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Perhaps this is misguided sanguinity. I am tipsy with enthusiasm, pen to paper in the immediate aftermath of Bradford’s seminal moment. Tchaikovsky’s Overture still rings in my ears and I am proud. Proud to be Bradfordian, and proud to be editing a cultural magazine in this city at a time like this. There are very few moments one gets the opportunity to say with conviction and sincerity, “there is no place I’d rather be right now than Bradford”.

Yet on the 24th March that is exactly what I thought, and I was not alone. The launch of the City Park will stay fondly and vividly in mine and many others’ memory for a long time.

Some might say that it was a smokescreen, that there are pressing matters still in desperate need of attention. Can we just give credit where credit is due for once, Bradford deserved this and Bradford needed it. And perhaps it has proved a point to the detractors who lack the imagination to believe that Bradford can be great again.

Some people need to see potential first hand to believe in it. In my higher state of Bradfordian consciousness I can honestly say that I believe we are standing on the verge of a cultural renaissance. As I said before, this may well be misguided but as the cast of Glee keep telling us…Don’t Stop Believing.

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5_[bigissuE] The Odeon by Kate Welham 6_[movingFOrwarD] The Future of Bradford: The Death 9_[movingFOrwarD] The Future of Bradford: The Renaissance 11_[localssuE] Haigh Simpson speaks with George Galloway about his arrival in Bradford 14_[people&art] Reviewed Freedom Studios, Peace Museum, Kirkgate Studios, Delius Arts Centre 16_[people&art] Media for the Misbegotten by Rachel Kaye + Leeds Print Festival 19_[theatre&PErFOrmancE] Reviewed: Live performance at Bradford College and Kala Sangam 21_[theatre&PErFOrmancE] Iain Bloomfield discusses the work of Chris Goode 23_[spokenwOrD] Jane Steele looks at the theme of “Peace” 25_[artisticPErsPEctiVE] Sketchbook artwork by featured artist Zathoon Hussein 29_[food&DrinK] Turn it Up/Off...Does Music Make or Break Restaurants? by Richard Ramsden 32_[food&DrinK] Bradford Falafel-Off: Andy Abbott eats his way through 7 restaurants in 7 days 35_[daytriPPing] Bradford’s Big Secret: An introduction to rural Bradford by Rob Walsh 38_mediarEViEw] Album Reviews and the first of a regular series of featured BCB shows.

41_[livemusic] Reviews & previews of the Bradford music scene.

45_[filmrEViEw] Your essential guide to the 18th Bradford International Film Festival.

49_[secretbraDFOrD] Our pick of where/what to check out in the district 51_[wotssaPnin?] A soundbite guide to what’s going on in April

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Rounding up City Park reactions: tweets, blogs and Facebookers glenn's Illustration Page: It's stunning! and it's wondeful to have somewhere in the city you don't just pass through to get to somewhere else.

matthew's Coffee house Cleckheaton: a spectacular show, now time for the rest of the city centre to be uplifted, Odeon, Westfield, get a move on now!!

Darryl Smith: Gutted I missed this. All photos I've seen looked fab. Good to see so many fellow Bradfordians feeling good about themselves and each other! Well done to the organisers!

Iain Bloomfield: Utterly stunning, drawing people into the city again. Queues outside cafes and bars. Win/Win. Nazmeen akhtar: BRADFORD has proven today that it can integrate...!!!! Well done to all the ppl involved in today's event for us ppl....

We thoroughly enjoyed every second....A BIG THANKYOU to Bradford council for cheering up thousands of ppl today.

Stern Box: Awesome! Really proud to be from Bradford!

Natasha Jackson: Confident • Inspiring • Creative • I loved it. The power of architecture & the arts combined to lift us out of ourselves.

An unforgettable evening. x

Lisa mallaghan: brilliant, exciting, inspiring. a taste of great things to come for this great city.

Diane hadwen: A great day and fantastic Bradfordians celebrating together :) Can we do it again next week? emily Kecic: Brilliant day spent watching @BradfordOdeon #Bradford was buzzing. So many support their city, let's keep it going + get more going on riaz hussain: @hiddenbradford went to the City Pk launch & had a great time. All cultures together enjoying themselves. Great day for Bradford & well done

Chrissie Carlton: Ive always backed my town, thru thick & thin. Yes we had our moments, but Bradford is an amazin place & Ive never been more proud than today Irna Qureshi: Thank you #Bradford for such a memorable day! #BradfordCityPark my Life in Leeds: Shattered. Had a great day in #bradford, real community feel about the city and brill architecture.

Kausar: #Bradford city centre was Beautiful today. Amazing display, the people of bradford showed what bradford is really like...Beautiful Jean mcewan: Very very happy to be in #Bradford today 4 @loosely_bound .What a spirit of generosity and enthusiasm and creativity in this city right now

Laura Rawlings: I've never EVER seen this many people in #Bradford! Unbelievable & brilliant! guy fenby: Lady next to me just shouted we love you bradford ......well done

heather Larkin: So happy to be a bradfordian today, great show, watching all the kids getting totally wet too and having so much fun, massive turnout too.

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bigissuE The Odeon

by Kate welham Bradford Odeon is so huge, so distinctive and so pleasingly domed that she’s almost part of the natural landscape, like some kind of massive hill that few people can remember the skyline without.

Imagine somebody wants to flatten that hill to make way for a bypass, and that’s the kind of debate we’ve had on our hands for years. The clashes between sterile, financial viewpoints and passionate, emotive ones are raging around the city, more now than ever, and I certainly hope that a way can be found to satisfy both.

I’m not going to go into the rights and wrongs of what has happened so far or what might happen in the future, mainly because it’s being done elsewhere and because I don’t want to get HowDo?! into any bother.

But what I do want to talk about is the brilliant spirit of Bradford which - whatever happens to the Odeon - has really come out over this issue. Particularly the creativity and cooperation.

We’re so used to our home being slammed that speaking up to defend it is second nature, and those amongst us who enjoy it here are as good an advert for our home city as any marketing campaign. Which is why things like HowDo?!, Hidden Bradford, No Hands and BCB exist in the first place and are so prominent, as enthusiasm and creativity has spilled over and led to us taking a handle on our local media as well as making much of our own fun.

This sense of ownership and creative flair has been magnified over the Odeon. She has become a muse for every photographer in the city, straining to try and make her look pretty even on a particularly bad day. A quick search on Flickr will bring up hundreds of results where people have taken her familiar inner or outer features and added their own little twist to show it a little bit differently.

There are videos - of varying quality, admittedly - that have clearly been made with visual appeal in mind at least.

One of the best I’ve seen captured an event called ‘The Alternative Switch-On’, a tongue-in-cheek response to the switching on of the Bradford Christmas lights - a small crowd gathered outside the Odeon, stuck tinsel on her, wrote Christmas message in chalk, and wrote scores of Christmas cards addressed to her. A brass band played her some Christmas carols, and Foxes Faux played her some folk music and their cover of ‘Hey Ya’.

I even heard a song written about the building a few years ago, called ‘Victoria’, by a Bradford band called Scatter.

The events have been great. There was the zombie protest one Halloween, where people dressed up and brought props like gravestones and crosses, and the posters were wonderfully nightmareish. ‘How Clean Is Your Odeon?’ was a response to the lack of care and attention the actual owners seemed to be paying her, and a bunch of members of the public came down one day with mops, buckets and brooms and cleaned whatever they could reach. There have been the hugs too, of course, with people reaching all around the building. Where do you buy spirit like this?

I’ve seen at least two very good paintings of the building that have been done by members of the public and brought to a protest event, and even a detailed drawing of the building on the side of the building itself in chalk (going a bit meta there).

Projections and light paintings have produced some pretty amazing artwork, regardless of your opinion of the look of the building itself, and some of these have been featured in gallery exhibitions in Bradford and used in publications too.

Urban explorers are in love with the place, going in again and again just to experience being inside, appreciating it as a sort of museum. Hundreds of photos document every area and every strange item left behind when she suddenly shut at the end of what looks like a normal night in 2000.

Many, of course, remember seeing films in the building at some point. But a great deal don’t, and it’s not that people associate or confuse the building itself with the films they saw there. People have attributed her with a spirit of her own.

I know that all of this enthusiasm and imagination doesn’t just disappear if the building is demolished, but nothing that replaces her will inspire anyone like she has. And it will be a shame, I think, to remove such a creative focal point from such a creative city.

Incidentally, if you do want to read something more controversial on this subject, I refer you to my far rantier blog on LouderThanWar.com, search for ‘Bradford Odeon’.

Future of Bradford: Death On March 24 2052, the Bradford Living Museum will open in West Leeds. This brand new visitor attraction will utilise the 19th and 20th century architecture of the so-called ‘lost city of Bradford’ alongside interactive displays and experiences of what it was like to live in an industrial (and post-industrial) city in northern England in the 19th and 20th centuries. It’s hard to believe now, but only forty years ago, Bradford was a city in its own right and independent from Leeds. This is a profile of how the city was lost.

2014: the economic slump arising from the credit crunch started to ease, but it took many retail casualties. market Street in Bradford city centre did not have a single retailer.

2015: The shopping centre in the Broadway area of the city had not been developed. Westfield had not delivered, and the site had been empty for ten years, so the council took over the development of the site.

2020: bradford City failed to regain their football League status after three years as a non-league club and went bust, with no new club likely to return to Valley Parade.

2022: Changing trends and the retail recession meant that the city’s main shopping centre, the Kirkgate Centre, had to close. The building was fifty years old and the maintenance cost was restricting how long it could open for.

2024: Some parts of the city centre were now abandoned and derelict as there was no prospect of them being brought back into retail use. The early 2020s advancement in private car travel made it cheaper than ever and people braved the congestion to shop in other cities.

2026: The University of Bradford closed down, as tuition fees rose. Lack of funding since the 2010s put the University out of business.

2028: the National media museum relocated from bradford, to media City at Salford.

2030: the curtain went down on the famous alhambra theatre as the council could no longer afford to run it and no private firm would take it on.

2031: after failing to secure a Super League license in the 2020s, bradford bulls, the city’s rugby league club, were unable to survive life outside the sport’s top tier and went bust.

2031: The 2031 census showed that the population of the City of Bradford decreased by 30% in the previous ten years, leaving behind the most disadvantaged communities.

2032: Bradford College relocated from Bradford to the Aire Valley.

2034: Major civil unrest and riots in central Bradford, youth unemployment at 90% as many communities in the city centre were isolated from job opportunities and lacked the skills to access employment opportunities.

2035: The M606 cut through many inner Bradford suburbs, meeting the M65 in the Aire Valley. The government undertook the building of motorways as low carbon car travel boomed.

2036: bradford City Council abolished along with other authorities in the area, Leeds Council was now the single authority administering the greater Leeds area.

2037: forster Square retail Park closed down, but was remembered at the new forster Square mall where the m606 met the M65 at the end of the Aire Valley. Many offices now located close to the motorways.

2039: the branch line from Shipley to the centre of bradford, at forster Square Station, closed due to low usage.

2041: bradford Interchange closed down, replaced by a new station at Junction 4 of the m606: west Leeds Parkway.

2044: Westfield opened its new West Leeds Mall on the site of the former Odsal stadium.

2047: the extent of lawlessness in the old city centre of bradford required the army to be brought into clear the area of civilians. Large walls dubbed ‘the ring of steel’ erected around the old city centre.

2049: The new postal service, formed between a merger of the Royal Mail and Amazon, removed Bradford from addresses. At about the same time Bradford was removed from road signs.

2051: the dereliction of old bradford created unique wildlife habitats, Leeds Council opened the west Leeds Nature area.

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Future of Bradford: Renaissance Bradford has had mixed fortunes in its long history. Only forty years ago the city was being written off as finished, with much disparaging media coverage plus a landscape blotted by abandoned buildings and failed schemes. Just as the city’s textile trade created great prosperity 200 years ago, the last four decades have now inspired other cities to show there is a life after the traditional industry has moved away. This is how the city came back from the brink.

2013: Market Street in Bradford, an area with a large number of vacant shops and pubs, became a new centre for independent shops and café bars, thanks to a partnership between the council and landowners. the now-famous market Street gallery opened.

2014: Confidence in the city grew, events at City Park attracted people and Westfield was about to open. Market Street was transformed and rawson Street was getting the same treatment, with many more independent shops opening.

2015: The Westfield shopping mall opened at Broadway.

2016: The former Odeon cinema was redeveloped and opened as a new concert hall.

2017: The Goitside area saw major residential lead development - artists’ studios and alternative clubs occupied some of the disused mill buildings.

2018: the ‘business forest’ adjacent to City Park opened up, with many businesses relocating parts of their operations to bradford.

2020: The University expanded as admissions increased, reflecting the city’s new found popularity.

2022: The city was now better connected than ever, one of the first in the UK to get a new generation free wi-fi network, and the newly electrified railway to Manchester and Leeds delivered much faster travel.

2023: Bradford’s schools soared up the national league tables thanks to the unparalleled investment in the previous decade.

2024: An amazing year for sport in the city as Bradford Bulls won the Super League Grand Final for the first time in 19 years, and bradford City returned to the Premier League after two decades. the City Park was the scene of many sporting celebrations.

