warnmcr: evening prayers...


So as we all cower in the sunshine from media-storm Abigail and the joys of Friday the 13th, those brave enough to venture out tonight, can catch Greg Wohead's Comeback Special (wip) at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford and, over in St Helens, Le Gateau Chocolat and the lovely Hunt and Darton Cafe (ongoing until 22 Nov).

Next week (w/c 16 Nov), for us at WoW it's all about Stacy Makishi's Vesper Time at Contact on Tue 17 and Wed 18 Nov.
A subversive sermon is an accurate take on it, and I know I'm biased but it's genuinely one of the best shows I saw last year, so don't miss it!

Elsewhere in Mancunia, there's Chris Goode's Men In The Cities at the Royal Exchange (19-21 Nov); Rani Moorthy's Whose Sari Now on Thu 19 Nov at The Lowry; and, back at Contact, Ursula Martinez's Free Admission on Sat 21 Nov. 

In Preston, Reckless Sleepers' Last Supper is at the Continental on Wed 18 + Thu 19 Nov; and in Liverpool, Mandy Romero's Scandinavia Has Been Good To Me is at The Bluecoat on Fri 20 Nov.

Meanwhile, St Helens Heart of Glass kicks it up another level with the Through the Looking Glass weekender (20+21 Nov), featuring, amongst others, Joshua Sofaer + Karen Christopher and Marcia Farquhar, it kicks off on Fri 20 Nov with Duckie's 21st Century Music Hall (click for special limited £5 ticket offer).

The following week (w/c 23 Nov) look out for Chris Brett Bailey and Jamie Wood in Lancaster; Selina Thompson in Bradford and Uninvited Guests at Contact.

Hoping to see lots of you at Stacy Makishi's Vesper Time at Contact. If my heartfelt endorsement isn't enough, we may be a bit giddy as it's also our final show of the year and John Franklin's birthday (he of the bright red trousers, hats and guyliner), so join us to see if Ms Makishi can turn his face the colour of his trousers...

Best

Tamsin


PS. DON'T MISS on BBC Four: On Stage: Live from Television Centre this Sunday 15 Nov 9-11pm featuring, Richard Dedomenici, Common Wealth's
No Guts, No Heart, No Glory, Gecko and Touretteshero.

PPS. Don't forget the Duckie special £5 ticket offer

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VESPER TIME
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warnmcr: things that go bang...


And so here we are in chilly balmy November,  the air still fuggy from last night's bangers, the supermarket aisles already filled with yuletide tat and the end of the Word of Warning season peeping over the horizon..!

If you aren't staring forlornly at a damp bonfire, this weekend over in Leeds you can still catch Chris Goode's Men In The Cities at WYP (til 7 Nov); and tomorrow, Sat 7 Nov,  Season Butler's Happiness Forgets is at Live Art Bistro while Unity, Liverpool has Kate O'Donnell's Big Girls Blouse.

Next week (w/c 9 Nov), Manchester's a bit quiet but there's a good smattering of work around the region.  On Tue 10 Nov there's  Mary Pearson's Sand Dog Cometh at Edgehill and Chris Thorpe's Confirmation at Axis, Crewe. Wed 11 Nov has Drunken Nights at The Devonshire Cat in Sheffield and Tales of Whatever at The Castle. Thu 12 Nov sees Clod Ensemble's The Red Chair at The Lowry; and Lola Maury + Hannah Buckley' Two to Tune and S/HE  at Axis, Crewe. Fri 13 Nov brings Greg Wohead's Comeback Special (wip) to Theatre in the Mill, Bradford and Le Gateau Chocolat to St Helens Heart of Glass (who also have a intriguing manifesto-making workshop with The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home on Sat 14 Nov).

