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD As part of Refugee Week, a celebratory event for students and local families to come together to show support to the refugee community in Bradford. There will be football matches for children and adults, workshops, a bouncy castle, a prizegiving ceremony as well as performances and speeches. Free event. ubuonline.co.uk/whats-on

SCOUSEFEST 9PM-2AM, NEW BEEHIVE INN CELLAR BAR All-dayer at the New Beehive in memory of Harry Scouse Roberts, local sound engineer and top lad who recently passed.

Bands include Lizard Tongue, May Moon, Dawn of Elysium, Galores, The Fugitives.

DJs include Migsy (Trap Door, Trash, Rios, Tavern, Vampire), Lloyd Spencer (Frog & Toad, Northern), Emma Hedley (Swan, Zuu, Exchange), Andrew Brown (Trash, Rocks of Ages, Gasworks), Mick Dunn (Paradise City Radio 104.9fm, Mannville, Zuu). Free entry. facebook.com/NewBeehiveInn

BAVARIAN OOMPAH NIGHT 7PM, STEIN BIERKELLER Authentic Bavarian Bierkeller night with live Oompah band and Bavarian DJ, JP. Traditional Bavarian steins, bratwurst and pretzel snacks. Large parties welcome.

Booking advised. Every Saturday. www.steinbierkeller.com

Two days of vintage, with 40+ stalls of genuine vintage fashion and homewares

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OTTO WILLBERG / HANNAH MARSHALL / PASCAL NICHOLS 8PM, FUSE ART SPACE Cellist Hannah Marshall extracts an astonishing spectrum of emotional qualities from her instrument. Willberg is an improvising musician and composer, who mostly plays the double bass. His obsessive and slightly unhinged tape Got Gills? is issued this July on Slip, and is his first release with the imprint. Opening performance from multi-disciplinary artist Pascal Nichols. £4 on the door. wearefuse.co

TINA SPARKLE LIVE 8PM, THE SUN HOTEL Outrageous cabaret every Saturday! Open from 12 noon karaoke from 4pm, drag hosts from 8pm, cabaret from 10pm, open till 3am. Free entry all day and night. facebook.com/sunbradford

SUNDAY 5 JUNE SKY RIDE 11AM - 3PM, CITY PARK Sky Ride Bradford is a fun, free day out for the whole family, with loads to do both on and off a bike. Free event. Register online. goskyride.com/SkyRideBradford

ICE SKATING FOR BEGINNERS 11AM - 1.30PM, BRADFORD ICE ARENA Family sessions are reserved for beginner skaters and families. Every Sunday. bradfordicearena.co.uk

VINTAGE SUNDAYS: JOHNNY GUITAR 2.30PM, PICTUREHOUSE AT NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Vintage Sundays is a regular strand at the Picturehouse Cinema. Visit their website for more film screenings. picturehouses.com/cinema/National_Media_ Museum

MONDAY 6 JUNE BRADFORD HISTORY TALK BY JANET SENIOR 2PM, GLYDE HOUSE The Church of England in Bradford,

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part two (from 1834 to 1919). Tea & coffee served from 10am with the talk at 10.30am. £5 entry. facebook.com/GlydeHouse

Referendum. Speakers include Professor Paul Rogers, Rob Griffiths, Hugo Radice & Paul Meszaros. euref-doesitmatter.eventbrite.co.uk

BEEHIVE POETS: READAROUND 8.30PM, NEW BEEHIVE INN

CINEMATHEQUE BRADFORD PRESENTS – ALICE’S JOURNEY (FR) 7.30PM, KALA SANGAM

A mutually-supportive poetry group meeting every Monday. Free entry. beehivepoets.org.uk

TUESDAY 7 JUNE RHYME & SPLASH 2.30PM - 3.45PM, CITY LIBRARY Come and join us for Under The Sea Rhymes with our special guest Rachel McMahon. Splash with us in the fountains.

Can you catch the fishes? Free entry.

01274 433600

DISCOVER TUESDAYS: THE CLUB 6PM, PICTUREHOUSE AT NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM The much-venerated Chilean writerdirector Pablo Larraín again tackles a provocative subject with his talented repertory company, which includes Roberto Farías, Marcello Alonso, Alfredo Castro and Antonia Zegers. Discover Tuesdays is a regular strand at the Picturehouse Cinema. Visit their website for more film screenings. picturehouses.com/cinema/National_Media_ Museum

SCREEN ARTS - RSC LIVE: HAMLET 7PM, PICTUREHOUSE AT MEDIA MUSEUM Screen Arts is a regular strand at the Picturehouse Cinema. Visit their website for more film screenings. picturehouses.com/cinema/National_Media_ Museum

THURSDAY 9 JUNE ALED JONES IN CONCERT 6.30PM, BRADFORD CATHEDRAL As part of his 2016 UK Cathedral tour.

