The Bradford Review | Issue 32 | Oct|Nov 2017

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Film

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Editors Note

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Editors Note Welcome to the new-look, new-format Bradford Review. We’ve made some fairly bold changes which we hope will make the magazine more functional and accessible for new and existing readers.

The most significant of these is the decision to publish bi-monthly, rather than monthly. This will give us more time to plan content and ensure each issue is packed with useful information. It also makes it harder for you to miss an issue!

This beautiful red Jaguar won best in show at @bfdclassic back in August

We have also introduced themed sections, so it’s easier to navigate the magazine and find the information you need. Plus, as you will have seen for yourself, we have given the whole publication a dramatic redesign with new fonts, layouts and features.

Hopefully you approve of the changes and we can help you make some exciting plans for the next few months.

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News & Updates

News and Updates

Bradford Live secures operator for the Odeon

Baldwin onboard for Bradford

Bradford Live have announced NEC Group International (NECGI), part of Birmingham’s NEC Group, will be the operating partner for the Bradford Odeon.

A premiership football club chief executive has been named as Bradford’s new chair of the board for Producer City - Bradford’s economic partnership.

The NEC Group will take the iconic building on a 30-year lease, investing more than £2m in its development back into a live entertainment venue. The transformed Odeon is due to open in 2020 with a programme of live music, comedy and other live performances.

Bradford born David Baldwin is to become the new ambassador for the district and hopes to lead Bradford into the big time as he has done for Burnley Football Club.

The venue will be the biggest mid-size venue in the country outside London, putting Bradford firmly back on the national live music touring circuit.

Lee Craven, Director of Bradford Live, said, “Bradford Live is delighted to announce NEC Group International as our Operator Partner for the Odeon. They bring a wealth of experience and resource and the work they did to win the bid was hugely impressive.

They understand the building thoroughly and what its transformation will mean for the City.”

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David was Chief Executive at Bradford City Football Football Club for seven years up until November 2014, after which he joined Burnley.

He is a familiar face with strong connections and a huge passion for the district, with both a national and international profile.

And his previous roles as an entrepreneur in retail, hotels, working with the community and in sport have meant he is used to kickstarting success whilst managing huge budgets.

David has stepped into the shoes of Professor Lord Patel of Bradford who worked at the highest levels of Government across a range of departments.

News & Updates

The 10th Bradford Family Learning Festival Ten is the magic number, as ten cultural teams join forces for the 10th Bradford Family Learning Festival, taking place at various locations across the city centre and district from 21 – 29 October 2017.

Since 2008, the Festival has been bringing together education and culture-based organisations in Bradford to create fun activities and events aimed at encouraging and enabling families from across the district to learn together, focusing on two ‘Super Saturday’ events around the October half term.

Market to Host Permanent Events Space

Encouraging Signs for Bradford BID

Bradford Markets are in the process of creating a dedicated events space centrally located in the Oastler Centre.

The campaign to create a city centre Business Improvement District is gathering pace, with over 130 responses to a feasibility study suggesting overwhelming support for the idea.

A review of the market’s potential to hold more events and provide a platform for community-led projects has allowed the service to identify better usage of vacant units in the middle of the market. It will be launched on Saturday 28th October for the annual Halloween event and will host The Print Fair in November as well as a Young Traders Fair in December.

If succesful the BID could generate around £600,000 a year to be spent on improving business performance in the area.

The campaign team are expected to reveal the outcomes of the feasibility study in November, with a business plan to follow in autumn 2018.

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Business Events

Business

6 November, Bradford College Yen Expo returns to Bradford College’s impressive David Hockney building this November and is expected to attract more than 1,500 delegates, with £1 billion worth of industry and services on show.

Now in its sixth year, the conference brings together businesses and organisations from across the county to share ideas, develop new opportunities and showcase their products and services to a broad-ranging business audience.

Attendance continues to grow year-on-year. More than 1,000 delegates visited the 2016 event - a fourfold increase on the 250 turnout recorded before YEN took over the running.

Building on some of last year’s innovations, the 2017 event will be even more interactive. The day’s activities will be live-streamed via YouTube and Facebook and live Twitter feeds onscreen will enable delegates to engage and interact in real time.

It will also include a Tech Expo, covering everything from BIG Data to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), with participants including Google Digital Garage, the multi-million pound initiative to help businesses develop their digital and online skills. yenexpo.uk

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Favourite place to hang out in and around Bradford?

The Midland Hotel Local event you could not live without?

The Bradford Street party Local business you admire?

Morrisons What’s the key to success?

Perseverance Local person you admire (past or present)?

Sir Kenneth Morrison Name a guilty pleasure: Cookie Dough Ice Cream

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Networking Tips #1

By Phil Cockayne (President at JCI Bradford)

Don’t touch your phone and get in the zone

WNY Chamber Speed Networking

JCI Bradford - Public Speaking Group

9 November, Kala Sangam

19 October, Midland Hotel

Kala Sangam host West & North Yorkshire Chamber’s bi-monthly Speed Networking breakfast event, attracting attendees from a wide range of business backgrounds.

The format of the event allows you to begin networking as soon as you arrive, and then take part in the speed networking session.

This group, led by Phil Cavalier-Lumley, a Past President of JCI Bradford provides a friendly and constructive setting to practice your public speaking skills. Public speaking is a core skill in refining your overall communication and confidence and, it’s better to practice in a safe-space than when the stakes are high. Email phil.cockayne@ jcibradford.org.uk for further details.

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How many people do you meet who have an infectious love of networking. Not many, right? Although I’m not claiming to be one, I do have a soft spot for going into a room full of people and talking to the first person I come across. I’m a firm believer that everyone comes to a networking event to get something out of it and, do you know the person who gets nothing out of it? The person on their phone! If you’re on your phone, you’re not networking (unless you’re an Enterprise Architect and you’re sorting a server issue from your phone). I’ve started doing something at networking events where if I see someone who’s sitting down by themselves or looking at their phone, they’re usually my first target. Why? Rather than awkwardly joining a group and standing to wait your turn, someone on their phone is an easy target. However, I’m one of the few who adopts this approach so my first piece of advice is don’t touch your phone. Be in the zone! If you’re not in the zone, great, there’s only one way to start! Go and start talking to someone.

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Science & Media

Tim Peake’s Spacecraft at National Science and Media Museum

Radio Reinvented

Until 19 November

On 30 September 1967, as the Summer of Love reached its climax, the old Home Service, Light Programme and Third were put to rest—and dear old Auntie nervously embraced pop. At exactly 7am on that Saturday morning, Tony Blackburn took to the air, welcomed everyone to ‘the exciting new sound of Radio 1’, and played his very first record, Flowers in the Rain. The BBC would never be the same again.

The spacecraft which transported Tim Peake, the UK’s first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, to and from the International Space Station, will be landing in Bradford for the public to come along and view.