The following week (w/c 16 Nov) it's all go again in parts Mancunian with Chris Goode at the Royal Exchange; Rani Moorthy at The Lowry; and Ursula Martinez at Contact. To the west there's also Mandy Romero at The Bluecoat, and it's also well worth planning a trip to St Helens for the Through the Looking Glass weekender at Heart of Glass (20 + 21 Nov).  Featuring Joshua Sofaer + Karen Christopher and Marcia Farquhar, it kicks off with Duckie's 21st Century Music Hall (see below for competition).
Meanwhile, back in Mancunia the truly unmissable event of the week is Word of Warning's final show of the season with a return to Contact of the very marvellous Stacy Makishi.

Best

Tamsin

STOP PRESS - DUCKIE COMPETITION
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Competition closes 8pm Tuesday, November 10th.


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warnmcr: things that go bump...


So as the witching hour approaches, still to see this week in Manchester: those of a scientific bent can experiment with the Manchester Science Festival Bloodlines tonight Fri 30 Oct at Martin Harris Centre; while the young at heart can see Forced Entertainment's The Possible Impossible House at Z-arts tomorrow, Sat 31 Oct (11am + 2.30pm); and Contact has KILN's Lady GoGo Goch, evening of Sat 31 Oct. 
Further afield, Chris Goode's Weaklings is also at Bradford Theatre in the Mill tonight, Fri 30 Oct.

Next week (w/c 2 Nov) in the Manchester environs, Carran Waterfield's The House is at the Martin Harris Centre (3+4 Nov click Whats On to find 4 Nov) and La Merda is at the Lowry (5+6 Nov).  Elsewhere, West Yorkshire Playhouse has Chris Thorpe's Confirmation (2-4 Nov) and the prolific Chris Goode's Men In The Cities (5-7 Nov). Uninvited Guests' Love Letters Straight From Your Heart is at the Continental in Preston on Wed 4 Nov; Sarah Woods's The Roadless Trip is at Lancaster Arts on Thu 5 Nov;  and on Sat 7 Nov Kate O'Donnell's Big Girls Blouse is at the Unity, Liverpool while Season Butler's Happiness Forgets is at Live Art Bistro, Leeds.

The following week (w/c 9 Nov) there's Chris Thorpe and Lola Maury + Hannah Buckley at Axis, Crewe; Mary Pearson at Edgehill; Drunken Nights in Sheffield; Clod Ensemble at The Lowry; Greg Wohead at Theatre in the Mill; and Le Gateau Chocolat and a manifesto-making workshop with The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home both at St Helens Heart of Glass.

Aside from whether to dress less like a witch for Halloween, the big question of the week is whether to Spill or not to Spill...

Best

Tamsin

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warnmcr: there's gold in them there... err... theatres...


As this partcularly hectic week draws to a close, in parts Mancunian you can still see:
Black Gold, which is in full swing at STUN Studio at Z-arts featuring: tonight Fri 23 Oct, Cheryl Martin's Alaska (tickets still available) + Keisha Thompson's I Wish I Had a Moustache; and, tomorrow Sat 24 Oct, Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam.  You can also still catch excerpts from Darren Pritchard's Body of Light at Manchester Science Festival at MOSI today Fri 23 + Sat 24 Oct.
Rash Dash's We Want You To Watch and Coney's The Green Gold Conspiracy both at The Lowry tonight Fri 23 Oct, with Coney also at Chester Zoo on Sat 24 Oct.

To the east, today Fri 23 Oct, in Leeds you can catch Live Art Bistro's ORBIT showcase; Grace Surman's Things Stack Up at Bradford Theatre in the Mill and DV8's John (ongoing til 24 Oct) at West Yorkshire Playhouse.
To the west, there's sited work aplenty courtesy of On The Verge in Liverpool (til 25 Oct) and Warrington Contemporaries' Encounters on Sat 24 Oct; while at St Helens Heart of Glass there's Marisa Carnesky's Haunted Furnace at the World of Glass, today Fri 23 Oct + tomorrow Sat 24 Oct (shows at 7+8 pm. Booking is confusing and may be in person only - try calling the Citadel Box Office on 01744 735436 or World of Glass on 01744 22766).