2026: more business success for the city, as a top national company relocated their national headquarters to bradford city centre.

2028: bradford now connected to the west yorkshire tram network.

2030: the new bradford Ice arena opened, close to forster Square, as the canal extension neared completion.

2032: The Bradford Canal Spur reopened after many years, the canal basin a hive of development activity.

2035: Bradford Crossrail was completed, with the new central station providing a link to the hS2 line. the west yorkshire tram network continued to connect different parts of the centre, significant public transport investment helped manage the decline of the private car as fuel costs became unsustainable.

2037: forster Square retail Park was demolished and transformed into a lush canalside linear park, supporting the increased resident population of this part of the city.

2040: The Tate Modern North gallery opened up at the Forster Square canal basin, attracting millions of visitors every year, helping bradford become a tourism hub.

2042: Bradford was named the European Capital of Culture, with events held across the city’s concert halls, arena and galleries.

2045: The central area of the city now had more people living there than at any other time, as people moved closer to centres of work and leisure, and as the city’s economy developed. The economic productivity gap between the cities of northern England and London kept closing as infrastructure improved beyond recognition in the north.

2048: a new 38,000 capacity central stadium opened to the south of the city centre, the highlight of the year there being England defeating Australia in the quarter final of the Rugby League World Cup, which England went on to win.

2052: The City of Bradford’s population nearly doubled to 600,000, alongside Leeds with over 1 million people, as the UK’s population neared 75 million, with successful cities like those of West Yorkshire accommodating this change.

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First of all: why Bradford?

Well, there’s a by-election on, so of course we, as a party, have a responsibility to put up candidates in by-elections where there’s a strong resonance for our message, and Bradford is undoubtedly such a place. I have a very long association with Bradford. I’ve been here between 40 and 50 times in the last decade, because there’s a big audience for the anti-war movement here and, as you know, I was one of the founders of that movement and am still the vicepresident of it. So, for these reasons, I felt I should put my hat in the ring, and the early response from the streets, from the people, is that we are going to do very well.

What are the voters actually voting for? There’s no policy or manifesto on the campaign website, or on your own website.

I will be publishing that, but I think that most people know what I stand for in any case. I stand for the opposite of what we’re doing: I stand for the opposite of war, I stand for the opposite of invasion, I stand for the opposite of £9,000 tuition fees, I stand for the opposite of mass unemployment, I stand for the opposite of cuts in public services, I stand for the opposite of leaving a very large hole in the centre of Bradford, where an industrial strategy should be, and I stand for the opposite of a city centre filled with pawn shops, pound shops and payday loan shops, so that the people of a great city are taking to the roads, to Doncaster to do their shopping, because they no longer can find what they need here, in this once-great city.

So what would you do about the Westfield Shopping Centre situation?

How would you resolve that, and what are the other major pressing matters?

Well, the first thing I want to know is who’s responsible for the hole? If someone had left a hole like that in a city centre then heads would roll, and politically speaking they’d be buried in it. But the same old people responsible for it continue to rule the roost. I think that Bradford needs a breath of fresh air, it needs a strong voice, it needs somebody who has a voice that will be heard and listened to, and it doesn’t have it at the moment.

How would you re-energise the local Bradford economy?

Well, the first thing I’d do is highlight, on a national level, indeed on an international level, the plight that the city is in. Towards recognition of the fact Bradford is sinking into that metaphorical hole. A few miles up the road, cities like Leeds are moving while Bradford is sinking, and somebody has to do something about that.

I’ll be rattling their cages, rapping their windows, rapping their doors, and trying to make them do that.

What are your objectives in Bradford West in particular? You’ve lost your seat in one heavily Muslim area, and it looks like you’ve targeted another: why’s that?

No, I didn’t lose my seat in a heavily Muslim area, I left my seat in a heavily white area with a substantial minority of Muslims. And I did that because I’d promised the people when I was elected in 2005 that I would stand there only once, and I would make way for a Muslim candidate.

So what did you make of Make Bradford British programme on channel 4 recently?

Well I thought the title of the programme was needlessly provocative...played into all the stereotypes about Bradford and the people were right to be justifiably angry about the title. Bradford already is British. You don’t have to have white skin and blue eyes like me to be British.

How do you plan to campaign against public service job cuts and ensure quality public services are delivered to those in need?

Well, I think you know me or you wouldn’t be talking to me and when I’m campaigning for something everybody knows about it. I’m standing under the rubric of Respect, Coalition Against Cuts, and we do what it says on the tin. We think that cutting public expenditure in a deep recession is the opposite of what should be being done.

Investment is the way out of slump as was discovered long ago, in the 1930s by the Keynesians that people used to generally acknowledge solved the problems of slump and depression.

Okay. As MP for Bethnal Green & Bow, your voting record was only 7.6%. If you win a seat for Bradford West, will you be attending parliament to vote on behalf of your constituents or continue to stay away?

My attendance record was virtually 100% including weekends and even Christmas day, four Christmas days in a row, because I was broadcasting on Christmas morning and went into my office in the afternoon. I’m afraid this is a New Labour canard which you’ve bought into. Voting is a completely different thing: you can only vote in parliament either for the Prime Minister’s motion or for the leader of the opposition’s motion, and I seldom wished to vote for either. Attendance and dealing moreover with the problems of thousands of poor people was something I assiduously attended to.

So what happens if you lose? Do you move on to somewhere else, or do you have a longer-term interest in Bradford?

I have a long-term interest in Bradford and I’m not intending to lose.

How would you respond to people thinking this is opportunism and a publicity stunt?

I know that my opponents will say that, but although you are too young to remember how there was a famous prostitute called Mandy Rice Davies who was once asked a famous question in court, in the Christine Keeler case, and she replied “Well they would say that, wouldn’t they?” and well, they would say that, wouldn’t they?

Okay, so if you lose...

I don’t entertain the possibility that I’m losing, that’s not how to fight elections. So, I’m fighting this election to win – I’m in it to win it – and the fact that my opponents are a state of some panic, in the case of the Labour candidate, is indicative of the fact that we’re going to do very well.

Labour have held the seat since 1974, with quite a strong majority most of the time. Do you honestly believe you’ve got a very strong chance?

The people have voted Labour in this city over and over and over again, and what has it got them? So yes, I do have a good chance, and I’m fighting it to win it.

What’s been your biggest regret in your career?

Well, only a fool has no regrets, and I have many, both in my life and what you describe as my career, which I haven’t myself always, or rather ever considered to be a career. I am a political man – if I’m not in parliament, I’m on television or I’m on the radio or I’m on the streets or I’m addressing public meetings: that’s what I do because that’s what I believe in.

What would you say to people who believe you’re nothing more than a media whore?

I’d say that’s a very insulting question, and if you’re going to be a journalist, you’d better learn to have a bit better manners.

These are questions that have come from...

It’s not a question you would put to anyone else so you’re not going to put it to me. Go on, move on to your next question.

These questions have come from the people of Bradford, from Twitter and Facebook...

Either move on to your next question or hang up the telephone. I’m not going to respond to insults from somebody I don’t even know on the end of a telephone line, so go on.

Okay. Can you explain your friendship with Uday Hussein?

I have no friendship with Uday Hussein. Where are you from, the News of the World? Are you hoping to work there? Didn’t you know it was closed?

No, I’ve put questions to the people of Bradford on Facebook and Twitter to see what they wanted to be asked.

Look, look, look. I have no friendship with Uday Hussein, who is in any case deceased. That’s the answer to your question.

Okay, well I think we can end it there then, thank you.

Thank you very much.

HowDo would like to offer its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Abu-bakr Rauf who collapsed and died suddenly while campaigning alongside Mr Galloway on the 20th March.

localssuEE AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE GALLOWAY On the 13th of March George Galloway handed in his nomination papers at Bradford City Hall, signaling his intention to stand for MP to Bradford West. At the time of print the outcome of the election was still unknown but when he spoke to Haigh Simpson George was confident that a repeat of his success in Bethnal Green & Bow, where he overturned a Labour majority of 10,000, was a real possibility.

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ourhEritagE WHY MAY DAY? The first of May is celebrated in many different countries and cultures. It falls exactly half a year after the first of November and marks the end of the winter months and the coming of the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere.

The earliest known celebrations of May Day were by the Romans, who had the festival of Flora, goddess of fruit and flowers.

Pagans, Celts and Wiccans celebrate Beltane, the festival of the fire god Bel, on the first of May, whilst in Germanic countries Walpurgis Night is celebrated by the lighting of torches, beacons and bonfires. Some believe that the first of May is the time when mischievous spirits, goblins and faery folk are at their most active.

Traditional rites and celebrations on May Day would involve the whole community coming together to celebrate the onset of summer, sometimes at a May Fair, where people would perform fertility rituals such as dancing the Maypole or groups of Morris Dancers would ritually scare away mischievous spirits with their jangling bells and clashing of sticks. A May Queen would be crowned, and children would wear circlets of spring flowers in their hair. Bonfires would be lit at dawn and small May baskets containing sweets or flowers would be left, usually anonymously, on neighbours’ doorsteps. A bit like The Wicker Man, but with slightly less death.

Various places in the UK have started and continue to maintain May Day traditions. Students at Magdalen College in Oxford come together to listen to the choir, whilst Durham university students gather on Prebend’s Bridge at dawn to watch the sunrise and enjoy festivities and a barbeque breakfast. In Whitstable in Kent the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976, where a procession of Morris Dancers parade through the town. Residents of Bradford last year gathered in celebration in the Urban Gardens and danced round the Maypole, listened to music and welcomed in the summer.

“Morris Dancers would ritually scare away mischievous spirits with their jangling bells and clashing of sticks” A more recent May day tradition has been the celebration of International Workers’ Day by the labour and left wing movement.

It is a national holiday in more than 80 countries, and celebrated unofficially in many more. In the late nineteenth century it was common for the working day to be anything up to 16 hours long, and conditions were not always safe. The workers’ struggle for an eight-hour working day culminated in peaceful strikes in America in 1886, with 40,000 people on strike in Chicago, the numbers eventually swelling to nearly 100,000. Two days later violence erupted between Chicago police and protesters, resulting in the death of at least two of the strikers, and the injury of many more.

A public meeting was called the following day in the city’s Haymarket Square to discuss the issues of police brutality.

Allegations of inflammatory language led the police to march on the speakers and disperse the crowd, and it was at this point that an unknown person, (speculation exists as to whether this was an anarchist or an agent provocateur) threw an incendiary device into the police ranks leading them to open fire randomly into the crowd, killing some innocents and wounding many more in what would later be known as the 1886 Haymarket Massacre.

Eight anarchists were arrested and convicted of murder, despite only three of them actually being present at the rally. In a travesty of justice these eight organisers were convicted, not for their actions, of which all of were innocent, but for their political and social beliefs. International Workers Day is therefore a day to commemorate these martyrs and be thankful for what has been achieved in the labour and trade union movements.

BY JULES

MAY DAY IN BRADFORD [Saturday 28 april actually] Last year an ambitious bunch of varied volunteers from across the borough cobbled together a spectacular event at very short notice on the strip of grass reclaimed next to the open wound of Westfield.

This year, the head scratching, pencil chewing and number crunching began in earnest soon after the New Year. Which means that the plans being drawn up on the backs of numerous fag packets are looking to make this the biggest and best May Day celebration that Bradford has ever seen.

At a glance, the event will have two stages, plus acoustic acts on the bandstand, street theatre, stalls with activities for the young and the postyoung, a variety of food for all and of course the return of the Maypole!

Once all that’s been taken in you will also be able to drown the sorrow of this only happening once a year at the fully licensed bar.

The date to etch-a-sketch into your diaries is Saturday 28 April, the closest Saturday to 1 May, and events should run from midday until 10pm. This all takes place on the Urban Garden in the city centre.

Volunteers are still needed for a range of tasks - this is a community event organised for love not money by people like you and couldn’t happen without the time and energy donated - a few bob wouldn’t hurt either if you want to contribute but struggle for time. To get involved email reclaimmayday@lists.aktivix.org and introduce yourself!

By Jim Dog

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the DICK STONE COLUMN Imprisoned in my cell awaiting bail in Montparnasse (I lost my patience with a clochard and poked him soundly with my stick, thrashing the snakes that sounded from within his slack & pickled skin), I think on the door to freedom.

the LIGHT FANTASTIC JEZ CORAM – BLUR 1& 2 (Experimental works in progress) Gallery II / Theatre In The Mill, University of Bradford Reviewed by Estelle Cooper

BLUR 2 I entered Gallery II expecting a video projection of a few images; an un-mastered edit of an installation in its foundling stage by a Leedsbased film artist called Jez Coram.

Blur 2 was described as a ‘work-in-progress technology intervention project using 3D projection mapping techniques’.

What I experienced was an immersion in a sophisticated visual environment with a hypnotic accompanying soundscape, forming an exploration of light and dark, both visually and mentally.

At first glance the installation was strikingly bright, clean and beautiful. What looked like shards of crystal were suspended from the ceilings, and so large they created a maze that demanded the viewer walk among the twisting flickering images projected on what turned out to be cocoon-like fabric carcasses; beautiful sounds of birdsong and distant music permeated the consciousness drawing me ever further into the space.

