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Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Science and Media Museum to close for two days
The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford will be temporarily closed to daytime visitors on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 May as it hosts a major creative industries conference. Speakers including TV presenter Anita Rani, BBC director general Tim Davie, West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin and UK City of Culture creative director Shanaz Gulzar will address the Creative Cities Convention. The annual event attracts professionals working in the film, TV and digital industries. Key stakeholders include the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Paramount and Pact. The museum will reopen to the public on Friday 9 May, with its current exhibitions and galleries. Jo Quinton-Tulloch, director of the National Science and Media Museum, said: "We're thrilled to be hosting the Creative Cities Convention at the museum whilst Bradford is centre stage as UK City of Culture. "As the UK's national museum exploring the evolution of screen technologies, we're a place of inspiration for the content creators of today and the future. "And with Bradford as the world's first Unesco City of Film, where iconic filming locations abound, it's a fitting place to bring the UK's TV, film, and digital industries together." Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the museum's Pictureville cinema will screen BBC documentary Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy. The following evening, it will show The Brontës by Anita Rani: Sisters of Disruption, a Sky Arts documentary exploring the influence of the Brontë sisters. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North. National Science and Media Museum
BBC News
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bradford Science and Media Museum to close for two days
The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford will be temporarily closed to daytime visitors on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 May as it hosts a major creative industries including TV presenter Anita Rani, BBC director general Tim Davie, West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin and UK City of Culture creative director Shanaz Gulzar will address the Creative Cities annual event attracts professionals working in the film, TV and digital industries. Key stakeholders include the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Paramount and museum will reopen to the public on Friday 9 May, with its current exhibitions and galleries. Jo Quinton-Tulloch, director of the National Science and Media Museum, said: "We're thrilled to be hosting the Creative Cities Convention at the museum whilst Bradford is centre stage as UK City of Culture. "As the UK's national museum exploring the evolution of screen technologies, we're a place of inspiration for the content creators of today and the future. "And with Bradford as the world's first Unesco City of Film, where iconic filming locations abound, it's a fitting place to bring the UK's TV, film, and digital industries together."Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the museum's Pictureville cinema will screen BBC documentary Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire to mark the 40th anniversary of the following evening, it will show The Brontës by Anita Rani: Sisters of Disruption, a Sky Arts documentary exploring the influence of the Brontë sisters. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
'Place and people now gone' caught on camera by city snapper
A self-taught photographer has said he hopes images he took capturing life in Bradford's African Caribbean communities in the early 1980s can eventually find pride of place in a museum in his home photographs by Victor Wedderburn, who is now 70, reveal a snapshot of life in Manningham towards the end of last century and are currently on show in his first ever public exhibition as part of this year's City of Culture Wedderburn said he hoped the photos could eventually go on display in the National Science and Media Museum in said: "I was right when I thought it was important to take these pictures. It's of a place and people that have now gone." Mr Wedderburn arrived in the UK from Jamaica in 1971 at the age of 16 to join his Windrush Generation he was later made redundant from his driving job at Crofts Engineers, he used his pay-off to buy a second-hand camera and kit to develop an atmosphere of racism and community tensions, he set about documenting everyday life in Bradford as he saw it. His colour photographs of landmarks on Lumb Lane such as Roots Record Shop, the Young Lions Cafe and the Perseverance Hotel remained unseen for after publishing them online and getting a positive response they also came to the attention of the Bradford City of Culture 2025 team. The images show everything from sound system parties to anti-apartheid marches and shine a light on a sometimes neglected part of Bradford's multi-cultural history. Mr Wedderburn, who still lives in Bradford, explained: "This community doesn't exist anymore, people have moved on."When you go to the area now, it's completely different. It's completely changed. "We miss it of course, but that's life." Mr Wedderburn's pictures are currently on show in his first ever public exhibition, Frontline 1984/1985, which runs until Sunday 11 May in the Gallery at the Loading Bay in said that once that exhibition was over, he hoped they could find a permanent home."For the photographs, I'm hoping - or the plans are - that they go to the photographic museum in Bradford," he said."And, who knows? But I hope they get exhibited elsewhere. That's the plan." Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Drive-in cinema event to bring Bollywood to Bradford
A drive-in cinema in Bradford is bringing Bollywood to the big screen this event at Cannon Mills will include modern movies and comedies, and all will be shown in Hindi with English car will be given a speaker to allow passengers to listen to the soundtracks.A DJ will play sets before films start and there will be food and drink stalls serving classic cinema snacks. The drive-in is part of City of Culture 2025, in partnership with the National Science and Media Museum as well as the British Film Institute. Aman Dhillon, curator for the Bollywood titles, told the BBC how she picked the movies being said: "I looked at what would be popular titles, did some community engagement to find out what titles would be favourites."I tried to programme something for everybody, families, couples, classic films and some newer releases." Dhillon added: "A drive-in cinema is different to the typical screening you would have in a cinema venue."It's a real immersive experience. You can sit in your car and feel like you're immersed in the film, but you're having a dance." Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
BD 2025 installation to demonstrate Big Bang is "still banging"
A new immersive installation at the National Science and Media Museum is set to open. The installation, called YOU:MATTER, has been created by artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast and will be open to the public from Thursday, April 3, 2025, until Sunday, February 22, 2026. The installation, commissioned for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, will take visitors on a journey to discover their connection to the universe. YOU:MATTER will show how everything in the universe can be traced back to the same cosmic explosion, and how the Big Bang is "still banging" right at the heart of Bradford. The installation will show how each ingredient of life is constructed from the same building blocks as the universe, and how the human body is inextricably linked to water, air, and sunlight. The installation, commissioned for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, will showcase how everything in the universe can be traced back to the Big Bang, and will remain open until Sunday, February 22, 2026 (Image: Supplied) These ideas will be brought to life through a series of immersive sound and video installations, revealing the deep connections between our bodies, the planet, and the wider universe. Visitors will be able to shift perspectives, from witnessing the Earth breathing through data from NASA, to following the journey of a single drop of water. Interactive installations will invite audiences to breathe life into a digital forest, while a selfie station will place them within the vast web of biodiversity. Marshmallow Laser Feast work across the boundaries of art, immersive experiences, XR, and film, with their work described as "taking] people on multisensory journeys where imagination and information collide." They have exhibited internationally at institutions ranging from ACMI and the Barbican Centre to YCAM and DDB Seoul, as well as Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Saatchi Gallery, and the Lisbon Architectural Triennale. Shanaz Gulzar, creative director at Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, said: "We're pleased to be collaborating with the National Science and Media Museum and Marshmallow Laser Feast on this exciting and thought-provoking installation that invites audiences to discover the profound connections between the universe and everyday life. "Through immersive technology and Marshmallow Laser Feast's innovative thinking, YOU:MATTER is the story of Bradford's people and their place in the cosmos." Robin McNicholas, co-founder and creative director at Marshmallow Laser Feast, said: "We want visitors to feel their connection to the past, present, and future—not just as individuals, but as part of an ongoing story that stretches across time and space. "YOU:MATTER is a reminder that you are not separate from the cosmos, but an extension of its story." More information and tickets are available at
