We Are Here walk, Oastler Market, Saturday 17th March

Come along to our last walk before our April events at the wonderful Oastler Market.

We will tread old market paths an hear tales of journeys, foods and personal histories from the mouths of the traders.
Meet us at Fountains Cafe at 3pm, situated at the front entrance of the Oastler Centre – free, all are welcome!

This event is 1 hour long.

This is the third of a series of guided walks, part of WE ARE HERE, a a new Wur Bradford project in the city’s Oastler Market celebrating it’s unique history, communities and stories. Chemaine and Jean will working with market traders, members of the public and BCB community radio over the coming months to tell the stories of the Market and its people through guided walks, printed ‘zines and sound. The project will culminate in a free two day event ‘We Are Here’ events on 21st and 28th April, featuring a BCB radio broadcast, alongside poetry readings, live music, art exhibition and print goodies. There will also be an exhibition of the project at Kala Sangam arts centre opening on 19th April.

If you have an story or memory of Oastler (john street) Market we’d love to hear it! Send it to us at Wurbradford@gmail.com or there will be opportunity to speak to Chemaine and Jean after the walk.

WE ARE HERE is supported by Arts Council England, Bradford Council, Bradford Markets and University of Bradford

WE ARE HERE lunchtime art walk at Oastler Market: Thursday 8th February 2018

WE ARE HERE lunchtime Art Walk, Oastler Market, John Street, Bradford

Thursday 8th February 1-2pm

photo by Dipak Mistry

Come and see, walk, wander and explore Oastler Market with Wur Bradford artists Chemaine Cooke & Jean McEwan who will guide you in the Art of Walking.

We’ll tread old market paths to create new experiences, get lost on purpose to make new discoveries and find hidden histories and collect goody bags with market gems along the way.

This is the first of a series of guided walks, part of WE ARE HERE, a a new Wur Bradford project in the city’s Oastler Market celebrating it’s unique history, communities and stories. Chemaine and Jean will working with market traders, members of the public and BCB community radio over the coming months to tell the stories of the Market and its people through guided walks, printed ‘zines and sound. The project will culminate in a free two day event ‘We Are Here Party in the Market’ on 21st and 28th April, featuring a BCB radio broadcast, alongside poetry readings, live music, art exhibition and print goodies. There will also be an exhibition of the project at Kala Sangam arts centre from April to June

There will be opportunity to chat to the artists and market traders about the project and to contribute to the project through collective art-making together.

This event is 1 hour long, designed to fit in your lunch hour.

Meet us at Fountains Cafe at 1pm, situated at the front entrance of the Oastler Centre on John Street

If you have an story or memory of Oastler (john street) Market we’d love to hear it! Send it to us at Wurbradford@gmail.com or there will be opportunity to speak to Chemaine and Jean after the walk at 2pm.

WE ARE HERE is supported by Arts Council England, Bradford Council, Bradford Markets and University of Bradford

Photo credit event image: Dipak Mistry

Utopia News: Saturday 11th November

Dong….Dong….Dong…

Come and join us to tell the alternative news!Our Power Up Creative Resistance project invites you to join us in an afternoon of creative play, make and action animation!

There will be light refreshments and humour on this fine Saturday afternoon!

Saturday 11th Nov, 3pm – 5pm, Wur Bradford art stall, Kirkgate Market (Opposite Home From Home Cafe,near the Westgate entrance)

If you have a piece of alternative news you would like to share, get in touch with Uzma at Power Up/Wur Bradford.Thank you!

Dong….!

Important announcement about our Thursday sessions

Due to our current community funding coming to an end, Wur Bradford regular Thursday sessions will not be running for the time being. We have had 2 and a half years of funding from the fantastic Two28 and this has now come to an end.

We are exploring ways we can continue with our wonderful regulars and also other sources of possible funding but this may take some time.
Wur Bradford continues to be active and involved in lots of creative projects events and collaborations throughout the city- so we are not going anywhere and there are still lots of ways to get involved and do stuff with us.
Please bear with us while we work things out with our regular team and do get in touch if you would like to support or get involved.

Events coming up:

 

Poetry at Fountains Cafe

Sat 4th November

3pm – 4pm

Fountains Café, 17 John Street

Future Bradford – Revolution Bradford

(Collaboration with Freedom Studios and Playbox)

Tues 7th – Fri 10th November

11am – 4pm

in City Park, Bradford

Utopia News: A Telling of the alternative news

Power Up: Creative Resistance

Wur Bradford art space, Kirkgate Market

Sat 11th November

3pm – 5pm

We hope you can join us at these events! Hope to see you soon!

Thank you to everyone who has attended and taken part in the creative goin-on’s at Wur Bradford.

 

Bookbinding workshop with Deb Eck, Thursday 10th August

We are delighted to welcome U.S based book artist Deb Eck to Wur Bradford to run a very special bookbinding workshop with us.

Deb is an internationally exhibited book and installation artist who works primarily with paper, text and thread. She is most well known in the book arts community for her translations of historic embroidery designs into functional binding designs. Originally from Essex in the UK, she has lived and worked in upstate New York for over 20 years. Eck received a BFA in painting from the University at Buffalo and an MA in Visual Culture from the University of Northumbria in Newcastle (UK). She teaches as an adjunct at Jamestown Community College and Fredonia State University, and for many other arts and cultural organizations.
She has been the recipient of many grants and awards; most recently she was named the Distinguished Artist for 2017 by Cattaraugus County Arts Council.
http://debraeck.com/

About the workshop

This workshop will cover a series of one, two and three signature bindings, perfect for zine makers, poets and others wanting to make/publish small books. Each technique builds on the one before, to make increasingly complex bindings that can be used on paper or leather covers. The workshop is suitable for those with no previous book binding experience, but experienced binders may find some new ways to approach the simple pamphlet.

