Full English - Bent Architect Photo by Karol Wyszynski
Cecil Green Arts - A Compendium of Mythical Beasts Photo by Ian Hodson
Carlos Pons-Guerra - The Bull and the Moon Photo by Rizman
Khooghi - Kauser Mukhtar Photo By Rizman

Bradford Producing Hub aims to make sure Bradford is a creative city where lots of amazing live performance is happening all the time.

People with Power or Purses

People with Power or Purses aims to help us all navigate the opportunities for creative’s within the cultural scene across Bradford. Sometimes we need space, advice, or time. Sometimes we just need money to make our ideas happen.

It can be hard to understand what each organisation does, what they might be able to support you with, and how best to approach them. We spoke to the people with power, and/or purses, in order to simplify this process and hopefully help you (and them) save time when trying to get the best support for your idea or project.

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Latest News from Bradford Producing Hub

Digital Marketing Intern

Bradford Producing Hub is recruiting a Digital Marketing Intern to join the team. We are looking for someone passionate about social media to take our communications to the next level.

The Big Creative Social

The Big Creative Social is open to creative organisations and freelancers alike, a chance to put names to faces and explore collaborations and opportunities in Bradford.

LVL/UP INTENSIVE: Online Training for Producers

LVL/UP is a 4 week online training programme in all the important aspects of producing and project management in the arts.

Outdoor Arts Guide

Commissioned by Bradford Producing Hub and written by Bev Adams, the Outdoor Arts Guide aims to be a useful resource (rather than a definitive guide) for artists looking to create work for the outdoors. It provides a brief introduction to the many types of work created for the outdoors and covers the practicalities of fundraising, creating a show, working with artists and audiences, touring and compliance.

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The Outdoor Arts Guide is collated into 6 distinct sections:

Outdoor Arts. What is it?

Outdoor Arts is work that is created mainly for outdoor spaces: streets, town squares, parks, beaches and rural landscapes.

Raising the Cash

To make a show you need cash to pay yourselves and others; for example for rehearsal space; materials and marketing your show to potential events.

Working with People

Outdoor Arts is an interactive medium, choosing your performing collaborators and thinking about your audience will be key to your successful production.

Creating the Show

Successful outdoor arts productions are rarely indoor productions performed outdoors.

Licencing, Health and Safety

Legal compliance, contracts, licences, risk assessments and Bradford specific information for outdoors events.

When we launched Make Work 2020, our R&D and grants programme for new live work we certainly couldn’t have anticipated our 9 funded artists and companies would be attempting to bring their plans to life during a global pandemic and a time of crisis for the arts sector.

It is testament to every MW2020 artist that they found creative ways to navigate the many challenges thrown at them to create new performance work. From spectacular outdoor dance performance and giant puppets to new script and theatre work profiling hidden stories, from fledging artists to experienced companies Make Work 2020 has brought exciting new work to Bradford and beyond.

A Compendium of Mythical Beasts

Cecil Green Arts

Hidden Winter

SBC Theatre and The Heard

The Bull and the Moon

Carlos Pons Guerra and DeNada Dance Theatre

KHOOGHI

Kauser Mukhtar

Destination Bradford

Adam Hughes and Margot Przymierska

A Love Story on Leeds Road

Kamal Kaan

Full English

Bent Architect in association with Natalie Davies

Intercultured

Mussarat Rahman in collaboration with BIASAN

Thyme Café

Kerry Wright

Core Funders

Lead Partner