Welcome to our final season as part of Bradford’s landmark year as UK City of Culture 2025. We are closing the year with a spirit of celebration, reflection and radical hospitality to the world as part of our theme: Global Connections. Pick up a copy of our new What’s On booklet to find out more.
Images from some of this season’s highlights, clockwise from top left: Dalit Madonna by Jyoti Sahi, Re:Imagine Global Peace, From Rubble to Rebirth, the new Whats On Guide, and the Intercultural Festival sound bath.
Welcome to Global Connections
We are a diverse and distinct place where people have come from around the world and stayed. We welcome people from all nations to call our city home and this season of work will celebrate our international links. From globally significant artworks that engage in interfaith dialogue to young people making new links across cultural divides, we are engaging in big conversations with our global family.
As part of the district-wide Everything Is Connected Art Trail, co-produced with the Methodist Modern Art Collection (MMAC) and the Methodist Church, we are hosting Jesus: Guru, Avatar, God?, an exhibition of two works from the MMAC that offer fresh, and perhaps unsettling, perspectives on Jesus. The Crucifixion by Francis N Souza, and Dalit Madonna by Jyoti Sahi (pictured) are the pieces are selected to reflect on the person of Jesus as depicted from other faith perspectives.
We will be hosting a response to Jyoti Sahi’s Dalit Madonna entitled ‘From Rubble to Rebirth’; an evocative sculpture that invites reflection on birth, hope and humanity across borders.
To further explore connections across borders, our next Re:Imagine conversation will ask how can we reimagine global peace amidst rising polarisation? All are welcome to join this conversation over food as we explore diplomacy in a fragmented world.
We will share in the power of music from across the globe in our new Wednesday@One Organ recital season, as well as in a sound bath and drumming circle brought to us by the Bradford Intercultured Festival.
Finally, we look forward to closing the year as ever with our busy and joyful schedule of Advent and Christmas events and services.
Details of all the events are available in the brand new What’s On guide. Copies are available now from the Cathedral; Loading Bay; The Broadway; Midland Hotel; City Vaults; City Hall; Sunbridge Wells; Impressions Gallery; and the Bradford 2025 ticket office, as well as many more venues around the City, District and West Yorkshire soon. It can also be downloaded via the button below: