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Everything Is Connected – Peril: Exploring People, Environment and Faith

5 Sep - 12 Oct 2025

11:00 - 16:00

Ben Rhydding Methodist Church

Welcome to Everything is Connected!

As part of Bradford’s City of Culture 2025 celebrations, five venues in the Methodist Church’s Yorkshire West District are exhibiting artworks held in the Methodist Modern Art Collection (MMAC), enabling conversations around faith, hidden or overlooked histories, and diverse and marginalised heritage. There is also a series of reproductions of works in the Collection that can be seen at bars and cafés along North Parade in Bradford City Centre. 

Please pick up an Art Trail leaflet to find out more about what’s on at each venue.

The ten works on display at Ben Rhydding Methodist Church focus on the perils of the world, from the climate emergency and stewardship of our planet to concerns over wars and the plight of refugees.

These themes have been explored through community co-curation about how faith, creativity and positive action can help us all during anxious times and includes works by local artists on display in dialogue with the paintings. Two new acquisitions to the Collection are on display for the first time.

Age Guidance
All ages welcome

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Venue Details

Ben Rhydding Methodist Church

Ben Rhydding Drive, Ilkley, England, LS29 8AY, United Kingdom,

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