Next week, (w/c 26 Oct) in Manchester, Contact has New Art Club's Hercules on Thu 29 Oct and KILN's Lady GoGo Goch on Sat 31 Oct; meanwhile Forced Entertainment's The Possible Impossible House lands at Z-arts on Sat 31 Oct (11am + 2.30pm).  For those of a scientific bent, there's also an intriguing Manchester Science Festival event Bloodlines on Fri 30 Oct at Martin Harris Centre.

Further afield, Two Destination Language's Manpower is at Derelict, Preston on Wed 28 Oct; while Thu 29 Oct is generally busy with Greg Wohead's The Ted Bundy Project at Warrington Contemporary; Two Destination Language at Edgehill; and Chris Goode's Weaklings at Axis, Crewe (also at Bradford Theatre in the Mill on Fri 30 Oct); .

The following week (w/c 2 Nov), it's Chris-Mas at WYP, Leeds with both Chris Thorpe and Chris Goode. Uninvited Guests are in Preston; La Merda is at the Lowry; Kate O'Donnell is in Liverpool and Marisa Carnesky is back in St Helens.

This weekend I'll be attempting to be in several places at once - holding forth at the On the Verge Transformations panel on Saturday, followed by a quick scoot round the festival then re-materialsing back in Manchester for Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam at Black Gold later that same day.

Best

Tamsin

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Stacy Makishi

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warnmcr: fasten your seatbelts...


Ok, here goes with a more than normally breathless run-down... this week you can still catch 1927's Golem at HOME til Sat 17th and Leo Burtin's The Midnight Soup at Café Lux in Pudsey tonight, Fri 16 Oct, as part of Love Arts Leeds. Then, make the most of Sunday + Monday as next week is intense; and a sensible way of organising it eludes me, so here's a straight, roughly geographic, listing:

In parts Mancunian you can see:
Forced Entertainment's The Notebook at Contact (20-22 Oct);
Black Gold at STUN Studio at Z-arts featuring Darren Pritchard's Body of Light  on Thu 22 Oct (and excerpts at Manchester Science Festival at MOSI on Fri 23 + Sat 24 Oct); Cheryl Martin's Alaska on 22 + 23 Oct; Keisha Thompson's I Wish I Had a Moustache on Fri 23 Oct and Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam on Sat 24 Oct;
Rash Dash's We Want You To Watch (22/23 Oct) and Russell Maliphant's Conceal/Reveal (also 22 Oct) at the Lowry (nb leave extra time as the only Accessible parking is now the pay car park);
Coney's The Green Gold Conspiracy at The Lowry on Fri 23 Oct and at Chester Zoo on Sat 24 Oct (nb you do get a meal for the price of the ticket...)

Further afield look out for:
Quarantine's Autumn at Lancaster Arts (formerly Live at LICA formerly The Nuffield) on 20 + 21 Oct; 
2FacedDance Dreaming Code at LBT Huddersfield on Tue 20 Oct;
Andy Smith's The Preston Bill  at The Continental, Preston  (21/22 Oct);
Candoco Double Bill at Blackpool Grand on Wed 21 Oct;
DV8's John at West Yorkshire Playhouse (22-24 Oct);
Ricardo Buscarini's No Lander at Axis Crewe on Thu 22 Oct;
Grace Surman's Things Stack Up at Bradford Theatre in the Mill on Fri 23 Oct;
Robert Softly If These Spasms Could Speak at St Helen's Heart of Glass on Sat 24 Oct. 

Looking to the west, it's festival-time with On The Verge in Liverpool (22-25 Oct) - catching my interest is AR-Tea Collective's HeartBrokers; The Lemon Collective's AlieNation and the On The Verge 1:1s.  Meanwhile down the road in Warrington there's the Encounters sited event bringing live art to the town centre.

