📢 Our Monthly Meets are retuning to BD Arts Centre at the end of April.
🎉 Come hang out, chit chat, play some games and meet community.
❤️ See you on Wed 29 April for the first one.
Important - BBBQ Ground rules for collective care and safety for those attending and participating in our events:
Founded in 2019 by local queer people of colour, BBBQ is a grassroots space run with love, not funding. We hold regular meetups and events for Queer People of Colour (QPOC) in Bradford and beyond. This is a space for connection, joy, and community
If you attend our events, here’s how we flow
We ask everyone to help protect the space we’ve built together:
• Treat everyone with care, kindness, and respect • Honour people’s identities, pronouns, and lived experiences • No inappropriate behaviour, harassment, or unwanted attention • Ask for permission before messaging someone privately • Respect people’s privacy — not everyone is out • Don’t share photos, names, or personal details without consent • Keep things shared at events private unless told otherwise • Bring energy that’s generous, joyful, and community-minded
This is your space too — if you’ve got ideas, we’d love to hear them.
What we don’t allow We have zero tolerance for:
• Harassment or inappropriate behaviour of any kind • Racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, ableism, xenophobia, or discrimination • Gossip, invasiveness, or unkindness
Anyone who disrespects these boundaries may be asked not to return. Admin decisions are final.
With love, BBBQ team 🧡🧡🧡
We had a beautiful Saturday spent with @stacymakishi for the Walking each other home workshop ✨️
It was super super special; connecting, laughing, playing, listening, eating & just being! Big Big thanks to @bdproducinghub for supporting us to make this happen.
Biggest take away was to listen and play!!
🥰🥰💜💜
Thanks so much to Bradford Producing Hub and Bradford Black & Brown Queers for this weekend’s workshop at the Assembly, a co-working space. This was meant to run during Bradford City of Culture 2025 but we had to rearrange due to illness. Thanks for all the reworking - we’re so glad this happened in the end!
Next stop for Stacy and Walking Each Other Home is this coming Saturday at Sussex’s Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, co-presented by them and Marlborough Productions 🌳
@bbbq_bd@bdproducinghub@assemblybd@marlboroughproductions@attenboroughctr@aceagrams@penny_doing__thingss@producerlee23@louisafoley@mrs.mallaghan@sallychar@sheppearddavid@_nikki_tom
Image: Walking Each Other Home workshop at Assembly Bradford
BBBQ Crew!
We’ve been offered an exciting FREE workshop from Bradford Producing Hub with amazing artist Stacy Makishi.
Walking Each Other Home explores how we gather, how ritual can heal and transform, and how we build deeper connections with ourselves, each other, and creativity. Expect playful creative tasks including writing and image-making.
📅 Sat 11 April 2026 ⏰ 11am – 5pm 📍 Assembly Bradford 🥗 Vegetarian lunch provided
✨ This workshop is for QTiPOC only.
Message us for the sign-up link and more details.
Transport costs can be reimbursed if needed.
Big love - BBBQ team
Hey BBBQ fam 💕 hope you’re all doing well
We’re having our final BBBQ meetup of the year, and our last one at Commonspace too — so let’s make it special!
📅 Saturday 15th November | 1–4pm 📍 Commonspace – 1–3 John St, Bradford BD1 3JT
It’ll be a potluck, so if you can, bring some food, snacks, or drinks to share. We’ll have games, chats, and plenty of laughs — just a lovely, relaxed get-together to celebrate the year.
Would love to see you all there! Much love, The BBBQ Team xxx
i made Nan Gyi Thote for #bradfordpride @castlesintheskyprojects@bbbq_bd because back in Burma, we grew up eating that for such big gatherings and celebrations, and as #Pride today.
im well pleased seeing people enjoyed the food, with glitter on faces and henna on hands. 🙌🥰🕺🪩
#bradfordpride #pride #pride2025 #yorkshirepride #burmesefood #exiledartist #veganasian #plantbased #tofu #vegannoodlebowl #blackandbrownqueer
Overview of what's going down in Bradford tomorrow! 🪩
If you requested tickets to The Cocoa Butter Club, check your inbox for info.
@castlesintheskyprojects and @bbbq_bd are opening Common Space which will be a sober space until 2pm when the bar will open.
From 2pm we will also have food available to buy from our very own @penny_doing__thingss . There will be crafts, games, music and just a space to chill or get ready for pride or @thecocoabutterclub . Then we'll have some tunes from the amazing @mela_d_offical 💃🏽✨
Catch you tomorrow 🥳💜
Castles in the Sky & Bradford Black & Brown Queers have teamed up to open Common Space for Bradford Pride on Saturday August 30th! 🏳️⚧️ 🧡 🏳️🌈 🎈
We’ll be a sober space from 11AM-2PM where you can come and relax with a film screening celebrating the power of community care or use the space to get ready if you’re headed to City Park!
From 2 we’ll open up our bar and also have delicious food for sale from @penny_doing__thingss plus mehndi, music and crafts including badge making and tote bag designing!
We’re a short walk from City Park so you can soak up Bradford Pride too or stick with us till 7 when we’ll be heading to The Beacon at Lister Park for the fabulous @thecocoabutterclub
The space is free and food and drink purchases can be made with cash or card 💰
We’ll also be selling our popular Bradford Queers For Palestine t shirts with all funds going to organisations on the ground in Gaza 🇵🇸
BBBQ It's time to party with the infamous, glamourous & beautiful @thecocoabutterclub 🎉🔥💖
Thanks to @bradford_2025 we have some tickets for our group. More ticket info & how to register in our WhatsApp Group!
Come together for unforgettable night of cabaret, where rhythm meets resistance. This isn’t escape. It’s elevation.
The Cocoa Butter Club is an award winning performance company, showcasing and celebrating performers of colour. Expect a high octane evening of cabaret featuring burlesque, drag, spoken word, circus and much more.
>Show starts: 8pm
>Interval: 15 mins
>Show ends: 9.45pm
>Party and DJ set: 9.45pm-10.45pm
>18+
Ticket offer for our QTIPOC community only!
More info about Sat 30 to follow soon 👀✨️
📢 Summer Picnic Incoming ☀️💜
Our next BBBQ group meeting on Mon 21 July is gping to be a Picnic in Roberts Park in Saltaire, BD17 7LU.
Bring food, Bring snacks, Bring Games, Bring Big Queer Joy ✨️ Open to our QTIPOC group members. Please remember this is a Queer space for people of colour.
Meet by the bandstand from 5.30pm.
More Info to follow in the whatsapp group.
Big Love 💜💜💜