The Soyuz TMA-19M capsule, complete with equipped interior and char marks on its outer body from its re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere, will be displayed along with its 25m diameter parachute.

The display of this iconic craft will be accompanied by an inspiring range of activities, including the ‘Space decent VR Experience’, narrated by Tim Peake himself, using headsets to recreate the experience of travelling over the International Space Station and the incredible 250-mile journey back down to earth inside the Soyuz TMA-19M. scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk

7 October, National Science & Media Museum

As part of the 50th birthday celebrations, the BBC is teaming up with the National Science and Media Museum and media historians at the University of Sussex for this one-off event. They’ll be exploring the role of radio in all our lives: the sets we had at home growing up, the technology that put our favourite voices and music on the air, the personalities who made it all happen behind the scenes.

There’ll be a chance to tour our collections, see new archive footage from the BBC’s vaults, and hear talks by broadcasters and historians.

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Steven Vinning in the Walking Dead

Science & Media

Comic-Con Extravaganza 8 October, Bradford City Football Club Unleashed Events brings the second incarnation of Bradford’s geeky family-friendly fun day to Valley Parade football stadium on 8th October.

Christopher Nolan from Star Wars Rogue One will be in attendance as a special guest and flying in all the way from the United States is Stephen Vining, best known for playing a multitude of different walkers in The Walking Dead. Joining Christopher and Stephen is Harry Potter and Star Wars actor Paul Warren, who is best known for his fantastic heavy prosthetic and creature roles in blockbuster movies. All three actors will be chatting to their fans about their cinematic careers, selling and signing autographs, and posing for selfies.

YouTube sensation the Yorkshire Yank will also be debuting as a guest at Bradford Unleashed, talking to fans old and new, and offering advice on how to become a YouTuber.

If you like displays you’ll be thrilled by the spectacular Star Wars scene at Bradford Unleashed, and if it’s interactive attractions you’re looking for you will not be disappointed by the great mix of retro and modern gaming available to play.

A host of amazing characters will delight convention-goers as they meet superheroes, Transformers Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, and even a huge walking dinosaur! A vast number of geeky trader tables with their enormous range of merchandise will keep even the most ardent shopper happy, and there’ll be plenty of opportunity to purchase a souvenir of your day out. www.unleashedtickets.co.uk

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Science & Media

Yorkshire Games Festival 2017 The Yorkshire Games Festival returns for its second year this November, once again showcasing some of the greatest talent and titles from across the videogames spectrum, as well as providing gamers and budding game makers unrivalled access to the industry.

The festival, organised and run by the National Science and Media Museum, offers insights into all aspects of the games industry, from studios such as the award-winning TT Games, Frontier Developments, Criterion Games and Naughty Dog, as well as hosting live shows and events such as WiFi Wars and the Let’s Play! Weekend, which features a wealth of games and activities.

For the first time, the festival will dedicate a day to school groups as it increases its scope for inspiring people of all ages and backgrounds to engage with the many aspects of videogame design, development and coding.

Highlights for the Delegate Programme start with an insight into the UK-based studio responsible for some of the most iconic games in recent memory, as Arthur Parsons,

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Head of Design at TT Games, discusses his lead role on various titles within the LEGO videogame franchise.

Tracy Spaight has worked in the industry since 2005 under many guises from project specialist to game developer. He now acts as Director of Special Projects at Wargaming. net, the developers and publishers of the World of Tanks online game, and will be talking about bringing history alive through gaming, AR and VR and the World of Tanks phenomenon.

Frontier Developments’ Louise McLennan and Sebastian Hickey will be revealing all about the development of BAFTA nominated Elite Dangerous - the latest (and some say, greatest) version of the legendary space combat and trading game from UK games luminary David Braben OBE. Louise started

YGF 2017 is also a homecoming for Iki Ikram, the award-winning VFX Artist, as he started his career more than 25 years ago while studying Graphic Design at Bradford College. Iki will be giving the festival’s keynote presentation on his work as an FX Artist at Naughty Dog. Legendary composer and musician David Wise has been producing game soundtracks since 1987, including many of UK developer Rare’s classics such as Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country and Diddy Kong Racing.

More recently, Wise has composed music for Sheffield developer Sumo Digital’s Snake Pass and for Playtonic Games’ smash hit platformer Yooka-Laylee. He will be discussing some of his most famous works and giving advice to any musicians interested in making soundtracks for videogames.

Kieran Crimmins and James Svensson from Criterion Games will host a session on their development work as Art Director and Producer respectively for Electronic Arts’ Star Wars Battlefront VR Mission. They’ll be discussing how they recreated the Star Wars universe in virtual reality, along with a few of their trade secrets, including how to hide a Star Destroyer!

Other guests include Phil Duncan and Oli De-Vine, aka indie development team Ghost Town Games, whose debut game Overcooked was made from their lounge and recently took home the BAFTA for Best Family Game and Best British Game.

This year introduces the festival’s Let’s Play! weekend, with a host of activities designed for families and gamers of all ages.

The two-day event includes the Yorkshire Games Showcase, as the regional games industry descends on the National Science and Media Museum, bringing the best in new, upcoming and under-the-radar titles.

As part of the showcase, Creative England’s GamesLab Leeds programme will be offering advice and demonstrating some of the projects they have funded across the Leeds City Region. Elsewhere Videogames, But… shows the diversity of the medium with small, experimental and unusual, yet beautifully formed games.

Science & Media

her career at Disney Interactive and is now the lead UI designer on Jurassic World Evolution. Sebastian, an alumni of the University of Bradford, is the lead UI designer on Elite Dangerous.

The Museum also welcomes back the Impact Gamers LiVE! show to the Museum’s Pictureville Cinema (Saturday only – tickets £2/£3), which takes audience participation to a new level, inspiring children to get involved in games and coding. The Impact Gamers team will also be bringing along their homemade arcade games – all created by young people from Bradford (free to play).

The Yorkshire Games Festival is produced by the National Science and Media Museum in partnership with the games business network Game Republic.

Ticketed events are now on sale via scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/ yorkshiregamesfestival Twitter: @YorksGamesFest

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Film

Film

18 September – 15 November, Picturehouse at National Science and Media Museum, Bradford To infinity and beyond! A two-month long Lost In Space film season is coming to Picturehouse Bradford, celebrating the National Science and Media Museum’s display of the Soyuz TMA-19M capsule that carried ESA Astronaut Tim Peake to the International Space Station (ISS) and back to Earth in 2016.

On Monday 18 September, Picturehouse is hosting a 40th anniversary screening of Close Encounters Of the Third Kind, digitally restored to a 4K presentation. Audiences will also be treated to a short film about the making of Close Encounters, including an all-new interview with Steven Spielberg, the man behind this genre-defining masterpiece.

‘Reel’ film fans can rejoice at the return of 1950s CinemaScope classic Forbidden Planet – a magnificent scifi interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest – on 35mm (Thursday 19 October) and James Cameron’s 1986 hit Aliens on 70mm (Thursday 2 November).

