Join us for our Play, Move, Create session for parents or carers and your little ones. These are creative sessions for children to learn, play and grow in a safe and welcoming environment.

Fancy being involved in a performance at Bradford Arts Centre?: These sessions will continue to build up on the skills and ideas developed in the taster sessions in order to co-create the community cast section for Toussaint To Move's 'Free'.

Our Bradford Arts Centre superstar Ifty is here to tell you about all the fantastic performances we have coming up in November! Heard something you like? Tickets are available to buy now for just £1. Link in bio! - . . #bradfordartscentre #bradford #bradford2025 #itsoninbradford #bradfordevents

Last week we had our second week of Schools Takeover 2025! Over the last two weeks, we have had over 700 students join us for a series of creative workshops!

✨ We are hiring for some Facilities Assistants! We are looking for someone who is proactive and confident in taking the initiative and managing multiple tasks and timelines. You will be a strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.

This half term at Bradford Arts Centre, we have some fantastic events coming up for families!

Bradford Arts Centre would not exist without the vision, hard work and passion of our founders Dr Sripati & Dr Geetha Upadhyaya. Sadly, due to travel commitments, they were unable to join us for our opening, but they sent this video to mark the occasion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2iM...

School's Takeover 2025 Week 1! This week was our 5th School's Takeover, and our first one held at Bradford Arts Centre! We had a mixture of year 4 and 5 students,and the children took part in multiple sessions throughout the week:

Our beautiful, heritage building is an inspiring, welcoming and inclusive place for your conference, training day, or event.

☀ TOMORROW ☀ We are so excited to welcome Bradford South Asian Festival to Bradford Arts Centre for our opening weekend with their full building takeover!

🎉 BRADFORD ARTS CENTRE IS OPEN 🎉 Bradford Arts Centre has opened to the public, celebrating South Asian culture, contemporary performance and its heritage as Kala Sangam and its founders, Dr Shripati Upadhyaya, and Dr Geetha Upadhyaya.

We couldn't reopen without celebrating the OG - Dr. G! To honour our founding Artist Director, Dr. Geetha Upadhyaya, we commissioned stencil artist Stewy (Stewy Stencils) to create this beautiful portrait, which will greet artists on the way to use our new dance studios.

Join us for BRAVE Festival on the 18th & 19th of October! With a programme of over 30 events, the weekend is set to be JAM PACKED with something for everyone. Bring your energy, and get ready for a Carnival like no other. Book your tickets in our bio

Mobius Dance: The Long Summer Day - Friday 17 October | 7.30pm A celebration of queer body and soul, in harmony with the transformative light of the sun.

🎉 NEW SHOWS JUST ANNOUNCED 🎶 MOV Dance Theatre - Gathering: The Performance – a double bill Voices and Roma Voices - Thurs 6 November | 7:30pm | Tickets £1 Akshay Sharma - Leave To Remain (Work In Progress Preview) - Wed 26 November | 7:30pm | 15+ | Tickets £1

Jaivant Patel Company | ASTITVA | Thursday 9 - Friday 10 October | 7.30pm

Whats on in October you ask? Well here you go! Check out our guide to all things Bradford Arts Centre this October.

Remember when Bradford buzzed? Bassline, bhangra, and dancefloors full ‘til 6am. Fancy re living it all again for one night? Your night out starts here, tickets in bio (THURSDAY SOLD OUT) - . . #bradfordartscentre #nataliedavies #bradford2025 #bradfordcityofculture #bradford #bassline #bhangra

Looking for some family fun this year? We have a range of family friendly performances, festivals and workshops as part of our HUGE opening season! #bradfordartscentre #bradfordsouthasianfestival #qawwali #bradford2025 #bradford #bravefestival

Fancy seeing some homegrown Bradford talent this year? Look no further than our opening season! We have a range of fantastic performances coming up from some amazing Bradfordians, check them out in our bio #bradfordartscentre #bradford #bradford2025 #westyorkshire #itsoninbradford #bradfordevents

We have some fantastic performances coming up as part of our LGBTQIA+ strand, and we can't wait for you to come and see them!

💻 We are looking for a receptionist to join the Bradford Arts Centre team!

We have a jam packed opening season coming up, and we really do have something for everyone! Check out some of the performances we have coming up at Bradford Arts Centre

Join us for the world premiere of Astitva on the 9th and 10th of October as part of our opening season! ASTITVA, meaning existence, is a powerful and evocative dance production by award-winning choreographer Jaivant Patel. Book your tickets through the link in our bio

We are currently hiring for a Receptionist to join our team ahead of the building’s reopening to the public in October 2025. Want to find out more? Check out the link in our bio #receptionistjobs #bradfordjobs #bradfordartscentre #westyorkshire #artscentre #bradford #bradford2025

Check out some of the performances we have coming up at Bradford Arts Centre as part of our opening season:

Archive Adventures: Episode 27 - A big thank you! This week, Jess and Nathan talk about the Archive project in our final Archive Adventure video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ybP...

We’re seeking proposals for our next Ageless Festival in 2026… Ageless takes place 17 - 18 July 2026 and we’re interested in dance performances, workshops and talks which explore different cultural or societal attitudes to age, ageing and the body.

🌟 Come and join team Bradford Arts Centre! 🌟 We are currently hiring for a Marketing Manager and Head Of Operations. Check out our website for the full details and how to apply Link in Bio #marketingjobs #artsjobs #bradfordartscentre #jobsinarts #bradford #bradford2025

Archive Adventures: Episode 25 - In The Beginning... For our second to last Archive Adventure, we go all the way back to the very beginning, as Jess chats to our founders Dr Shripati and Dr Geetha Upadhyaya. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7WV...

⏰ 6 days to go until tickets on sale! You can see this performance of Astitva by Jaivant Patel Company, along with our other amazing performances in our opening season from October to December 2025.

Archive Adventures: Episode 24 - Behind the Brand This week, Jess chats to Thom from design agency Out Of Place, who created our new Bradford Arts Centre branding. We talk about the process of developing the brand and Thom reveals some of the little details that tell the Bradford Arts Centre story.

📢 We Are Hiring 📢 Come and join the Bradford Arts Centre team! We are currently hiring for two roles: 🏛 Head Of Operations 💻 Marketing Manager For more information, visit the link in our bio #bradfordartscentre #jobsinarts #artsjobs #marketingjobs #marketingmanager #bradford #bradford2025

Based in our beautiful heritage building at the heart of the city centre, Bradford Arts Centre is a welcoming, inclusive, and accessible space for everyone to be more creative, have more ideas and to feel like everything is more possible.

Our beautiful, heritage building is an inspiring, welcoming and inclusive place for your conference, training day, or event.

Archive Adventures: Episode 23 - The Big Build! This week, Jess chats to Tom and Richard, the architectural team behind our capital project. If you fancy some behind the scenes footage of where the building is at, then this video is for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD6M...

💃🕺 If you are an artist working in dance, theatre, or other performance artforms find out more about how we can support you to make work here at Bradford Arts Centre 🎭

You can see highlights of our autumn programme now. We will be kicking things off with the world premiere of Jaivant Patel Company’s new work, ASTITVA on 9 and 10 October, followed by a full weekend of events for Bradford South Asian Festival.

Hiya Love! Welcome to Bradford Arts Centre Following our refurbishment, Bradford Arts Centre will be reopening on 8 October and we can’t wait to welcome you in. While we are putting the finishing touches to everything in the building, we’ve got lots of exciting things to share with you.