Tickets from £25 available online. officialaledjones.com/live

BELLY LAUGHS COMEDY NIGHT 7PM, STEIN BIERKELLER

A night of live music and open mic, with Trigger Thumb EP launch. Free entry. All welcome from solo artists to bands. Get in touch if you want a spot. factorystreet.co.uk

Brand new to Bradford. Compered by North West comedy favourite Steve Harris, a finalist of the BBC new comedy awards and Channel 4’s So You Think You’re Funny. With BBC New Comedy Award finalist Pete Otway. A weekly line-up of top local comedy talent. Tickets from £10. www.steinbierkeller.com

ICE SKATING FOR BEGINNERS 7.30PM - 10PM, BRADFORD ICE ARENA

THE ROYAL OPERA’S NABUCCO 7PM - 10PM, CITY PARK

Family sessions are reserved for beginner skaters and families. Every Tuesday. bradfordicearena.co.uk

Verdi’s biblical epic beamed live on the Bradford Big Screen. Seats available on a first come, first served basis. Free event. www.roh.org.uk/bpbigscreens

YORKSHIRE GIG GUIDE OPEN MIC 8PM, FACTORY STREET STUDIOS, BD4 9NW

SESSIONS @ THE 1875 8PM, THE 1875 BAR

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Alice is a ship’s engineer – a woman in a typically male role. Gender roles are reversed when she spends months away from home with opportunities to meet men around the world. cinemathequebradford.wordpress.com

Music night hosted by hosted by Malcolm and Maggie from the world-famous Bradford music shop Mannings Musicals.

Every Tuesday. Free entry. facebook.com/the1875

WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE EU REFERENDUM; DOES IT MATTER? 6.30PM, JOHN STANLEY BELL LECTURE THEATRE, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Bradford Trades Council & the PPC PeaceHub CommUNIty Thinkspace invites you to a conversation about the EU

ACOUSTIC 3-WAY FEAT. ROB GALLOWAY, FELKA 7PM, AL’S DIME BAR The old acoustic 3-way is back! (don’t be dirty!) bringing you three great acoustic singers / groups, for your audio pleasure.

Free entry. facebook.com/alsdimebarbradford

BEER TASTING DINNER 7PM, NAPOLEONS CASINO Tickets for the night cost just £20 per person & include a four course meal with beers to match each course and an introduction to each beer as you go along. napoleons-casinos.co.uk/bradford/whats-on

TOPIC FOLK CLUB - KELLY OLIVER 8.30PM, GLYDE HOUSE Award winning singer/songwriter/ guitarist/harmonica player with strong influences from her Irish roots. £6 on the door. topic-folk-club.org.uk

FRIDAY 10 JUNE GRADUATE SUMMER SHOW 10TH - 18TH, BRADFORD SCHOOL OF ART The end-of-year show at Bradford School Of Art and Northern School Of Creative Industries. Preview on 10 June from 4.30pm. Graduate fashion show from 6.30pm and 8.30pm. Open Monday to Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 3pm.

Free entry. bradfordcollege.ac.uk/events/2016/summer-show

SINGING/SONGWRITING WORKSHOP W/ NICK HALLSWORTH 3PM, BRADFORD SCHOOL OF ART A chance to perform your own work at the Graduate. No experience required.

Free event. Limited places. josie.tothill@rocketmail.com

WHERE TO INVADE NEXT PLUS SATELLITE Q&A 6.15PM, PICTUREHOUSE AT NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM UK Premiere including Q&A with Michael Moore live via satellite from Sheffield Doc/Fest. picturehouses.com/cinema/National_Media_ Museum

NERVOUS ‘ORSE 8PM, BENTLEY’S LIVE LOUNGE Come join the ‘Orse on their Where This Now Finds Us.. tour at Bentley’s Live Lounge Bradford as they play favourite ‘Orse tracks plus a few new numbers. facebook.com/Bentleyslivelounge

TCHA 8.30PM, THE CASTLE A number of well-known local performers, which includes Nancy Varo from the 309s, have come together to bring a superb mix of styles of music.

