Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

warnmcr: damp squib or ray of light...

On another dank, grey Mancunian morning, the weather seems to be signalling geopolitical damp squib... but in a truly cheesey coincidence the sun is just struggling to peek through the cloud cover in time to talk about things to see:

IRL:
This weekend, The Lowry has Imitating the Dog's Dracula on Fri 12 + Sat 13 Nov and New Art Club's Cupid's Revenge tonight, Fri 12 Nov (also at Chester Storyhouse on Sat 13 Nov); while Ugly Bucket's Good Grief continues at HOME til Sat 13 Nov.
Mandla Rae's As British as a Watermelon is at Lancaster Arts tonight, Fri 12 Nov, while in Leeds Terpsichoring Dance's Me, Myself + Misha is on Sat 13 Nov.

Next week, w/c 15 Nov Susanna Amato's Landfill of Memories is at HOME on Tue 16 and Wed 17 Nov. Two Manchester Independents commissions premier: Dream FM at Manchester Central Library on Thu 18 Nov; and Edgelands at Manchester Central on Sat 20 Nov.
Further afield, Year of the Rat's The Lost is at St Helen's Chester Lane Library; and in Sheffield Enable US Festival has The Sensemaker on Mon 15 Nov and The Cult of Water on Thu 18 Nov. If you happen to be in Leeds, The Ofrenda Gathering opens at CLAY on Thu 18 Nov (until 19 Mar 2022)

The following week, w/c 22 Nov is busy: Two Destination Language, Figs in Wigs and Xavier de Sousa are at HOME; Pink Lemonade at Contact; Extraordinary Bodies and BLKDOG at The Lowry.
Beyond Mancunia, Victoria Firth is at CLAY in Leeds and Julia Griffin's I Used To Be is in Warrington.

Online:
DanteorDie's Skin Hunger on Film (unti 28 Nov) and Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit (until 1 Dec) can be watched via The Lowry; HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand and Unity Online (including catch ups of in person programme). As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

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Performance Programme

Ongoing to 31 Oct | Various Venues + Online

MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS

Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.

Ongoing to 31 Dec. Free | Online

DOMESTICATED

A home for video performance.

Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: bang or whimper..?

This murky 5th of November seems strangely fitting for an even murkier world of political sleaze - no irony that the row is burning fiercely on this day commemorating attempted sedition... Meanwhile in the world of performance:

IRL:
This weekend, at Contact, Ergon Theatre's The Wicked Game and at HOME, Antler's Civilisation continue until Sat 6 Nov.

In Liverpool at Homotopia, Harry Clayton-Wright hosts You Otter Know tonight, Fri 5 Nov and there's An Evening with David Hoyle on Sat 6 Nov; while Candoco's Double Bill is at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds, also on Sat 6 Nov; while the Enable US Festival is ongoing in Sheffield.

Next week, w/c 8 Nov, HOME has Remi Adam's You, Us & Them on Tue 9 + Wed 10 Nov and Ugly Bucket's Good Grief (11-13 Nov); and the Lowry has I M Pact's Resilience on Wed 10 Nov, New Art Club's Cupid's Revenge on Fri 12 Nov and Imitating the Dog's Dracula: on Fri 12 + Sat 13 Nov.

Beyond Mancunia; Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir stop off on Wed 10 Nov at Capstone Theatre, Liverpool Hope Uni en route to Cop26; while Ergon Theatre's The Wicked Problem (Tue 9 Nov) and Mandla Rae's As British as a Watermelon (Fri 12 Nov) head north to Lancaster Arts. In Leeds, the Playhouse has Louisa Keohane + Jamie Fletcher's Pursuit of Perfection Wed 10 Nov and Terpsichoring Dance's Me, Myself + Misha on Sat 13 Nov. New Art Club's Cupid's Revenge is also at Chester Storyhouse on Sat 13 Nov.

The following week, w/c 15 Nov, seems to be a quiet one, but you can see Susanna Amato at HOME and Year of the Rat in St Helens plus the last couple of Manchester Independents new commissions.

