On all weekend …
Street Theatre
Let the entertainment come to you! You’ll find entertainment popping up and roving about the park throughout the weekend – with everything from music, dancing, acrobats, comedy acts, stilt walkers and puppet shows for you to enjoy.
Movieplex
Look out for a mini-cinema showing a 'lost' work by a legendary Indian film-maker. This new production promises to give you a red carpet treatment and more than few surprises during it's screening of this mythical director's highlights from the past 100 years.
The Hive
The Hive is an interactive arena where children and families can get busy with lots of things to see and do. There will be performances and workshops, which take place inside a huge big top and share the theme of bees, flowers nature and the environment.
Superfield (Mumbai)
Created from recordings of people and places, traffic and city life captured in Mumbai earlier this yea, this unique sound performance will recreate the vibrant sounds of the streets of this bustling city. Specially commissioned by Bradford Mela.
Fabric
Fabric - the district's arts development organisation –present an exhibition looking back at the past 21 years of Bradford Mela, as a taster for the major exhibition to follow later in the year. You will have an opportunity to give your opinions and comments about the Bradford Mela.
The Peel Stage
For full programme information, please see this document
Kala Sangam
Bradford's South Asian arts company present a variety of music, dance and visual arts performances and workshops. Enjoy performances of South Asian folk and classical arts or try your hand at something different and learn new skills.
Lord Mayor's Carnival Parade Tent
Get creative and make your own colourful carnival costume with the team behind the Lord Mayor’s Carnival Parade. Everyone is invited to join a mini parade around the site during the afternoon, and on the following weekend for the main parade around Bradford City Centre.
Community Information
Find out more about how you can make a difference to life in your community and the world around you in the Eco, Fair Trade, Health and Wellbeing, Learning, Literature, and Refugee Action Zones.
Sports Zone
Be active with turn up and play activities in the sports zone featuring cricket skills, rugby league roadshow, and human ten pin bowling!