There was the black and white moving imagery of rooftops, streets and empty mills. Drifting breeze-caught pollen, stained glass windows, car headlights piercing rain-strewn roads, suffocating flocks of digital birds, explosions of white noise. The trance was broken by a noise like an oncoming freight train and the loud clanging of chimes – an intense experience. Jez says he is inspired by ‘people who make atmospheres’, and he lists his main influences as David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieslowski and a range of Russian directors. Excitedly he spoke of his fascination and research into human psychology and psychosis - and this is Jez’s first installation...

As ‘the impact of sound often gets overlooked in installations’, the soundscape was treated with the same detailed reverence as the visuals, resulting in an immersive and hypnotic environment.

BLUR 1 Elsewhere on campus Jez’s videoscape could also be seen projected onto the wall of Theatre In The Mill for two nights. The external site offered an alternative and softer view of the work. The viewer was no longer submerged in a audiovisual dreamscape but was now a spectator of fluid morphing shapes and patterns enveloping the old mill buildings.

The next stage in this experimental work in progress will explore how dancers could respond to the installation and how the installation itself could respond to their movement using tracking software.

SNaPShotS The evening was rounded off at the Theatre In The Mill with three theatrical works in progress. All were very different, with ‘Sorry’ exploring interactive digital technology and mixing it up with a classic Victorian ghost story, ‘Whispers’ looking at choices, relationships and consequence through a tale set in Nazi-occupied Norway, and in ‘New Britain’ the writer playing with a dystopian theme.

All form part of Freedom Studios’ ‘Snapshots – New Scenes for Theatre’ showcasing four emerging writers, artists and performers from Yorkshire.

An online visual blog of Jez’s experimental work can be viewed at www.jez-freedomstudios.co.uk

Why do we fear to cross the threshold to the new and taste the other? Why do we drag ourselves like zombies through the secular cathedrals of the great god SPEND with our skin itching, throat aching and time ticking on to the flicker of unnatural light.

Never entertain a faceless house that’s first purpose is to take your money. Never queue to seek an audience with a machine.

We’re held in narrow cells confined and weary awaiting judgement.

Cross the thresholds of the secret places, pass through one new door each day, break the apathetic fear that manifests in the blunt and lazy whimper of tomorrow.

There is no past, there is no future, there is only NOW and the end is always nigh. (Repeat)

Art in Restaurants Original art is often seen as a preserve of the rich; either that or something you picked out from the back of a Volvo estate on a Sunday morning. It doesn’t have to be: there are hundreds of artists looking to create a realistic alternative to Jack Vettriano prints and Ikea canvases.

Lea Cook is a working artist from Baildon who creates affordable paintings specifically designed to hang on the walls of where you spend most of your time: your living room. She is the latest artist to have her work exhibited at Saltaire’s Old Tramshed bar and restaurant. It is one of a growing number of venues choosing to fill their walls with locally-sourced artwork. The arrangement is mutually beneficial: the artist is given an opportunity to exhibit their work free of charge and in the restaurant diners have something nice to look at.

As Lea herself puts it, “You need to get your name known before you can go any further - in the galleries it tends to be the well established artists that get to show their work. This is a really big thing for ordinary working artists: to get the opportunity to show people their work. I think it is a really good opportunity for working artists out there to make a name for themselves.”

By Haigh Simpson

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the PEACE MUSEUM Review By Douglas Thompson I love Piece Hall Yard. It’s a Hogwartian alleyway running between Kirkgate and Hustlergate. Face the glass-fronted Wool Exchange, turn round 180 degrees and you’ll be looking at the faded and comfortable facade of the City Vaults pub; the gothic ginnel just to the left is Piece Hall Yard.

It’s a charismatic and narrow lane that doesn’t see much sun. At the far end on the right nestles the mysterious Bradford Club, but at its entrance, on the left and up a couple of stone steps, is the doorway to the Peace Museum. This is the United Kingdom’s only peace museum.

It’s open Thursdays and Fridays, 10 while 4, and the second Saturday of each month from 10 to 3; they also have a wonderfully intriguing outreach programme for schools.

Press the buzzer - a friendly voice will answer and the door will open. Take the lift or climb the stairs to find the gallery; a bijou garret with three light-filled and welcoming rooms, exhibiting key items from a collection of more than 5,000 objects.

It’s a professional, clean and uncluttered space, simple and unpretentious. Exhibits ably employ QR codes you point yer phone at, that lead from unfussy information to rich tinterweb content without being too gimmicky.

Emily Pankhurst: “Coercion is not government: Then as Now.” is emblazoned proudly on an artfully sewn banner, the statement “We are running out of poppies” marked out in Remembrance Day poppies, and a question: ‘Is remembrance enough?’

Compared to our numerous monuments to war - our leviathan Imperial War Museum in Manchester, the towering Royal Armouries in Leeds - this attic attesting to an erstwhile empire’s regret is as insubstantial as a half-remembered dream.

Walking through the Manchester Imperial I know my place - an insignificant speck set against the inhuman industrial factories of destruction and death. I am collateral and my life a currency. In the Armouries I wander lost in the labyrinth, drawn inexorably towards its centre by man’s ingenuity to find new ways to separate flesh.

This country has only three small rooms in Bradford dedicated to peace; the nation’s record of our great struggle to end conflict concentrated into three small rooms. There is energy here, a personality, it is personal. Not a single visitor to this museum would go unnoticed, unwelcomed or uncared for. There is the sense of the strength and the female and the realisation we do not live in a society of equality yet. I would not wish to change this museum or expand its scope of exhibition - I would simply wish each town and city in our country to have as magical a place of peace and light and life as this newly refurbished house.

Peace Not Prejudice www.peacemuseum.org.uk

‘Life, but not as we know it’ (parts 1, 2, 3 and 4) 2011-2012 Tim Curtis and Kirkgate Studios life class 2011-12.

The Exhibition Building, Shipley College, Saltaire Arts Trail 5-7 May 2012.

Sixteen Bradford artists, including enthusiasts and professionals, have been working together over six months, inspired by Bradford, Hockney, drawing and experiments with multiple perspectives on community artwork. With the support of tutor Jane McDonald, the regular Thursday evening WEA life class at Kirkgate Studios and Workshops in Shipley has created a playful version of a collaborative Bradford cubism.

Some of the drawings are created using locally-produced pigments, inks and colours made by Bradford textile and dye expert Claire Wellesley-Smith. The pigments are a product of her Ecominds project, also at Kirkgate Studios and Workshops, where participants maintain an allotment from which the onion and walnut pigments used in this project were grown and harvested.

Portraits created in this class form the first experiments in multiple-part life drawing for local artist Tim Curtis. These huge-scale experiments flow from one tile to another, varying with the differences in the artists’ individual ability. These massive portraits have a dynamic and an aesthetic all of their own. There are echoes of the landscape and urbanscape subject matter of Tim’s previous ensemble exhibition projects over the last five years.

The portraits show an obvious joy in simple mark-making, the use of visual shorthand and the language of representation. They have been created with a maximum time constraint of 10 minutes as an integral part of warm-ups during drawing classes. They also capture perfectly the range of ability among the artists and the friendly, fun, informal nature of these Kirkgate life classes.

Drawing Club @ Delius Arts Centre Reviewed by James Kemp I’ve known so many people over the years who have said to me “Oh, I wish I could draw” but then never really tried.

For those of you who think you can draw, I say that you can’t really know until you’ve been life drawing. For those of you who think you can’t draw, I say after two or three sessions you’ll begin to see a real difference and your drawings will soon be a damn sight better than any of Tracy Emin’s attempts.

Every week a different artist or theme is used - to encourage the practice of various styles and techniques in portraying the human form. This is a great way to make the session more than just about drawing. It forces you to think about how to approach drawing - not for just drawings sake, but for painting also.

The Drawing Club, at the Delius Arts Centre opposite the old Queen’s Hall, is open to all and is a perfect way to spend a couple of hours on a Tuesday evening. All you need to do is turn up with some pencils and paper, grab a brew, sit down and draw.

ARTS CRAFT DESIGN MEDIA MUSIC PERFORMANCE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND MEDIA AT BRADFORD COLLEGE For information on creative courses at pre degree, degree and masters level visit www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk or contact our course enquires team on 01274 433333 THE YORKSHIRE CRAFT CENTRE AND GALLERY AT BRADFORD COLLEGE Exhibitions, Showcase & CafŽ Please check website for exhibition programme and opening times www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/about-us/yorkshire-craft-centre/exhibitions jewelle Craft courses including jewellery, ceramics, traditional dark room techniques and bookmaking are available For further details please contact Helen Farrar 01274 438965 or email h.farrar@bradfordcollege.ac.uk

THE BRADFORD TEXTILE ARCHIVE AT BRADFORD COLLEGE A unique collection demonstrating the diversity of textiles in the region during the last 150 years including fine silk jacquards, rayons, velvets and worsteds An important resource for those exploring textile history , textile design, social history.

An inspirational design resource To book a visit or for further information please contact: Madeline Betts 01274 433257 or email m.betts@bradfordcollege.ac.uk

A vibrant show exploring where Egyptian dance meets the West . . .

Saturday 14th April, 7pm Bradford Playhouse, 4 Chapel St, Little Germany,

Bradford, BD1 5DL

Box Office: 01274 820666 & www.tarabdance.com/Diary

Aftershow party at the Spice Bar/Lounge & Restaurant

Tickets £12 (£10 Concessions)

ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET Choose from 4 Starters, 4 Mains, Naan Bread, Rice, Sweet dish etc.

www.spiceloungebradford.com Spice, 55 Leeds Road, Little Germany, Bradford BD1 5AF

Lunchtime Buffet £4.99 Evening Buffet £6.99 Bar-Lounge Opening Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 5pm - 11.30pm Friday 5pm - 11.30pm • Saturday 5pm - 2am • Sunday 5pm -11pm Restaurant Opening Hours: Lunch Times: Tuesday - Friday 11:30am - 2pm Evenings: Tuesday - Friday 5:30pm - 11:30pm Saturday: 5:30pm - 11:30pm • Sunday: 5:30pm - 11pm

theatre&PErFOrmancE The Tempest

A Paper Zoo Production by adam mitulinski

Performance, 7 march 2012 at bradford College In 2005 a local theatre company started by bteC acting graduates and staff of bradford College had their debut production, a Christmas Carol. Since then they have been showcasing their talent in Bradford and surrounding areas, and even Edinburgh fringe, producing classic and contemporary plays, plus their own originals, including waiting for godot, twelfth Night, funeral Games, Valentine, The Bells, and 2020Vision. Recently they spent a year working from the writings of george orwell, with animal farm and 1984, for which they cast the legendary John hurt as big brother.

As the company evolved over the years so too has their creative experimentation. this was certainly the case for their production of the tempest at bradford College. as the audience walked down the aisle they were presented with a man sat in the middle of the stage. as the play started it became clear that he was the main character, Prospero. the design and layout of the performance area was simple and effective, using lighting techniques that subtly changed throughout. The cast even used space outside of the stage to perform, with at least one character rushing down the middle of the audience. this is not unusual for Paper Zoo they have done similar things before in The Bells, Animal Farm and 2020Vision.

The most intriguing aspect of the production was a very distinct Brechtian influence. The actors did not go off-stage and out of sight when they weren’t needed, but instead sat at either side clearly in view of the audience. This rarely used technique seemed to suggest that the cast members were storytellers rather than actors and actresses. And the first scene in which the monologue was visualised by controlling the cast as if they were puppets furthered the storyteller approach. Somehow it also gave the feeling that even if somebody wasn’t familiar with Shakespeare, the play would still be ‘accessible’.

Despite the application of brecht the performances were incredibly naturalistic and believable. A bravo is deserved for the whole cast, including include Stuart Davies and Kate Shackleton who have been with Paper Zoo since its inception. They were instantly impressive, both playing two roles. As both sets of roles had very contrasting social status, Kate and Stuart showed how effectively they can switch between characters. Some relative new-comers took part in the play too, for instance Jamie grieff, who played the charming Ferdinand, may not have the mileage of the other Paper Zoo regulars but he has proved that he certainly has the acting chops and the potential to go far. by far one of the most striking performances came from Jeremy walker as Prospero. the dialogue seemed second nature to him. The intensity he conveyed held the audience’s attention and pulled them in to listen. his character meant he had a large amount of stage-time, but his performance meant that he always had a presence on stage too, even in the few scenes where he didn’t appear. other solid performances from regulars include David Peel as Caliban, Damien O’Keeffe (sporting specially-grown facial hair he has since dubbed the ‘Shakesbeard’) as Antonio, and Julia o’Keeffe, who also directed the production, literally gracing the stage as ariel.

If you’d like to see the ‘Shakesbeard’ in action, Paper Zoo’ final show will be at Otley Courthouse on 22 June. They have regularly delivered thought-provoking and inspiring productions in the past and the tempest does not fall below expectations. for more details, their website: www.paperzootheatrecompany.co.uk

Kala Sangam launch at St Peters House Reviewed by Titch Kavanagh

I picked up a leaflet about the Kala Sangam St Peters House launch from an information point in Forster Square station. After a visit to their website I decided to go with an interest in joining some of their taster workshops.