Online:
DanteorDie's Skin Hunger on Film (29 Oct-28 Nov) and Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit (until 1 Dec) can be watched via The Lowry; HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand and Unity Online (including catch ups of in person programme). As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Been to one of our events recently? Please help us by taking a few minutes to fill out our online survey.

Performance Programme

Ongoing to 31 Oct | Various Venues + Online

MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS

Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.

Ongoing to 31 Dec. Free | Online

DOMESTICATED

A home for video performance.

Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: trick or treat...

With the Budget behind us and as Halloween approaches and our own scary prime clown practises juggling the fate of the planet in Glasgow, closer to home it's more about giant puppets and pumpkins...

IRL:
This weekend, HOME has Emmanuela Yogolelo's Tales from the Congo Basin (2pm, today Fri 29 Oct) and Hofesh Schechter's Political Mother Unplugged until 30 Oct); while Contact has This House is On Fire on Sat 30 Oct and The Walk has reached the region en route to its its final destination.

In Rochdale Breaking Barriers' Stories We Tell also continues until Sat 30 Oct and there are a few Manchester Independents events still to come in November.

Further afield, in Sheffield Namiuki Dance Theatre's Exploring The Man/Puberty is at Theatre Deli tonight Fri 29 Oct and the Enable US Festival also kicks off (31 Oct - 19 Dec). In Liverpool Homotopia runs until 14 Nov, while in Ipswich I'm sorry to be missing Spill Festival (oh for the days of the travelling livearterati!)

Next week, w/c 1 Nov, Dickson Mbi's Enowate is at The Lowry on Tue 2 + Wed 3 Nov; while in Castlefield Bowl, MIF welcomes The Walk: When the Birds Land also on Wed 3 Nov. There are two climate driven theatrical offerings: at Contact, Ergon Theatre's The Wicked Game and at HOME, Antler's Civilisation both running 3-6 Nov.

Lancaster Arts has Company Carpi's When You Light a Candle on Thu 4 Nov; and in Liverpool at Homotopia, Harry Clayton-Wright hosts You Otter Know on Fri 5 Nov and there's An Evening with David Hoyle on Sat 6 Nov; while Candoco's Double Bill is at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds also on Sat 6 Nov

The following week, w/c 8 Nov, sees Remi Adam and Ugly Bucket at HOME; and I M Pact, Imitating the Dog and New Art Club at The Lowry. Ergon Theatre and Mandla Rae are at Lancaster Arts; Pursuit of Perfection and Terpsichoring Dance at Leeds Playhouse; New Art Club are also at Chester Storyhouse. Special mention goes to Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir at Capstone Theatre, Liverpool Hope Uni (despite my best efforts Manchester missed out on their whistle-stop UK tour!)

Online:
Look out for DanteorDie's Skin Hunger on Film (29 Oct-28 Nov) and Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit (until 1 Dec) via The Lowry; HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand and Unity Online (including catch ups of in person programme). As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

facebook/WarnMcr | @WarnMcr

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Been to one of our events recently? Please help us by taking a few minutes to fill out our online survey.

Performance Programme

Ongoing to 31 Oct | Various Venues + Online

MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS

Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.

Ongoing to 31 Dec. Free | Online

DOMESTICATED

A home for video performance.

Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: taking off..

Forgive the dreadful Concord pun of this week's subject line - my head is split across a number of shows and obviously humour is obviously misfiring! On this disappointingly grey October morning - there is definitely a plethora of stuff going on:

IRL:
Tonight, Fri 22 Oct Word of Warning is co-presenting Dani Abulhawa's Concord with Interruptions at the Holden Gallery.

Tomorrow, Sat 23 Oct sees the opening of the live development of Mandla Rae's As British As A Watermelon at Contact as part of Black Gold Arts Festival (until 29 Oct in person + online); while Corridor of Light runs until 23 Oct, along and around Oxford Road. There's also My White Best Friend at the Royal Exchange on Sat 23 + Sat 30 Oct while Journeys Festival (until 24 Oct) sees a mix of installation and digital.

In Liverpool at Unity, Dibby Theatre's The First Time is tonight Fri 22 Oct; while Transcend Theatre's How To Kill A Rose is tomorrow, Sat 23 Oct.
In Leeds, Quarantine's 12 Last Songs has its marathon outing at Leeds Playhouse - also tomorrow, Sat 23 Oct.

