A new home for BCB!
What great news that Kala Sangam has been awarded £5 million from the DCMS for the development of their building as an arts and cultural centre. BCB has been working closely with Kala Sangam for the last couple of years, developing plans for us to move into their redeveloped building when the Oastler Market site is closed. This has all been dependant on funding being made available to finance the major works that are needed. With the recent DCMS announcement, we can now start to move into action, involving all our volunteers and stakeholders in the design of this exciting new space.
Putting the ‘C’ back into BCB! Kala Sangam will be our city centre hub, providing state of the art broadcast studios, training, and production facilities for everyone to access. Alongside this, our ambition is to create broadcast capacity across the Bradford District, working with community partners to establish broadcasting facilities in a range of community venues. This will enable regular live broadcasting from across the district. Our vision is to put BCB firmly into our communities, and to put ‘community’ firmly back into BCB!
So, over the next few months we’ll be having a series of sessions bringing together all BCB-ers to make sure that everyone has their say on what they want to see for the next 25 years of BCB. A big well done to Kala Sangam for securing the funds. We look forward to a great partnership. The fun starts now!
BCB’s Youth Music project aims to showcase music created by young people from around the district. So each week we’re featuring a track by a local artist on our About Bradford and Bradford & Beyond shows.
BCB will be supporting young people to develop more opportunities for young musicians to perform live in Bradford, in venues appropriate for young people from diverse communities and backgrounds. Find our more about our Youth Music project.
As a part of a recent exhibition at the Science and Media Museum, our BCB volunteers were invited to talk about their lives and the various ways BCB has played a part in them.
This is Shamim’s story:
To hear more stories visit our Above the Noise project page.