I found a very warm welcome on the second floor as I arrived at reception. The staff were incredibly nice and before long I found myself listening to a tabla percussion workshop. This unexpected treat was very relaxing; the tutor seemed very knowledgeable and led a group of youngsters through an engaging workshop performance.

A personal highlight was finding a painting by an old friend Jed Walker on display. It was a lovely occasion and a chance to talk to old friends about the different arts and activities that can be found at the centre.

There were Zumba dance fitness workshops, exhibitions of local artwork, classical Indian dance and good nibbles plus a really engaging work by visual artist Akari Maharani. Being partially sighted I really enjoyed experiencing the colourful mural work and engaging with others investigating the flowers and forms to be found in the design. The atmosphere was family friendly and I thought the centre had made great use of the space.

I’ll be visiting the website and looking to sign up for more activities when I can. I’d recommend you visit the site to find out more: http://dev.kalasangam.org

Sam’s Pick!!

MUSTAffA; 11Th-14Th APRIL - 7PM

An exciting co-production by Kali Theatre with Birmingham Repertory Company; described as a modern twist on the classic thriller theme of demonic possession It should be an atmospheric, chilling and compelling play.

‘We all know that we can’t live like this anymore..’

By Iain Bloomfield As Artistic Director of Theatre in the Mill I see more new theatre than is, frankly, reasonable. If that has taught me anything it’s that, currently, theatre is at a tipping point, caught between the binaries of buildings/work, funding/flexibility, artist/collaborator, form/ content and right in the middle of a bun-fight for your time. In other words, theatre is in as interesting a place as I can remember.

Chris Goode, former Artistic Director at Camden People’s Theatre and currently incarnated as Chris Goode and Company, is in my opinion the most original voice in British theatre, as fine a barometer of where we are heading as anyone I know. He will be visiting Theatre in the Mill in May (9th to 11th at 7.30pm) with his new performance piece God/Head - a piece co-commissioned by The Oval House, London and us, and part-made here in Bradford.

Chris Goode gets that what makes theatre particular is the ongoing attempt to balance Apollo and Dionysus, the god of order and the god of chaos - its liveness: “For a few years I’ve been thinking about what that might mean and I think, for me, at the moment, it’s about using the presence of the audience – taking things that can’t be controlled or predicted and giving them some sway, some kind of formative presence, in the room…. To allow the audience to experience this importance and the ways in which theatre is a medium that is social, that’s about different kinds of community, about being able to think quite specific ideas about how we all live together. The big challenge to me is how can I create an open a space which anyone can walk into and change, potentially, but at the same time for me be able to craft the space.

How can I make a really beautiful crafted piece of work that at the same time has chaos in it?”

And in there you have the other key to his work, that for Chris Goode theatre is not about taking time out from existence..

“I’ve never been satisfied with the idea that we come here to escape….. let me say that in a more nuanced way….there is a kind of escapism that theatre does make possible but it’s an escapism out of the weird fictions that we live inside and into a kind of reality.” ..but about: “the politics of space, the politics of community, the politics of collaboration - not just in terms of wanting to make more interesting or innovative theatre, as if innovation were pure or good of itself… There is something interesting about how we create temporary models to live within, that we can create those spaces which at least allow us to glimpse how else we might live.

“We all kind of know that we can’t live like this anymore, that - to put it in terms I’m comfortable with - capitalism isn’t working - that we are going to have to think through how else we might do this.

We do know these things, we just don’t have a safe space in which to know them. The fact that theatre can give us that feels not just important but critical and I don’t think it felt critical ten years ago.”

So political theatre then, but (and it’s a huge but) just as the Occupy movement is changing the face of politics - free flowing, multifaceted, fleet footed in its expose of the hypocrisies of ‘late state’ capitalism - so political theatre is redefined in a radical, communal direction by artists like Chris Goode, using post-dramatic form to explore a post-‘political’ world.

Kala Sangam Arts Centre Upcoming Events Mustafa

7pm (doors 6.30pm), Wed 11th Ð Sat 14th April Dramatic new modern thriller by awardwinning south Asian womenÕ s theatre group, Kali.

Tickets: kalasangammustafa. eventbrite.co.uk Ò A compelling and engaging production, delicately directed by Janet Steel, of this poignantly profound and insightful piece...Ó - WhatÕ s On Stage Ò It has a metaphorical dimension with a feared but well-meaning Muslim trapped inside a grim white compound - Islamophobia in a nutshell... As tightly structured as the bars on Colin FalconerÕ s brooding set, both play and production deliver a good few cold shivers.Ó - Time Out Jhalla and Jathi 6.30pm (doors 7pm), Sat 5th May Double bill of classical Indian Bharatanatyam dancing and live classical sitar.

Tickets: jhallajathi.eventbrite.co.uk Ekalya and Kathakbox 6.30pm (doors 6pm), Sat 9th June Two beautiful Asian dance styles for the price of one. Unique double bill of Ekalya (classical) and Kathakbox (contemporary), which fuses Kathak dance with hiphop, beatbox and multi-lingual spoken word.

Tickets: kathakbox.eventbrite.co.uk Kala Utsav ‘Arts Festival’ Summer Showcase 7pm (doors 6.30pm), Sat 23rd June Dance, music and visual arts extravaganza with performances by Kala Sangam students, artists and teachers.

Tickets: kalautsavsummer12.eventbrite.co.uk Shades of Love 6.30pm (doors 6pm), Sat 14th July Beautiful Odissi dance in a contemporary style with Odissi Ensemble.

Tickets: ksshadesoflove.eventbrite.co.uk

Kala Sangam Arts Centre, St PeterÕ s House, 1 Forster Square, Bradford BD1 4TY Web: www.kalasangam.org Twitter: @Kala_Sangam Tickets for all events are £6 adults/£3 children/£15 family: Available online from Eventbrite or from Kala Sangam Arts Centre reception (open Mon-Fri, 9am Ð 5.30pm, and Sat 9am1pm). Alternatively, tickets can be reserved for payment on the door by calling Kala Sangam on (01274) 303340.

ART, THEATRE AND MUSIC from the University of Bradford THEATRE IN THE MILL Thursday 5th April, 7.30pm

We can be heroes (Work in progress) PLaY Theatre PlaY are in the process of creating a new piece that explores a growing number of ordinary members of the public who create alternative “superhero” personas Friday 20th April, 7.30pm

Word Life

hosted and curated by Joe Kriss - Featuring Kayo Chingonyi and more Wednesday 25, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th of April, 7.30pm

Unfinished Business Only Wolves and Lions at a secret Bradford location.

A meal. A conversation. A performance.

GALLERY II Showing until 11 May 2012

Active Stillness Claire McNamee Photography by Claire McNamee in collaboration with poet and Hawthornden Fellow, Liz Almond

TLMC Thursday 19th April, 7pm – late

Sound and Image

In Fabric’s ‘Pop Up’ unit on Centenary Square A night exploring the relationship between the heard and seen with installations and performances from Eoin Shea, Ithaca Trio, Bridget Hayden, Gareth S Brown

Box office: 01274 233200 theatre@bradford.ac.uk

Hello and a joyous, soulful April to you all.

There is a loose theme of “peace” in this month’s issue, along with an article on Peacejam from Helen Keighley of Bradford Uni. Thanks Helen. This calls to mind something which is going to be taking place around the time of next year’s Peacejam (we at Howdo?! like to try and be ahead of the game): an exhibition called Gandhi, King, Ikeda: Community Builders. Consequently, I’d like this column to begin with the refreshing, inspirational words of these three men:-

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi “It is not enough to say ‘We must not wage war.’ It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it......We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war.....If we have the will and determination to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfilment.”

Martin Luther King, Nobel lecture, 11th December 1964. “...violence is born from a wounded spirit... The rage that results from injured self-respect, from humiliation, erupts as violence. A culture of violence, which delights in crushing and bringing others into submission, spreads throughout society, often amplified by the media. From a healed, peaceful heart humility is born, from humility, a willingness to listen to others is born, from a willingness to listen to others, mutual understanding is born, and from mutual understanding, a peaceful society will be born.

Nonviolence is the highest form of humility; it is the supreme courage.”

Daisaku Ikeda, ‘One by One: The World Is Yours to Change’ (2004).

There’s also a frank and touching prose piece from Rachel Kaye about making peace with your home town – a process which can sometimes be fraught with challenges. Rachel seems to have managed it with aplomb.

For me, the noble sentiments of the three peacebuilders and the struggle to love the place where you grew up – indeed, the place where you find yourself right now, this minute - are one and the same. There is a certain playwright for whom I had no time whatsoever until the other day when I saw him televised, with only a few weeks left to live, rhapsodising about life, the “nowness”, as he put it, of everything. He was urging us to see the beauty in each moment, to appreciate life itself. Of course, none of us are robots or saints, nor do any of us go about in a state of happy-clappy euphoria. It’s hard to see the wonder of life itself when some berk has just nearly run you off the motorway (this happened to me last week). At least it is at the time; I did celebrate my survival after the event. It is possible to live a life full of joy and gratitude where the simple fact that your heart still beats can cause you to beam with excitement. When and however you get there, arriving at that place is itself the incentive to continue trying to reach it even when you’re in a foul mood/you’ve messed up/chucked your toys out of the pram because you didn’t get what you want. The list goes on, but it needn’t hamper us.

There is a certain lake in Northern Ireland in which fishermen are reluctant to fish. Why? Because the water is so clear that all the fish gather in the very middle of the lake, in the deepest part; the anglers can’t get to them. The reason is that there is a certain mussel living in the lake. Each mussel filters two square meters of water and the collective result is brilliantly clear. I can see a metaphor for local and global peace in this satisfying image. If each of us does our bit where we are, to the best of our ability, and keeps going through all our crap then together we can create a peaceful world. This is not naïve pseudo-hippy nonsense. This is clear-eyed common sense for the survival of the human species.

Jane Steele .

On Moving to a Town I Spent My Life Trying to Escape

By Rachel Kaye

From the age of four I grew up in a small village, where the nearest town, Huddersfield, was a thirtyminute bus journey away. It felt infuriatingly slow and my friends and I devoured everything remotely interesting, growing bored quickly. Very quickly.

In a little town the aging process seemed faster and I never realised that going out and recognising everyone, or knowing the turns of the streets like the back of your hands, could be a good thing, rather than just an utterly stifling pain in the arse. At 18 I fled to Brighton – which was geographically about as far as I could get without leaving England. Culturally it was about as far as I could get too. Brighton had the sea, a living breathing music scene, a thriving queer community, streets of designer shops and cafes – and a population who could afford to eat in them.

I fucking loved it. And as far as I was concerned I was never going back. I didn’t even return for summer, preferring to muck in with the full-timers – getting to know the city without students.

In the end I did go back of course. Because after everything I fell in love with a boy from my home town, and anyway I couldn’t afford to live and pay Brighton rents. We lived in coveted places like Hebden Bridge. Which was kinda like coming home, but in other respects really not.

This time I’ve gone and done it – moved to Bradford.

As I walked through the generic city centre on a Saturday afternoon where children pushed smaller children in prams and there was nothing but high street shops as far as the eye could see, I panicked with the realisation that I had moved to the town I’d spent my entire life trying to escape.

So why did I do it? What the fuck was I thinking? It was partly practical - sick of being out of the house for 12 hours a day and battling the weary commute.

And I could also afford to live here in something other than a bedsit.

Bradford is usually overshadowed by Leeds – recently luxury apartments in the city were advertised with the tagline ‘Live in Bradford, Shop in Leeds’. But in amidst the poverty and tension, the abandoned shops and vacant flats, there is something here.

Sometimes when you look up, catch a forgotten architectural gem in just the right light, you see a beauty. I’m not going to make optimistic claims that the city is the sleeping lion of mythology. But there is a definite kicking, a desire and energy to make things happen and the spaces and places to base this activity. I love the sense of humour and lack of pretension which may be the result of the rest of the world writing you off as ‘boring and dangerous’ when you know you are no such thing.

Perhaps I’m growing up, and maybe this involves a return to your roots. A realisation that perhaps what you hated as a teenager is also part of you. Like spending your adolescence hating your parents only to realise later that in the great scheme of things, they really aren’t that bad…

Maybe you even like them now.

spokenwOrD Breaking the Cycle of Violence: PeaceJam 2012 Breaking the Cycle of Violence: PeaceJam 2012.

I asked Helen Keighley, Peace Education Officer for the University of Bradford, and the PeaceJam Conference Coordinator, some questions about this outstanding event. It is annual and lasts three days. a different winner of the Nobel Peace Prize comes each year to bradford to work with young people from all around the UK, taking part in debates and in activities. The laureate works with the youth on contentious and challenging issues, passing on the benefit of their wisdom and, I am certain, learning just as much if not more themselves.

What kind of events are put on during Peacejam?

PeaceJam believes that Change Starts Here. Our conference and educational programmes aim to change negative attitudes in young people to a positive belief that one person can make a difference, whoever they are. We work with young people from schools/youth groups to empower them to effect change, firstly in themselves and then in their local community and from there the wider world. we educate young people in citizenship and leadership skills, we help teenagers choose non-violent solutions to their problems and offer alternative positive role models. our conference offers opportunities to engage with a Nobel Peace Laureate, this year Adolfo Perez Esquivel, and to take part in a series of workshops, volunteering projects, talks and discussions. we also ask our delegates to present their social action project to the conference and share their ideas.