Next week, w/c 25 Oct at Contact Mandla Rae's As British As A Watermelon continues until Wed 27 Oct; followed by This House is On Fire on Sat 30 Oct. HOME has Hofesh Schechter's Political Mother Unplugged (27-30 Oct) and Emmanuela Yogolelo's Tales from the Congo Basin(2pm, Fri 29 Oct).

And, as ever, keep your eye on the final few Manchester Independents events, including Breaking Barriers' Stories We Tell taking to the streets of Rochdale, 27-30 Oct.

Further afield, Lancaster Arts has New Art Club's Cupid's Revenge on Tue 26 Oct; while in Sheffield Namiuki Dance Theatre's Exploring The Man/Puberty is at Theatre Deli on Fri 29 Oct and the Enable US Festival also kicks off (31 Oct - 19 Dec). Liverpool sees the start of Homotopia(28 Oct -14 Nov) while much, much further afield, in Ipswich Spill Festival runs 27-31 Oct.

The following week, w/c 1 Nov, Dickson Mbi is at The Lowry; while in Castlefield Bowl, MIF welcomes The Walk: When the Birds Land; and there are two theatrical offerings: at Contact, Ergon Theatre's The Wicked Game and at HOME, Antler's Civilisation.

Lancaster Arts has Company Carpi's When You Light a Candle; and in Liverpool at Homotopia, Harry Clayton-Wright hosts You Otter Know and there's An Evening with David Hoyle

Online:
New offerings include Chanje Kunda's Plant Fetish until 29 Oct; and an assortment of work at Unity Online (including catch ups of in person programme).
Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit continues until 1 Dec via The Lowry; while HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand - plus the online offerings from Black Gold Arts Festival and other festivals listed above. As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

facebook/WarnMcr | @WarnMcr

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Been to one of our events recently? Please help us by taking a few minutes to fill out our online survey ,

Performance Programme

Fri 15 Oct, 7.30pm. PWYD | STUN Studio

OREO

Tania Camara

Fri 22 Oct, 7pm. Free | Holden Gallery

CONCORD

Dani Abulhawa

Ongoing to 31 Oct | Various Venues + Online

MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS

Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.

Ongoing to 31 Dec. Free | Online

DOMESTICATED

A home for video performance.

Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: taking the biscuit...

On this beautiful autumnal morning I'm taking a momentary break from theatrical darkness and technical machinations, as we at Word of Warning stand poised to finally bring Tania Camara's Oreo to an in person audience, tonight, Fri 15 Oct at STUN. Having streamed it, it still surprises me how different the impact feels IRL - it's PWYD, we're keeping to 50% capacity in the space, so do come and join us!

IRL:
Also this weekend, at NIAMOS The Untold Orchestra's Bowie: An Orchestral Rendition is on Fri 15 + Sat 16 Oct; while in Liverpool, Unity has SH!T Theatre's Drink Rum With Expats on Fri 15 + Sat 16 Oct and in Lancaster, the Duke's has Sophie's Birthday on Fri 15 Oct.

Next week, w/c 18 Oct we are back in action with Dani Abulhawa's Concord at the Holden Gallery on Fri 22 Oct. The live development of Mandla Rae's As British As A Watermelon is at Contact (Sat 23 + Mon 25-Wed 27 Oct) as part of Black Gold Arts Festival (19-29 Oct): live, online + in person film including screening of Mele Broome's Wrapped Up In This (21+22 Oct) at Contact. Also live in person, there's My White Best Friend at the Royal Exchange on Sat 23 + Sat 30 Oct.
Corridor of Light also runs 21-23 Oct, along and around Oxford Road; while Journeys Festival(15-24 Oct) sees a mix of installation and digital work.

In Liverpool, Dibby Theatre's The First Time is Unity on Thu 23 Oct; while in Leeds, Quarantine's 12 Last Songs is at Leeds Playhouse on Sat 23 Oct.

