A NEW community arts hub is to open in the top of town area next month, with the group behind it calling on the people of Bradford to help bring it to life . Common Wealth - a group which makes site-specific theatre events which aim to bring people together and make change feel possible - is set to launch Common Space when lockdown restrictions are expected to ease in June. Common Space, which is located on the corner of the Oastler Shopping Centre on John Street, at the unit formerly occupied by social enterprise Aspire-igen, will act as a public, shared and common resource for people and communities in Bradford, and is expected to open its doors on 21 June.
The Sisterhood exhibition aims to disrupt oppressive and Islamophobic mischaracterisations of women in the community A powerful artistic disruption : Speakers Corner Collective members (Photograph by Sofia Bouzidi)
Young women in Bradford are taking back control of their own narratives. In celebration of International Women’s Day, they have organised a public photography exhibition across city billboards, reclaiming public space by portraying their empowering sisterhood.
Amid heightened isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, the group from Speakers Corner Collective, a creative and political space that mobilises girls and young women in Bradford, came together last summer for a photoshoot.
Sisterhood is a series of images created in collaboration with art director Neesha Champaneria and photographer Vivek Vadoliya, who said they wanted to “go beyond the cliches of what you might expect it means to be a South Asian female in Bradford, thinking about Bradford’s rich migra
A BRADFORD collective will share a series of photographs on billboards and public spaces across the city to celebrate International Women s Day. Speakers Corner - a political, creative and social collective led by young women from Bradford - will showcase Sisterhood, a photographic collection which aims to take control of the way women are portrayed and perceived. It comes as part of Bradford Council s International Women s Day celebrations, with the day itself commemorated on 8 March, and also as part of the Art in the Park series. Speakers Corner came together in August to capture what sisterhood means to women and girls, as well as to feel empowered, dress up and celebrate being ourselves , providing some positivity amid the monotony of lockdown.