THE full line up for this weekend’s re-imagined Bradford Festival has now been revealed.

On Friday and Saturday, there will be dozens of events and performances in and around Bradford city centre, from aerial acrobats to giant sea creatures wandering the streets.

The annual event has undergone a name change – now known as BD: Festival.

Events, most of which are free, start on Friday afternoon.

The arts group that opened City Park in 2012 – The Dream Engine, will bring aerial spectacular Loveart to City Park on Friday.

Performances, which see acrobats and a 12m tall heart, take place at 5.45pm and 8.15pm.

Techstyles will bring hip hop and street dance to City Park at 6pm and 8.30pm on Friday and 1.30pm and 6pm on Saturday.

Family friendly, flamenco themed dance performance The Bull and the Moon by DeNada Dance Theatre will take place in the Broadway Shopping Centre on Saturday at 11.30am and 3.45pm.

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The car park of Kala Sangam arts centre will be transformed into a living room as the popular Front Room Poetry returns to the city centre. The event, featuring top national and local poets, will take place on both days of the festival – at 6.30pm on Friday and 2pm and 6.30pm on Saturday.

Over both days there will be a number of street gallery workshops on Kirkgate, where people can use props to create their own self portraits.

Distant Drums, which takes place in City Park, tells the story of reggae music and will be held over both days.

Out of the Deep Blue by Autin Dance Theatre will see Eko, a 13-foot-tall Sea Giant Puppet, roaming between Hutlergate and Ivegate on Saturday between noon, 2pm and 4pm.

Anyday by Max Calaf with Split Second tells the tale of Max Calaf and the world he shares with his bird on a trampoline. It takes place 12.45pm and 5.15pm in Centenary Square on Saturday.

WILD by Motionhouse is a dance-circus production from Motionhouse. Performers use dynamic choreography and acrobatics to move through and atop a forest of tall poles. It takes place at 5pm and 7.30pm at Centenary Square.

There will also be fairground rides at Norfolk Gardens on both days.

Peaceophobia, a performance about a group of young people and their love of cars, will be ticketed, and take place in the Westgate Multi Storey car park. There will be performances both days of the festival.

There are many more events over the two days.

The BD: Festival Programme and Map can be viewed online at https://bit.ly/BDFestivalProgramme

It will also be made available in print at locations across Bradford city centre including Visitor Information, Waterstones, The Broadway and City Library.