The following week, w/c 25 Oct sees the addition of Hofesh Schechter and Emmanuela Yogolelo at HOME; Breaking Barriers in Rochdale; New Art Club in Lancaster; Namiuki Dance Theatre and Enable US Festival in Sheffield; plus the start of Homotopia in Liverpool (and for the very dedicated, Spill Festival in Ipswich!)

And, as ever, keep your eye on new additions to Manchester Independents.

Online:
As previously, Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit continues until 1 Dec via The Lowry; while HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand - plus the online offerings from Black Gold Arts Festival and other festivals listed above. As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Hope to see you at Oreo tonight!

Best

Tamsin

facebook/WarnMcr | @WarnMcr

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Performance Programme

Fri 15 Oct, 7.30pm. PWYD | STUN Studio

OREO

Tania Camara

Fri 22 Oct, 7pm. Free | Holden Gallery

CONCORD

Dani Abulhawa

Ongoing to 31 Oct | Various Venues + Online

MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS

Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.

Ongoing to 31 Dec. Free | Online

DOMESTICATED

A home for video performance.

Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: the time of our lives..?

As Manchester bids a fond farewell to our ruling class, who undoubtedly had the time of their lives, you can only wonder where the last week went... for me it's been strangely familiar, spending a good chunk of it back in spaces theatrical! The next couple of weeks seem to be following a similar pattern:

IRL:
This weekend, CYC's Everything all of the Time continues until Sat 9 Oct, while HOME has Jennifer Jackson's Endurance (also until Sat 9 Oct). The Family Vogue Ball pops up at the Old Courts, Wigan on Sat 9 Oct and The Met, Bury on Sun 10 Oct.
Also until Sat 9 Oct Imitating the Dog's Dracula: the Untold Story continues at Leeds Playhouse.

Next week, w/c 11 Oct, HOME has Avital Raz's My Jerusalem on Wed 13 Oct and Victor Esses'sWhere To Belong
on Thu 14 Oct plus Mark Thomas's 50 Things About Us on Wed 13 + Thu 14 Oct.
Manchester Jewish Museum has Klein Blue + Sophie Ablett's She Seeks Out Wool on Thu 14 Oct; while The Untold Orchestra's Bowie: An Orchestral Rendition is at Niamos on Fri 15 + Sat 16 Oct.

Word of Warning is, of course, back in action with Tania Camara's Oreo at STUN on Fri 15 Oct.

In Liverpool, Unity has One September/Aleasha Chaunte's Out of the Narrow on Thu 14 Oct and SH!T Theatre's Drink Rum With Expats on Fri 15 + Sat 16 Oct. In Sheffield, Theatre Deli has Lekhani Chirwa's Can I Touch Your Hair on Thu 14 Oct; while to the north, in Lancaster, the Duke's has Sophie's Birthday on Fri 15 Oct.

The following week, w/c 18 Oct is a hard-to-categorise hybrid week! There's in person performance including Dani Abulhawa's Concord at the Holden Gallery on Fri 22 Oct, and Mandla Rae's As British As A Watermelon (Sat 23 + Mon 25-Wed 27 Oct) at Contact. The latter is part of Black Gold Arts Festival (19-29 Oct) which sees a mixture of live, online + in person film including ascreening of Mele Broome's Wrapped Up In This (21+22 Oct) at Contact. Also live in person, there's My White Best Friend at the Royal Exchange on Sat 23 + Sat 30 Oct.

In Liverpool, Dibby Theatre's The First Time is Unity on Thu 23 Oct; while in Leeds, Quarantine's 12 Last Songs is at Leeds Playhouse on Sat 23 Oct.

Corridor of Light also runs 21-23 Oct, along and around Oxford Road; while Journeys Festival(15-24 Oct) sees a mix of installation and digital work. And, as ever, keep your eye on new additions to Manchester Independents.

Online:
The Lowry has Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit (until 1 Dec) while HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand. As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

facebook/WarnMcr | @WarnMcr

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Performance Programme

Fri 15 Oct, 7.30pm. PWYD | STUN Studio

OREO

Tania Camara

Fri 22 Oct, 7pm. Free | Holden Gallery

CONCORD

Dani Abulhawa

Ongoing to 31 Oct | Various Venues + Online

MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS

Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.