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SATURDAY 11 JUNE PERMACULTURE COURSE 11TH - 12TH, HORTON COMMUNITY FARM A two day introduction to permaculture course, which will cover the basics of permaculture design, ethics and principles.

The cost of the course is £50-£100. For more information and booking, contact Charlie: wildplantfood@yahoo.co.uk hcf.org.uk

TRANSIT - ZENDEH 7.30PM, THEATRE IN THE MILL A new performance exploring the impact of the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 on one father-daughter relationship.

Tickets £9 / £7. brad.ac.uk/theatre/whats-on/zendeh

HOPPY BIRTHDAY 8PM, THE JACOBS Beer festival celebrating The Jacobs third birthday, with live music from Chris The Man In The Hat Martin, £2.90 festival pints, and complimentary food. Free entry. facebook.com/JacobsAleHouse

AC/DC EXPERIENCE 8PM, TRASH BAR & NIGHTCLUB Live music at Bradford’s late night rock bar and club. Open until 5am with resident DJs keeping you rocking into the early hours. £5 on the door.

MARY MACK LIVE 8PM, THE SUN HOTEL Outrageous cabaret every Saturday! Open from 12 noon karaoke from 4pm, drag hosts from 8pm, cabaret from 10pm, open till 3am. Free entry all day and night. facebook.com/sunbradford

MONDAY 13 JUNE BEEHIVE POETS FEAT. WINSTON PLOWES 8.30PM, NEW BEEHIVE INN A mutually-supportive poetry group meeting every Monday, with Winston Plowes and another reader tbc. £3 suggested donation.

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TUESDAY 14 JUNE CURRENT THINKING ON THE WESTERN III 14TH - 15TH, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD This two-day event seeks to draw together international scholars of all levels (independent scholars, postgraduate research students, early career researchers & established researchers) and media practitioners whose work engages with the Western on film. Paid event, find more information online. bradford-city-of-film.com/current-thinking-onthe-western-iii

GRADUATE FILM & MEDIA SHOWCASE 2PM - 5PM, PICTUREVILLE CINEMA As part of Bradford School Of Art and Northern School of Creative Industries graduate summer show. Free entry. bradfordcollege.ac.uk/events/2016/summer-show

THURSDAY 16 JUNE ROCK AGAINST RACISM EXHIBITION LAUNCH 6PM - 8PM, IMPRESSIONS GALLERY Join us for the official launch of Rock Against Racism. The exhibition will be opened by Tom Robinson, musician, broadcaster and pivotal figure in the RAR movement. Free, everyone welcome. impressions-gallery.com/events

LATES: BRAINS 6.30PM - 9.30PM, NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Visit Lates for another fantastic free night of exclusive entertainment for adults at the National Media Museum.

Meet scientists and artists as they explore what goes on inside our heads with demonstrations and activities about brain imaging, human perception and new technologies that measure, harness and display the incredible power of our minds.

Free entry. nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN 7.30PM, ALHAMBRA THEATRE The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain bring The Gigasecond Tour to the Alhambra Theatre. Tickets £24.50.

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TOPIC FOLK CLUB - PAULA RYAN 8.30PM, GLYDE HOUSE This York-based but well-travelled singer/ songwriter originally from Tipperary returns, with her Irish warmth, wit and passion. £6 on the door. topic-folk-club.org.uk

FRIDAY 17 JUNE BRUNCH AGAINST BIGOTRY 12PM - 1PM, IMPRESSIONS GALLERY Tour of Rock Against Racism exhibition by photographer Syd Shelton. Free, no booking required. impressions-gallery.com/events

SLIPNOWT 8PM, TRASH BAR & NIGHTCLUB

FADOUBLEGOT - JAMAL GERALD (WORK IN PROGRESS) 7.30PM, THEATRE IN THE MILL Inspired by a personal homophobic experience, this autobiographical performance focuses on the ups and downs of pride and self-loathing, and finding a place where you shouldn’t be afraid to celebrate your individuality.

Tickets £4. brad.ac.uk/theatre/whats-on/jamal-gerald

THE NILE PROJECT 7.30PM, ALHAMBRA THEATRE

With an authentic sound and stage show, Slipnowt bring everything you would expect from a real Slipknot show right on your doorstep - expect stage diving, pyro, masks, beer kegs and general mayhem. £5 on the door.