Materials are provided, though please feel free to bring anything you would like to use.
The workshop will run from 1pm till 3pm, but please feel free to come at our usual opening time of 12pm, for conversation and a cuppa beforehand. You can find us in Kirkgate Market (above the shopping Centre) opposite Home From Home Cafe.

The workshop is free but we have limited places. Please email us wurbradford@gmail.com to book your place.

Wur Bradford summer opening times

Our opening times are changing over the summer

We will be closed on Thursday 27th July  and Thursday 3rd August

(you can catch up with us at Bradford Festival 29th and 30th July where we will be doing a printing collage and movement workshop (more info here )

We then have a special bookmaking workshop with U.S based book artist Debra Eck on Thursday 10th August – more details to follow

We are closed on Thursday 17th August

On Thursday 24th August and Thursday 31st August we are running two special workshops  exploring ‘Useful Art’ which are part of an upcoming exhibition programme we are involved in with University of Bradford Arts on Campus Gallery ll

Look forward to seeing you at some of the sessions – all sessions are free and are welcome

Young people, join us tonight at Rebooted art space to contribute your ideas and creativity to a Bradford campaign against sexual harassment – and help us design the campaign and decide the slogan.
Workshop 6-8.30pm, informal, hands on and fun, all welcome!

Solidarity and organising session with EU citizens, Thursday 6th July

This Thursday 6th July as well as our usual drop in session of open creativity and conversation,at our space in Kirkgate Market, we’ll also be hosting a sharing/ideas/organising session with our friend and Wur Bradford supporter Vie Clerk Lusandu on the many challenges faced by EU nationals at this time
Vie says
“Following Theresa May’ s ambiguous and chaotic s proposal for EU citizens s rights post Brexit, we feel it is important to meet firstly for a safe space to explore how we feel and secondly to start exploring ideas on how to organise ourselves locally. Everyone welcome – Europeans and supporters ! Join us between 12 and 2.30pm”

Vie will also read her own testimony published ‘In Limbo: Brexit Testimonies From EU Citizens un the UK‘ – a ‘ powerful and moving collection of testimonies by EU citizens in the UK affected by Brexit’ – available to buy here
Come along and find out more about the challenges EU citizens are facing and get involved in building solidarity and support in Bradford!

Drop in any time between 12 – 2.30pm or come for the whole session – all are welcome!

You can find us at the back of Kirkgate Market (above the shopping centre) opposite Home From Home cafe

The Greatest Show on Earth: Food Walk and Poetry Trail at Oastler Market, Saturday 20th May

‘The Greatest Show on Earth’

Food Walk & Poetry Trail @ Oastler Market

Food Walk
Come to the most talked about market in Bradford with Oastler Traders, Wur Bradford & The Sparrow Cafe as your guide. As Bradford City kicks off so does Oastler Market with its first Urban Food Forage, if you’re an experienced foodie or complete newbie this is the food walk for you. Meet the traders who can show you the true secrets within the market and taste the many foods. After the forage we finish at The Sparrow Cafe with a platter of food and a craft beer. The Sparrow Cafe gets all its food produce from the Market throughout the year, this is absolutely FREE but spaces are limited.

Tour highlights:
– Go around the world through taste, get to try food from the small traders of Oastler.
– Discover the ‘Lost Art of Market Shopping.’ How to shop in a market from your Vegman, Fish monger and Butcher
– Look at seasonal and local produce including exotic produce from around the world and how to cook with them
– Meet the ‘Spice Man’ who happens to be the nicest man on earth!
– Hear The History of Butchers in ‘My first words were 2 pound 17 & 6’ by John Smith and see the Butchers Mile

The Tour will last approximately 1 hour, finishing a The Sparrow Cafe. To book contact Wurbradford@gmail.com

Poetry Trail
Poetry has gone MASSIVE! Can you spot the poetry that will be up on Stalls of Oastler on #LoveMarkets day. Wur Bradford & Traders are inviting you to get lost in the world of the market and the words of local artists who will premier their back catalogue of work including
Steve Lunn
Florence Remmer
Kirsty Taylor
Rob Hall
& Many More

The work will be up 11am- 4pm in Oastler Market on the 20th May
Poetry Reading 2pm Fountains Cafe

Poetry Sharing ‘Bring us your poetry!’

Come to the 1970s iconic ‘Fountain Cafe’ for their FIRST ever poetry sharing hosted by Wur Bradford & Poets of the Trail. There will be Tea & Cake at 2pm as artist read their work. Feel free to bring your own poetry to share, swap and talk poetry.

Self Guided Walks.
Can’t make those times! Self guided walks now available. New work from Jean McEwan will provide you with a map to follow so you create your own self guided walk. Pick up at the front entrance.

This event has been brought to you by Wur Bradford in collaboration with Oastler traders Bradford Markets  and The Sparrow Cafe for Love Your Local Market fortnight a campaign celebrating British markets #LYLM2017

Paper bags and poetry

 

Come and get involved on our new Paper Bags and Poetry project at Wur Bradford this Thursday 13th April!
We are creating images on paper bags and then finding or writing poems inside each bag which responding to each image
We’ll be displaying the bags we have made at the final Wild Woods party at the old Marks  and Spencer this Saturday  4-9pm – event details here!.  This will be a very special event, not to be missed, by the amazing Brickbox – we are delighted to be part if it.

Drop in any time on Thursday between 12-3pm to the Wur Bradford art space to make your own paper bag  – We are in Kirkgate Market, the stall opposite Home From Home Cafe.

Bring a poem/poetry books for inspiration or have a look through ours. All are welcome, including small people!