Enjoy a family-friendly poetry activity as part of this year’s BBC Contains Strong Language poetry and performance festival.
Collect an activity sheet from our welcome desk and explore the images in our exhibition Make Yourself at Home: Stories from Bradford, which celebrates the people who call Bradford home.
Need some help creating your poem? Writer and performer Andy Craven-Griffiths will be on hand between 11.30am to 12.15pm and 1.15 to 2.00pm to give you some inspiration and advice.
Share your poem and you’ll be in with a chance to win a bundle of children’s poetry books!
Free, drop in, no booking required.
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Make Yourself at Home: Stories from Bradford is curated and produced by Impressions Gallery and New Focus: Bradford Young Curators. Commissioned by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.
Image top: Uncovering family photographs workshop © Faye Hatton courtesy Impressions Gallery (image depicted Jamshad Sehgal and family, Toller Lane, c.1973.)
BBC Contains Strong Language
Contains Strong Language is the BBC’s annual celebration of poetry, performance and spoken word – and this year, it’s coming to Bradford for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture from 18 – 21 September.
There’ll be four days of performances, readings, events and activities at venues across the city, and a host of BBC radio programmes will be recorded or broadcast live from Bradford – including The Verb, BBC Radio 4’s ‘cabaret of the word’. Much of the weekend will be free.
BBC Contains Strong Language
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