Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture
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2025 is Bradford’s year! Be Bold. Be Bradford
We're delighted to be an Official Travel Partner for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. This important event will transform our city and celebrate the rich culture and heritage within our communities.
As an Official Travel Partner, we're committed to ensuring seamless, sustainable and convenient transport, helping to lower the carbon footprint of all the exciting events and activities planned throughout the year. We are dedicated to supporting the community, our staff and visitors alike, making it easier for everyone to participate and enjoy the amazing line-up of attractions.
What we are doing
Bradford’s buses are ready to take centre stage for Bradford 2025, UK City of Culture! As an Official Travel Partner, we’re here to help residents and visitors get to the year-long celebration with ease, all while championing greener, more sustainable travel. From our nearly 400 drivers offering friendly advice to our specially branded bus spreading the bold Bradford 2025 message, we’re excited to be part of this journey. Plus, we’re supporting hundreds of volunteers to reach venues and events across the city. Hop on board, and let’s make Bradford 2025 a year to remember.
What's on
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10 & 11 Jan 2025 RISE RISE is an open-air spectacular that heralds the start of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. It’s created by Kirsty Housley, the award-winning theatre director, in collaboration with Steven Frayne, the brilliant Bradford-born magician formerly known as Dynamo. |
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9 May 2025 Bassline Symphony Bassline is among the most thrilling musical subcultures of the 21st century. Bradford is a hotbed of this electrifying music, but it’s never sounded quite like this – with the trademark crackling rhythms and pulsing low end supercharged by Opera North’s magnificent orchestra. |
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Sep 2025 – Feb 2026 Turner Prize The annual Turner Prize showcases and celebrates the most exciting new developments in British art. In the year the UK celebrates the 250th anniversary of JMW Turner’s birth, the Turner Prize heads to Bradford. |
Take part
The City of Culture team are looking for more than 3,500 volunteers to help deliver an incredible year of culture in Bradford.
You can serve as an ambassador for one of Bradford’s diverse neighbourhoods, be one of the faces of Bradford 2025, meeting and greeting the public at events or help out behind the scenes. Whatever your preference, there’s a role for you in the volunteering team. You can find out more and volunteer here.
If you decide to volunteer, you'll be supported every step of the way. You’ll get full training for your role, with the opportunity to undertake everything from training in sight-assisted guidance and First Aid to an accredited City & Guilds Level 2 Qualification in Customer Service.
This is a chance to join in celebrating Bradford’s cultural renaissance and be part of a year that promises to leave a lasting legacy for the city.