No space-themed film season is complete without that other master sci-fi director, Ridley Scott, and so his celebrated 2015 rescue mission The Martian is back in IMAX 3D on Wednesday 20 September.

On Rewind Wednesdays 15 November, Lost In Space ends with the IMAX hit Interstellar.

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The Death of Stalin Director: Armando Iannucci. Starring: Steve Buscemi, Andrea Riseborough, Jeffrey Tambor. UK, 2017. 104 mins The internal political landscape of 1950’s Soviet Russia takes on darkly comic form in a new film by Emmy award-winning and Oscar-nominated writer/ director Armando Iannucci.

In the days following Stalin’s collapse, his core team of ministers tussle for control; some want positive change in the Soviet Union, others have more sinister motives.

Their one common trait?

They’re all just desperately trying to remain alive. A film that combines comedy, drama, pathos and political manoeuvring.

Featured Film

Lost in Space Film Season

Film Listings Widescreen Weekend Film

12 - 15 October National Science & Media Museum Widescreen Weekend is a unique festival of large-screen formats and cinema technologies celebrating the past, present and future of film.

Enjoy a long weekend of big, bold and wide cinema experiences—glorious 70mm screenings, new Cinerama restorations and great guests will remind you why going to the movies is so magical. scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk

Sixteen Candles (15) 8 October Picturehouse, National Science & Media Museum Life sucks for Samantha Baker. The boy she likes doesn’t know she exists, and nobody in her family has remembered her birthday. In this hilarious romp through the perils of adolescence, her ‘sweet sixteenth’ is anything but.

Wide Screen Weekend Dunkirk 12 October, 7pm Picturehouse, National Science & Media Museum Dunkirk sees Christopher Nolan take on WWII with a story of survival and spirit. Perspectives from land, sea and air create an overall feeling of suspense, echoing Churchill’s famous speech. scienceandmediamuseum. org.uk/whats-on

Wide Screen Weekend La La Land 13 October, 1.30pm Bradford IMAX A triumphant, uplifting musical filled with brilliant performances and memorable original songs, La La Land was the finest film of 2016.

This is a rare chance to experience it in spectacular IMAX. scienceandmediamuseum. org.uk/whats-on

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami 25 October, 7.15pm Picturehouse, National Science & Media Museum An enlightening evening with the inimitable icon, as she discusses her life and work with her closest collaborators from the worlds of music, fashion, art and film. The discussion follows an exclusive preview of Sophie Fiennes’ highly anticipated new documentary.

Aliens 2 November, 8.30pm Picturehouse, National Science & Media Museum The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ripley is discovered in a deep sleep half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded on the same planet where the aliens were first found.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 5 November Picturehouse, National Science & Media Museum The effortlessly likeable tale of the charmed Ferris Bueller, who bunks off school for the day with his girlfriend and best mate. Full of daring and ingenuity, this is one man’s struggle to take it easy.

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17-28 October, The Alhambra Theatre 27 - 28 October, Theatre in the Mill What does Canada’s first woman to have a worldwide Netflix special have in common with Britain’s first woman to have a worldwide Netflix special? They are both single mothers with too many pets. And they are both Katherine Ryan. This Canadian abroad is the UK’s 2017 breakout star. Katherine recently garnered rave reviews as the presenter and writer of Channel 4’s critically acclaimed prime time series, How Did You Get So Rich? and also regularly appears on all the UK’s major panel shows, from BBC’s QI, Have I Got News For You andLive at the Apollo to Dave’s Taskmaster and Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats as well as co-hosting Comedy Central’s upcoming Your Face or Mine with Jimmy Carr

This thoughtful and passionate new work, Rebecca Atkinson-Lord’s first solo show, challenges the status quo around being who you are versus who you have to be to succeed in society today. Reflecting on 200 years of personal and political history, this incisive performance blends rhetoric from previous UK heads of government with the highly personal story of Rebecca’s heritage and early life in the Midlands.

Born and raised under Thatcher and her legacy, everything Rebecca’s parents taught her was about betterment and aspiration.

As a scholarship child at a private school, Rebecca was given elocution lessons to make sure she would never speak like her family Katherine recently garnered rave reviews as the again. Bullied by her sisters and cousins for sounding posh, when Rebecca went presenter and writer of Channel 4’s critically acclaimed prime time series, How Did You Get to university the genuinely posh students So Rich? and also regularly appears on all the laughed at how she spoke. Thirty years on, UK’s major panel shows, from BBC’s QI, Have Rebecca can pass for one of the Liberal Urban Elite, but all she wants is to go home; I Got News For You and Live at the Apollo to Dave’s Taskmaster and Channel 4’s 8 Out of to have a home and a community where she’s 10 Cats as well as co-hosting Comedy Central’s not the odd one out. upcoming Your Face or Mine with Jimmy Carr.

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Spectacular event to Illuminate Bradford!

Theatre & Performance

by James Lee

Bradford Council is to stage several world class acts as part of its Illuminate Bradford mini festival in October.

The free event promises three days of spectacular outdoor evening entertainment including large scale multimedia performances, interactive light installations and colourful street theatre.

Cutting edge 3D projection specialists, the Colour Project will tell the fascinating story of Bradford’s incredibly rich and fascinating history through a high tech light, movement and sound show.

People will be encouraged to ‘play’ the Illumaphonium, a work combining a beautifully tuned collection of illuminated aluminium chime bars which respond to touch by generating constantly changing patterns of light and sound.

As dusk falls three large translucent sculptures will magically become animated with the audience’s faces, cleverly lip-syncing them to mysterious soundtracks in Talking Heads.

The Luminariun, which has been created specifically for Bradford, will be cleverly beamed onto the front of Bradford City Hall’s ornately carved facade.

A similar piece, Lightweight will capture and animate people’s faces, projecting them onto an eight foot tall inflatable video sphere which will shine out against the night sky.

Award-winning British Asian fusion arts company Nutkhut has teamed up with aerial acrobatics specialists The Dream Engine, to stage a breathtaking new show, Zamana, which means time in Urdu.

Irritating road works will become things of beauty and attraction in Bureau of Silly Ideas, a light installation with subversive silly twists.

The collaboration will feature high energy, dynamic dancers and an aerial acrobat suspended below a huge helium balloon.

Sixteen beautiful and quirky giant lantern sculptures created by master puppet makers Handmade Parade and Cecil Green Arts will grace City Park.

Some of the Illuminares sculptures will be over 19 feet tall and will move and interact with the audience.

Festival goers will be encouraged to seek out a number of playful and engaging light installations which will be placed around City Park and Bradford city centre.

The mini festival will also feature a number of colourful and quirky illuminated stilt walkers and roaming jugglers.

Funfair rides will operate in three separate locations and food and drink stalls will sell meals and refreshments.

Illuminate Bradford opens on Friday 13 October in City Park and Bradford city centre.

