B creative Arts Zone
The Bcreative Arts Zone will be a place for everyone to engage, enjoy and celebrate. We have programmed a great array activities ranging from Rangoli workshops to making Puppets and Kites including story time for the little ones. Alongside music and dance with an exotic, global feel on the Mango and Guava Stage, Bcreative have programmed a mix of creative workshops and leisure activities inside the b-creative arts zone. This zone will bring traditional and contemporary forms of arts encouraging active participation in creative and craft making activities that inspire and motivate. The bcreative zone will be animated by variety of interactive spaces for children, young people, adults and families. Given below is a flavour of what you will see this year.
Q20 Kids Marquee
Get creative and make your own colourful carnival costume with the team behind the Lord Mayor’s Carnival Parade. The dedicated children’s marquee in the Bcreative zone will host a range arts and crafts activity including puppet making as well as a vibrant exhibition of carnival costumes. Everyone is invited to join a mini parade around the site during the afternoon.
Young People's Marquee
Another highlight of this year’s mela is the young people marquee in partnership with Youth Service. There will be a number of activities through out the day which includes graffiti arts, jewellery making, mask making, Positive Bradford Piece of Art etc. The marquee will also include a small stage for young people to perform on, this could be for acoustic singers, rappers or any other genre of singing as well as small dance groups , we hope to give young people the opportunity to experience and showcase their talents at this prestigious event,
Bcreative Family Marquee
Our family marquee will host Bradford own specialist arts organisations delivering a vast range of creative activities. Create beautiful Rangoli, make and fly your own kites, have a go the invention board or try henna painting. We have Artworks, Kirkgate Studios & Workshops, National Media Museum, Shadows in Green and Zareena Bano delivering a wide variety of hands on artistic experiences. Also in the offer are the City Of Film Mobile Cinema which will showcase the films made by local film makers and the Mobile Library
Bradford Gold Sports Zone
Be active with turn up and play activities in the sports zone. There will be a assault course arena, swing ball area, tennis coaching, five a side games, etc. Bradford Gold is a project which aims to showcase and support all the sporting and cultural activity that is taking place in the district as the London 2012 Games approach
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Sanctuary Tent
Sanctuary Tent will bring together a very diverse group of people to make music, sing, dance, and have fun together, while also demonstrating to those who came to visit us that the indomitability of the human spirit shines through grief and anguish, very real trials and tribulations. Those of us committed to working with Asylum seekers and Refugees have the greatest respect and admiration for so many of them, and count ourselves proud to be their friends. The Sanctuary Tent will host a programme of performances by different groups from the refugee community, with, if last year is anything to go by, spontaneous happenings erupting from time to time.