We have opportunities to engage in art, music and dance at the conference and have a party on the Saturday evening.

When is it held this year?

Peace Jam is being held on 28 and 29 april, with a public lecture by our laureate on the evening of 27 April. Tickets are available through our website www.peacejam.org.uk/events What are the practicalities and “nuts and bolts” issues? E.g. speakers’ travel arrangements, seating, food?

PeaceJam is a large conference with around 300 delegates from schools and youth groups, plus approximately 80 student volunteers, about 25 staff volunteers and a Nobel Laureate and his team, this year travelling from Argentina. Our main issues are recruiting, co-ordinating and training our volunteers, recruiting and registering schools and groups, and also locating and signing up the community organisations who kindly donate their time to run the workshops and volunteering projects.

There are lots of logistical issues, as you can imagine! Feeding this amount of people at the same time, knowing who is going to be in what room and what everyone’s role will be over the two days are just a few issues. However, the key is to divide

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the jobs into manageable chunks, have a great team of people willing to get involved and help share the workload, and to make lots of lists! It’s a little like working on a massive jigsaw puzzle – for which you need to be methodical, organised and also committed to seeing it through!

Has your involvement changed you in any way? If so, how?

I have been incredibly inspired by the dedication of both the PeaceJam team and the many students who offer their time freely for something that they believe in. PeaceJam really makes you focus on issues that you might not have before.

This year our theme is Breaking the Cycle of Violence and it’s something that affects us all. I’ve certainly become more aware of issues I didn’t know so much about previously.

What are the best bits and what are the challenges of working on such an event? the challenges are mainly to do with time - planning a large event takes a lot of work and time - managing your own and others’ time is quite crucial. the best bits are getting to meet loads of new people and to really feel as though your job is worthwhile - having a sense that you are doing something positive through your work is wonderful. Also being able to offer some meaningful opportunities for volunteers to gain experience and skills useful for life beyond university is key to this project.

How did you get involved?

I am new to PeaceJam this year. I came to work at the University last year, originally on the artist Matt Lamb’s Umbrellas For Peace project*, and now also on PeaceJam when I was asked to take it on.

Interview by Jane Steele If anyone is interested in finding out more about PeaceJam or would like to sign up a school or group they can visit www. peacejam.org.uk *Editor’s note: Matt Lamb sadly passed away in February this year. In 2007 he donated a body of his work to bradford University, a large selection of which can be viewed in the atrium, richmond building, great horton road.

Gallery II at Bradford University will also be hosting an exhibition of his Peace angels in the atrium restaurant at the University between 27 April and 1 June this year.

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“I am a mixed media artist fascinated by fabric, dress making and print. The work I’ve created represents a collaboration of both Pakistani and british cultures through textile, pattern and colour. I wish to demonstrate and understand my cultural identity through my work.”

Zathoon’s work is a delicate deconstruction of the process of dress making. It includes a layering of her fabric prints with painted silk and incorporates the dress making patterns she’s working from. to see this with the studs, threads, buttons, beads and safety pins that playfully litter her work allows the viewer behind the scenes. It’s like being in the daydreams of a dress maker with a whisper of Vivienne westwood; there’s just a pinch of punk to be found here.

“Most of my work has been developed and created through experimentation. My motivation comes from working and meeting with like-minded artists whilst exposing myself to as much art as I can and wearing what I create.”

Her portfolio is full of little secrets; delicately folded tissue envelopes that open like flowers from the centre of the page containing her musings and imaginings. Everywhere there is a gentle and flowing investigation into the meanings of contemporary crafts, fashions and culture.

“I also explore the theme of communication and connection through photography, textile, film and colour. I find inspiration and interest in high fashion: Burbery Prorsum, Roland Mouret, Holly Fulton, haider ackermann and ralph Lauren share similar interests in colour, shape and cut. I like mari mahr’s photography, Joseph albers shapes, ray Caesar’s imagination, tor magnus’s animation, yinka Shonibare’s costumes/colour and in particular his chosen theme of identity and culture.”

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By Richard Ramsden We went out for dinner the other evening.The food was brilliant, all fusion noodles and tempura and big Thai curries. Proper South East Asian food that could maybe have had a slightly bigger chilli kick, but I am a Bradfordian, after all. We like our chillis.

The restaurant is in one of those converted warehouse-type places with high ceilings and iron beams and leather seats. My mum would have called it ‘trendy’.Everything was first-rate, from the food to the service, except there was one thing, literally in the background, that started to jump out and clobber both of us.The music, which was terrible.

Track after track of dated pop and power ballads, all slightly too loud. It was as if they’d just stuck Now That’s What I Call The Eighties on and left it to run through the whole horrifying lot.

The problem was the fit. The music didn’t match the food or the restaurant. There was a definite mismatch between the way the restaurant projected itself on the plate and the way it did so over the soundsystem.Bang up to date fusion food vs cheesy eighties music? It didn’t work out.

When food and music collide.That sort of contrast is very common, and I’ve noticed it in a few places recently.. the background music does nothing to support the food or the atmosphere of the place.

It’s as if all the focus and effort has been spent on the food and decor, then the inspiration just ran out. You can imagine the meeting now:“OK, we’re done. Menu finished, decorating done.

Move that plant over there a bit and that’s it.”

“What about music, boss?”“Music? Forgot about that. Pop round to Asda and pick something out of the bargain bin, quick. Here’s a tenner. I want change.”

It needs a little more thought than that. Music should be an intrinsic part of a restaurant’s business plan and its approach to design.

There’s a certain French bistro in Leeds that gets it right – it looks like a French bistro, the food tastes exactly like it’s from a French Bistro, and they play French music in the background, all Edith Piaf and the like. They don’t play death metal. That would be wrong (although I’m not suggesting that death metal is always wrong.

Some of it is ACE), but Piaf is right in that restaurant, and it rounds off the customer’s impression of a restaurant that’s thought it all through properly and delivered.

Just as an aside, and to make one thing clear, I’ll leave any restaurant that plays Coldplay immediately. I don’t find that unreasonable.

Silence isn’t golden. What of restaurants with no music at all?

Happens a lot, and always makes me slightly uncomfortable.A few years ago, we ate in a small, very highly regarded restaurant in a small French town. The dining room had about eight or so tables, and only a couple of them were occupied. The food, wine and service were exquisite, with the waitress/owner letting us sample some wonderful wines that just happened to be open, but the room was cloaked in a deathly hush. We were conspicuously British and therefore the subject of a slightly elevated level of mild intrigue, but the other two tables weren’t particularly talkative, so there was none of the reassuring background chatter that helps you to believe that your conversation is just being lost amongst the ambience. No, it felt as if the other diners were listening right in to every word we said.I doubt they’d have been able to understand us, but that was a minor detail.. they might as well have been stood over our table. It was odd and quite uncomfortable.

The same thing happened years ago in a Dublin B&B breakfast room, run by a strange elderly woman who wanted to talk about “the troubles” and her dwarf daughter. It was all very deathly silent and Twin Peaks-like... I honestly wouldn’t have been surprised by anything at all in that dining room, and I’m certain that the total silence was the main cause of the.. creepiness.

Now, there are exceptions. Big, bustling, busy dining rooms, places with a natural vibe and a movement and fluidity about them maybe don’t need background music because it wouldn’t serve a purpose.

They generate their own atmosphere, and if it works that’s great, but they’re few and far between. It’s the small places, the places struggling to spark things into life that need to think about this more.There’s nothing worse than a conspicuously awkward meal, and it’s most certainly the restaurant’s job to help you avoid that at all costs. So, what should they play?

That’s an absolutely unanswerable question. A restaurant soundtrack should match the restaurant. It could be off-the-wall or obscure, or mainstream and predictable, but it’s got to fit, and it shouldn’t be bad. Now, I know that bad is a very subjective word to use because my bad might be your good, but the choice of music at least needs a little thought put into it. It needs to reflect a sense that the management have thought things through. If it’s good , you might not notice it, but if they get it wrong, you definitely will.

It’s not enough to play just anything, or to hit shuffle on a random iTunes library.

There has to be a decent stab at a playlist at the very least, and whatever ends up being played out, there must be no easy listening jazz. That’s an absolute rule. Why would anybody choose Kenny G when they could have Miles Davis or John Coltrane?

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By Andy Abbott As we all know in the hectic, non-stop, 24-hour craziness that is life in the ‘f’d – running up hill and down dale from appointment to appointment, not knowing if the lift to Forster Square station is open or closed with only a one-hour lunch break to sample all four pumps in The Sparrow - sitting down to eat is a rare luxury. For the most part we need quick, portable food that suits our busy schedules yet satisfies exotic tastes ingrained by years of curry consumption. Sandwiches won’t cut it. Pasties are for soft miners. Enter the falafel wrap: filling, ‘healthy’, spicy, vegan (optional), and cheap. But which is the best in Bradford? The only way to find out was to eat falafel every day for a week. In Bradford.

Price: £3.80 Bread: Large naan-like bread.

Falafel: Mildly spiced and crushed into a paste.

Sauce: Appeared to be sweet chili sauce only, despite promise of ‘garlic mayo’.

Veg: Iceberg lettuce only.

Comments: Sizeable and filling but disappointing given the price.

Saturday: 1 in 12 Club, Albion St Price: £1.50 Bread: Tortilla wrap.

Falafel: N/A tofu available only.

Sauce: Vegan mayonnaise, tangy dressing and gravy-like marinade.

Veg: Iceberg lettuce, cucumber.

Comments: Cheap and mind-bogglingly like chicken (right down to the crispy skin). Not falafel though.

Sunday: Judi Bakery, 16 Lumb Lane Price: £1.80 Bread: Gargantuan naan.

Falafel: Well spiced, firm spheres with a tooth-crackingly crunchy outer.

Sauce: Their own magic yellow sauce that tastes slightly of curry powder. Mayo, chili and ketchup available to add.

Veg: Lettuce.

Comments: You only need one of these a day (maybe even a week) to fill you up, and at the price who could say no? The sauce is worth a trip alone.

Monday: Zorooni, Morley Street Price: £1.90 Bread: Sensible-sized flatbread.

Falafel: Well-spiced, deep-fried balls, slightly crushed with fork on assembly.

Sauce: Copious amounts of tahini/garlic sauce and optional chili squirted in concentric circles.

Veg: Pickled turnip, gherkin, lettuce, cucumber and tomato.

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Comments: The brave amount of sauce was the highlight of this wrap, plus pickled turnip is a winner.

Tuesday: Caspian, Morley Street Price: £2.50 Bread: Pitta.

Falafel: Four or five decent sized spicy crunchy globes.

Sauce: Standard kebab condiments; garlic and chili sauce.

Veg: Lettuce, tomato, cucumber.

Comments: A little on the lukewarm side and started to get soggy towards the end. This could be avoided by getting the naan bread upgrade.

Wednesday: Treehouse Cafe, Great Horton Road Price: £2.80 Bread: Brown Bread - No wraps on menu.

Falafel: European spices, a bit more like a veggie burger/pattie. Not deep-fried so little crunch.

Sauce: Powerful hummus.

Veg: Grated carrot.

Comments: Filling and wholesome if not wholly authentic but crucially this was NOT A WRAP. I do have a feeling, however, that the helpful volunteers in the café would have gone and got me one if I was the sort to make demands.

Thursday: Oasis, Morley Street Price: ‘Sorry mate no falafel today’.

Bread: ‘No, we’ve run out’.

Falafel: ‘You could have a burger’.

Sauce: ‘No, sorry mate there’s none left’.

Veg: ‘Come again next week’.

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‘In 20 minutes I can be in the middle of nowhere..’ rob walsh

bradford has a huge secret. It’s one likely to stay that way and I for one am selfishly glad. why? well, the bradford district is around two thirds rural. the big secret is how much of that is lofty sky-grazing moorland. go to google, click maps, and type in bingley, as the centre of the picture. Then click Satellite view and zoom out. You’ll see lots of green bits around the towns, mostly agricultural land, and then further out there are bigger brown areas. them big brown bits are what I like – bradford’s a fascinating place, but for me the moors are the icing on the cake. wide open spaces, on our doorstep, empty of buildings and crowds, with huge skies and great vistas across Yorkshire. The space, the silence, the long-distance views – it’s therapeutic, it’s cathartic, problem-solving, head-clearing. Top of the world. on the downside, them big brown bits can be muddy desolate nothings and a grey-brown monochrome in winter, with a few rocky paths and dangerous to boot. Don’t go. you’ll spend hours up there when you could be comfy lounging indoors, staring at a screen. you’ll come back down exhausted and sweaty, good for nothing but a hot bath.

Unless you go to the pub afterwards. Sorry, forgot to say, it’s in the rules – if you walk for more than two hours across country you have to go to the pub afterwards. Your mind will be refreshed, the drink will taste fantastic, and you’ll want to tell everyone where you’ve been and how good you feel.