Event Information 13 - 15 October Free Event City Park, Bradford

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Women of the World Festival Theatre & Performance

by Aina Khan

It was the festival that pulled together women from all over Bradford under one roof for an electrifying weekend celebrating women and young girls. WOW Bradford is back again this November with a bang, and it’s set to be bigger and better than ever!

Last year’s festival was packed with the perfect dose of powerful discussions from the legacy of glass-ceiling-shattering women of Bradford, prostitution and domestic violence, to more light-hearted events such as a Beyoncé dance class and herbal remedy workshops.

This year’s WOW Bradford will see the badass women of Bradford discussion return honouring the female change-makers of the city; a sports empowerment workshop led

by Bradford Cobra’s Ezdihar Abdulmula; a performance from Dance United on domestic violence; hard-hitting talks on the role of women on the front line during World War One; Suffra-jitsu self defence classes reviving the self defence techniques used by suffragettes. Empowering, inspiring and rousing, there will be no shortage of things to do for the very youngest of Bradfordians to the very old, with a variety of events for all and even crèche facilities to ensure that no one misses out. WOW Bradford has always been about bringing people together from

all walks of life to smile, to laugh, and to cry together.

From Bradford to Beijing, WOW Bradford is part of a global movement of WOW festivals held across the world. What started as a women’s festival in London at Southbank Centre by the founder of WOW, Jude Kelly, has fast become the largest women’s festival in the world, with WOW festivals happening across five continents and over 1 million people involved. Next year will mark a century since women fought for the right to vote in the UK, and so the festival is only one of a handful of WOW’s honouring the legacy of women’s suffrage.

Last year, WOW Bradford was programmed by theatre director and Bradford lass Evie Manning. It was created with the input of Bradfordian women and men alike who had a say in what they wanted to see at the festival. This year the festival will continue its tradition of being led by the people, for the people. Local lasses Saliha Rubani and Laura Brooks are now carrying the WOW Bradford

Event Information 18 - 19 November, Kala Sangam arts centre and Bradford Cathedra Tickets go on sale on the 5 October at kalasangam.org/wow. Day pass is £8 (£6 concession) Twitter: WOW_Bradford

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torch, programming a tailored festival that has Bradford and her people at its very heart.

One of the most enduring legacies of the WOW Bradford festival from last year is that it has given a burst of confidence and a hunger for change for those who were involved. Both Saliha Rubani and Laura Brooks started out as volunteers last year, a change they’re now leading as they’ve made the giant leap from volunteering to now programming the entire festival. And then there’s the WOWsers, a group of young 15-18 year old young women from schools across the city, who not only created a powerful campaign promoting positive body image with the #IAmPerfectAsMe campaign that is now being used in WOW festivals across the country. They were singlehandedly responsible for convincing Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousufzai, to attend the festival, until she was taken ill on the day in a dramatic turn of events.

emerging as Bradford women are seizing the steering wheel, leading to the city towards greener pastures. From the very grassroots, to local arts organisation like The Brick Box, to Bradford council, Bradford’s women are the decision-makers calling the shots, true to Bradford’s rich history of fiercely passionate activism.

With WOW Bradford around the corner, this year’s festival will continue to inspire and empower even more women and young girls to take the wheel and push for change. But here at least in Bradford, to quote Beyoncé, “Who runs the world?” Right now, it seems Bradford women do.

So get involved! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Join our mailing list, and be a part of the WOW Bradford movement!

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Theatre Listings Theatre & Performance

The Truth to Power Café 8 November, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill The Truth to Power Café begins a unique twelve-month exploration into the power of free speech, and political activism as participants of all ages, beliefs, and backgrounds have five minutes to speak truth to power before a live audience by responding to the question: ‘Who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?’ bradford.ac.uk/theatre

Dogmatic - Jamal Gerald

Free to Stay - Displace Yourself Theatre

7 October, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

13 October, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

This interactive performance focuses on free speech and the way we talk about racial and gender inequality. Dogmatic will explore the idea that all of our views should be expressed and challenged, as no idea is above scrutiny.

Free to Stay is a new play about belonging and an exploration of life without nationality, inspired by months of research with people who have first-hand experience of statelessness in the UK and overseas.

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Poetry at the Beehive Grease 9 - 14 October Alhambra Theatre It’s time to dust off your leather jackets, pull on your bobby-socks and come along to the biggest party in Bradford as Danny and Sandy fall in love all over again. bradford-theatres.co.uk

16 October The New Beehive Inn Matt Black, Derbyshire Poet Laureate from 2011-13 will be reading from his new pamphlet –Spoon Rebellion. Award winning translator and editor Andy Boobier will also be reading from his collection of poetry - Reader, Help me.

Stone Cold Murder 23 - 28 October Bingley Arts Centre Newlyweds Robert and Olivia Chappell have bought a small hotel in the Lake District, they are interrupted by the arrival of a hiker seeking shelter from the snow storm outside. Unlike her husband, Olivia senses danger. Could the stranger have anything to do with her dangerous ex-boyfriend?

Another visitor soon arrives, and a desperate fight for survival begins. bingleylittletheatre.co.uk

The Magic Fish ATMA Dance & Mayuri Boonham 24 October, 10am Kala Sangam A classic Indian tale retold through dance, storytelling and beatboxing for young thinking minds.

For ages 5 - 9. kalasangam.org

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Paul Chowdhry: Live innit

Nikah (work in progress) Tribe Arts

25 Ocober, 8pm City Varieties, Leeds

1 November City Varieties, Leeds

4 November, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

Following a series of critically acclaimed, sold out international tours, Simon Amstell begins his fifth stand up tour in the UK.

Following his 2015 100 date sell-out tour, comedy powerhouse and star of Taskmaster, Live at The Apollo and Stand Up for the Week, Paul Chowdhry brings his highly anticipated new stand-up show to venues nationwide.

Nikah is the intimate story of a boy from Bradford – Siddique Akbar Ali. Nikah is the inspiring story of endurance, empowerment and the realisation of the self.

‘What is this?’ promises to be a deeply personal, funny exploration of beauty, intimacy, freedom, sex and love.

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Poetry at the Beehive

The Class Project – Written and performed

by Rebecca AtkinsonLord

6 November The New Beehive Inn

27 - 29 October, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill, Bradford This is a show about belonging.

About tribes and families. It’s about always being an imposter and trying to remember how to speak in your own voice. brad.ac.uk/theatre/whatson/the-class-project/

Kerry Godliman 2 November The Studio, Bradford Kerry Godliman is back on tour!

Don’t miss a great evening of comedy. bradford-theatres.co.uk

Kathakali 3 November, 7pm Kala Sangam

Blood Brothers 30 October - 4 November The Alhambra Theatre Written by Willy Russell, the legendary Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences. bradford-theatres.co.uk

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Simon Amstell - What Is This?

