OUR TURN
2025

We TURNed up and TURNed out the best of Bradford’s visual arts in the first Bradford Visual Arts Festival.

OUR TURN brought together new and established artforms and supported artists and audiences at all stages of their creative journeys. From print to paint, sculpture to stitch, district-wide, emerging and established, OUR TURN was an ambitious new artist-led festival designed by Bradford artists and organised by South Square Centre in collaboration with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, Bradford Producing Hub and Yorkshire Contemporary.

OUR TURN took place between 26th September – 28th January 2026 in venues and unusual spaces across the city. The festival enabled artists to be more ambitious, provided training for a new generation of culture makers and inspired a range of people to be excited by art which was ‘Made IN Bradford’. The festival celebrated Bradford’s rich counter-cultural scene and created an accessible platform which reached new art goers in Bradford, underserved communities and loyal arts audiences.