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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

‘The UK is invited’: Bradford reveals 2025 City of Culture lineup

Volunteers celebrate the launch of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture: they are lined up and cheering behind large white letters spelling out the city's name, and wear black T-shirts with a B shaped to look like a heart. They are standing in a large paved plaza in front of a large, historic stone building
Volunteers celebrating the launch of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture on 12 September 2024. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA Media Assignments/PA

A city centre magic show, the Brontës as you’ve never seen them before, and a bassline house symphony are all part of Bradford’s City of Culture lineup, which its organisers call a celebration of everything that makes the West Yorkshire city great.

Shanaz Gulzar, the creative director of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, said the whole of the country was invited to come next year to a place she billed as young, diverse, creative and “the heart of the UK”.

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