Ongoing to 31 Dec. Free | Online

DOMESTICATED

A home for video performance.

Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: winter of disinfect...

I can't quite believe it's October already, but the news, yesterday's weather and the ever-glooming evenings all serve to herald this new winter of discontent (and yes I do remember the first one!).

More cheerfully, it was great to see lots of people for Emergency last weekend; and there is definitely an air of normality in terms of things to see - in fact I seem to be clash-juggling left right and centre:

IRL:
Tonight, Fri 1 Oct HOME has Emanuel Bajiiji's Candy Floss (30 Sep - 2 Oct) while Cap & Dove, the travelling micro arts centre reaches its final stop in Wythenshawe on Sat 2 Oct.

Next week, w/c 4 Oct, Contact has CYC's Everything all of the Time (6-9 Oct) while HOME has Jennifer Jackson's Endurance (7-9 Oct) + Cassils's Human Measure on Thu 7 Oct.
The Family Vogue Ball pops up at the Old Courts, Wigan on Sat 9 Oct and The Met, Bury on Sun 10 Oct.

If you've got petrol or want to brave the trains, further afield Imitating the Dog's Dracula: the Untold Story continues at Leeds Playhouse until Sat 9 Oct; while on Wed 6 Oct Katie O'Brien's Catch 22 Years is at Theatre Deli, Sheffield; and Edelia Day's Too Pretty To Punch is at the Duke's Lancaster.

The following week, w/c 11 Oct, HOME has Avital Raz's My Jerusalem on Wed 13 Oct and Victor Esses's Where To Belong
on Thu 14 Oct plus Mark Thomas's 50 Things About Us on Wed 13 + Thu 14 Oct.
Manchester Jewish Museum has Klein Blue + Sophie Ablett's She Seeks Out Wool on Thu 14 Oct; while The Untold Orchestra's Bowie: An Orchestral Rendition is at Niamos on Fri 15 + Sat 16 Oct.

Word of Warning is, of course, back in action with Tania Camara's Oreo at STUN on Fri 15 Oct.

To the west, in Liverpool, Unity has One September/Aleasha Chaunte's Out of the Narrow on Thu 14 Oct and SH!T Theatre's Drink Rum With Expats on Fri 15 + Sat 16 Oct. To the east, in Sheffield, Theatre Deli has Lekhani Chirwa's Can I Touch Your Hair on Thu 14 Oct; while to the north, in Lancaster, the Duke's has Sophie's Birthday on Fri 15 Oct.

Keep your eye on new additions to Manchester Independents; and look out for Journeys Festival(15-24 Oct) with a mix of installation and digital work.

Online:
Brian Lobel + Joon Lyn Goh's Sex with Cancer: the Grand Opening is online via Contact on Thu 7 Oct; while the Lowry has Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit (until 1 Dec) and Take This Test on 8-10 Oct.
HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand.
As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

facebook/WarnMcr | @WarnMcr

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Performance Programme

Fri 15 Oct, 7.30pm. PWYD | STUN Studio

OREO

Tania Camara

Fri 22 Oct, 7pm. Free | Holden Gallery

CONCORD

Dani Abulhawa

Ongoing to 31 Oct | Various Venues + Online

MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS

Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.

Ongoing to 31 Dec. Free | Online

DOMESTICATED

A home for video performance.

Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: emerging...

So it's the eve of the 21st Emergency. A bit like the Olympics (of the bizarre), this is the 2020 Emergency happening in 2021 and unbelievably it's 10 months since we'd originally intended to do it! Join us tomorrow, Sat 25 Sep, for a walkthrough of the brand new Contact building featuring looping and durational work by Ayzmar, Helena Ascough, Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton, Kelvin Atmadibrata, Lydia Cottrell, Maryam Hashemi, Miray Sidhom, Mitzee, Rowena Gander, Sebastian H-W, Simon Carroll-Jones & Wayne Steven Jackson. It's free but you do need to book a ticket to help keep a safe capacity.

In other Word of Warning news - we can also announce two more shows - finally in person, Tania Camara's Oreo at STUN on Fri 15 Oct and Dani Abulhawa's Concord at the Holden Gallery on Fri 22 Oct.