Sue Vickerman, poet and former teacher at Shanghai Jianqiao University will be reading her poetry. John Foggin, awarded 2015-16, Poetry Business book and pamphlet Competition, for pamphlet Much Possessed, will be reading from his latest- Outlaws and Fallen Angels

Tango Moderno 7 - 11 November The Alhambra Theatre Tango Moderno is the irresistible hot new stage spectacular from tango superstars Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace. bradford-theatres.co.uk

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Kala Sangam is delighted to welcome the Kala Chethena Kathakali Company back to Bradford with another opportunity to see superb international artists from Kerala in India to perform this legendary art form. With a story similar to Snow White this performance is perfect for families.

Featuring live music, Kathakali uses drama, dance, costumes and make-up to create one of the most visually exciting and powerful forms of theatre in the world.

7 - 11 November, 7.30pm Bradford Playhouse

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A gritty northern drama by the Award winning Lancashire playwright Jim Cartwright. It’s a hectic night at a typical Northern Pub. The squabbling Landlord and Landlady are rushed off their feet tending to the lonely, the desperate, the eccentric, the inadequate and the simply thirsty. Fourteen characters reflect upon the joys and miseries of being part of a couple.

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The Low Moor Comical Company: Low Moor 1916

Les Misérables

Do not miss the legendary, multiaward-winning and ground-breaking rock musical RENT as it celebrates its incredible 20th anniversary.

This exhilarating landmark musical tells the thrilling story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive in New York City’s East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian excess.

15 November Bradford Cathedral

Les Misérables is the world’s longest running musical, seen by over 70 million people in 42 different countries. Now is your chance to see the winner of 76 international awards live on stage at the Bradford Playhouse.

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Jerry Sadowitz 10 November The Studio, Bradford Jerry Sadowitz - Comedian, Magician, Psychopath! returns to The Studio. bradford-theatres.co.uk

Low Moor 1916 chronicles life in Low Moor as local families are affected first by the war and then by the munitions works’ explosion in August. bradfordcathedral.org

Ghost Dances is Christopher Bruce’s haunting portrait of life and death in Latin America. bradford-theatres.co.uk

The Ken Dodd Happiness Show

Ken Dodd makes a welcome return to Bradford with his Happiness Show. bradford-theatres.co.uk

10 November, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill, Bradford An impassioned call to arms, a play and a campaign: TANJA is a dramatic exploration of immigration detention centres, starring Emily Ntshangase-Wood, a former Yarl’s Wood detainee. brad.ac.uk/theatre/whatson/tanja/

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15 - 17 November The Alhambra Theatre

18 November The Alhambra Theatre

TANJA - Stand and be Counted Theatre

23 - 25 November Bradford Playhouse

Cilla The Musical 28 November - 2 December Where it is Cilla - The Musical tells the extraordinary story of the teenage girl from Liverpool whose teenage dreams of stardom lead to her becoming one of Britain’s bestloved entertainers of all time. bradford-theatres.co.uk

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Big Top Beauty and the Beast

20 - 25 November The Alhambra Theatre

29 November - 1 December Bradford Playhouse

The smash hit musical comedy Hairspray is coming to Bradford with a production that is guaranteed to have you dancing the night away!

Bradford Players in their 91st year, present for you, for one week only, a spectacle the like of which you will never before have seen. Is it a panto? Is it a circus? Oh no it isn’t!

Oh yes it is? Oh no, yes....It’s both!

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FLING - Get Flung Tour 21 October, The Underground

Bradford’s FLING provide the previously unsearched-for missing link between T-Rex and the Fat White Family.

Forging together Glam Rock, Punk, and Psych with a solid sense of Northern irony and an ever-present aura of late night haziness FLING have created a sound which captivates, entertains and stands out from the crowd gaining support at Beats 1, BBC 6 Music, and a rapidly growing fanbase of ‘Flingers’.

Following a slew of home demos, and a run of their own ‘Get Flung’ night the band have teamed up with Lee Smith at Greenmount Studios (The Cribs / Pulled Apart By Horses) to record a number of new tracks to be released throughout late 2017 via Leeds indie label Dance to the Radio. .

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11 November Caroline Social Club, Caroline

The Saltaire Record & Retro Fair returns to the very retro setting of Caroline Social Club in Saltaire. Started in early 2015, it’s a cool little fair, which is building up quite a following. Popular with serious record collectors, casual collectors and for people looking for old music magazines, film books and posters, radios and record players and other quirky and offbeat retro collectables There are always plenty of vinyl records (and CDs) for music fans and collectors, ranging from Northern Soul rarities to special pressings of Beatles albums, plus all the range of music from rock to pop and jazz to folk, indie, disco and funk.

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TLR present...Blair Dunlop 27 October, Caroline Street Social Club Blair’s lyrics are at times reminiscent of a person who has lived a full and interesting life, yet this man is still in the early stages of his life and career Collaborating with his trusted writing partners of Dave Burn (AHAB), Gita Langley and Ed Harcourt, who will also be producing Blair’s next album, Blair has compiled a new collection of songs already being billed as the modern Heartbreaker. He is now locked in the studio with producer and collaborator Ed Harcourt and will release his new album in early 2018.

The singer-songwriter released his third fulllength album, ‘Gilded’, to rave reviews and embarked on a UK headline tour. Both singles from the album, ‘The Egoist’ and ‘356’ (both produced by Harcourt), were successfully playlisted by BBC Radio 2 over the summer of 2016 and the producers at Radio 2 are eagerly awaiting the new offering.

Topic Folk Club - James Hickman & Dan Cassidy 12 October, Glyde House A transatlantic duo inspired by the traditions of America and Britain, Hickman’s emotive, soaring vocals and driving guitar is complemented by Cassidy’s ingenious and virtuosic fiddling. Their sound flows from the connection between British and American folk with all the humour, heartbreak and excitement of these genres. The lively English wit of Hickman is set against Cassidy’s bonedry irony and American drawl as they take audiences on a dynamic and unforgettable transatlantic journey.

James (from Shrewsbury) has been performing folk music from the age of 13 Dan, brother of the late Eva Cassidy, hails from Maryland USA, and has been playing the fiddle from the age of 10 topicfolkclub.co.uk

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Bob Stanley: from Saint Etienne to Saltaire Music

by James Collingwood

Bob Stanley is a writer, journalist, film producer and film curator.With Sarah Cracknell and Pete Wiggs he is a member of the group Saint Etienne who have been making records since 1990. His excellent book Yeah Yeah Yeah - the Story of Modern Pop covers the period of pop music up to the year 2000 and as a journalist he has written for among others NME and Melody Maker and currently has a regular column in Record Collector. For the last three years or so Bob has lived in Saltaire. I interviewed Bob in a Saltaire café.

Bob, I knew you had connections with Saltaire but didn’t know you lived here. What attracted you to the place?

I came here for the first time about 20 years ago and have now been living here for about three years. I’ve always been interested in model settlements. My girlfriend is from Yorkshire and was feeling a bit homesick in London. There’s not as much networking either. With Saint Etienne Sarah is in Oxford and Pete is in Brighton but it doesn’t make it difficult. We work things out when we have to.

