You are invited to join us for walks, take part in theatre workshops, attend complimentary meals and contribute your voice as we answer the following questions:
You are invited to join us for walks, take part in theatre workshops, attend complimentary meals and contribute your voice as we answer the following questions:
ark bradford
Conversations for a future worth building
What would you take with you? What should we leave behind?
​What are we running from, and what are we heading toward?
Ark Bradford is a city-wide conversation about survival, imagination, and collective response. It’s about climate, community, and the stories we carry. Commissioned for Bradford UK City of Culture 2025, the project gathers voices from across the district to ask: what form does the flood take, and how will we build our ark?
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Over the past year, we’ve been quietly building this conversation across Bradford, through walks, workshops, meals, sculpture, and storytelling. Now we enter the Storm Cycle, a focused series of August gatherings that deepen, extend, and connect what has come before. These events will feed into Storm Gathering, a mass assembly at The Beacon on 4 September 2025.​​​
Ark Bradford
Get involved in the Storm-Cycle this August
This August, Ark Bradford enters the Storm-Cycle...
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We are inviting artists, organisers and neighbours across the city to take part in the Storm-Cycle, by hosting small but powerful gatherings that carry the Ark conversation into new spaces and communities. These events take the form of walks, meals, craft workshops or other unique events that bring people together in care, imagination and reflection, as we ask the following questions:
What form does the flood take for you?
How will you create your ark?
What would you take with you?
What should we leave behind?
Join us at the Storm-Gathering on 4 September
All August activities will feed into Storm-Gathering, a major public event for Ark Bradford at The Beacon, Lister Park on 4 September 2025.
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From those taking part in Ark conversations across the city, we’ll be inviting a small number of people to join us for recorded one-to-one conversations. These recordings will be carefully woven into the final event’s soundscape.
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Some of these participants will also be invited to take to the stage at Storm-Gathering - sitting in a circle at the heart of the space, surrounded by the audience, and continuing the Ark conversation live...
Other ways to take part
Open Call - Get in touch anytime
We also welcome self-organised Ark Bradford events led by community groups, organisations or individuals who wish to host their own version of the conversation.
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If you are a museum, library, funded arts organisation or climate-focused group already planning summer activity, we would love to hear from you. You can align your event with Ark Bradford, and we can support with framing, questions and visibility.​
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This is a way to connect your work to the city-wide conversation and help amplify shared purpose across Bradford. Where possible, we may send a photographer to capture your event.
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>>> You will find a 'how to organise your own ark event' guide here <<<