A GROUP of Bradford women will be taking part in a nationwide event to celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage.

Processions is a mass participation artwork taking place simultaneously across the four UK capitals on Sunday June 10.

Bradford Based art group The Brick Box was chosen as one of 100 groups across the UK that would be involved in the project.

In recent weeks the group has been holding a number of workshops at its Ivegate base, including artists and social activists and led by Jean McEwan, to create a large banner that will be carried by 15 women from the group at the London march. The banner will then be on display during this summer’s Bradford Festival.

Rosie Freeman, co-director of The Brick Box, said: “As a group we discussed how we would represent the women of Bradford, and what will be written on the final banner will hopefully do that.”

Produced by Artichoke and commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, Processions will celebrate one hundred years since the first British women won the right to vote.

Participants will each be given a wrap to wear in either green, white or violet - the suffragette colours. They will be choreographed to walk in stripes in a flowing river of colour through the city streets, creating a living portrait of women and girls in the 21st century.

As part of the project, 100 organisations across the UK - including Historic England, Girlguiding, The Muslim Women’s Network, The Scottish Refugee Council and Women in Prison – have been commissioned to create handmade banners in collaboration with female artists, which participants will carry on the processions.