THERE will be a week long celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of Bradford Bulls' first World Club Challenge victory.

The event is one of nine "culture, arts and heritage" schemes to be awarded grants from Bradford Council.

Other schemes getting cash include one to turn the glasshouses in Keighley's Cliffe Castle into a "beacon for arts and culture" and a series of creative events at Oastler Market in Bradford city centre.

The money has come from the Council's Large Grants fund for Culture, Arts and Heritage, and will see the various projects awarded a total of £84,000.

The team reviewed 32 applications before awarding the nine successful projects.

Bradford Bulls won the World Club Challenge in 2002, beating Newcastle Knights, and it remains one of the club's crowning achievements.

The arts grant will fund a weeklong programme of heritage events at Odsal Stadium later this year. The Council says: "This sporting heritage celebration will include interventions for the whole community, from arts and craft workshops and the development of their new heritage room."

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Other events getting funding include - Multiple events celebrating Windrush that will provide, workshops and outreach work in communities. It will include radio programmes, DJ events, poetry readings, cooking sessions, storytelling and more.

- Keighley Photo Hub, a project that will team up with two of the District’s most innovative creatives to transform Cliffe Castle Park’s heritage glasshouses into a "glowing beacon for arts, culture and sustainability." They will celebrate plants, light and people from the local community through the use of alternative photographic processes and sustainable photography.

- Local artist Shabina Aslam will create an audio-visual installation where the audience enters a replica of a 70s bus. Using video, archival sounds, music and film the audience will take part in a bus ride to school in the 70s, as experienced by migrant children.

- The Elevation music and performance group will bring a unique performance to Bradford Cathedral - a story of two teenage boys from different cultures growing up together in Bradford is designed to highlight the nature of how different cultures can bring complex loyalties to the forefront. There is a focus on crime and trauma and told through emerging rap artists alongside classical musicians and audio-visual storytelling.

- Spin Arts plans to develop a new dance, music, and storytelling show for families, inspired by a children’s book ‘Ossiri and the Bala Mengro’, written by award winning Romani author Richard O’Neill they will work with immigrant, gypsy and traveller communities.

- Chemaine Cooke will provide six creative events at Oastler Market programmed by the markets community, with pieces designed to offer performances those who might otherwise not have access the arts.

- Cecil Green Arts are developing an extravaganza of light, encouraging people into an "out of bounds space, the park in the dark."

- Theatre in the Mill at the University of Bradford is working on a new seating and staging design built specifically for the amphitheatre space at Bradford University for public events, ceremonies and live presentations.

More details of the various events will be announced at a later stage.