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Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture (CoC) was a district-wide celebration of culture, creativity and heritage across Bradford’s diverse communities and places. With thousands of events involving millions of people from Bradford and beyond, Bradford 2025 delivered an incredible cultural and creative programme including multiple art forms, local, national and international collaborations and commissions; spanning cultural learning, sector development, community-led approaches and socially engaged pra

This presentation explores some of the highs, lows and learning points from the Bradford 2025 evaluation team’s efforts to develop, embed and maintain a culture of evaluation, learning; work collaboratively; and create an environment in which data, insights and evidence were valued and used transparently at all levels. We will share the challenges of doing this whilst simultaneously building and adapting data collection, management, analysis, visualisation and dissemination approaches to respond to a unique, dynamic and complex programme of cultural and creative events and activities, from its runway, through take-off, flight and into landing.