It is a pilot project that will test radical new approaches to producing live arts, supporting creative talent, developing a local arts workforce, and partnering with communities across Bradford to reimagine the city as a thriving hub for performance.
BPH is led by a consortium of 3 Bradford organisations and 3 independent artists: Theatre in the Mill, Kala Sangam, Displace Yourself Theatre, Urussa Malik, Kamal Kaan and Liz Mytton– but the project is for everyone interested in making and seeing more live arts in Bradford.
In September 2019 the project was awarded £1.5 million from Arts Council England.
Gathering and understanding the needs that BPH should address, to support the creation of more Live Art in Bradford.
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Providing a structured and responsive strand of training and development opportunities for all artists at any point of their career, that will support the creation of more Live Art in, and coming out of, Bradford.
See current training opportunities here.
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Ensuring work that’s made reaches audiences, and is what audiences want to see. Improving the ways audiences find out about and engage in live arts.
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Providing Research & Development funding, Commissions and creative support to enable the creation of more and better Live Art in and by Bradford artists.
Current funding opportunities are here
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Ensuring there are spaces for performance and doing what is possible to increase and improve performance infrastructure and facilities.
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Creating better ways for people to find out about and share live art, including knowing what’s on and booking tickets easily.
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Evaluating and sharing the successes and failures of the project, proving need, and having a constant eye to the future.
Lisa is the main point of contact for the Producing Hub, and is working with the Consortium and the project team to ensure the project delivers what it has set out to do, and more!
Rosie is the administrative back bone of BPH! We love Rosie.
Frances provides communications support to the team, marketing and outreach across all our activities.
Ben works with our Creative Instigators to make sure that artists in Bradford have access to expertise and guidance for their creative projects.
Our Programmes Producer provides support to BPH through the project management and coordination of our events and programmes.
Kirsty seeks out artists from Bradford and finds out how BPH can best support them in producing fantastic live art.
Nicole provides support to live artists in Bradford through one-to-one advice, and the development of larger support programmes. Nicole is currently leading our Empowered programme.
Sinead supports the music scene in Bradford, in a joint partnership with Bradford Council and Music Local.
Sonia seeks out LGBTQIA+ artists making work in Bradford and finds out how BPH can best support them.
Our Visual Arts Instigator seeks out artists making work in Bradford and finds out how BPH can best support them.
Ben works across different strands, supporting training programmes and performances.
BPH was made to happen by 6 local arts organisations – a mixture of small independents and Arts Council funded organisations. We currently have 6 Consortium members including 3 independent artists; Urussa Malik, Kamal Kaan and Liz Mytton and 3 organisations; Theatre in the Mill, Displace Yourself Theatre and Kala Sangam.
The funding is not for these organisations, or their regular activities – it is their role to make sure that the project benefits everyone who is involved with, and experiences, live performance in Bradford.
But this is just the start, BPH needs more organisations to be involved, and more supporters and partners from across the City and beyond – if you have thoughts about how live performance could be a part of your life, workplace, community group, company, institution or organisation please get in touch.
Create: Providing training, support and pathways for more people to create live art
Live (‘to live’): Ensuring the local arts sector is strong and sustainable, so that more people can live off their art and more people can have fulfilling creative lives.
Live (‘it’s live’): Investing in more live arts, so more people can see more brilliant, world class work in Bradford.
Perform: Increasing the opportunities for all people to do, see and get involved in performing, of all kinds.
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