For some strange reason, I haven't had time to do any real deep diving for shows but I do know that:
Elsewhere IRL:
Tonight, Fri 24 Oct HOME has an Evening of HipHop with new work by Anton Phung and Adam Scott plus Rhum + Clay's War of the Worlds (until Sat 2 Oct) while Leeds Playhouse has Imitating the Dog's Dracula the Untold Story (25 Sep-9 Oct)
Next week, The Lowry has Akram Khan's Xenos on Wed 29 + Thu 30 Sep; and HOME has Emanuel Bajiiji's Candy Floss (30 Sep - 2 Oct) while Cap & Dove, the travelling micro arts centre, is ongoing to 2 Oct.

The following week, w/c 4 Oct, Contact has CYC's Everything all of the Time; HOME has Jennifer Jackson's Endurance + Cassils's Human Measure; while the Family Vogue Ball pops up at the Old Courts, Wigan and The Met, Bury.
In general keep your eye on Manchester Independents as new things are still being added.

Online:
HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand.
As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

I'll be back, probably in a couple of weeks with more news of October - in the meantime, hope to see you IRL at Emergency!

Best

Tamsin

facebook/WarnMcr | @WarnMcr

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Performance Programme

Sat 25 Sep, 12noon-4pm entry. Free | Contact

EMERGENCY 21

A journey for the curious.

Ayzmar | Helena Ascough | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Kelvin Atmadibrata | Lydia Cottrell | Maryam Hashemi | Miray Sidhom | Mitzee | Rowena Gander | Sebastian H-W | Simon Carroll-Jones & Wayne Steven Jackson

Participating artists subject to change.

Fri 15 Oct, 7.30pm. PWYD | STUN Studio

OREO

Tania Camara

Fri 22 Oct, 7pm. Free | Holden Gallery

CONCORD

Dani Abulhawa

Ongoing to 31 Oct | Various Venues + Online

MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS

Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.

Ongoing to 31 Dec. Free | Online

DOMESTICATED

A home for video performance.

Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: back to reality pt2...

September finds me a little confused... the sun's finally shining but the telltale traces of the student return are screaming Autumn... it's not a Friday, yet I'm sending this... Without an office, I'm wrestling to get to grips with what the outside world now looks like - masks/no masks; distanced/not distanced; digital/in person... but, for the first time, we are edging towards what looks like an Autumn performance 'season' so this mail might start to approximate something like its BC incarnation... hopefully by the end of September it might even manage a more regular pattern!

In the meantime, a few things to look out for:

IRL
This week in Preston, The Collective Weekender (9-12 Sep) sees a variety of activity including work by Helena Ascough and Krissi Musiol on Thu 9 Sep. Watch out for the ongoing Cap & Dovetravelling micro arts centre - still to visit Oldham, Stockport, Tameside + Manchester by 2 Oct and including work from Joshua Sofaer, Afreena Islam, Jenny Gaskell, Mark Croasdale, Chanje Kunda, Megan Griffith. Plus Chorlton Arts Festival (11-19 Sep) gets underway.

Things start to pick up in the second half of September. Catching my eye in the w/c 14 Sep, the Duke's in Lancaster has Finding Folk (16 Sep) and 666 Comments (17 Sep); and in the w/c 21 Sep The Lowry has Johnny Cotsen's Louder is not Always Clearer; plus more theatrical offerings as HOME's season gets up and running with Rhum + Clay and an Evening of HipHop; and Leeds Playhouse sees the opening of Imitating the Dog's Dracula the Untold Story (25 Sep-9 Nov).

We at Word of Warning, are rebooting the Emergency that lockdown#2 prevented. Taking place at Contact on Sat 25 Sep Emergency 21 is a journey through 11 pieces of durational work. It's free, but please book as we are maintaining socially distanced capacity.

Pace builds as we head for October - in particular keep your eye on Manchester Independents with lots of new work coming up across the artforms; and a quick heads-up for Cassils's Human Measure at HOME on Thu 7 Oct.