Anyway, them moors is mine, all mine! Nobody else wants ‘em… stay in the valleys with yer tarmac and traffic, yer buildings and yer crowds. Because that’s what most people do, live life down in the valley bottoms – if it’s off tarmac, if it’s away from buildings they don’t want to know. fine. more for me.

If I haven’t successfully put you off, let’s look at the nearest moorlands. round about now you might want to get yourself some Ordnance Survey maps. A scale of 1:25,000 is recommended – the South Pennines explorer oL21, or explorer Sheet 288 for the Bradford area. There are laminated versions, to protect against rain and frequent folding.

My favourite moorwalking method is to catch public transport up one valley, walk over the tops into the next valley, research local pubs, then bus or train home in time for a curry. Plenty of space to park cars out there, but then you need a circular walk.

Nearest, and to the north of airedale, is Ilkley moor, sometimes called Rombalds or Bingley Moor on the Ordnance Survey map.

You can easily walk up on to it anywhere along the Aire valley, from Shipley to Keighley, then over the top to Ilkley. Or vice versa. There’s a big pine forest, a stone circle and well-hidden rocks with mysterious prehistoric cup and ring markings – no one knows what they were for, all that’s certain is that people made them. A very long time ago. to the south-east of bradford lies the main spine of the Pennine hills, and some great walking country – travel by bus up to Haworth or Stanbury, or out to Thornton, and walk over to Calderdale, landing in hebden bridge, mytholmroyd or halifax. these moors aren’t for the faint-hearted though – plan your route, take supplies, check the weather.

You’ll also need a sense of direction, and a compass can be very useful. Strong footwear with thick treads, a waterproof jacket, a hat.

Take a good look at the forecast. The Met Office website is essential viewing for walkers – if fog, rain or snow is forecast stick to the valleys. It’s easy to get lost when visibility is low – the paths can be invisible from 20 yards away. And it’s not much fun walking through a downpour in the middle of nowhere. If you get very lost, try going downhill – you’ll end up near a road (and a pub) sooner or later.

Apart from the essential post-walk visit to the pub there are some other things you need to know.

Stay on the paths, it’s safer - there are bogs, it’s easy to lose your direction, and walking across rough moorland can very quickly result in a sprained ankle. It may look empty up there but there’s plenty of wildlife that suffer when they’re disturbed – grouse, lapwing, curlew and other ground-nesting birds, hawks, lizards. there could be adders, but they seem smart enough to keep to themselves. I’ve never seen a snake in over 20 years of walking across the moors.

Leave as you find. Take litter home, shut gates and keep dogs well under control. Local magistrates always support farmers when they shoot dogs found worrying sheep. Sheep farming is hard labour and pays very badly – respect the farmer.

So, the fun bit after the hard labour – the pubs. and let’s be clear – my definition of a good pub is one that has real beer, with minimal or no music, where cocktail and lager drinking is done discreetly, if at all, and staff and patrons are relaxed and friendly.

Ilkley – the bar t’at is in the centre of Ilkley, near bettys, and has good beers – lots of them.

Keighley - the tiny boltmakers on east Parade, near the bottom of Cavendish Street, and the Brown Cow (take the Oakworth Road, after a hundred yards the pub is set back on the right).

Both have Timothy Taylors Landlord so fresh it must be piped in from the brewery up the road.

Shipley and Saltaire - fanny’s, Saltaire road – well-known social centre for the area, with at least half a dozen real ales, and the Shipley Pride – excellent well-kept beer, bands at weekends. hebden bridge - moyles hotel has the best-kept-beer in town, the railway next door caters for the indigenous bohemians. both are on New road, the main route through.

Sowerby Bridge - the Tardis-like Shepherds Rest, five minutes up the hill towards Halifax, with stone floors and big settees, and the Jubilee refreshment rooms on the station platform.

Most towns have a Wetherspoons with good cheap beer. Plan your pubs in advance – it’s almost as important as planning your route. See you at the bar.

Thornton Moor Circular Walk The Two Boots

Starting the walk from the car park beside the old Denholme Velvets mill site – the mill now flattened – on the A629, 200 hundred yards from the end of thornton road, we were greeted by signs exhorting us to spurn further wind turbine development on Thornton Moor, a revealing and very bradfordian juxtaposition of industries past and future.

Wind turbines, love them or loathe them, are difficult to ignore on Thornton Moor. The nearby Ogden turbines have been in place for almost 20 years, and are part of bradford’s horizon. the green glamour of power produced from the air aside, from an aesthetic point of view wind turbines are spindly and inelegant. Spotting traditional windmills was a childhood pastime, to keep us quiet in the back seat, and the new turbines lack the charm and pleasingly odd conical shape of the older structures. they do not grind corn and they lack sails.

Anyroad, the sun was out and spring was giving a strong nudge as the two boots strode up onto thornton moor. a well-worn two hour circular walk, with views out to the Dales in one direction, and halifax and Calderdale to the South. the clarity of the air can be measured by the number of power station cooling towers to be seen far to the east along the line of the a1. on this occasion distant cloud haze allowed sight of only one power station, with around five towers. Ferrybridge maybe?

One of the great virtues of this walk is that you’re straight onto the moor, after just a short bus ride up thornton road.

You could even choose to walk across to Calderdale, if you had the map, a good weather forecast, some supplies, and several hours to spare. we shared the route with cyclists, horse riders, runners and walkers. From the car park between the Denholme Velvets site and the farm shop our route followed the track up the hill as it bore left towards ogden water Country Park. after half an hour or so, turn right at a steep little valley. A stone bench marks a choice of routes. Left leads down into the valley, up the other side and round Ogden Water or over to Calderdale.

We chose straight on, soon veering right over the moor towards Oxenhope, with a view of Thornton Moor Reservoir to the right. after a rise the track gradually descends, with a gate appearing on the left. that path leads along the much-quarried ridge towards several mysterious and carefully shaped stone cairns.

Google Maps provides a clue to the maker’s intentions – in Satellite view two of the structures are seen to be a question mark and the numeral 42. a reference to hitchhiker’s guide To The Galaxy, for those who haven’t read it, where 42 is the answer to “The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”. We like the randomness of the solution, but disagree – a good walk is the answer.

Ignoring the gate and the ridge and carrying on downhill leads to a beautiful viewpoint over Leeming and Oxenhope, with haworth and Keighley off to the right. again there are choices – left alongside thornton Conduit to the narrow halifaxOxenhope road, or down into the valley towards Leeming. we completed the circular, turning right back down towards Denholme Velvets along a well-made bridle path in the shadow of Thornton Moor Reservoir.

A great constitutional available to anyone with the return bus fare for the 696 bradford to Keighley bus, disembarking at the very end of Thornton Road. An ideal length for an afternoon saunter in the right weather. afterwards we generally proceed a mile or two along halifax road, through Denholme to the New Inn, with its panoramic view of Hewenden Viaduct and the distant blue crest of rombalds moor beyond, great and well-priced beer, free wifi and friendly locals. Plenty of beer memorabilia too. tantalising pump clips of ales not tasted Saltaire’s big apricot ale for example; how did that escape our clutches? and if you wanted to keep it New, you could do much worse than check the New Inn down the road in thornton, next to South Square gallery – more good beer and a warm welcome.

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It’s far too early to pronounce the african album of the year, although that hasn’t stopped reviewers labelling Sory Kanda Kouyate’s admittedly very good La Voix De La Revolution from Sterns records as such.

And I’m not even sure that Thiossane will make the end of the year lists. Ablaye Ndiaye Thiossane is a veteran, who sang with the legendary Orchestra Baobab amongst others, but his veteran status – he’s 74 – has come at a price, and listening to his voice it’s clear he hasn’t had a lot of access to good dental treatment.

However Thiossane’s eponymous new album will definitely do for me. once the band – which includes guitarist Papa Noel, plus members of baobab and africando – strike up, and ablaye begins to emote, I’m happily uplifted and the state of his molars fades into the background. the glorious and perfectly judged mixture of percussion, guitar, sax and bass is overseen by Ibrahim Sylla, head of the longlasting Syllart records, recording and releasing west african music, and arranger francois breant, who has worked with Salif Keita and Thionne Seck. Both Sylla and Breant are also veterans, and they clearly know what they’re doing – the acoustic mix is clear and crisp, instruments shine individually and are crystal clear in unison. There’s a lovely backing chorus, which may be the baobabs.

I’ve long acknowledged my blind spot for latin american music, and equally my fondness for latin music done by african bands – and thankfully there’s a huge amount of the latter here. Not surprising, given the cross-Atlantic trade routes, but I still can’t work out why the African version so often gets me when the South american rarely does.

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mother/DeStroyer are a band who know not of ballads and who specialise in clouting rhythms and climatic guitar riffage, the next one always bigger than the last. hobo Joe opens the eP in a frenzied seizure before skipping into a cool groove with maniacal ramblings blasted over the top, before a quick change of pace slaps you right in the chops. Second track Kali continues in this trend with blistering hooks that transform from doom stomp to double time whackabilly in the blink of a beat.

The thing that I love about this EP is that it has massive balls. Ordinary Madness is the highlight for me. A devilishly catchy chorus is very well placed in all the madness that surrounds this caged beast. brilliant. too much blood and thunder caps off this debut eP, as if summarising the madness that trails in its wake. you can go and listen to the eP now at Soundcloud or alternatively catch them at one of their high-octane live shows.

anyroad, that’s my problem – all you need to know for now is that Thiossane is beautifully uplifting and accessible – I even enjoyed the accordion breaks. and that is really saying something.

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The gig runs from 2 – 5.30pm and everything remains appropriately civil; herbal teas are quaffed along with stunning breakfast wraps. Joe kicks the event off with a couple of his own acoustic songs accompanied sporadically by a violinist. Joe’s voice is the most striking element of the performance; a deep and powerful American-tinged baritone with a not-small resemblance to Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. Joe’s songs have a touching, nostalgic feel and are delivered with compelling confidence and proficiency.

The 90s vibe carries into Kurt Wood’s set. His set starts with a speedy acoustic punk number before moving through more contemplative (post) rock that melds Billy Corgan chords and key changes with the occasional Kottke-esque flourish to impressive effect. The highlight for me was the final banjo number; the slightly higher range of the instrument a great backdrop for Kurt’s voice.

Next up - after another interlude from Joe - is Rob Holden, astutely described on the flyer as ‘a diamond in the rough you would not wish to smooth’. Despite Rob’s heritage as a guitarist in a number of significant hardcore, post-rock and emo bands of the 90s and 2000s, his acoustic music has much more classic roots; his set comprising of a number of well-picked blues and rock covers with dexterity and passion.

The last act of the afternoon is duo Dariush and Jade, introduced by Joe as ‘the first female vocalist at the Buskers Retreat’. Jade’s voice belies her apparent youth, as does Dariush’s relaxed, mature playing style; gliding through jazz chord progressions whilst keeping a tasteful back beat that compliments and never overpowers Jade’s smooth vocal delivery. They perform a set of standards dating back to the 1930s with a convincing authenticity that contrasts beautifully with the surroundings. The highpoint by some distance, however, is the one self-penned song they play which had me fighting back the tears; one thing I did not expect in the 1 in 12 on a Saturday afternoon!

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Until recently Caroline Street Social club was your typical warts-and-all members club. Bingo nights, 80s perms and Jim bowen wannabes were the order of the day. that charm has remained but the club has experienced something of a revival. A new entertainments programme, spearheaded by Paul allen the club’s new business manager, has transformed the club’s fortunes. family discos, comedy and cabarets have put the 46 year-old venue firmly back on the cultural map.

The latest development in its regeneration is Live Room, a regular live music night put together by seasoned promoters hilary booth and ron Dukelow. ron says: “the music room at Caroline’s is perfect, with a great stage, acoustics and the capacity for around 200 guests. It will work well for both a seated audience and dance crowd. If, like us, you like your live music up close in a warm, intimate venue, then The Live Room at Caroline Social Club is for you.”

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Foreword What a month for film us Bradfordians have in April.

At the beginning of the month Minicine will be presenting their Mini-Bloodbath cult horror screening on Wednesday 4 April at Glyde House, and CinePolskie, a whole day of Polish cinema on Saturday 7 April at the Polish Parish Club. For details on both go to miniminicine.com The main event of the year by far in our City of Film is the Bradford International Film Festival; consequently this is a special bumper-section of the HowDo?! filmReview. The curse of having such an impressive selection of films is that it becomes a little intimidating and perplexing to tackle for those that aren’t complete cine-nuts. Having last month highlighted some of the big guests in attendance - Ray Winstone, interviewed by film critic Mark Kermode, Barbara Windsor and Olivier Assayas - what we’ve endeavoured to do this month is save you a little trouble and pick out some of the sure-to-be highlights, and possible hidden gems.

Along with HowDo’s regular contributors we have recommendations from fellow cinephiles across the blogosphere. You can find details for all of them at the end of this section.

Before going into the individual selections, there are a few general things of note for this year’s festival.

First, pretty much every film is playing twice, which gives you all the more chance of seeing that wildly intriguing film that may never make it to general distribution in this country. Second, and one of the greatest features of BIFF, is the plethora of short films from all around the world scattered throughout the festival and serving as openers for the main features aside from the Shine Short Film Awards on Saturday 21 and Wednesday 25, which will be shown together. This is an invaluable way of seeing some unexpected and thought-provoking snippets of cinema from all around the world.