The European premiere of The Nile Project brings together forward-thinking musicians from six of the 11 countries across the Nile Basin, channelling the unsung beauty of East African traditions to create the new sound of a shared Nile identity. Tickets from £18. bradford-theatres.co.uk/whats-on

WILSON & MCGLADDY 8.30PM, THE CASTLE

DR BEVERLEY BALLCRUSHER LIVE 8PM, THE SUN HOTEL

A guitar and fiddle playing duo from Saddleworth, who perform a mix of selfpenned songs and well-known favourites.

Free entry. facebook.com/erebus77

SATURDAY 18 JUNE 1940s DAY 1PM, QUEENSBURY VILLAGE Queensbury village set to take a trip down memory lane. Back to the 1940s, an all-singing, all-dancing affair. With brass bands, army vehicles, stalls, food and refreshments as well as evening entertainment, there will be something for everyone to enjoy. Free event. www.queensbury-village.co.uk

DELIUS SUMMER FAIR 11AM - 4PM, DELIUS ARTS CENTRE

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Rock ‘n’ Roll, Howlin’ Johnny is BACK, and he’s brought the Devil’s Rejects with him! Free entry. facebook.com/alsdimebarbradford

Come along to The Delius Summer Fair for a day of free activities, information and inspiration. Wonderful wares and hands-on workshops for the whole family, with stalls from local producers and makers of all kinds. Try something new, find out how you can get involved in making Bradford more sustainable all while enjoying delicious homemade delights. Free entry. www.artworkscreative.org.uk

HOWLIN’ JOHNNY // THE DEVILS REJECTS 7PM, AL’S DIME BAR Hellbilly Swamp Trash Skiffle and Country

Outrageous cabaret every Saturday! Open from 12 noon, karaoke from 4pm, drag hosts from 8pm, cabaret from 10pm, open till 3am. Free entry all day and night. facebook.com/sunbradford

BOLLING HALL PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION 8PM - 2AM, BOLLING HALL This historic building is full of trapped and passing spirits. Join the investigation using spirit boards, glass deviation, K2, EVP, and many more. Tickets £35.

Facebook ‘Yorkshire Ghost Hunts’

SUNDAY 19 JUNE BRADFORD CYCLE CLUB: CALDER VALLEY 8.30AM, PAVILION CAFE For those who like hills, this group ride up Calder Valley is a great cycle (not for the faint hearted!!!) and approximately 45-46 miles. facebook.com/groups/BradfordCycleClub

GUIDED WALK OF HISTORIC MERCHANT QUARTER OF BRADFORD 11AM, FORSTER SQUARE STATUE Little Germany, the Wool Exchange and Bradford city centre - a walk through the historic merchant quarters of Bradford, see the buildings and hear about the lives of Bradford’s merchants who built the great Victorian city. The walk lasts one and a half hours. Cost £5, pay on the day. bradfordjewish.org.uk

FATHERS’ DAY CARVERY 12PM, VALLEY PARADE

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Treat dads and granddads to lunch at their favourite club - Bradford City FC - and take a look behind the scenes of the club as experts guide you around the stadium on a post-lunch tour. Tickets £15.50. bradfordcityfcevents.co.uk

MONDAY 20 JUNE BRADFORD FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY TALKS 10AM, GLYDE HOUSE Family history to the rescue - land law/ title deeds with intestacy, marriage settlements lunacy and inheritance of land by daughters of David Lambert. Tea and coffee served from 10am with the talk at 10.30am. Tickets £2 or £1 for members. facebook.com/GlydeHouse

TUESDAY 21 JUNE THE STRUGGLE FOR CHANGE - THE YOUTH MOVEMENT IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 5.15PM, DELIUS ARTS CENTRE Come and see a film about the inspiring Telema movement and hear first-hand from Congolese peace and human rights activists. There will be food, a short film and speakers. Free entry. www.artworkscreative.org.uk

ALEX EDEN’S BLUES JAM 8PM, FACTORY STREET STUDIOS, BD4 9NW Alex Eden (Crosscut Saw) will be hosting this special blues jam. Once a month you’ll be able to get up with the house band, join in, dance and enjoy some quality blues with some of the finest blues musicians in the country. Free entry. factorystreet.co.uk

JOSHUA BURKETT / CRYSTALLINE ROSES / JON COLLINS 8PM, FUSE ART SPACE Psych folk connoisseur Joshua Burkett is one of the New Weird America scene’s early pioneers, affiliated with Sunburned Hand Of The Man. His mumblings are reclusive and lie buried under anxious banjo picking and quiet acoustic strums.

