"What the arts do is challenge and ask questions - but they also provide comfort. The arts are the soul of the nation; they answer to the moral needs of the nation and they help to define nationhood."
Alan Davey - Chief Executive, Arts Council - March 2009

The arts offer far more than simply entertainment or participation for staff, students and the wider community, as valuable as those are, they offer a window to a wider world, to unique ideas and means of expression, a space to talk profoundly about the world in which we live.

The Fellowships in the Arts (originally Music, Theatre, Visual Arts and Issues) were established at the Universities founding to offer professional artists the opportunity to make work and to explore their creativity and, through so doing, inform, interact with and inspire the institution as a whole.

Find information about the University of Bradford Cultural Fund