We are excited to let you know that BRAVE is returning this year! Join us for a fun and lively day of workshops and performances in arts that are rooted in Black culture, including, Gambian African dance, Jamaican Dancehall, Rap, Spoken word Nigerian headwrap and much more.  

• BRAVE Presents
• 📅Saturday 17^th October 2026
• 📍Bradford Arts Centre
• 🕒3pm-6pm - Creative Workshops
• 🕡6.30pm - 8.30pm Finale Performances

Check out our programme below for more information and book your tickets.

If you have a Question about this year's BRAVE Presents, check out our Frequently Asked Questions below.

BRAVE stands for Black Roots and Voices Expressed and is a fun arts festival of performances and workshops in arts that originated in Black Culture.

Check out our workshops throughout the year here!

BRAVE Festival is a Brave venture – Black artists stepped out and said actually, the way our culture is represented and defined isn’t good enough. We want to be known for what we have done rather than what was done to us.

It’s BRAVE to change the focus from slavery and oppression to joy, inclusion and knowledge through the arts.

It's BRAVE to come back for a second festival that is even bigger and better, but best of all this time we have involved local communities to be able to express themselves through the arts and have their say on what they wanted at the festival!

Find out more about our ongoing community programme here.

BRAVE Festival 2025 Gallery.

Photography by Karol Wyszynski

BRAVE Festival 2023 Gallery.

Photography by David Lindsay