With support from Crystalline Roses and Jon Collins. £4 on the door. wearefuse.co

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WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE CINEMATHEQUE BRADFORD PRESENTS – A PECK ON THE CHEEK (IN) 6PM, STUDENT CENTRAL LECTURE THEATRE, BRADFORD UNIVERSITY As part of Refugee Week 2016. An awardwinning film by Tamil director Mani Ratnam about a young adopted refugee girl searching for her birth mother in Sri

Lanka. Admission free for asylum seekers and refugees. Suggested donation £5 for everybody else. cinemathequebradford.wordpress.com

EARTHEATER 8PM, FUSE ART SPACE Under the pseudonym Eartheater, Alexandra Drewchin is a multiinstrumentalist and vocalist based in Queens, New York. Eartheater explores incendiary subjects like alternate realities strung in the vastness of infinity, the ambiguity of words, moral surreality, the evolution of sexuality in a digital age, and the nature of the mother board. £4 on the door. wearefuse.co

THURSDAY 23 JUNE TOPIC FOLK CLUB - JESS MORGAN 8.30PM, GLYDE HOUSE Topic debut for this hardworking and well-travelled singer/songwriter with heartfelt and passionate delivery. £6 on the door. topic-folk-club.org.uk

FRIDAY 24 JUNE CHER & AMY WINEHOUSE CABARET DINNER 7PM, NAPOLEONS CASINO Tribute night and dinner for just £25 per person, including complimentary drink on arrival, four-course meal and a £5 bet. napoleons-casinos.co.uk/bradford/whats-on

MAJESTY 7PM, AL’S DIME BAR Fun reggae band Majesty are at Dime for their debut performance, and it’s going to be something very special. Don’t miss out!

Free entry. facebook.com/alsdimebarbradford

SPEED A**EHOLES 7.30PM, 1IN12 CLUB Night of brutal metal at the 1in12 club presenting Wretched Soul (heavy thrash metal hailing from Canterbury), When Giants Collide (progressive groove based metal), Zealous (tech metal from Halifax) and Dravenfall (five-piece hard rock). £4 members / £5 guests on the door. facebook.com/1in12

NIGHT MARKET 8PM, BREWHAUS & STEIN BIERKELLER Browse through stalls offering a broad range of unique niche goods, including arts and crafts, jewellery, clothing, handmade and continental gifts, records and musical items. Street food and entertainment throughout the day. Free

stalls, free entry. Email charlotte@ tokyoindustries.com to apply for a stall. www.brew-haus.co.uk

playing alternative rock, punk, ska, and metal. £5 on the door, £4 NUS. facebook.com/trapdoorbradford

SINGERS, MUSICIANS & POETS 8.30PM, THE CASTLE

MONDAY 27 JUNE

Come and sing a song, play a tune, recite a poem or come and relax and listen and enjoy the atmosphere whilst supping a pint of quality real ale. Free entry. facebook.com/erebus77

LISTEN UP! 9PM-2AM, BRADFORD BREWERY Expect a journey through vintage funk and soul, dancefloor disco and good times reggae and ska. Listen Up play old vinyl records and the bar serves up some fine locally-brewed ales. Free entry. www.facebook.com/listenUpBradford

SATURDAY 25 JUNE 1960s WEEKEND 25TH - 26TH, HAWORTH VILLAGE Get your 60s gladrags on and join the party. Saturday and Sunday. Free entry. haworth-village.org.uk

ARMED FORCES DAY 11AM - 4PM, CITY PARK Bradford stands together to remember the courage and bravery of our armed forces at this special drumhead service.

Enjoy performance poetry, music, dance and workshops inspired by internationally acclaimed Pakistani artist, Imran Qureshi’s sculpture, Garden with in a Garden. Free event. www.cityparkbradford.com

GINA G-SPOT LIVE 8PM, THE SUN HOTEL Outrageous cabaret every Saturday! Open from 12 noon, karaoke from 4pm, drag hosts from 8pm, cabaret from 10pm, open till 3am. Free entry all day and night. facebook.com/sunbradford

TRAPDOOR 10PM - 4AM, AMP BAR, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD The legendary last Saturday of every month rock and alternative party! DJs

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BEEHIVE POETS: WORKSHOP 8.30PM, NEW BEEHIVE INN A mutually-supportive poetry group meeting every Monday. Workshop night critical and constructive feedback on your poetry - bring at least 6 copies. Free entry. beehivepoets.org.uk

TUESDAY 28 JUNE FOOTLOOSE 28TH - 2ND JULY, ALHAMBRA THEATRE Kick off your Sunday shoes and cut loose as the explosive rock ‘n’ roll musical sensation Footloose bursts onto stage in a remastered show sure to get your toes tapping. Starring Gareth Gates and Maureen Nolan. Tickets from £17.50. bradford-theatres.co.uk/whats-on

