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Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pictureville to host 'Epic Yorkshire' month to mark Yorkshire Day
Pictureville cinema is celebrating Yorkshire Day with a month-long 'Epic Yorkshire' film season. The cinema, at the National Science and Media Museum, will launch the season on Yorkshire Day (Friday, August 1). Epic Yorkshire is presented in partnership with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and also sees the launch of a new, illustrated 'City of Film' map. The free A2 foldout map, documenting Bradford's cinematic past, present, and future, is designed to facilitate self-led tours of the district's cinemas, community screening venues, and big screen experience locations. The map will be available from Pictureville and other participating venues from Friday, August 1. The opening weekend celebrations include free screenings of Yorkshire Film Archive: Social Cinema, a series of short films about social and political issues in the region. Epic Yorkshire (2025), a new narrated exploration of Yorkshire's landscape, will be presented on the curved Cinerama screen at Pictureville - which is billed as the only public venue globally to use the technology. Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread (2017), on 70mm film, and Sky Peals (2023) will be shown on the evening of Saturday, August 2. Audiences attending screenings on that Saturday will also receive special Yorkshire-themed "scran bags." The season continues throughout August with a programme of films including The Selfish Giant (2013), set in Bradford and inspired by an Oscar Wilde story; Emily (2022), about Emily Bronte; Wild Water (2023); and God's Own Country (2017). Pictureville's film education strand, CineSpotlights, will also adapt to the Epic Yorkshire theme. August's edition of CineSpotlights features an illustrated talk with writer, academic, and filmmaker Mark Goodall, exploring the lost history of Bradford's Cinecenta cinema. There will also be a screening of Charlie Bubbles (1967), the only film directed by Albert Finney and the first film to be screened at Bradford Cinecenta. Epic Yorkshire also sees the return of The Ceremony (2024), the debut feature by Bradford-born writer-director Jack King, following its world premiere at the 2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival. After a sellout gala screening hosted by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, Pictureville will continue to screen The Ceremony from Friday, August 22. More information is available at
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
City of Sanctuary themes in new version of children's classic
THE beloved story of The Railway Children has been re-imagined for Bradford's City of Culture year, with a British-Indian family at the heart of the story. A special adaptation of Mike Kenny's Olivier award-winning stage production of E Nesbit's children's classic opens next week on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway - the location of the much-loved 1970 film. Drawing on the story's themes of exile, compassion and kindness, Stand & Be Counted Theatre - an Associate Company of Bradford 2025 - is working with people seeking sanctuary to create a scene-setting audio experience for audiences as they journey to the show on the heritage railway. Audiences will board a steam train at Keighley station before watching the performance in an engine shed at Oxenhope station. The show features a real steam engine. The children move from wealthy Edwardian London to rural Yorkshire and find hope and friendship on the railway Stand & Be Counted Theatre - the UK's first Theatre Company of Sanctuary - co-creates work with and for people seeking sanctuary. Bradford, a City of Sanctuary since 2010, also received a designation of Cultural City of Sanctuary this year. Rosie MacPherson, Artistic Director and Joint CEO of Stand & Be Counted Theatre, says: "The Railway Children is a global story about new beginnings and creating a new home together, with themes that will resonate deeply with people of Bradford as a City of Sanctuary. Our Soap Box Collective, a group for young adults from all over the world who now call Bradford home, have been working hard to create an interactive audio experience to welcome passengers aboard the steam train!" Says Shanaz Gulzar, Creative Director, Bradford 2025: 'The Railway Children is about a family needing to move to somewhere unfamiliar, children coping with separation from a parent, and how people and places are connected and affected by global events. Our version, while keeping the original story and setting in 1905, is really going to heighten these themes, as our British-Indian family have journeyed even further than before to reach this small Yorkshire village. 