I always loved the way your albums have links between songs.

For instance on the track on Home Counties called Popmaster there’s a brilliant Ken Bruce Radio 2 spoof (“Hello Leonard from Saltaire” …)

How do the links come about and would you class your albums as “concept” albums?

For Popmaster we just contacted Ken Bruce on twitter and he agreed to do it. Nice guy.

All our albums are loosely themed. Home Counties is about where we grew up and BBC Radio is part of that. Most albums I like are concept albums in a way but don’t

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necessarily have to sound like Genesis’ Lamb Lies Down on Broadway for example!

Two songs on Home Counties I was fascinated to ask you about were Whyteleafe and Train drivers in Eyeliner. What are those songs about? Is Whyteleafe about Bowie?

Yeah, Bowie was from Bromley and always looked down his nose at Croydon – he used to say to his mates “that’s so fucking Croydon!” Whyteleafe is between Croydon and Caterham and we were imagining Bowie working in a job like insurance and travelling from Croydon. Train drivers in Eyeliner is about two things. People in ASLEF and their musical taste being post punk,rock & roll and Metal (playing Section 25, Gene Vincent and Whitesnake on the tannoy.) Also it’s about Nick Sanderson from the group Earl Brutus who became a train driver in his 40s because he wanted to be a train driver as a kid!

When I contacted you for this interview Glen Campbell had unfortunately died. Glen Campbell was obviously an influence?

Yeah and especially his work with Jimmy Webb and the songs with a sense of place

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or mentioning specific places like Galveston.

Jimmy Webb wrote a moving thing on Facebook about Campbell and how his kids called him “Uncle Glen” because he was such a nice guy.

You work continuously as a music journalist. Did you start on the fanzines?

I was living in Peterborough and working in a record shop. These guys used to come in …I’d go for a drink with them and they said oh we’ve been doing a fanzine for ages. We did that (Pop Avalanche) and then I did CAFF with Pete (Wiggs). We sent one off to James Brown who was in charge of live reviews for the NME. He sent me to review Johnny Cash.

That was my first review for the NME. Did being a music journalist have advantages in your work with Saint Etienne?

Well probably... particularly early on. I had a decent idea of how things worked and how labels worked. I was 25 when the first record came out and knew things like how not to make an awful deal. We always kept control of our records and our artwork in Britain. And with licensing... if someone

abroad wants to do a remix they have to ask permission. It wasn’t that useful sometimes in getting reviews from other journalists … definitely detected an element of jeolousy but that’s evened out now. People are multi-disciplined like Jarvis Cocker – doing different things. It’s baffling how people only do one thing.

What projects have you got lined up for the future both with Saint Etienne and personally?

Saint Etienne are doing European festivals and an American tour and there will be reissues in the future. Also been working on a couple of compilations. One is of Robert Kirby who was an arranger for Nick Drake and Sandy Denny which should be coming out at the end of the year. I’m also writing a prequel to Yeah Yeah Yeah which is about the birth of popular music up to the birth of rock and roll. It’s working out were these songs came from. There’s books on individual subjects but not linked. There’s a lot of research to do. I’m also going write a book about new towns and model settlements after I’ve finished this one.

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Music Listings Bradford Brewery Open Mic Night

Elastic Waste

6 October Bradford Brewery

Al’s Dime Bar

The stage will be open for you to broadcast your talent and perform in front of an audience. All types of music, poetry, comedy and other performances welcome.

14 October, 8pm Live pop punk from Elastic Waste.

TLR Present - Leverett 6 October, 8pm Caroline Street Social Club For folk fans, it simply doesn’t get any better than this! Leveret features three of England’s finest folk musicians in an exciting new collaboration. Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron are each regarded as masters of their instrument and are involved in numerous collaborations with a huge range of artists. Together their performances combine consummate musicianship, compelling delivery and captivating spontaneity.

Big Band Theory Smash HIFI & Support 13 October, 8pm The Underground Smash is the story of Leeroy Thornhill (The Prodigy) and Marten Horger and their common love for everything fat, wild and unique!

Buzzing with the sound of Breaks, Bass, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass and everything in between they have become well known for bringing that exact attitude to their out genre jumping Smash Hifi DJ Sets at clubs and festivals throughout Europe.

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Decima Presents ‘Industry’ w/ Trigger Thumb, Nova Hands & Kovax 14 October Factory Street Studios Decima Records is proud to present its third instalment of its Industry series in association with the illustrious Factory St. Studios.

Featuring on our lineup this time around are two extremely gifted bands. Bradford-based Trigger Thumb will be headlining the event, with Nova Hands providing some immense support. There is also another act TBC.

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Beer & Music Festival 19 - 22 October Keighley and Worth Valley Railway The railway’s popular Beer & Music festival will be returning, tickling the real ale drinkers’ taste buds with over 150 ales from all over the country to choose from. Cider and wine drinkers will also be able to have their thirst quenched with a wonderful selection of fine wines and ciders. Add in music in the main Exhibition Hall and in the marquee at Ingrow West and the stage is set for another excellent Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Beer & Music Festival. www.kwvr.co.uk

Zoe Rahman 20 October The Studio, Bradford Zoe Rahman and The Inner City Ensemble perform at The Studio as part of the Jazz Directors Series #003.

Topic Folk Club - The Mile Roses 19 October, 7.30pm Glyde House The Mile Roses is a touring collaboration for three respected solo songwriters Edwina Hayes, Kate Bramley and Simon Haworth playing contemporary British folk music with a nod to Nashville.

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TLR Present - Harrow Fair

Sloth in Docs and Rebel Cat present Autonomads, Jesus and His Judgemental Father (LGBTQ punk from Leeds), Genetik Pets (Melodic punk from Athens, Greece), Contempt (anarcho punk from the West Midlands), and James Bar Bowen (political folk from West Yorkshire), with poetry from Eagle Spits and Dwane Reads. Special Guests The Rebel Riot Band (Crust Punk from Burma/Myanmar!)

Craig Brauns Band 21 October, 8pm Al’s Dime Bar Al’s happily welome back Craig Brauns and his band! Expect lots of rock, pop and cool covers.

Topic Folk Club - Chloe Jones 26 October, 7.30pm Glyde House With her rich tones and unique vocal quality, Chloe has a voice beyond her years and has been likened to artists such as Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman and Karen Carpenter.

The Funeral Ball Part 2 28 October The Underground Havokk Promotions presents The Funeral BallL: Part 2. The only place to be on Halloween weekend in Bradford for live Rock, Punk and Metal. The horror returns to Bradford and we’ve got a hell of line-up for you.

JATP Stuart McDonald’s Bronchial Brotherhood Strange Bones 22 October, 8pm 1 in 12 Club Strange Bones hit the 1in12 club as part of their Normalise Me Tour.

