29% Festival 💥
This Summer we're celebrating and platforming the incredible young people & artists who make up 29% of Bradford's population! There'll be live performance, music, dance, theatre, workshops, debates, food, visual art and activism!

DM us to perform/get involved ✨

We are delighted to announce the names of the inspirational Leeds women, voted for by members of the public, who are being celebrated with a new sculpture, 'Ribbons', located in the heart of the city’s cultural quarter.

leeds-art.ac.uk/whats-happenin…

Feel emotional to have my name included on this sculpture celebrating the achievements of women in Leeds past & present. Created by Pippa Hale & being unveiled this summer. leeds-art.ac.uk/whats-happenin…

MAYFEST 2024 PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED & TICKETS ON-SALE 🎉

Welcome to Mayfest 2024. A heart-filling gathering of artists from all over the world join us for nine days of beauty, joy and wildness.

Take a deep breath and dive in: mayk.org.uk/mayfest

We can’t wait to see you.

We’re excited to announce a £6 million investment from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in support of our ambitious plans for UK City of Culture in 2025!

This funding will help us drive economic growth through the region's creative industries 🙌

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This is devastating. The regularity of these kinds of announcements reflects the depth of the financial issues our sector is facing.

✨ Introducing our new Associate Artists...

Jules Cunningham, Dan Daw, Oona Doherty, Michelle Dorrance, Seeta Patel, Alesandra Seutin and Botis Seva.

Find out what makes them tick: sadl.rs/3P1kCan

Amazing news

Legends

Lovely throwback - wish the next festival was sooner!

Brill few years being part of @hrzn_showcase. So proud of what we’ve built. Transform MAYK Fierce sadly stepping away from future showcase - but so excited to see what BatterseaArtsCentre FABRIC GIFT Festival make happen w continued Arts Council England, London funding.

What a thing ! Transform

Today is Nuna Sandy’s first day as our Artistic Director and Joint-CEO. So it’s a pretty huge day for us.

Nuna is brimming with integrity, creativity, care and heart. We can’t wait to see her leading C3.

Only 8 sleeps to go! Applications for our 2024/25 Fellowship programme open 10.1.24.

Watch this space for more news... 🙌

Here is a reminder of the International Award shortlist for #TheStageAwards 2024 in association with Tysers Live:

BatterseaArtsCentre
Complicité
Transform

This category is sponsored by Concord Theatricals UK

Read more about the event 👇
thestage.co.uk/features/the-s…

THRILLED #TheSecondWoman is Guardian Stage's top theatre pick for 2023!!
Bravo to the amazing Nat Randall & Anna Breckon, Ruth Wilson, our 35+ women & non-binary crew, the 100 men, the audiences & queuers & amazing LIFT & Young Vic teams🔥

theguardian.com/stage/2023/dec…

This letter now has over 1000 signatures. Deadline for Vastint consultation is this Friday. Please sign & remember to check your junk mails to verify your signature .

Lovely staff do for our ace Bradford team. What a year 2023 has been working with some brilliant people on really memorable projects. And this team has held it all with so much care & fun 💗💗💗

So happy that Tim Harrison is holding fort Transform as I step away for a while for a new life project! Working with Tim in the last few weeks has been epic. He’s bringing so much experience to our team.

I’ve signed this open letter to developer Vastint following the announcement of the closure of Leeds’s contemporary art gallery The Tetley in order to create yet more soulless commercial space. Let’s stand together to prevent the incremental decimation of cultural spaces in Leeds