Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

Still reeling a bit from the truly bonkers explosion of energy that was Haphazard, I'm struggling to come to terms with the fact that not only is it Friday, but also very nearly March..!

Next week, as the new month lands, so does the rumbustious Reckless Sleepers' Negative Space - at Contact on (1-3 March); whereas we at Word of Warning are on the go again with a relaxed free evening in STUN on Fri 4 Mar with Vincent Gambini's This Is Not A Magic Show plus guest artist, Liverpool's unpredictable Top Joe. 

Elsewhere, Thu 3 Mar is busy with Levantes Dance Theatre's The Band at Edgehill University and Jean Abreu Dance's A Thread at Axis, Crewe;  whilst over the weekend in Leeds, Daniel Oliver's Weird Séance is at Live Art Bistro on Sat 5 Mar and Cheryl Martin's Alaska is at the HUB on Sun 6 Mar.

The following week (w/c 7 Mar), things really hot up again with the Hear Me Roar festival in Lancaster, Bryony Kimmings at Contact, Jo Fong at the Royal Exchange, Mark Thomas at the Lowry, Sh!t Theatre in Preston
- and, rounding off the week, Word of Warning returns to Contact for the truly unmissable Kim Noble!

In the meantime, while I never thought I'd be fulfilling the role of a post-millennial Ali Bongo, please join us next Friday (4 Mar) for Vincent Gambini as nothing - or rather no one -  is quite as it seems!
 
Best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring 2016

Fri 4 Mar, 7.30pm. By donation | an Informal evening in STUN Studio at Z-arts
THIS IS NOT A MAGIC SHOW
Vincent Gambini + guest trick from Top Joe

Sat 12 Mar, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Kim Noble

Spring 2016 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, Z-arts, Sustained Theatre Up North (STUN) + SICK! Festival.

Coming soon…
HUG, Turn, Works Ahead, Hazard + the world premiere of Queer as Yolk, The Redux.

Now I'm over the valentines humbuggery, we're in (slightly) less cynical mode, gearing up for the joyous mayhem that Haphazard promises tomorrow, Saturday, 20 Feb, 12-4pm... 13 free pieces bringing slapstick, beer-pump operated lights, gender-bending dinosaurs, vocal gymnastics and lots of dressing up... truly for all ages, just turn up and join us!

There's also still time this weekend to catch Reckless Sleepers' The Last Supper at Theatre Delicatessen in Sheffield (til Sat 20). While there is more theatre activity around (like 20 Stories High at Contact), the WoW-like world is very quiet indeed next week (w/c 22 Feb) - though you might consider a trip to Crewe for Guillem Mont de Palol + Jorge Dutor - #Los Microfonos (nb Igor + Moreno at Lancaster Arts has been postponed).

With March comes a bit more life the following week: Reckless Sleepers pop up again (with a different show) at Contact; Jean Abreu is at Axis, Crewe; and Daniel Oliver is at Live Art Bistro and Cheryl Martin is at HUB (both in Leeds).
Word of Warning, meanwhile, will be making a miraculous free reappearance on Fri 4 March for an informal evening of live art prestidigitation starring the mysterious Vincent Gambini and guest artist Top Joe.

In the meantime, please do join us for a rumbustious afternoon at Haphazard!

Best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring 2016

Sat 20 Feb, 12noon-4pm. FREE | Z-arts
HAPHAZARD 2016
A free day out for the curious of all ages.

Fri 4 Mar, 7.30pm. By donation | an Informal evening in STUN Studio at Z-arts
THIS IS NOT A MAGIC SHOW
Vincent Gambini + guest trick from Top Joe

Sat 12 Mar, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Kim Noble

Spring 2016 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, Z-arts, Sustained Theatre Up North (STUN) + SICK! Festival.

Coming soon…
HUG, Turn, Works Ahead, Hazard + the world premiere of Queer as Yolk, The Redux.

On this most irksome hallmark-holiday weekend of the year, individuals can hopefully still venture out without feeling too pariah-like, as Lancaster Arts has Season Butler's Happiness Forgets, tonight Fri 12 Feb; and Queer Contact comes to a rousing climax on Valentine's Day itself with Jo Clifford's The Gospel According To Jesus, Queen Of Heaven.

Whilst half-term may have little meaning to some of us, it does impact on programmes - so next week (w/c 15 Feb) is looking a bit quiet, but Aakash Odedra's Echoes and I Imagine is at the Lowry on Tue 16 Feb; Reckless Sleepers' The Last Supper is at Theatre Delicatessen, Sheffield (16-20 Feb); and, on Thu 18 Feb, Hof van Eede's Where the world is going, that's where we are going is at Axis, Crewe and Lydia Cottrell's Atlantis Preview is t Live Art Bistro, Leeds. 

The big news in parts Word of Warning is our third Haphazard (Sat 20 Feb, 12-4pm at Z-arts). From crazy-golf action-painting to a giant golden toilet, a dinosaur clothes show to a world of miniatures, 13 free live pieces from Lucy McCormick, Eilidh MacAskill + Rosana Cade, Gareth Cutter, Travelling Lights, Artizani and more. This is not live art for children but live art for everyone - just turn up and come and go as you please. 