Fresh off festival appearances at the likes of Leeds/Reading, Rebellion and 2000 Trees and a tour earlier this year with Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, this promises to be a banger of a gig.

Harrow Fair is Miranda Mulholland (Great Lakes Swimmers) & Andrew Penner (Sunparlour Players). One part stomping songs that echo early country and rock n roll. The other gritty ballads that sound sweet and haunted. This duo’s evocative and rapidly expanding collection of songs are utterly foreign, oddly familiar and deeply gratifying.

Natural Rhythm 4 November, 8pm Al’s Dime Bar Local ska legends are back at Dime Bar!

Albion Street 4 November, 8pm The Underground The masters of reggae, rock and funk fusion are returning to the Underground to give you another awesome night of their experimental sound to get you up on your feet and dancing into the early hours.

3 November, 7.30pm Glyde House

Lulu - All About the Music

Bradford’s King of the Reed never disappoints regardless of the setting - prepare to have your jazz socks blown well and truly off!

5 November The Alhambra Theatre

Rusty Nails Blues Band

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3 November, 8pm Caroline Street Social Club

20 October, 6 - 11pm 1 in 12 Club

Following on from her smash hit 2016 tour Lulu returns with her biggest tour yet and Bradford is her only Yorkshire date!

3 November, 8pm Al’s Dime Bar Fronted by local legend Chris ‘The Man In The Hat’ Martin (not that Chris Martin!), Rusty Nails Blues Band are outstanding musicians and always get a warm welcome!

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Music Listings The Annual Festival of Remembrance

Big Band Theory - The Meteors

5 November Bradford Cathedral

10 November, 7pm The Underground

The City’s annual Festival of Remembrance returns to the Cathedral with favourites The City of Bradford Brass Band, Claire WhiteMcKay and other guests.

The Meteors are an English psychobilly band formed in 1980.

Originally from London, England, they are often credited with giving the psychobilly subgenre—which fuses punk rock with rockabilly—its distinctive sound and style. Though the origins of psychobilly are debated, The Meteors are the first band to self-identify as psychobilly, and are often credited with the distinction of being the only pure psychobilly band among fans of the subgenre.

bradfordcathedral.org Sofar Sounds Mystery Gig 9 November 7.30pm Mystery Venue!

Join Sofar Sounds for our latest night featuring three incredible acts in a brilliant venue. Sign up for updates and find out the city centre location on the day! sofarsounds.com/bradford

Topic Folk Club - Brian Peters 9 November 8.30pm Glyde House

Mockingbirds 12 November, 2pm Caroline Street Social Club An afternoon of folk and Americana music with Mockingbirds and Six Days. It’s free and it’s a great venue.

Come along and brighten up a winter afternoon with some great live music.

Highly respected multiinstrumentalist and singer of mainly but not exclusively traditional material. Top quality melodeon and concertina player.

TLR Present - Martin Simpson

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There is no doubt that after 45 years as a professional musician Martin is, right now, better than ever. Widely acknowledged as one of the finest acoustic and slide guitar players in the world, his interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of storytelling.

His solo shows are intense, eclectic, spellbinding and deeply moving.

Dan Audio & the Breaks 10 November 8.30pm Al’s Dime Bar Funky cool Dan Audio & The Breaks are great for the Friday Night.

12 November, 8pm Caroline Street Social Club

TLR Present - Lady Maisery 17 November, 8pm Caroline Street Social Club In an English folk scene currently bursting with bold and innovative folk music, vocal trio Lady Maisery shine brightly.

With their unique approach to harmony singing, intelligent and thoughtful arrangements of both traditional repertoire and original compositions, Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans harness and celebrate their united voice. theliveroom.info

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Opera Choruses 25 November, 3pm Bradford Cathedral An opportunity to sing some of the popular opera choruses with Una Barry (soprano), Donald Stephenson (baritone) with Jon Payne (organ); directed by Alexander Berry. bradfordcathedral.org

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A Bradford College graduate is creating a special artwork to raise money for the Grenfell Tower victims.

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Artist Caroline Hick has designed two linocut prints and will donate the proceeds of sale to the Justice4Grenfell campaign.

Caroline, who graduated with a BA in Visual Arts from Bradford School of Art in 1982 and returned to gain an MA in Printing in 2004, is in the process of producing 100 pairs of lino prints which she hopes will raise £5,000.

“As an artist, these visual prints are my response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy,” said Caroline, 57.

“With a common theme ‘Rise’, the first print depicts the high rising Grenfell Tower with clouds of smoke, the rain of tears coming down and forming a river at the bottom. The second print depicts the phoenix rising, giving hope for the better future. While the first one shows the sadness of what had happened and how terrible it was, the second print is about the hope that something good must come out of that.

“The fact that this tragedy can happen in this day and age is absolutely deplorable. So the phoenix is my hope for a better future for the most vulnerable people in our society.”

Caroline, who is a full-time carer for her mother, who has Alzheimer’s disease, was welcomed back into Bradford College to use the specialist printmaking facilities for her charitable work.

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Anyone wishing to purchase a pair or find out more about the launch event can email Caroline on bobbyhick@yahoo.co.uk.

Established in 1972 as the second specialist independent photography gallery in Europe, Impressions Gallery has grown to become one of the UK’s leading venues for photography, showing significant work by regional, national and international artists. Situated in the heart of Bradford and overlooking the multi-award winning City Park, the gallery presents an inspiring programme of free exhibitions and a rich mix of events and creative workshops. There’s always something new to see and do to get visitors looking, thinking and talking about the best in contemporary photography.

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Make Your Mark

5-6 October, 6pm - 11pm Leeds City Centre

25 October 12pm – 2.30pm

Printing the City Risograph Exhibition 6 October, 6pm - 9pm South Square Centre Ben Holden (bjthebear.com), a designer from Bradford with a passion for print purchased a Riso machine in April 2017. He has invited friends to help him explore the creative possibilities of this once-obsolete technology.

Many will be producing Riso prints for the first time and have been invited to take Bradford’s buildings and landscape as starting points for their experiments.

Delius Arts & Cultural Centre Join Artworks’ World Wide Women of Bradford group to 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. FREE

Vivienne Rowett – Making Something Useful: Art as Exegesis 25 October, 7pm Bradford Cathedral In this illustrated talk, the second in our lecture series on Art and Theology, Vivienne Rowett grasps the tail of an elusive image which flits briefly through the Psalms, and flies with it through its expression in Christian art and into a new incarnation in her own textile work.

She demonstrates her belief that connecting deeply with past artists in word and visual expression excites the imagination, helps to assuage existential loneliness, and inspires and informs action.

Crazy Cardboard Critters! Big Draw

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25 October, 11am Cartwright Hall

Green Fingers & Film

Come down to Cartwright Hall Art Gallery for the Big Draw and make some moving cardboard critters with Johnny White whose Beastly Machines exhibition was such a hit last year. There will be crazy crabs, hungry chicks, sea life circles and maybe even some Hockneyesque dashing dachshunds and Bradford boars to cut out and colour. Or simply create your own animated crazy cardboard creature using the wide selection of materials available.

