Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
City park is Bradford’s brilliant multi-award winning outdoor public space, one of its highlights being The Mirror Pool — the largest urban water feature in the UK.
YOU:MATTER is a spectacular audio-visual experience that explores our place in the universe and the invisible links between us and the cosmos
From £2.00
The UK’s most important visual art prize is back for its 2025 edition, with four new artist nominations in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.
Free entry
The guided tour offers a behind-the-scenes look at the brewhouse and state-of-the-art packaging plant, giving visitors a full sense of what “real Yorkshire beer” means today.
From £15.00
Wrongsemble bring a witty twist on Hansel and Gretel, packed with puppetry, music and sibling squabbles. Fun for everyone.
From £7.00
Creativity and saving the world unites in this LEGO-building challenge for kids and their grownups.
From £0.00
Emerging from a four-year crucible of creative tension and personal reckoning, Brooklyn shoegazers DIIV return to Leeds.
From £22.50
Between Two Worlds is a major new film season at Hyde Park Picture House that pays homage to the work of the great, recently departed David Lynch.
From £10.50
Straight from Kampala, Uganda, comes Who Killed Captain Alex?, a DIY kung-fu action film that must be seen to be believed.
From £6.00
The Bradford Police Museum resides in the old headquarters of the force. Explore the cells, courtrooms and artefacts that have over a century of stories to tell.
As the leading gallery of photographic arts in the UK, Impressions is making photography accessible, inspiring and approachable for everyone.
The biggest bar in Sunbridge Wells, Bradford’s underground network of restaurants and bars. Serving food and drink in a historic underground venue.
Bradfords flagship music venue, St Georges Hall has been bring the best touring talent to Bradford since the 19th Century.
The Great Victoria Hotel is Grandeur, style and luxury, in the middle of Bradfords best theatres, venues, bars and galleries.
The Wool Exchange is one of Bradford’s industrial architectural gems, nowadays you can call in for a coffee and a book as it’s now inhabited by a particularly picturesque Waterstones.
National Science and Media Museum offers the chance to explore the science of light and sound technologies and their impact through events, exhibitions, cinemas and world class collections.
Don’t be fooled by the size of The Peace Museum, this collection of peaceful objects has a powerful message behind it and makes for fascinating exhibitions.
Based in the Alhambra Theatre, this luxurious restaurant serves a seasonal menu and offers fantastic views over City Park.
Visit the Science and Media Museum to explore how light and sound work and how film, television and video games have developed.
Japanese sushi meets Brazilian Grill in a fantastic melding of cuisine. This gem in Bradford is not only quirky in concept but delicious in execution.
Chocolate fountains, beautiful batiks and medieval marginalia - this month's supersized Exhibitions Guide has it all.
August brings a huge LGBTQ+ film festival, plus a reggae classic and a spotlight on Japanese animation.
From outdoor shows to drama in the dark, our theatre guide celebrates genre-pushing work, new writing and contemporary performance.
From Lyra Pramuk’s sacred synths to the sugar rush of YAANG, our latest music picks bring ritual, rebellion and ridiculous levels of fun.
"Tours, tours, tours!" If this month's Tours and Activities guide were a sentient speaking person, this is what it would say.
Take some eating-out tips from our August guide to food and drink in Manchester and the North.
Our latest round-up features plenty of one-off live literature events to wrap your ears about, so get those diaries ticking over...
