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A rich mix of talent must be nurtured to drive creative success, the director of Bradford Literature Festival has said, as a series of short films is released under a global development scheme. ....
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. ....
FIVE women from the district are to be part of a pioneering international project. They will join with five women from Pakistan to curate and deliver a weekend of digital literature festival events in November. ‘From Keighley To Karachi’ is part of a collaboration between Bradford Literature Festival and Adab Festival in Pakistan. It is backed by the British Council Digital Collaboration Fund. Adab Festival was formed in 2019 to showcase Pakistan’s historically rich and diverse literature and cultures against a backdrop of “continuing challenges, stifled expression and stereotypes”. Organisers say From Keighley to Karachi will bring together women from diverse and disadvantaged communities, in Bradford district and across Pakistan, who face a range of barriers – from gender-based to economic. ....