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James Daly, Bury North MP A CROSS-PARTY group of northern MPs are uniting to champion culture in the north and drive the recovery and rebuilding of the north’s arts and culture offering in the wake of the pandemic. MPs from the Northern Culture All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) are conducting an inquiry into ‘What Northern Culture needs to rebuild, rebalance and recover’. The group held its first evidence session on Access to Culture with industry experts including Rhodri Talfan Davies, director of Nations at the BBC; Syima Aslam, CEO at Bradford Literature Festival; Nick Grimshaw, head of partnerships at the Creative Industries Federation, and Kelly Allen, executive director for Social Justice, Curious Minds.
BRADFORD Literature Festival is returning to live venues, with a line-up that includes best-selling writer Caitlin Moran, TV presenter Anita Rani and former Great Britain rugby league captain Ellery Hanley. The festival was virtual last year, due to the pandemic, but is back from June 25 to July 4 with half the events in city centre venues and outdoor locations, and the other half online. Guests include Bradford crime writer AA Dhand, children s novelists Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen and comedian Tez Ilyas. The Brontë Heritage Weekend returns with a walking tour taking of tributes by creatives including Kate Bush carved into stones between Haworth and Thornton. And the festival programme marks anniversaries include the 2001 Manningham riots, 50 years of the independence of Bangladesh, 20 years since 9/11 and the fifth anniversary of the death of Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox.
BRADFORD schoolchildren have created an animated film exploring their hopes for a post-Covid world. Youngsters at Lapage Primary School on Barkerend Road took part in Zoom workshops earlier this year, looking at themes of light, hope and inspiration for them, their families and communities as lockdown restrictions ease. The result was a poem written by the students which has been brought to life by a children’s animator and is being screened on Bradford Literature Festival’s website. The project is part of the festival’s ‘Bradford Inspired’ programme, delivering a range of free-to-access creative projects using digital technology to engage people at a time when access to cultural and creative resources is limited, and to help people feel connected within their communities.
The cast of Aladdin and the Stolen Stories. Picture: Lain Furness AN adventure film shot in Bradford has been produced to help families explore parks across the city, with scannable QR codes leading to extra ‘hidden’ stories.. Aladdin and the Stolen Stories is a digital storytelling experience produced by Bradford Literature Festival with Wrongsemble Theatre, as part of Bradford Inspired. The Aladdin tale has been re-imagined in a mix of live action and animation filmed at locations such as Oastler Market, City Park, City Hall and Salts Mill and told through five short episodes free to watch on the BLF website.