- The Great Adventure Build, part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture’s (Bradford 2025) PLAY programme opened yesterday at Wibsey Park.
- Starting with two days of schools delivery, The Great Adventure Build will then be open for the public to enjoy from 5 April to 9 April.
Putting children in charge, The Great Adventure Build, part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture (Bradford 2025), landed in Wibsey Park this week.
The project will be in Wibsey Park and open to the public from 5 April until 9 April and will see children channel their creativity to design, create and then play on the structure they dream up. Parents will be encouraged to let young people lead and children from the age of 4 and upwards will be guided in using tools including hammers, saws, nails and a truckload of wood!
Children can add to the evolving structure, supported by the onsite teams, or build something of their own, or they can simply have fun playing on the structure. Learners from Bradford schools and SEND settings, as well as, home educated learners, will be the amongst the first to take part in dedicated PLAY sessions.
Bradford 2025’s PLAY programme aims to ignite the imagination of young people, encouraging people of all ages to celebrate creativity and the joy of playing. Earlier this year, Damart Mill was transformed into GRUE; an immersive wonderland, which was the first event in the year-long, PLAY programme and there are more playful interventions planned throughout the year.
The Great Adventure Build in Wibsey Park will also feature a Regulation Station; offering all young people, but particularly those with additional needs a space to enjoy a range of sensory spaces, toys and activities to support them regulate.
The Great Adventure Build will return in the summer holidays for young people to enjoy in Ladyhill Park from the 11 to 17 August.
Rhiannon Hannon, Director of Creative Engagement and Participation at Bradford 2025 said:
“The Great Adventure Build is an exciting project that we’re proud to be bringing to Wibsey Park this month. It’s such a unique project that puts the children in charge and allows them to play, build and create the way they want to. The Great Adventure Build is one of the many ways that Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture is creating environments where children can rediscover the joy of playing, learn about the District’s’ history of play and most importantly, have fun!”
Tickets are free and can be reserved on the Bradford 2025 website.
For more information on Bradford 2025’s PLAY Programme, please visit: https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/grue/
The Great Adventure Build with Woodland Tribe. Commissioned by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.
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Notes to Editors
Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture (Bradford 2025)
Bradford became the fourth UK City of Culture in January 2025. The district was selected by the UK Government in May 2022 from a record-breaking 20 bids, following Derry~Londonderry (2013), Hull (2017) and Coventry (2021) to take on one of the most prestigious and transformative titles in UK culture. Bradford 2025 is delivered by Bradford Culture Company, a registered charity (1194599), led by Executive Director Dan Bates and Creative Director Shanaz Gulzar.
Bradford 2025 takes place throughout Bradford District, which covers 141 square miles across West Yorkshire. It features performances, exhibitions, events and activities inspired by the extraordinary variety of this landscape, from the city’s historic centre to the breathtaking countryside that surrounds it. It pays homage to Bradford’s potent heritage as everything from a former industrial powerhouse to the world’s first UNESCO City of Film. Most of all, it celebrates the people of Bradford, from local artists and creative organisations to the diverse communities who call Bradford home.
Bradford 2025 is created for, with and by the people of Bradford – and it has young people at its heart. With more than a quarter of its population aged under 20, Bradford is one of the UK’s youngest cities. Bradford 2025 is proudly reflecting this youth across all aspects of its programme, from education, skills and training projects to new artistic commissions centred on the lives, concerns and ambitions of young people today.
Bradford 2025 is set to spotlight Bradford’s dynamic contemporary arts and culture, from dance and theatre to film, music and even food. At the same time, it will cement Bradford’s reputation as one of the most welcoming places in the UK for artists, producers and creative entrepreneurs, with international exchanges, development programmes and new cultural investment benefiting the entire district.
The impact of UK City of Culture will continue long after the end of next year. The district’s designation has already brought significant investment to the region, and Bradford 2025 is set to serve as a catalyst for development, regeneration and change – reshaping Bradford for the benefit of future generations.
UK City of Culture
UK City of Culture is a UK-wide programme, developed in collaboration with the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The competition is run by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), inviting places across the UK to set out their vision for culture-led regeneration and takes place every four years.
The City of Culture designation has attracted new inward investment, dramatically increased visitor numbers, greater participation in arts and cultural activities, created new jobs and new opportunities for skills development for young people and helped transform the reputation of the cities that have previously held the title with long-term benefits including increased employment, new investment, enhanced skills, renewed pride, greater cultural capacity and more opportunities to participate in arts and cultural activities. It will give rise to new collaborations, connections and creative conversations.
In the past, the UK City of Culture has been awarded to Derry~Londonderry (2013), Hull (2017) and Coventry (2021).
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. Our vision, set out in our strategy Let’s Create, is that by 2030, we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish, and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences. Between 2023 and 2026 we will have invested over £467 million of public money from Government, alongside an estimated £250 million each year from The National Lottery, to help ensure that people in every part of the country have access to culture and creativity in the places where they live. Until Autumn 2025, the National Lottery is celebrating its 30th anniversary of supporting good causes in the United Kingdom: since the first draw was held in 1994, it has raised £49 billion and awarded more than 690,000 individual grants. Visit our website to learn more about our work.
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