When?
Tuesday 27 January 2026
What time?
6.00 - 8.30 PM
Where?
Keighley Creative
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 socials are hosted by our Visual Arts Instigator, Alison McIntyre, and we’d love to see you for an evening of connection, conversation, and community over food and good company. Come along to meet fellow visual artists from Bradford and catch up with old friends – we’re a friendly bunch!
We do our best to move around the Bradford district for our Visual Arts Socials. For this event, we’re excited to be returning to Keighley Creative, where we’ll be thinking about how we continue to connect and look after each other, now that Bradford 2025 has finished.
As always at our socials, we’ll continue to share all your needs and offers and give you lots of time to connect with and talk to each other. You can also donate any unused art materials and maybe pick up some new stuff at our Materials Swap Table. And there’ll be delicious hot food from Caterpillar Catering.
This event, including dinner, 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
6.30 PM: Welcome and intros
7.00 PM: Food will be served, and you can catch up with friends, take part in our creative activity, or take a look around Keighley Creative if this is your first visit
We always serve vegetarian food, with vegan options. If you have any other dietary requirements, please let us know when booking your place.
8:30 PM: Home time
Book your place
This event is free to attend, but places are limited. Though tickets are free, we estimate the value at around £20 per person. Any donations – large or small – are gratefully welcomed to help Bradford Producing Hub continue to support artists and creatives across the district.
About the venue
Keighley Creative
Keighley Creative is an Arts Centre and Studio Space at the heart of the town, co-creating exciting projects and fun activities with local artists, communities, organisations and businesses in the heart of West Yorkshire.
Meet the artist
Sophie Powell
The artwork commissioned for this Visual Arts Social has been created by the brilliant Bradford-based artist, Sophie Powell.
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.