A film produced by Pishdaad Modaressi Chahardehi that features a year of community engagement and creative activities taking place along Oak Lane in Bradford delivered by the artist collective known as People Make Place. Over an aerial of the Oak Lane area of Bradford the opening title. Title: People Make Place Over a second montage of the area a woman gives an historical context of the area in voiceover featuring the textile industry and its beautiful high street. Over a montage of...

A film produced by Pishdaad Modaressi Chahardehi that features a year of community engagement and creative activities taking place along Oak Lane in Bradford delivered by the artist collective known as People Make Place. Over an aerial of the Oak Lane area of Bradford the opening title. Title: People Make Place Over a second montage of the area a woman gives an historical context of the area in voiceover featuring the textile industry and its beautiful high street. Over a montage of various shops and businesses along Oak Lane a local man speaks with a group surrounding him about how the area has everything that he needs. Over a montage of various street artists and performers a voice explaining that they are part of a collective of artists, producers, communicators, designers and place makers who have been give a brief by Bradford Council Department of Culture to deliver temporary creative interventions on emerging high streets in the districts that would benefit from creativity, colour and joy. As a group of local people gather around a mother and her child, another voice talks about how the collective is there to build connections with local people, to find out their stories and to bring colour, vibrancy and energy to the local area. As a large mural in unravelled and attached to a frame along a street, the scene changes to an artist putting on a respirator before they begin to spray paint some railings with the voice continuing to talk about working with the community and local businesses to deliver a collection of street arts, events, window installations and popup activities. Standing in the street is artist Naureen Hafeez, she talks about how people love seeing themselves in art and their culture represented and how this is linked to her installation Desi Cinderella. Title: Shutter Gallery As artist Jamie Stewart and others work to spray paint artworks onto shop and business shutters along Oak Road, a woman’s voice talks about Shutter Gallery working in partnership with local businesses and the community to add beautiful pieces of artworks to shutters, railings and electric boxes. Jamie talks about working with one local woman to incorporate her ideas into his design. A woman makes her way towards Jamil’s Food Store where crowds of local people look over produce on display. In voiceover a woman talks about the stall being a pilar of the community that provides more than just fruit and vegetables but a place to meet and gather. An artist mans the ‘Chai and Chat’ popup stall speaking with some of the local people while serving them drinks. A view of the Chai Stall Design changes to drinks being made and two men riding a bicycle which is powering a drinks blender. Title: Oak Lane in Bloom. The Brick Box and local community groups A collection of small wooden planters containing various plants made by the Brick Box collective on a wall with a man using a branding iron to mark each one. As people from the local community along Oak Lane collect one of the boxes, a man talks about how they are taking a piece of the changing high street with them. Pupils from Westbourne Primary School walking along Oak Lane. Title: Highstreet Heroes with Westbourne Primary School In a classroom back at the school the children work on designing and making their own superhero costume with their teacher talking about what does it mean to them to look after and care for their local community. Wearing their ‘awesome’ costumes they take part on a photoshoot the images of which are used it build a series of moveable totem poles which are seen being installed along Oak Lane. Back on their walk the children become excited when they come across one of the totem poles as the teacher explains how it is good that they are being engaged and are taking up space and ownership of Oak Lane. One of the pupils reads out her superpowers. Title: Patterns by the People. Community Art Workshop Inside the Meridian Centre a man reading out keywords on a flip chart changing to a group of South Asian woman holding a discussion. A group of children come into the room and hold up a banner for the group. In another room two women hold a workshop for South Asian men and women who are learning English as a second language. The class is asking to think of the colour that make them have happy memories about living in Bradford. Some of the group paint on paper, other foil plates. Along Oak Lane printed banners with one of the facilitators back at the Meridian Centre explaining how the group was part of their design. An aerial of the Oak Lane area and a phantom car ride through the area. Title: Pop-up Programme Screen Printing As people from the local community come over to chat and work with artists to do screen printing, one of the artists talks in voiceover about how welcoming the community has been. Over a montage of various cultural activities and local people enjoying them, a woman explains in voiceover how we can underestimate the power of arts and creativity in culture and what it can do for our local communities. The film ends on a final montage of happy smiling faces and aerials of the area continues. Title: People Make Place. Oak Lane, Manningham, Bradford. This film brings together a year of conversations, creativity and collaboration It is the culmination of the work of many individuals, groups and organisations from Manningham, the Bradford district and beyond Thank you to everyone who has helped make this project happen Assembly Bradford, Ben Holden, Bobbi Abbey, Bold Bradford, Bradford Metropolitan District Council , Bradford Museums and Galleries Bradford Community RePrint, Bread and Roses, Cecil Green Arts, Capital of Cycling, Cortisol Kid, CR Lab Installations, Dipak Mistry, Duke Makes, Ellie Heywood, EV Hardaker, Friends of Lister Park, Jahoer, Jamil’s Food Store, Kemmi Gill, Lister Community Action Group, Nabeela Ahmed, Naureen Hafeez, Northcliffe Environmental Enterprise Team – NEET, Meridian Centre, Mind The Gap, Millan Centre, Mike Granger, Psycho Peacock, Raven Staging, T Hargreaves Groundworks, The Brick Box, Westbourne Green Community Hospital, Westbourne Primary School, Wibsey Community Farm BD25: Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture Bid. City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council End title: People Make Place