Fun themed science, art and design session to get you thinking, making and creating!
Suitable for all ages, this is a family drop in creative station!
Completely FREE activity delivered by our friends at Sponge Tree
Saturday 31st August between 12 – 3pm at the Oastler Centre, John Street, Bradford, BD1 3SR
Categorised:Events, Oastler Shopping Centre
To celebrate the Bradford UNESCO City of Film’s annual Bradford Family Film Festival, special screenings of family films will be taking place at the Oastler Market.
A pop-up cinema at the back of the market will be showing the films on Saturday’s at 11am-1pm throughout August.
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We are open Good Friday and Saturday, Normal Times across all our markets and closed on Bank Holiday.
Categorised:Keighley Market Hall, Kirkgate Market, News, Oastler Shopping Centre, Shipley Market, Traders
We are delighted to have Wur Bradford, our local community artists Chemaine Cooke and Jean McEwan engage in a new project inside the Oastler Market. The ‘We Are Here’ project celebrates the unique history, communities and stories of the market, taking participants on a journey of discovery and the culture of Bradford through the market.
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Join us for lots of Easter fun in the markets this year! This Easter, we have our very talented team at Young Master’s Visual Art School delivering Easter Egg Craft Workshops in both Oastler and Keighley Market. Both workshops will take place on Saturday 31st March between 12-3pm.Read More
Categorised:Events, Keighley Market Hall, Kirkgate Market, News, Oastler Shopping Centre
You can find all our Christmas Opening Times for our indoor markets below. This year, our markets will be open on Sundays and extended normal weekday hours. Read More
Categorised:Keighley Market Hall, Kirkgate Market, News, Oastler Shopping Centre, Traders
You may have already seen the new dedicated events space that we have created in the middle of the market, it’s now complete and ready in time for our Christmas programme! We intend the space to be used for various promotional events, ‘pop up’ test trading, product launches or general awareness/fundraising campaigns throughout the year.
Categorised:News, Oastler Shopping Centre, Traders
The Council have been working with local bus company TLC to make it easier for people to get to the Oastler Market. A new shuttle bus service is being launched that will run between the Interchange and the Oastler Market at the top of town. An initiative welcomed both by traders and shoppers, should see an increase in footfall in both city centre markets. Read More
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It all Spooks with us this Halloween, we have ghoulish activities lined up at the ready across our markets!
Oastler Shopping Centre – Saturday 28 October 12.30-4.30pm
The Young Master’s Visual Art School will be running a mummy-making workshop. Under threes will be able to make a masking tape mummy and older children will be able to make their very own 3D repositionable mummy.Read More
Categorised:Events, Keighley Market Hall, Kirkgate Market, Ministry of Food, Oastler Shopping Centre, Traders
The Summer Arts & Crafts Fair in the Oastler Centre went down very well with local children with the help of the Young Masters Visual Art School. Gemma and Sharon from YM collected scrap from market traders for children to shape, paint, sell and play mini market traders in a mini stall! The stall resembled a mini creche and we look forward to hosting more childrens activities by Young Masters. Read More
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Oastler Centre: Saturday 26th August 11.00-15.30pm
Celebrating the work of local watercolour artist, Barry Langroyd Hanson, the market will exhibit his stunning paintings of Bradford and Cameroon. The paintings are all up for sale and any enquires can come directly through to Khansa Tufail at Markets Office. There will also be prints and greeting cards from Barry on sale and he will be on the stall painting live on the day. Read More
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Wur Bradford, our resident local artists based in Kirkgate Market, recently hosted a guided Food Walk and Poetry Trail inside the Oastler Centre. A group of people were led through the market to sample delicious tasters from various food traders including Roswitas Deli, Thai Noodle Bar and Solly Foods.Read More
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A new initiative to animate the top end of City Centre and drive footfall up Darley Street will see a range of activities and events take place this month. Bradford Council is staging a free programme of events for young families at the top of Bradford city centre this March and April. Read More
Categorised:Events, Kirkgate Market, News, Oastler Shopping Centre
Take a trip down memory lane and say hello to one of our new traders at Oastler, Taylor’s Allsorts stock quality confectionery including all our school favorites from flying saucers, cherry lips, fruit salads and blackjack sweets. A colourful display of jars, you will soon feel a touch of sweet nostalgia in this stall.Read More
Categorised:News, Oastler Shopping Centre
Over the past few months, we have worked with local artists, Jean Mcewan and Chemaine Cooke from Wur Bradford on various projects that aim to create a sense of ambience and atmosphere in the markets.
Categorised:Keighley Market Hall, Kirkgate Market, Oastler Shopping Centre, Traders
The lucky winners of our Christmas Loyalty Card scheme in both Oastler and Kirkgate Market were revealed at the end of December. Traders will be very pleased to know that the top 3 prizes, which were randomly drawn from our raffle box, went to regular shoppers of the markets.
Categorised:Kirkgate Market, Oastler Shopping Centre, Traders
Join Wur Bradford and Cecil Green Arts for a creative Christmas procession with a difference in Oastler and Kirkgate Markets, involving larger than life roving puppets and a sparkly travelling market shrine which you are invited to add your hopes and wishes to for the future!
Categorised:Events, Kirkgate Market, Oastler Shopping Centre
Shoppers at Oastler Centre and Kirkgate Market could be in for a treat this year by signing up to our Christmas Loyalty Card Scheme, with a £500 Cash Prize, food vouchers and hampers brimming with goodies all up for grabs.
Categorised:Events, Kirkgate Market, News, Oastler Shopping Centre, Traders
It’s British Sausage Week and to celebrate our butchers at Oastler will be giving away free sausage tasters!
Categorised:Events, Oastler Shopping Centre
Love your Local Market is a celebration of our market culture, happening over a fortnight in May each year. More than 1,000 markets took part in 2016 celebrating over 7,000 events and market days. The event has gone viral on social media and digital platforms.
Love your Local Market is also about entrepreneurship with the markets industry providing in excess of 10,000 pitches to new traders over the last 4 years. We are proud to announce that Gala Tent are the main sponsors of Love Your Local Market in 2017.
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