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.
We’re currently recruiting up to 5 people to join the Creativity Council. We are particularly interested in hearing from young people from African, Caribbean and South Asian heritage and Disabled people, but we would love to hear from everyone.
Buskival has been a personal project that I’d wanted to bring to life for quite some time and I am thrilled Bradford Council and Summer Unlocked made this dream a reality.
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.
Outdoor Arts is work that is created mainly for outdoor spaces: streets, town squares, parks, beaches and rural landscapes.
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.
Outdoor Arts is an interactive medium, choosing your performing collaborators and thinking about your audience will be key to your successful production.
Successful outdoor arts productions are rarely indoor productions performed outdoors.
Create a touring and programmers’ pack as soon as you can, so that as you can send it out as you start negotiating with programmers.
Legal compliance, contracts, licences, risk assessments and Bradford specific information for outdoors events.
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.Â
Cecil Green Arts
SBC Theatre and The Heard
Carlos Pons Guerra and DeNada Dance Theatre
Kauser Mukhtar
Adam Hughes and Margot Przymierska
Kamal Kaan
Bent Architect in association with Natalie Davies
Mussarat Rahman in collaboration with BIASAN
Kerry Wright
Core Funders
Lead Partner