There is much more to the festival than the selections below, but hopefully it will give you a taste, not only for what is playing, but for what HowDo?! deems worthy of note. For more details on any of the films that we can only afford to skim over, or for all the rest of the activities going on throughout the festival, be sure to check out the website at www.bradfordfilmfestival. org.uk or pick up a full programme from the National Media Museum or various other venues throughout Bradford, including How Do?! favourite The Sparrow.

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European Features Competition An exciting new addition to BIFF this year will be the European Feature Film Competition. Although it was stated at the official press launch that it wasn’t an intentional move, all six films in competition are directed by narrative feature film debutants. This in itself shows the festival’s dedication to finding the freshest cinema around. Possibly the most commendable move is to include only six features, ensuring that it wouldn’t be too difficult to see every feature in competition.

The jury is impressive, with film critics for two national papers, Wendy Idle of The Times and Tim Robey of The Telegraph, along with one of the brightest British directors of the moment, Joanna Hogg, whose most recent film, Archipelago, was lauded by critics around the world last year.

The films playing span the whole of the continent, with Germany’s Papa Gold on Saturday 22 and Tuesday 24, an inter-generational buddy movie following the relationship of a sexually active (to say the least) young student and his stepdad. From Spain, there is the animated examination of Alzheimer’s disease in the form of Wrinkles on Saturday 22 and Thursday 26. From Iceland comes the dealing-with-retirement narrative Volcano on Sunday 22 and Thursday 24 and there’s the Slovenian comedy Bread and Circuses on Friday 20 and Thursday 26.

HowDo’s pick of the bunch has to be Avé on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24. A Bulgarian teen road-movie, where an art student hitchhiking his way across the country to attend a friend’s funeral crosses paths with the enigmatic Avé. Not the most original concept, but the beauty of recognisable, formulaic templates such as the road movie is that they can offer an insightful view of a national structure of feeling. We anticipate an enlightening view of the psyche of Bulgarian youth.

As for the final film in competition, Michael Pattison of idFilm has Adalbert’s Dream, on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25, as one of his picks of the festival: “Unique visual textures abound in this, the latest film to emerge from the nolonger-new Romanian New Wave. Suitably shot using special Zeiss lenses on an old VHS camera and set on the day immediately after Romanian football team Steau Bucharest beat Barcelona to the 1986 European Cup, the film promises to be another inimitable blend of comic whimsy and serious social comment, depicting the extent to which factory life under the oppressive Romanian Communist Party finds its temporary antidote in sporting passions. Should the concept of national cinemas still exist, the Romanians are currently unmatched in their appraisals of life.”

Opening Gala: Damsels in Distress At last year’s BIFF, the opening gala film, Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, was perhaps the most bland and least adventurous opening film a festival could have. How satisfying it is then that Whit Stillman’s grungy musical comedy Damsels in Distress - opening gala, Thursday 19 April - reads like a wonderful balance; something saleable that won’t alienate anybody, yet a bit special and a little offkilter. The highlight is the progression of Greta Gerwig, who appeared in the festival’s Uncharted States of America strand a few years ago and is now starring in the opening film. Such a progression vindicates the existence of the Uncharted States strand, genuinely finding the talent of the future. More on the Uncharted States to follow.

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HowDo?! spoke to both of BIFF’s festival directors, to see what they particularly wanted to let people know about in their first year at the helm.

Neil Young picked out the UK premiere of a fascinating Canadian documentary called How I Filmed the War on Friday 20 and Sunday 22. An adaptation, of sorts, and part-literal reproduction of a book that itself is the memoir of a filmmaker documenting the First World War – the 1916 documentary The Battle of the Somme. With so many points of inflection and mediation, the film serves not only as an insightful and moving account of that harrowing historical moment, but also as a commentary on propaganda and interpretation.

With Young stating: “If people are going expecting a conventional BBC-style documentary about the First World War - it ain’t that.” HowDo?! is all the more interested; this is precisely the kind of challenging, thought-provoking use of cinema we have come to expect of BIFF’s programmed features.

Tom Vincent pointed us to one of the films playing in the Uncharted States of America strand. Without on Wednesday 25 and Friday 27 has been winning awards at festivals around the world, with very high praise for the starring newcomer Joslyn Jenson as the 19 year-old carer of a near catatonic elderly man. Praise too for the debutant writer/director Mark Jackson, winning best director at Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The combination of this award, the breathtaking visuals seen in the trailer and the comparison to Polanski’s Repulsion make for a very intriguing setup.

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Double Bills

Two Adams, regular HowDo?! contributor Adam Ryan, along with Adam Batty of Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second, highlight a couple of the intriguingly coupled double bills on offer.

Adam Ryan: “Film obsessive that I am, double bills can never be anything but a good thing and this year the programmers have delivered in excellent style. Out of the three that are being screened – all of which look to be supplying the most, shall we say, challenging films of the festival - He Whose Face Gives No Light and Malaventura (twice on Monday 23) looks the most intriguing. The former takes an Extras-esque look at the life of the ‘supporting artists’ that feature in the latter, providing a unique insight into filmmaking as an artistic, creative process.”

Adam Batty chooses the first of a double bill, as one of his films of the festival: “First up is a relatively slight film, in the guise of Marcel Ophüls and Jean-Luc Godard: The St. Gervais Meeting (Thursday 26 and Friday 27), a 45-minute documentary that is essentially a conversation between Gallic cinema institutions Jean-Luc Godard and Marcel Ophuls. Directed by Frédéric Choffat and Vincent Lowy, although the film essentially amounts to Godard and Ophüls sitting on a theatre stage engaged in conversation.”

This film is coupled with La Malaid Balanche, a distinctive and dream-like forty minute film about a young girl’s nighttime adventure with a wild boar.

Dan Fletcher of Dan’s Movie Insights holds this strand to be the must-see collection: “Highlights of this year’s festival are spread thin. Indeed, the most pleasure will be derived from the extremely rewarding Uncharted States of America VI selection. This strand celebrates truly independent film across America and this year’s highlight is undoubtedly Sawdust City, (Saturday 21 and Sunday 22), described as a ‘road movie on foot’. If that isn’t enough to get excited over, the producer is the brains behind last year’s Uncharted States hit LiTTLEROCK.” (See an insightful interview with Sawdust City writer, director, editor and co-star David Nordstrom, in BIFF’s official programme catalogue.)

Other highlights of the strand include Without (see co-director Tom Vincent’s pick above) and The Last Buffalo Hunt on Saturday 21 and Monday 23, a documentary about the sanctioned tourist hunting of one of the nation’s few remaining herds of free-ranging bison. The programme describes it as ‘an intelligent, penetrating examination of how the US commodifies and exploits its own mythologies’.

HowDo?! Regulars’ Picks

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Documentaries Genre Cinema; Martial arts and Bradford After Dark There’s one film playing that has had martial arts/action film fans around the world buzzing, as Sam from Film Intel explains: “The Raid (Sunday 22 and Saturday 28) has already stirred up a fuss at a number of stateside festivals and now brings its high-kicking action to Bradford, under the guidance of Welsh-born director Gareth Evans. The Indonesian-set film has attracted the attention of plenty of big players in the industry, with many tipping Evans as a future director of note.”

Along with this spectacle of high flying martial arts BIFF has its own horror film strand, as James Voller of film blog Wrestle With the Questions explains: “Now in its second year, Bradford After Dark is the section of BIFF that focuses on the horror genre and will be invading Cineworld Bradford intensively on the first weekend, with repeat screenings throughout. This year’s festival combines classic Hammer horror in the form of The Plague of Zombies (Saturday 21 and Thursday 26) and The Reptile (Saturday 21 and Saturday 28) with new eerie chilling ghost stories such as Ti West’s The Innkeepers (Saturday 21 and Monday 23 - see below). Modern British filmmakers are well represented with Sean Hogan’s The Devil’s Business (Saturday 21 and Friday 27) and France will also try and scare you witless with Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s Livid (Saturday 21 and Sunday 29). Finally, after wowing audiences at Leeds International Film Festival last year, Cuba’s very own zombie comedy, Juan of the Dead (Friday 20 and Sunday 22), will be back in Yorkshire to exterminate more zombies. Bradford After Dark is really spoiling you though - with each of the above feature films you will also see a short film from around the world.”

HowDo?! regular Niki Bierton, on The Innkeepers: “The Innkeepers is a new horror film, telling the story of two hotel employees hunting for ghosts in their place of work, which happens to have a reputation as the most haunted hotel in the US. Not only do the guests get creepier as the hotel comes closer to shutting down, but the truth behind the reputation starts seeping out. Chilling stuff! Definitely one to watch - if you like a good old shocker with a mix of horror and suspense you’ll be at the edge of your seat!”

Blogroll/Thanks Thanks to our additional contributors. See more of their work at the following websites and Twitter pseudonyms.

Michael Pattison - idfilm.blogspot.co.uk - @m_pattison James Voller - wrestlewiththequestions.blogspot.co.uk - @james_voller Sam Turner - film-intel.com - @filmintel Adam Batty – Hopelies.com - @adamhopelies Mike McKenny is the editor of filmReview. You can find him on Twitter @DestroyApathy or email him at

mike@howdomagazine.co.uk

Get in touch with him if you know any interesting film-related stories in Bradford; UNESCO City of Film.

One thing that BIFF has offered in previous years, and is poised to continue to offer this year, is some fascinating documentaries; never content with insightfully uncovering stories around the world, but also challenging the documentary form, creating something much more visceral than the talking head, expository form.

We’ve picked two that are playing this year, both of which are UK premieres. Battle of the Queens on Sunday 22 and Tuesday 24, a beautifully shot film documenting a folk festival in the Swiss Alps, where female cows are pitted against each other in carefully controlled fights and judged on martial artistic abilities. Also, staying with the theme of combat, there’s Fightville on Friday 20 and Sunday 28, a fly-on-the-wall documentary focusing on enigmatic personalities within the mixed martial arts world.

Michael Pattison from idFilm explains why a documentary from right here in West Yorkshire is one of his picks: “If we’re championing the under-voiced here, it seems fitting to mention We Are Poets (Friday 20 and Wednesday 25), which won the Youth Jury Award at last year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest. Accessible and unassuming, this swift 80-minute documentary follows a group of Leeds-based youths as they represent the UK at an annual international poetry slam competition in the USA. Remarkably forthright, these young people are unpretentious and lyrically talented: we’re rooting for them from the off. One of this energetic film’s more endearing achievements is its depiction of young people performing for performing’s sake; one scene in particular, in which two of the youths perform a self-written effort called America, makes it clear that when a potentially controversial idea is delivered heartfeltly and truthfully enough, its political power becomes encompassing and empowering.

We Are Poets’ festival screening on 20 April is also followed by a live poetry slam by its young stars; if team captain Saju Ahmed’s postscreening performance at the Tyneside Cinema last October was anything to go by, audiences are in for a treat.”

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LIVE LOUNGE (AT UTOPIA), BRADFORD by andy abbott

In January there was some info flying around the internet about a new mid-sized 700-capacity venue for live music launching in February. I missed the opening but did have a meeting a few weeks later with the collective that are looking to build Live Lounge into an established venue for touring acts along the lines of the Cockpit in Leeds. The venue certainly has potential to achieve this goal; a huge stage and a decent layout that would work with 80 to 100 punters but can clearly accommodate more. The line-up at the moment is mostly covers bands and yesterday’s indie stars but the collective involved in running Live Lounge have the ambition and experience to turn this into an exciting and much-desired provision for the city. Follow the development on Facebook. www.facebook.com/LiveLoungeUtopia

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Keighley’s own one-stop-shop for cultural activity opens this month. The Exchange Arts centre will offer community arts projects, regular classes, children’s activities and live performances from touring theatre groups and bands. It will also house the long-established Musicians Centre, which is moving there from its current home at The Railway Station. It promises to be the perfect hideout for the regions strummers with an in-shop performance stage, acoustic and electric practice rooms and a coffee bar. The centre will be also be host to the MC Academy, an all-encompassing music tuition school. A 200 capacity venue within the centre will host events and also be available for private hire.

teXere yarNS, LIttLe germaNy, braDforD by rachel Kaye

Bradford, city of wool, but where do you buy it from these days? The answer is Texere Yarns in Little Germany. Based in College Mill on Barkerend Road in a 170-year-old grade two listed building, Texere Yarns has been a textile warehouse for over 70 years. The place is crammed with more than 8,000 square feet of yarns - some exclusive to the mill – books, patterns and accessories. It is one of the most fabulous shops in Bradford, and what’s more, they do workshops, courses, and knitting groups too. The place is a wonderful piece of our still-operating history that deserves your support. For opening hours check their website. www.texere-yarns.co.uk/

SALTAIRE ARTS TRAIL Grace Haydon This year from 5-7 May we’ll be offering our most ambitious programme yet: alongside much-loved favourites such as the Open Houses and Makers Fair, we’re really excited to present a number of firsts for Saltaire Arts Trail, including new art commissions and an artists’ film strand.

