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SENDİVERSE Festival 2025 is a vibrant week of inclusive creativity, designed by and for SEND children, young people, and their families. With over 60 free activities, the programme spans music, movement, sensory play, crafts, wellbeing, and more.

Highlights:

Monday 27 October

• Bradford Arts Centre – Boogie and Breathe, 10:00–12:00

• Manningham Library – Inner Sound Bath, 12:30–13:30

Tuesday 28 October

• Bradford Arts Centre – Rainbow Plates with Little Foodies, 11:00–16:00

• Shipley Library – Holmes Dance Academy Storytelling, 10:30–11:00

• Manningham Library – Rainbow Dots Paper Art, 13:00–14:00

Wednesday 29 October

• Keighley Library – Music Making: But I Can’t Read Music, 10:00–12:00

Thursday 30 October

• Mind the Gap Studios – Academy Open Day, 10:00–15:30

• Bradford Industrial Museum –

  • My Heritage, My Hands, 10:30–12:00

  • Print & Belong: Monochrome Heritage Making, 13:00–15:00

• Shipley Library – Building Imaginary Worlds, 13:30–15:00

Friday 31 October

• Brontë Parsonage Museum – Busy Like the Brontës, 11:00–15:00

• St James' Church in Thornton - Light Party, 18:00-19:30

Saturday 1 November

• LIFE Centre - Grand finale BIG BANG celebration with circus skills, silent disco, adaptive bikes, and more

From Halloween parties and Bollywood dance to inclusive sports and sensory storytelling, SENDİVERSE celebrates imagination, inclusion, and community across the district.