'The genius of E Nesbit's novel, and Mike Kenny's adaptation, is to see big themes like exile, separation and unjust imprisonment from the perspective of three children just starting to understand the adult world." The cast of The Railway Children at Oxenhope Station Director Damian Cruden adds: 'Bradford is a wonderful example of a city that has welcomed people throughout its history, and this theme of welcome and global connection resonates through The Railway Children." Noel Hartley, KWVR Business and Operations Manager, says: 'We're delighted to be hosting this fantastic show during this special year. Our railway has been the home of The Railway Children since the 1960s, it's really special for the show to be held where it began on screen." Paul Crewes, CEO, York Theatre Royal, says: 'We are thrilled to be working with Bradford 2025 on this unique restaging of York Theatre Royal's award-winning production of The Railway Children. "The beautiful setting of Oxenhope Railway station will be such a wonderful backdrop for this classic story. Joyous, moving and above all, fun, we can't wait for audiences to have another opportunity to see the show as part of Bradford's year as UK City of Culture.' * The Railway Children is at Keighley and Worth Valley Railway from July 15 to September 7. Visit
Yahoo
15-07-2025
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Bradford Cathedral to host additional pair of guided tours this month
People are being invited to take part in tours of a historic Bradford building. Bradford Cathedral is offering two more guided tours, so that visitors can explore nearly 1,400 years of history - with the pair of sessions scheduled for Thursday, July 31, at 11am and at 1pm. The tours are part of the cathedral's Bradford 2025 activities and include a look around the medieval building; Saxon fragments; Victorian and twentieth-century extensions; and stained glass by Morris & Co. Maggie Myers, director of education and visitors at Bradford Cathedral, said: "As part of our Bradford 2025 activities, we are offering a series of tours of Bradford Cathedral during the course of this year. "If you have always wanted to learn more about this beautiful building, its history, and its treasures, this is your opportunity! "There is no other location in Bradford where you can learn about a history stretching back almost 1,400 years." Tickets for the tour are priced at £5, plus a booking fee. The 11am tour can be booked at and the 1pm tour at Information about upcoming events and services, including future tours, is available at
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
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John Hegley writes special poem to celebrate Bradford City of Culture
TOPIC Folk Club is celebrating Bradford's year as UK City of Culture by featuring a monthly guest with a connection to the district. One July 11 John Hegley, University of Bradford alumnus, will take to the stage. Says Tony Charnock at the club: "John's first visit to the Topic Folk Club was in 1976 as a student, to see Nic Jones. Since then he's performed at Cambridge and many other folk festivals with his animal songs, love poems and tales of his half French father (the bottom half). He sang on two John Peel sessions with The Popticians and was poet in residence at London's Keats House. He has produced 12 books and has written a poem to celebrate Bradford 2025: A Celebration of a Nation's City of Culture. Before his performance, at Shipley's Hullabaloo bar, John will perform a free short set, Keats with Seats, with priority for those unable to attend the main event or who have access difficulties." Visit
BBC News
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Cinema inside lorry tours City of Culture Bradford 2025
A cinema inside a lorry has been visiting various locations across Bradford to help bring films to people's attraction - named the Incredible Moving Cinema - arrived in the district as part of a partnership between the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and the National Science and Media articulated lorry transforms into a movie theatre that can seat up to 100 people and will park up at locations including Woodbank Garden Centre in Bingley, TFD Centre in Holme Wood and Horton Park Avenue car started its journey at the Bradford Industrial Museum where it showed films ranging from The Greatest Showman to classics like Pulp Fiction. The cinema is expected to attract hundreds of visitors during its eight day journey through the Bradford of those was Mary, who said: "It's not often you get a mobile cinema is it?""Not everybody has access, or gets to know what films are on, and Bradford isn't always accessible for everybody," she from Ilkley, said she had visited because she thought the venue was "unusual".From Thursday, the moving cinema will be at Woodbank Garden Centre in Bingley where it will be screening seven Saturday it will move to Horton Park Avenue car park, before its final stop on Sunday at the TFD Centre in Holme Wood. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