Online:
HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running with new content and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand.
Manchester Independents supported project DreamFM asks you to phone-in your stories of what you dream of (until 19 Sep).
As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

I'll be back in a couple of weeks with a more regularly timed mail, looking at what's to come in October.

Best

Tamsin

facebook/WarnMcr | @WarnMcr

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Performance Programme

Sat 25 Sep, 12noon-4pm entry. Free | Contact

EMERGENCY 21

A journey for the curious.

Ayzmar | Helena Ascough | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Kelvin Atmadibrata | Lydia Cottrell | Maryam Hashemi | Miray Sidhom | Mitzee | Rowena Gander | Sebastian H-W | Simon Carroll-Jones & Wayne Steven Jackson

Participating artists subject to change.

Ongoing to 31 Oct | Various Venues + Online

MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS

Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.

Ongoing to 31 Dec. Free | Online

DOMESTICATED

A home for video performance.

Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

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warnmcr: virtual normality...

So, incredibly, it's August already - no idea how that happened. There's an air of normality in the usual performance slowdown and the dawning of Edinburgh but scratch the surface and it's all a bit virtual...

IRL
Watch our for the Cap & Dove travelling micro arts centre - visiting different Greater Manchester locations most weekends from 7 Aug - 2 Oct and including work from Joshua Sofaer, Afreena Islam, Jenny Gaskell, Mark Croasdale, Chanje Kunda, Megan Griffith.

HOMEGROUND is ongoing and has RashDash's Look At Me, Don't Look At Me on Fri 13 Aug; while in Salford, The Lowry has the Big Top in the Park (11-21 Aug) and the Quays Festival takes place 14/15 Aug.

Of course, August is the time for the annual theatrical migration northwards, though it'll be another year without a visit to Tebay for me. At a very rapid perusal of the Edinburgh listings, while there is real life activity happening, not a vast amount caught my eye IRL - a couple of things at Summerhall: Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.) by Mamoru Iriguchi and Community Circle – Trevor Lock; plus from Dancebase Jian Yi, Something Smashing, Fran.K and Sheen in the Buff: Late, Live and Unwrapped. In the more mainstream field, both Edinburgh International Festival and The Traverse have some in person work.

Online:
HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running - look out particularly for Michael Pinchbeck's Cyclical on Sat 14 Aug (bookable 15 min slots. There's also still MIF Watch On Demand.

And now for the Edinburgh online list - apologies for the table format, it's the only way I could get the data out - here are the things that caught my eye at first glance, grouped by promoter, plus there's also the Shedinburgh platform to have a look at.

Summerhall

Cheryl Martin – One Woman

Mele Broomes and collaborators featuring Divine Tasinda and Kemono L.Riot: Grin

Varjack-Lowry - iMelania

Darkfield - Knot: The Trilogy

mandla rae – as british as a watermelon

Sally Charlton - Mother's Milk

MALAPROP Theatre WSTL: Epistles

Horizon Festival

Botis Seva / Far From The Norm - BLKDOG Part 1

Brownton Abbey: Talk Show

Requardt&Rosenberg Future Cargo

Janine Harrington - Screensaver Series

Every Dollar is a Soldier / With Money You’re a Dragon

Dancebase/ZooTV

Start to Finnish in association with Carl Knif Company. Fugue in Two Colors

Red Note Ensemble and Matthew Hawkins - Iconnotations

From Start to Finnish, with Johanna Nuutinen + CO - Opia

Graeme Leak - SAVED

Pleasance

Arthur Smith: SYD

Jodie Irvine - GOBBY

Natasha Brown - I Am (Not) Kanye West

Sian Clarke Experience

Various

GalataPerform - Deserted Shores / Negative Photographs

Caroline Laurin-Beaucage and Montréal Danse - Ground Unplugged

Ana Bayat - Mimi's Suitcase

Joanna Griffin - Miss Honey

Sébastien Provencher and Mathieu Leroux - Bones and Wires

As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video. Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances. Also keep your eye on Manchester Independents - 22 new supported works and a host of other new independent work, emerging between now and October.

I'll be back in September, with a look at what hopefully is more like an Autumn season - look out for a sneaky Emergency date announcement meanwhiles.

Best

Tamsin

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