Make the most of Haphazard as the following week (w/c 22 Feb) remains pretty quiet, though you can catch Guillem Mont de Palol + Jorge Dutor at Axis, Crewe and Igor + Moreno at Lancaster Arts.

I'm off to hide from anything cordiform and focus on rather more higgledy-piggledy art!

Best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring 2016

Sat 20 Feb, 12noon-4pm. FREE | Z-arts
HAPHAZARD 2016
A free day out for the curious of all ages.

Fri 4 Mar, 7.30pm. By donation | an Informal evening in STUN Studio at Z-arts
THIS IS NOT A MAGIC SHOW
Vincent Gambini + guest trick from Top Joe

Sat 12 Mar, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Kim Noble

Spring 2016 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, Z-arts, Sustained Theatre Up North (STUN) + SICK! Festival.

Coming soon…
HUG, Turn, Works Ahead, Hazard + the world premiere of Queer as Yolk, The Redux.

So we're out of the starting gates with inflatably arousing Eilidh MacAskill's STUD and there's still time to join us at Contact, until Sat 6 Feb... and maybe to catch Queer Contact's very one-off Kate Bornstein On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (tonight Fri 5 Feb).

Further afield this weekend there's also Lancaster Arts' Festival of Questions (2-20 Feb) durational programme with Tania El Khoury's Gardens Speak, Sarah Vanhee's Oblivion and Action Hero's Extraordinary Rendition (until 6 Feb); In Liverpool, the Everyman has Tom Stuart's I Am Not Myself These Days (until 6 Feb) and in Leeds on Sun 7 Feb, HUB has Harry Giles's Everything I Bought and How it Made Me Feel (also in Huddersfield at the LBT on Mon 8 Feb).

Next week (w/c 8 Feb), Queer Contact continues with Jamal Gerald's Fadoublegot and Laurie Brown's The Daily Grind (both 9-11 Feb); Debs Gatenby's A Place Called Happiness is on Wed 10 Feb and Jamie Fletcher's Dancing Bear on Thu 11 Feb. 

In Lancaster, Festival of Questions also continues with Andy Smith's The Preston Bill on Tue 9 Feb and Season Butler's Happiness Forgets on Fri 12 Feb.  Meanwhile, Axis, Crewe has Eva Recacha's My Other Life, and The Wishing Well on Thu 11 Feb.

The following week (w/c 15 Feb) is a bit quieter, but brings Aakash Odedra to the Lowry, Hof van Eede to Axis, Crewe and Lydia Cottrell to Live Art Bistro, Leeds. 

Word of Warning, meanwhile is gearing up for our third foray into a somewhat Haphazard world (Sat 20 Feb. Z-arts). Four hours of, none too serious free live art for all ages - ranging from crazy golf action painting to the return of our favourite golden toilet - plus a chance to see Eilidh McCaskill shed her chaps to adopt dinosaur guise!
But before all that please do come and join us at STUD and see that size really does matter!

Best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring 2016

Thu 4 — Sat 6 Feb, 9.30pm. £13/7 | Queer Contact
STUD
Eilidh MacAskill

Sat 20 Feb, 12noon-4pm. FREE | Z-arts
HAPHAZARD 2016
A free day out for the curious of all ages.

Fri 4 Mar, 7.30pm. By donation | an Informal evening in STUN Studio at Z-arts
THIS IS NOT A MAGIC SHOW
Vincent Gambini + guest trick from Top Joe

Sat 12 Mar, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Kim Noble

Spring 2016 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, Z-arts, Sustained Theatre Up North (STUN) + SICK! Festival.

Coming soon…
HUG, Turn, Works Ahead, Hazard + the world premiere of Queer as Yolk, The Redux.

Strap on the chaps and tighten your girths, as Word of Warning is about to get in the saddle for its fifth Spring Programme with Eilidh MacAskill's STUD, Thu 4 - Sat 6 Feb at Contact. Promising a full-frontal assault on gender stereotype - with a little help from the ghost of Sigmund Freud and Mr Ed the talking horse, the question is, whether size really does matter...

But before all that - this weekend, The Lowry still has Encounter's I Heart Catherine Pistachio tonight, Fri 29 Jan; and the Royal Exchange Studio has Search Party's My Son and Heir (29 + 30 Jan).

Next week, the first few days are the time to get out and about: things are hotting up in the north with Lancaster Arts' Festival of Questions (2-20 Feb) - this first week featuring, brand new, Proto-type Theater's A Machine They're Secretly Building (Tue 2 Feb), plus another chance to see Forced Entertainment The Notebook (Thu 4 Feb).  There's also a full durational programme with Tania El Khoury's Gardens Speak (3-6 Feb), Sarah Vanhee's Oblivion and Action Hero's Extraordinary Rendition (both 4-6 Feb). 

