Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

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National Science and Media Museum Reopens

8th January 2025
Celebrate the museum reopening with a special day of animation-themed events. Our Grand Day Out is a special partnership with animation studio Aardman. Get hands-on with model-making workshops, enjoy screenings of Wallace & Gromit and much more.

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Rise - Bradford 2025

10th and 11th January 2025
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.

Wallace and Gromit sitting on the moon having a picnoc - scene from the animated Aardman A Grand Day Out

A Grand Day Out at National Science and Media Museum

11th January 2025
A Grand Day Out is a special partnership with National Science and Media Museum and animation studio Aardman. Get hands-on with model-making workshops, enjoy screenings of Wallace & Gromit and much more.

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Bradford 2025 - Nationhood: Memory and Hope

11th January to 26th April 2025
Nationhood: Memory and Hope is an outstanding collection of new photography celebrating the diversity of the UK in 2025.

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David Hockney Pieced Together

15th January to 18th May 2025
Explore world-renowned Bradford-born artist David Hockney's pioneering use of film and photography in a new exhibition at National Science and Media Museum.

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Bradford 2025 - I AM ME

31st Jan to 5th May 2025
The exhibition in this gallery showcases the Government Art Collection artworks alongside the responses of the young people and shares some of their personal reflections about their own identity.

grue exhibition photo by Steve Wintercroft

Bradford 2025 - Grue

8th to 23rd February 2025
In this enchanted landscape, you’ll take on an important mission: helping our historian to solve the mysteries of Damart Mill. You’ll pass through secret doors, a fairy forest and even go underwater on your quest.

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Bradford 2025 - Dragons

21st and 22nd March 2025
Dragons by celebrated South Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ahn is a joyful riot of dance, music and non-stop movement that brings together modern and traditional dance styles from across Asia.

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Rose Illingworth: Born to the Boats

3rd to 18th May 2025
Step aboard and join a new piece of theatre on the Leeds-Liverpool canal. Explore Bradford’s canal-life history through a new play, set aboard canal boats in Bingley and Saltaire.

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February Half Term Family Days Out

Family fun days out during February half term school holiday in Yorkshire, celebrate dark skies in our National Parks or get your skates on in Wetherby.

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Rainy Days Out Guide

Where to go when the rain is pouring down, it's cold or you just feel like being indoors.

aerial view of a carousel outside York Castle Museum

Yorkshire Events Calendar

Calendar of events for 2025 in Yorkshire, festivals,days out, fairs across Yorkshire, plan your time in Yorkshire around a great day out or show.

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Yorkshire Festivals

Festivals in Yorkshire. Our guide to Yorkshire's festivals whatever you like, music, literature, music, history or arts festivals.

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Yorkshire Attractions

Yorkshire Attractions and days out. Discover a wealth of attractions across the county; historic buildings, animal attractions and the great outdoors - something for everyone.

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What's On in March

Mad March Days Out in Yorkshire. Ideas for great days out in March in Yorkshire, discover springtime in Yorkshire, plan a mothers day for everyone to remember and the start of festival season.

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three pairs of chidren's legs, all wearing brightly coloured wellies.

February Half Term Family Days Out

Yorkshire farm, animal and wildlife days out. Discover local wildlife, Yorkshire farm animals and more exotic creatures from far flung lands and seas.

child in yellow wellies and a stripy raincoat splashing in a puddle on a path

Rainy Days Out Guide

Where to go when the rain is pouring down, it's cold or you just feel like being indoors.

aerial view of a carousel outside York Castle Museum

Yorkshire Events Calendar

Calendar of events for 2025 in Yorkshire, festivals,days out, fairs across Yorkshire, plan your time in Yorkshire around a great day out or show.

Saxophone player on stage looking out onto the audience at an outdoor venue

Yorkshire Festivals

Festivals in Yorkshire. Our guide to Yorkshire's festivals whatever you like, music, literature, music, history or arts festivals.

Whitby Abbey with the sun rising in the background

Yorkshire Attractions

Yorkshire Attractions and days out. Discover a wealth of attractions across the county; historic buildings, animal attractions and the great outdoors - something for everyone.

March in white text with a background of pink and red flowers

What's On in March

Mad March Days Out in Yorkshire. Ideas for great days out in March in Yorkshire, discover springtime in Yorkshire, plan a mothers day for everyone to remember and the start of festival season.