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How will Bradford 2025 demonstrate the difference that the UK City of Culture year has made to the district, its communities and its creative sector?
As the Year of Culture concludes, Bradford 2025’s Evaluation Team has been gathering data, insight and experiences to understand impact in real time. This session offers a first look at that work so far, alongside a conversation about what happens next.
Join Bradford Producing Hub and the Bradford 2025 Evaluation Team to explore how evaluation is being shaped, what is already emerging, and how artists, freelancers and organisations can engage with and influence how findings are shared with the sector.
This session is both an update and an invitation to understand the process, ask questions, and help shape how learning from Bradford 2025 is communicated, used and carried forward.
What we’ll explore
- How is Bradford 2025 approaching evaluation and impact measurement?
- What kinds of information and data are being collected, and why?
- What is the evaluation team learning so far?
- How and when will findings be shared with artists, organisations and the wider sector?
- How can you contribute, respond to, or make use of this learning in your own work?
There will be space for discussion and questions.
Who is this event for?
This session is aimed at:
- Artists and creative freelancers
- Creative organisations and producers
- Cultural leaders and sector workers
- Funders, policymakers and researchers
- Anyone interested in evaluation, impact and learning in the cultural sector
No prior experience of evaluation or research is required.
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About Knowledge is Power
Knowledge is Power is a series of events designed for artists, creative freelancers, and organisations looking to bridge the gap between creative practice, research, evaluation, and data.
Each session brings together sector professionals, academics, and policymakers to share insights on available data, how it’s being used, and strategies to effectively and resourcefully collect and apply your own. These events will help you develop and evaluate your creative projects, strengthen funding applications, and ensure your work aligns with the communities you engage with and the needs of the sector.
Rooted in Bradford and leveraging the opportunities that City of Culture brings, this series is designed to connect and empower individuals and organisations across the arts and culture sector. With an open but purposeful approach, it aims to strengthen sustainability, support growth, and create a clearer, more inclusive picture of impact, opportunity, and development.
FAQs
If you need a bursary to cover your time, please complete our Bursary & Access Fund form. We offer bursaries of £50 for full-day in-person events such as this.
To enable us to support as many artists as possible through our programmes, bursaries should only be requested if this is something you need, for example, if you are freelance or required to take unpaid leave to participate in the activity.
Yes, we can contribute to any access costs you might face while attending these events. Once you have booked a place, please apply access funds using our Bursary & Access Fund Request Form.
N.B. When completing this form, we cannot provide bursaries for these events.
Access funds can cover things like travel, childcare or other caring costs, BSL or other language or interpretation support, access workers or any other access support you might need.
To allow us to support as many artists as possible, please only request financial support if it’s something you need to enable you to attend this event.
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