To the west in Liverpool, the Everyman has Tom Stuart's I Am Not Myself These Days (2-6 Feb); and to the east, the University of Sheffield has Selina Thompson + Bobby Baker at Invisible Flock's Autobiographical Food (Thu 4 Feb); while the same night, Stage@Leeds has Massimiliano Balduzzi's Doieb Si Tau; meanwhile on Sun 7 Feb, Slung Low's HUB in Leeds has Harry Giles's Everything I Bought and How it Made Me Feel (also in Huddersfield at the LBT on Mon 8 Feb).

The second half of the week, back in Manchester, February brings Queer Contact (4-14 Feb). This week don't miss the one-off Andy Bell is Saint Torsten on Thu 4 Feb, or on 4-6 Feb, Jez Dolan's Life's A Drag  plus the aforementioned STUD; and on Fri 5 Feb there's the redoubtable Kate Bornstein On Men, Women and the Rest of Us.

Things don't quieten down much the following week (w/c 8 Feb) as Festival of Questions in Lancaster continues with Andy Smith and Season Butler; while Queer Contact charges ahead with Jamal Gerald, Laurie Brown, Jamie Fletcher (also at WYP, Leeds) and Debs Gatenby.

So gear up and get going for that panoply of wonderment - and, as motivation I'll leave you with the immortal words of Olivia Newton-John - "tell me about it, STUD..!"

Best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring 2016

Thu 4 — Sat 6 Feb, 9.30pm. £13/7 | Queer Contact
STUD
Eilidh MacAskill

Sat 20 Feb, 12noon-4pm. FREE | Z-arts
HAPHAZARD 2016
A free day out for the curious of all ages.

Fri 4 Mar, 7.30pm. By donation | an Informal evening in STUN Studio at Z-arts
THIS IS NOT A MAGIC SHOW
Vincent Gambini + guest trick from Top Joe

Sat 12 Mar, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Kim Noble

Spring 2016 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, Z-arts, Sustained Theatre Up North (STUN) + SICK! Festival.

Coming soon…
HUG, Turn, Works Ahead, Hazard + the world premiere of Queer as Yolk, The Redux.

So it's time to mark the particularly-artistically-miserable beginning of January with a black star; and to re-emerge from our bubble, to look ahead to the real beginning of our new year, as the performance world reawakens with a bang...

This weekend there's still time to catch Daniel Bye's Going Viral (tonight, Fri 22 Jan) at West Yorkshire Playhouse; Dancing Partners, hosted by Company Chameleon, at the Lowry (22 + 23 Jan, bring a friend offer here or £10 tickets here); and PUSH 2016 (until Sun 24 Jan) at HOME plus Imitating the Dog's The Train (until Mon 25 Jan, various times) at Lancaster Arts.

Next week (w/c 25 Jan), The Lowry has Encounter's I Heart Catherine Pistachio on Fri 29 Jan; and the Royal Exchange Studio has Search Party's My Son and Heir (29 + 30 Jan).
Possibly not really WoW, but worth a look: at Contact, Dervish's The Crows Plucked Your Sinews (27-29 Jan) and Avant Garde Dance's The Black Album (Wed 27 Jan); and over in Sheffield Theatre Delicatessen's Monologue Slam (Thu 28 Jan).

The following week really gets going in earnest.  Not only is it the start of February, but also the start of both the Word of Warning Spring 2016 Programme and Queer Contact (4-14 Feb), coming together on Thu 4 Feb for Eilidh MacAskill's STUD (Thu 4 - Sat 6 Feb). 
Also in Queer Contact's opening weekend check out Kate Bornstein; Jez Dolan and for the 80/90's nostalgics: Andy Bell, performing theatrical song cycle St Torsten.

Elsewhere things are also really picking up pace: Lancaster Arts has Festival of Questions (2-20 Feb) - this first week featuring Proto-type Theater, Forced Entertainment and Andy Smith;  plus installations from the unmissable Tania El Khoury, Sarah Vanhee and Action Hero (3-6 Feb).  Liverpool Everyman has Tom Stuart; the University of Sheffield has Selina Thompson + Bobby Baker; and Slung Low's HUB in Leeds has Harry Giles.

That lot certainly puts an end to any sense of seasonal hiatus - I'm exhausted just writing about it - but I'm also looking forward to seeing people again - at Eilidh MacAskill's STUD,  if not before.

Best

Tamsin


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Information for artists: www.habarts.org
Been to one of our events recently? Please help us by taking a few minutes to fill out our online survey, a joint project with Live Art UK & The Audience Agency learning about national audiences for live art.

Spread the word that #CultureMatters | Watch and share the new ACE video

Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring 2016

Thu 4 — Sat 6 Feb, 9.30pm. £13/7 | Queer Contact
STUD
Eilidh MacAskill

Sat 20 Feb, 12noon-4pm. FREE | Z-arts
HAPHAZARD 2016
A free day out for the curious of all ages.

Fri 4 Mar, 7.30pm. By donation | an Informal evening in STUN Studio at Z-arts
THIS IS NOT A MAGIC SHOW
Vincent Gambini + guest trick from Top Joe

Sat 12 Mar, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Kim Noble

Spring 2016 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, Z-arts, Sustained Theatre Up North (STUN) + SICK! Festival.

Coming soon…
HUG, Turn, Works Ahead, Hazard + the world premiere of Queer as Yolk, The Redux.

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