Glossary

How a project or event is defined based on its artform or additional category. Some projects will incorporate multiple categories.

Artist working in a venue, organisation or community group responding to the space and/or people and making work that is specific to that setting.

Work that is not funded by BD25 but forms part of our programme, either through partnership (e.g. BBC events) or for another strategic reason (e.g. Dance Consortium – international programme, audience development and profile raising)

Use Audience

The people attending an event. (TO BE CONFIRMED)

The size of the audience at an event.

Broadcast content can be a live event or a pre-recorded programme but the audience needs to tune in at specific times to access the content.

See Training & CPD

Designation of audience and participants based on age range (up to and including 25 years old).

Working with another organisation, we pay and delegate delivery to external organisations/artists. We will have a contract in place with agreed outcomes, milestones and deliverables.

The practice of collaborating with other stakeholders to guide the design process.

We collaborate with one or more external organisations/artists to deliver a project together. We will have a contract in place with agreed outcomes, milestones and deliverables for each party.

Programme partnerships and co-productions with national and international companies/ organisations.

Delivery of that is delegated to external organisations/artists

Working with communities.

People paid to take part in a project to deliver creative activity or directly benefitting from the project in their role as a creative or cultural practitioner.

Includes work with schools but not only schools.

Audience that experiences a creative product designed to be experienced through digital technology or a digital platform.

People taking part in a digital activity or an activity designed to be experienced through a digital platform.

Creative content that is digital but which might be experienced either through a digital platform (so has a digital audience) or in real life (so has a live audience). Not all digital projects will be exclusively digital.

Diversity is understanding that each person is unique. It means embracing people’s differences, including their beliefs, abilities, preferences, backgrounds, values, and identities.

Arts Council England (ACE) define frequent engagement as at least 3 to 4 times a year or more (this could be any combination of cultural events/ activities).

Equality means offering the same rights and opportunities to all people.

An instance with a defined start and end date and time.

May be used for promotion of events but not a formally defined category for audience evaluation purposes.

Combination of stalls/events/performances of multiple art forms usually over a limited time period.

This is used to refer to all ethnic groups except white British and other white groups. The term includes people from Black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic groups who are often racialised as 'ethnic minorities'.

Index of multiple deprivation and is a relative measure which enables areas to be ranked and compared with others in terms of their deprivation levels. These are often presented as quintiles (five groups) or deciles (ten groups).

The control and sequencing of code operations in a pipeline.

People taking part in or contributing to the project, going beyond being audience members. This might include taking part in a workshop, performing in a community show, joining a class or taking part in a digital activity.

A type of event. Any instance of a performance that we deliver. One theatre piece that has 10 performances = 10 events.

Code which extracts and processes data.

Work and/or performances not produced or commissioned by Bradford but presented as part of the 2025 programme

Projects that are developed and delivered by the Bradford 2025 producing team

Code which allows data to be extracted from a given source system into the data processing pipelines. Each different source system will probably need a different adapter to allow the data to be extracted, but all datasets from within a single system can use the same adapter.