27 October 2pm – 5.30pm Delius Arts & Cultural Centre

28 October, 11am Cartwright Hall Lou Sumray is the first prize winner of this year’s Bradford Open 2017.

View her prizewinning animation in the gallery and then work with her how did she draw for her animation ‘Follow Me’? Come and find out as well as create your own flip book of drawings and see the lines come to life! bradfordmuseums.org

The Truth To Power Café - London Artists Projects 8 November, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill, Bradford The Truth to Power Café begins a unique twelve-month exploration into the power of free speech, and political activism brad.ac.uk/theatre/whatson/truth-to-power/

Buy Nowt Day 24 November, All day Delius Arts & Cultural Centre Join Artworks Creative Communities for their second annual Buy Nowt Day celebration. Following on from last year’s success we are inviting people to enjoy their free time doing some free activities fit for the family.

Delius Community Garden is going UP in the world. Free gardening activities and decorated seed balloon release to get the whole family in the mood for watching the wonderful movie UP.

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Light Night Leeds is an annual free multi-arts and light festival which takes over Leeds City Centre on two nights in early October. Witness the city centre come alive with an exciting programme of spectacular projections, interactive installations, exhibitions, dance, music and street performances.

Super Saturday! with artist Lou Sumray

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Exhibitions

Marcus Levine - Hockney, A Portrait In Nails Until 21 October, Kala Sangam To celebrate David Hockney’s 80th birthday, Kala Sangam is launching an exhibition of artist Marcus Levine’s finest nail sculptures, to fit alongside his Hockney piece in Little Germany.

Marcus Levine, sculptor in the human physique, meticulously translates his ideas onto large white wooden panels by hammering nails to create tone and texture. All pieces are done free hand without any tracing onto the board.

He has several monumental sculptures commissioned and on display. Two can be found in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall and another at the University of Bradford, the third, the world’s first and largest coloured nail sculpture can be found in Little Germany Bradford.

Marcus Levine studied at Jacob Kramer Art College alongside Damien Hirst. Previous alumni include David Hockney and both Hirst and Hockney have been an inspiration to Levine.

Since completing his first ‘nail sculpture’ in Autumn 2004, Levine believes he has perfected his technique, pushing the boundaries with each new work and creating increasingly dynamic interpretations of subjects utilising an incredibly difficult medium. www.levine-art.co.uk

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No Man’s Land - Women’s Viewpoints on the First World War

By Sadeema Parvez and Iqra Anwar, New Focus Earlier this year, a group of twenty youngsters came together for the project ‘No Man’s Land: Young People Discover Women’s Viewpoints on the First World War’. Through New Focus, the project group run by Impressions Gallery, the 16 to 25 year-olds explored three archives, The Peace Museum in Bradford, The Liddle Collection at the University of Leeds and the Photographs Archive at the Imperial War Museum, London.

As a result of the project, New Focus has produced ‘No Man’s Land’, a publication by and for young people. The book shares our journey discovering women and their photography during the First World War, and is designed to motivate young people to engage with this heritage. All secondary schools in Bradford will receive a copy of the book. You can also receive a free copy if you come along to the book launch on Friday 6th October at 5pm at Impressions Gallery.

The major exhibition, No Man’s Land, which inspired the project is on view at Impressions Gallery from 7 October to 30 December 2017. Free entry.

BUY NOWT DAY 2017 Friday 24 October 3pm-7pm JOIN ARTWORK’S FOR THEIR SECOND ANNUAL BUY NOWT DAY CELEBRATIONS. Following the success of last year’s event we are bringing back Buy Nowt Day with even more free activities, even more fun and even more food!

Welcome to the “No Currency Zone”!

Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Road, BD7 1AA More info: www.artworkscreative.org.uk 01274 256 919

Family Learning Festival with Artworks Creative Communities!

Join Artworks Creative Communities at The Delius Arts & Cultural Centre for a 3 day programme of free events happening as part of the Bradford Family Learning Festival

Make Your Mark Design, print and send a postcard 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.

Free, Wednesday 25 October, 12pm – 2.30pm

Open Rehearsal Steve and Gabe Manthorp are father and son. Pelagic is their first collaboration – a performance exploring what it means to be lonely in an always-connected world.

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

Free, drop in event Open Rehearsal Thursday 26 October 1pm – 4pm Final Performance Saturday 28 October Time TBC.

Green Fingers & Film Delius Community Garden is going UP in the world. Gardening activities and decorated seed balloon release to get the whole family in the mood to then watch the wonderful movie UP. Free, Friday 27 October, 2pm – 5.30pm

Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, 29 Great Horton Road, BD7 1AA More info: www.artworkscreative.org.uk 01274 256 919

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My Favourite Gig

My Favourite Gig...

By Keith Wildman (The Record Cafe) I often wonder what my favourite gig is. Is it seeing your favourite band? In which case Shack at The Lowry in Manchester in 2006 was probably the best they’ve played. The best I’ve seen them.

A magical night. Perhaps New Order earlier this year at Granada Studios. Complete with 12-piece synth orchestra fully resampling songs they’ve not played live before, and a beer with Bernard in the dressing room after. Or is it festivals? Reading 1993 will take some beating - Radiohead, New Order, The The, Rage Against the Machine, Blur, Flaming Lips, Frank Sidebottom, Porno For Pyros, Sensor and Credit to the Nation.

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But no, my most memorable gig has to be Campag Velocet, Liverpool, Saturday 16th October, 2004. Why does that date stand out? Well, we’d travelled over to to see Bradford City play Tranmere Rovers. I was driving. No intention of going to a gig. Come 5pm though, and having just witnessed one of the most bonkers games in recent years – a Dele Adebola inspired injury time 5-4 win, staying over in Liverpool seemed a good idea.

In no particular order after that we met up with an Evertonian friend of mine in pub.

Helped ourselves to crabsticks at Steve’s (so the name on the cards read) 30th birthday in the back room before being asked to leave, and went to watch Campag Velocet.

The band Kasabian wished they were. There were 12 of us at the gig. Yet we still managed to knock over the crash barrier at the front, whilst one lad kept shouting at frontman Pete Voss “Why does no one get it Pete?” over again. He asked me the same question when I stood next to him at the urinal. “We do.”

I replied. To be honest. The gig is a haze. If you’ve never heard of them, I urge you to seek them out. Bon Chic Bon Genre live is a triumph. Those 12 people created more atmosphere than stadium gigs I’ve been to. Or maybe we were still high on David Wetherall’s injury time header. Who knows.

Perhaps the Steve’s birthday crabsticks happened after the gig. I can’t remember.

Four of us spent the night in my car in the multi-story in the centre of Liverpool and a Birch Services all-day breakfast the next day finished off the perfect away weekend.

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