Where?
Keighley Creative, BD21 3PF
When?
Wednesday 5 February 2025
What time?
6.00 - 8.30 PM
How much?
FREE
(donations welcome)
Calling all Bradford artists and makers, visual arts freelancers, producers, curators, programmers and professionals!
Our laid-back quarterly visual arts social is hosted by our Visual Arts Instigator, Alison McIntyre – we’d love to see you there for an evening of connecting over food and chats. Come along and meet fellow visual artists of Bradford and catch up with old friends, we’re a friendly bunch!
We try our best to move around the District. For this event, we’re once again hosted by our brilliant friends at Keighley Creative where we’ll share a delicious vegetarian meal from nearby Caterpillar Catering.
As well as our usual updates, we’ll introduce you to members of the steering group for OUR TURN to hear more about the developments for a new Visual Arts Festival for Bradford, launching to coincide with the Turner Prize as we welcome it to Bradford during our City of Culture Year.
“OUR TURN is planning to be bold, experimental and authentically Bradford. From print to paint, sculpture to stitch, district-wide, emerging and established.”
There will also be the usual materials swap table for any arts and crafts materials you no longer need, a needs and offers board, and lots of time to connect with and talk with one another.
This event is for all visual artists from Bradford to explore new opportunities, make new connections and be part of a growing visual arts network.
Bradford Visual Arts Social schedule
6.00 PM
Arrival – Sign in, drinks and chats
6.10 PM
Welcome, intros and updates from Bradford Producing Hub, Keighley Creative, OUR TURN and more
7.30 PM
A vegetarian and vegan meal from Caterpillar Catering will be served
(Gluten-free and other dietary requirements on request via the booking form)
7.45 PM
Food, chats and open studios
8:30 PM
Home time
Book your place
Complete a Bradford Visual Arts Network card
When attending our Bradford Visual Arts Socials, you’re invited to fill out our Visual Arts Network card. These will be displayed at our events to help break those awkward introductions by seeing who’s there and who you might like to approach for a chat.
You can now also view an online version of our Bradford Visual Arts Network board.
About the venue
Keighley Creative
Keighley Creative is an arts charity and venue co-designing exciting projects and fun activities with local artists, communities, organisations and businesses in the heart of West Yorkshire. They work to ensure that creativity, culture and community can become a reality for everyone, across the district and beyond to enjoy. Home to The Unit, a Channel Four Film Initiative working with up-and-coming content creators from Bradford, and the Stockroom, a performance space and cinema. They run various workshops, events and activities year-round to inspire and involve the local community in arts and culture. They are home to studios and workspaces for artists, all full of local talent!
Meet the artist
Jessica Swift
The artwork commissioned for this Visual Arts Social has been created by Bradford-based artist, Jessica Swift. She primarily works in contemporary sculpture and abstract painting. Interested in the methods of making, she aims to allow the viewer to think about the process behind her work, rather than just the finished piece as a whole. She uses colour, texture and different methods and materials to create her work and highlight the processes used to create a piece.
FAQs
If you require financial support to enable you to attend this event, such as travel, childcare, caring or interpretation costs, please complete this online form. Please note that bursaries are not available to attend this event. So that we can support as many people as possible, please only apply for these funds if it’s something you really need.
We don’t provide bursaries to attend our social events.
