Bradford Cathedral is a gathering place where the city’s stories, cultures, and hopes are woven together: a space where faith, heritage, creativity, and shared purpose meet in conversation. Everything we do grows from our identity as local yet global, rooted yet evolving, open and welcoming to all.
Throughout 2026 we’ll be exploring three themes: Borders and Belonging, Transcendence and Technology, and Soil and Spirit.
Borders and Belonging delves into migration, identity, and home through exhibitions, music, and storytelling that reflect the many threads of Bradford’s life. Transcendence and Technology invites reflection on how artificial intelligence and digital innovation are reshaping what it means to be human and how creativity and ethics can guide us through change.
Our major conversation this season comes in April with Re:Imagine: Environmental Conversation, bringing together artists, thinkers, and community voices to explore how change begins close to home. Part of our Soil and Spirit theme, it encourages us to rediscover hope in our relationship with the natural world. Instead of fear or despair, we look for the joy, imagination, and collaboration that grow from caring for creation.
We invite you to join us, take part, and help us continue weaving a story of hope for our city, our planet, and all who share it.
In January we will launch the year with ‘The World Reimagined’, a unique exhibition of globe sculptures created by pupils from Immanuel College and Bradford Forster Academy, led by Black British, Carribean and U.K artists. This initiative is designed to inspire the next generation to explore heritage, climate change, and global friendships through creative learning.
Also in January we will be inviting visitors to get to know our building even better with two guided tour dates, with Ecclesicastical Textiles’ Tours on Saturday 24th January, and a new ‘After Dark’ experience on the 31st January. Come to see our stunning works of art, learn some history, and experince the Cathedral as never before.
Looking further ahead, in the lead up to Easter Bradford Cathedral Choir will be bringing us one of the most famous pieces of music ever written, Handel’s Messiah. Hallelujah! Experience the power of Handel’s sacred oratorio in this large scale Baroque work, here at Bradford Cathedral.
Whether for music, arts, tours or worship, we look forward to welcoming to to Bradford Cathedral in 2026.