Thanks to support from Arts Council England, for the first time we’ve been able to invest in the creation of new contemporary art especially for Saltaire Arts Trail. In collaboration with fabric we’ve commissioned artist Eoin Shea for a project presented in, and responding to, the grand setting of the Saltaire United Reform Church. Eoin will be creating an installation looping projections made from second hand 8mm home movies and new film material. It will be accompanied by atmospheric, multilayered sounds, made from audio recordings taken from around the church itself.

Elsewhere around the village there will be a number of intriguing surprises waitin g to be discovered, including photography exhibitions, sound installations, guided walks and a house dedica ted to live performance art. We also have an experimental film strand curated by Cherry Kino in partnership with Bradford City of Film, so look out for film installations in some unusual locations, including Saltaire’s launde rette! full details of all the events, including times and venues, are available online at www.saltaireartstrail.co.uk.

We are always on the lookout for new volunteers, so if you’re interested please get in touch via the website.

wk1 Tue 3rd Apr_ Wed 4th Apr_ Thu 5th Apr_

MATTHEW BOURNE’S NUTCRACKER; until 7th Apr @ ALHAMBRA THEATRE, BD1 1AJ ISLAMIC RELIEF PRESENTS; an evening of inspiration 2012 @ ST. GEORGE’S HALL, BD1 1JT YURI LANDMAN; build your own triochord workshop @ TASMIN LITTLE MUSIC CENTRE BD7 1DP MINICINE’S MINI-BLOODBATH; An evening of cult horror @ 6pm-9pm GLYDE HOUSE BD5 0BQ CLOCKWORK RADIO + DREAM JOCKEY; live music probably with cake @ TREEHOUSE CAFE, BD7 1BN BEATITUDES; live music every first Thursday @ THE MILL, BD7 1LU ROBOTS VS SHARKS PRESENT; eric ayotte + ONSIND + film in the library @ THE 1 IN 12 CLUB, BD1 2LY PLAY THEATRE PRESENT; we can be heroes (work in progress) @ THEATRE IN THE MILL, BD7 1DP

NOEL BOWLER: Making Space; Launch event (free event, all welcome) Exploring the expansion and development of Islam in contemporary Ireland (running throughout April) 6pm - 8pm @ ImPreSSIoNS gaLLery, bD1 1SD

Fri 6th Apr_

Sat 7th Apr_

ROCKERS AND ROLLERS; cut yourself in half + knickerless cage @ NEW BEEHIVE INN, BD1 3AA AN AGREEABLE GOOD FRIDAY; the girl with the replaceable head +the delvaux @ CAROLINE ST SOCIAL CLUB, BD18 3JZ NIGHT BY NIGHT + SKARLETT RIOT; live bands + djs @ GASWORKS, BD1 1SW JATP JAZZ; go go penguin @ BRADFORD IRISH CENTRE, BD1 2RX MINICINE PRESENTS CINE-POLSKIE; A whole day of Polish cinema @ (£10 day ticket) 1pm-10pm POLISH CLUB, BD5 0BH WRATHCHILD + SUICIDE TUESDAY + THE KINGCROWS; live bands + djs@ GASWORKS, BD1 1SW ANALOG BOMBS; live music @ DELIUS LIVED NEXT DOOR, BD7 1BQ

EXChANGE ARTS CENTRE Launch Night; with all too human + captain hotknives 8pm - 11pm @ eaC, RUSSELL STREET, KEIGHLEY, bD21 2Le

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with Geronimo + tiger mouse. INSPIRATIONAL SOUND ft Dan – I + Stephanie. Doctor Huxtable. Mr Gunning

9pm - 4am @ SMALL WORLD VENUE, RUSSELL STREET, KEIGHLEY, bD21 2JP Sun 8th Apr_

WINTER BANDSTAND: with Tim Moon + Reuben and Sarah @ CAROLINE ST SOCIAL CLUB, BD18 3JZ

wk2 Wed 11th Apr_ Thu 12th Apr_

KALI PRESENT MUSTAFA; south Asian women’s theatre @ KALA SANGAM, BD1 4TY TOPIC FOLK CLUB; Present Vicki swan + jonny dyer @ BRADFORD IRISH CENTRE, BD1 2RX

ART fARMERS PRESENT: The Psychogaelic Ceiligh; with awry + biscuit head and the biscuit badgers 8pm til late @ THE 1 IN 12 CLUB, BD1 2LY Fri 13th Apr_

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE; live bands + djs@ GASWORKS, BD1 1SW TONG + HASEGAWA; classical piano duo @ BRADFORD CATHEDRAL, BD1 4EH RAZORBLADE PICNIC @ THE BLACK SWAN, BD1 2JH

ROBOTS VS ShARKS PRESENT; Yo el Rey + Dolphins + Boddikers 8pm til late @ THE 1 IN 12 CLUB, BD1 2LY Sat 14th Apr_

Sun 15th Apr_

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THE AIRE VALLEY SINGERS; with Cantamici @ ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, BD18 3EH HAZARDOUS METAL CLUB NIGHT PRESENTS; the aftermath @ EXCHANGE ARTS CENTRE, BD21 2LE CABARET HEAVEN; Mysti Valentine, Isma Alma, Bernarde Otter @ CAROLINE ST SOCIAL CLUB, BD18 3JZ ICON; live bands + djs@ GASWORKS, BD1 1SW HOUSE 32 PRESENT; illusory centre + orcat diplomats + loads more @ THE 1 IN 12 CLUB, BD1 2LY NGOD; live music @ DELIUS LIVED NEXT DOOR, BD7 1BQ ROBOTS VS SHARKS PRESENT; foxes faux + robin leitch + jake and the jelly fish @ EXCHANGE ARTS CENTRE, BD21 2LE

Bradford International film festival; 19th-29th @ National Media Museum - See filmReview

Wed 18th Apr_ Thu 19th Apr_ Fri 20th Apr_

ART FARMERS OPEN MIC; tunes, words, performance from the people of Bradford @ NEW BEEHIVE INN, BD1 3AA TOPIC FOLK CLUB; present greg Russell + ciaran algar @ BRADFORD IRISH CENTRE, BD1 2RX COLT 45; Carlisle pop/rock/punk @ EXCHANGE ARTS CENTRE, BD21 2LE WORLD HERITAGE LIVE MUSIC; bbblack dog + ovibus+ more@ CAROLINE ST SOCIAL CLUB, BD18 3JZ LIBERTY LIES; live bands + djs@ GASWORKS, BD1 1SW PSYCHOBILLY GIG; the tomb + holy wack job + howling wolfmen @ THE 1 IN 12 CLUB, BD1 2LY

WORD LIfE; hosted and curated by Joe Kriss, Featuring Kayo Chingonyi 7.30pm - 9.30pm @ theatre IN the mILL, bD7 1DP Sat 21st Apr_

SOUL NIGHT; original 60s and 70s vinyl @ EXCHANGE ARTS CENTRE, BD21 2LE SALTAIRE HANDMADE ARTS AND CRAFTS + FARMERS MARKET; @ CAROLINE ST SOCIAL CLUB, BD18 3JZ SALTY STEAM; Steam punk event (part of Saltaire World Heritage weekend) @ CAROLINE ST SOCIAL CLUB, BD18 3JZ UFO CLUB; 60s psychedelic + rock and roll @ POLISH CLUB, BD5 OBH MANCHESTER SOCIAL CENTRE; fundraiser (bands tbc) @ THE 1 IN 12 CLUB, BD1 2LY EUROPEAN UNION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA; with Tasmin Little @ ST. GEORGE’S HALL, BD1 1JT DIRTBOX SOUNDSYSTEM; dj sly + stylus + more + live African grooves @ SMALLWORLD VENUE, BD21 2JP

SEVEN DEADLY + GOLDEN TANKS + DEAD TIL fRIDAY; 8pm til late @ gaSworKS, bD1 1Sw Sun 22nd Apr_

ROBOTS VS SHARKS PRESENT; fishbone + random hand + the nice sharp pencils @ THE BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB, LS6 1NY

wk4 Wed 25th Apr_ Thu 26th Apr_

Bradford International film festival; 19th-29th @ National Media Museum - See filmReview UNFINISHED BUSINESS PRESENT; only wolves and lions (also 27th and 28th) @ THEATRE IN THE MILL, BD7 1DP VERVE 12; northern school of contemporary dance performance company (also 26th) @ ALHAMBRA STUDIO, BD1 1AJ BRADFORD COMEDY CLUB; live stand up @ GLYDE HOUSE, BD5 0BQ TOPIC FOLK CLUB; present marie little @ BRADFORD IRISH CENTRE, BD1 2RX

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A new monthly night that explores alternative live music.

8pm - 1am @ BALANGA BASEMENT CLUB, BD1 3PT

Fri 27th Apr_

Sat 28th Apr_

NO HANDS + THS OBSCENE BABY AUCTION; barberos (Liverpool) + Do Miss America @ POLISH CLUB, BD5 0BH KULU; ed tangent + lunar seed @ THE MILL, BD7 1LU ANNE MARIE HURST; ex skeletal family @ EXCHANGE ARTS CENTRE, BD21 2LE SALTAIRE BEER CLUB; saltaire + guest casks + hog roast @ SALTAIRE BREWERY, BD17 7AR BLACK TEARS + KARMA KILLERS; live bands + djs@ GASWORKS, BD1 1SW EMMA JOHNSON; clarinet + cavaleri quartet @ BRADFORD CATHEDRAL, BD1 4EH COOLABOOLA @ NEW INN, BD13 3JX WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY @ CITY HALL GARDEN, BD1 1HY SHIPLEY RECORD CLUB; the vital vinyl you would rescue from the flames @ KIRKGATE CENTRE, BD18 3EH AXIS SOUND SYSTEM; with the cultivators@ THE MILL, BD7 1LU THE MOOR FOLK PRESENT; roger davies + joe tilston @ EXCHANGE ARTS CENTRE, KEIGHLEY, BD21 2LE (FROM) THE JAM (BRUCE FOXTON); + louise distras + jack’s attic @ LIVE LOUNGE AT UTOPIA, BD1 2QT

SAM’S PICK!!

RECLAIM MAYDAY;

Zounds + Lazarus blackstar + etai Keshiki + many more, maypole, art, food, booze, family fun

12pm - 9pm @ BRADFORD URBAN GARDEN, BD1 4HU Mon 30th Apr_ Sat 5th/Sun 6th May_

Sat 5th May_

BLOOD BROTHERS; until 5th May @ ALHAMBRA THEATRE, BD1 1AJ SLOWTORCH; Italian doom metal @ THE BLACK SWAN, BD1 2JH ‘ANTE’ IS SHIPLEY’S MAY DAY CELEBRATION, @ KIRKGATE CENTRE, BD18 3EH Saturday starts with a small press, zine and print fair followed by a benefit gig. Sunday is an ante-Art factory - dress for mess and produce your own £25million masterpiece. Ante-exhibition all weekend. Want to get involved? Then get in touch! www.ante-art.co.uk twitter: @ante_art HOUSEKEEPING SOCIETY @ Treehouse Cafe BD7 1BN

ONGOING EVENTS DURING APRIL BEEHIVE POETS; every Monday@ NEW BEEHIVE INN, BD1 3AA THE DRAWING CLUB; every Tuesday, models, music, projections @ 6.30pm DELIUS ARTS CENTRE, BD7 1AA ARABIC/DESI; every Thursday, live performance from 6:30pm @ SPICE BAR LOUNGE RESTAURANT, BD1 5AF BRADFORD SCRATCH ORCHESTRA; every Thursday, ensemble improv facilitated by Richard Ormrod @ TASMIN LITTLE MUSIC CENTRE, BD7 1DP IOU VOLATILE LIGHT; a mechanical sound and light installation @ IOU STUDIO, DEAN CLOUGH, HALIFAX HX3 5AF. Contact 01422 369217 for an appointment.

ACTIVE STILLNESS; images by Claire McNamee @ GALLERY II, BD7 1DP NOEL BOWLER: MAKING SPACE; the expansion and development of Islam in contemporary Ireland @ IMPRESSIONS GALLERY, BD1 1SD STEAMPUNK; costumes, objects, artwork, memorabilia @ BRADFORD INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM, BD2 3HP LIFE ON LINE; the world’s first gallery dedicated to exploring the social, technological and cultural impact of the internet. @ THE NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM, BD1 1NQ

BANKSY COMES TO BRADFORD

Bradford’s Gallery 1 launched a new exhibition on the 25th March, ‘Street Art: Contemporary Prints from the V&A’, showcasing the work of upcoming and established street artists and including work by the elusive Banksy. It features prints by other highprofile practitioners, including D*Face and Shepard Fairey, alongside lesser known artists, such as Miss Tic and Swoon.

This exhibition explores how street art has moved away from the painted wall into the medium of printmaking, through a number of recurring themes: politics and propaganda, symbols and characters, influences and image making, city and street. It runs until Sunday 10 June.

www.bradfordmuseums.org www.impressions-gallery.com www.fabricculture.co.uk

www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk www.brad.ac.uk/gallery www.kirkgatecentre.org.uk

If you would like your event to appear in HowDo please use subject heading ‘listings’ and send to:

sam@howdomagazine.co.uk

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