THURSDAY 30 JUNE TOPIC FOLK CLUB - SAM KELLY DUO 8.30PM, GLYDE HOUSE Sam, formerly a teenage finalist on Britain’s Got Talent, now considered one of the most exciting young prospects on the folk scene. Latest news - Sam won the Horizon Award at the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. £6 on the door. topic-folk-club.org.uk

FRIDAY 1 JULY SHIPLEY STREET ARTS FESTIVAL 1ST - 3RD, SHIPLEY Shipley Street Arts Festival brings first class street entertainment to Shipley. #SSAF2016 shipleystreetarts.com

MOIST TIGER 7PM, 1IN12 CLUB Regular punk, rock, ska and indie night returns with the quite frankly amazing China Shop Bull headlining alongside The Crash Mats, Get Human and Cordell.

Come down for dancing, cheap booze and cracking music! £4 members / £5 guests

on the door. facebook.com/1in12

LOVE, BOMBS & APPLES 7.30PM, THEATRE IN THE MILL Love, Bombs and Apples is the comic and poignant new play from award-winning playwright Hassan Addulrazzak (Baghdad Wedding, The Prophet) - a tale of four men, each from different parts of the globe, all experiencing a moment of revelation. Tickets £9 / £7. brad.ac.uk/theatre/whats-on/love-bombs-apples

HOODOO OPERATORS 8PM, BRADFORD BREWERY Hoodoo Operators are delighted to be playing at Bradford Brewery. There’s not much the Hoodoos like better than beer!

Free entry. facebook.com/BradfordBrewery

LIVE @ THE 1875 8PM, THE 1875 BAR Music night with blues and ragtime masters Gerry Cooper and Phil Snell.

Supported by Tree, a female folk-metal guitarist from Leeds and Joe Kemp, a soulful singer /songwriter also from Leeds, offering a mix of folk, acoustic jazz and soul. Free entry. facebook.com/the1875

JATP JAZZ: PARADISE TRIO 8.30PM, GLYDE HOUSE Reflective melodies with rich harmonies – inspired by the Jimmy Guiffre trios of the 1960s. £5 members / £7 guests on the door. jatpjazz.blogspot.co.uk

SATURDAY 2 JULY SKA & VINTAGE REGGAE FESTIVAL 3PM - 2AM, AMP BAR, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD All-dayer with live music from Natural Rhythm, The Indecision, King Zepha, Selah Sounds, The Style Selecktors, Trenchtown UK, and The Uplifters.

Tickets £20.

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10 - 18 June

Lister Building, Carlton Street, Bradford, BD7 1AY

Higher Education Preview

Graduate Fashion Show

10th June 2016 @ 4.30 - 8.30pm

10th June 2016 @ 1.30pm 6.30pm & 8pm FREE

BA (Hons) Graphic Media Design HND Art & Design HND Creative Media Production BA (Hons) Fashion BA (Hons) Film BA (Hons) Interior Design BA (Hons) Media Make-Up with Special Effects HND Music BA (Hons) Visual Arts HND Performing Arts HND Production Arts BA (Hons) Photography HNC / HND Photography BA (Hons) Surface Design Textile Innovation

Graduate Film & Media Showcase 14th June 2016 @ 2pm - 5pm National Media Museum Pictureville Cinema FREE

‘Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!

By Dario Fo 16th & 17th June 2016 @ 7pm Henry Mitchell Hall FREE HND Performing Arts

Further Education Preview 10th June 2016 @ 4.30 - 8.30 pm Access to Higher Education Art and Design Creative and Digital Media Apprenticeship Diploma & Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production Diploma in Art and Design Foundation Studies Diploma in Art and Design (Level 3) Diploma in Art and Design (Level 2) Extended Diploma in Art and Design Extended Diploma in Graphic Design / Interactive Media Diploma & Extended Diploma in Photography (Level 2 / Level 3) Extended Diploma in Fashion & Clothing Extended Diploma in Interior Design Extended Diploma in Music Diploma & Extended Diploma in Performing Arts (Level 2 / Level 3)

Open Monday to Friday 10am - 5pm Saturday 11am - 3pm / Closed Sundays Design by Samanta Gonzalez-Harte

Bradford School of Art, Lister Building, Carlton Street, Bradford, BD7 1AY @BdSchoolofArt

01274 438998

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