What was on

The YPU’s Annual Exhibition celebrates the work of photography clubs across Yorkshire.

We invited you to see an exhibition of Tim Smith’s photographs retracing the route of the early tea trade, and contribute your thoughts about how we should tell stories in our galleries.

An online exclusive exhibition of conceptual photographs by Ted Humble-Smith.

This online exhibition showed how digital innovations are helping pathologists diagnose disease.

See Jude Palmer’s photographs of award-winning innovations and achievements from engineers fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.

To help keep everyone safe and maintain social distancing, in 2020 we brought all the fun of Bradford Science Festival to you at home!

2021 saw our fantastic programme moving online for the first time, bringing gaming inspiration to you at home!

This exhibition uncovered how Robert Paul, the forgotten pioneer of cinematography, invented British cinema.

This fun family experience featured live demos, new experiments and fantastic adventures in the science of light and sound.

This interdisciplinary conference explored the relationships between sound instruments and sonic cultures.

This year’s Theatrical Cut format saw a slightly shorter festival—but one still filled with big, bold cinema experiences, 70mm screenings, Cinerama and cult classics.

This series of photographs by Geoff Brokate showed members of the LGBTIQ+ community in spaces around West Yorkshire. 

The festival of videogames returned for a fourth fantastic year, with special guests, family fun and lots of ways to learn.

We celebrated the tenth anniversary of Bradford’s UNESCO City of Film status with this display of photographs.

A mesmerising journey through the incredible sights and sounds of space.

The 2019 festival was packed with ways to celebrate big-screen magic—from Robert Wise and Doris Day to Blade and Black Panther.