Don't expect anything to calm down the following week as New Art Club and KILN are at Contact and Forced Entertainment are back, this time to Z-arts, to appeal to the young at heart.
In a bid for ubiquity, Forced Entertaiment are also in Huddersfield while Chris Goode is at Axis, Crewe and Bradford Theatre in the Mill; Greg Wohead is in Warrington and Two Destination Language are in Preston and Edgehill. Meanwhile, for the truly dedicated, Spill Festival is on in London (if you look REALLY hard you can work out it's 28 Oct - 8 November).

We at WoW are just a little daunted by entering into this particularly frenetic fray, but, of course, you'll be foregoing all the rest to join us, Darren Pritchard and the Black Gold line-up, here within Z-arts (22-24 Oct). 

Best

Tamsin

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BODY OF LIGHT
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Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi


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warnmcr: no rest for the wicked...

Thanks to all who joined us at a right-rollicking Emergency last weekend... we're still buzzing (though that might be the residual adrenaline of 41 shows in two weeks!)

While Word of Warning has a show-free week or two, audiences should be girding their loins as Autumn is truly in full swing!

This week you can still catch Zendeh's Cinema (until Sat 10 Oct) in STUN Studio at Z-arts;  1927's Golem at HOME (until 14 Oct) and Contact Young Company's Under the Covers, (until 10 Oct) at Contact. Looking east, Bradford's Theatre in the Mill has The Other Way Works' Black Tonic (until 11 Oct); and West Yorkshire Playhouse has Furnace Festival (until 10 Oct).  Further still there's Fierce Festival in Birmingham (until 11 Oct), with Chris Goode, Neil Callaghan & Simone Kenyon, Selina Thompson, Katherine Araniello, Ria Jade Hartley, Ursula Martinez, Season Butler, Tim Etchells; plus, on Sun 11 Oct, Hatch: Blood, Sweat and Tears at the Attenborough Arts Centre (formerly Embrace Arts) Leicester (booking link here).

Next week on Mon 12 Oct the LBT in Huddersfield has Dumbshow Theatre's Electric Dreams (also at The Lowry on Sat 17 Oct).  On Tue 13 Oct Stan's Cafe's A Translation of Shadows is at Axis, Crewe and Rash Dash's We Want You To Watch is at West Yorkshire Playhouse (13-15 Oct) (also at The Lowry, 22/23 Oct).  Meanwhile Preston pubs are popular - with the one-off Drunken Nights IV: Appetiser at the Lamb & Packet on Thu 14 Oct, courtesy of Derelict; and Andy Smith's The Preston Bill at The Continental (14/15 + 21/22 Oct). I've also, just this second, been recommended Encounter's I Heart Catherine Pistachio at Axis, Crewe on Fri 15 Oct.

The following week (w/c 19 Oct) reaches crescendo: amongst other things... look out for Forced Entertainment at Contact; Quarantine at Lancaster Arts (formerly Live at LICA/The Nuffield);  DV8 at West Yorkshire Playhouse ; Ricardo Buscarini at Axis Crewe; and Grace Surman at Bradford Theatre in the Mill. It's also festival time - with On The Verge in Liverpool; Encounters in Warrington and Black Gold (feat. Cheryl Martin, Darren Pritchard, Keisha Thompson + Chanje Kunda) at STUN at Z-arts - which also sees Word of Warning re-enter the show-fray with the première of Darren Pritchard's Body of Light.

I'm exhausted just writing that lot, I'm beginning to think seeing shows is harder work than producing them! Maybe we should see who can get the prize for actually seeing the most?!

Best

Tamsin

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Thu 22 Oct, 8pm. £8/5 | STUN Studio at Z-arts as part of Black Gold Arts Festival
BODY OF LIGHT
Darren Pritchard

Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi

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warnmcr: sweet sixteen and never been kissed...


So after a week of building site shenanigans, we at Word of Warning, have doffed our hard hats, steelies and not so hi-viz to return to the relatively safe environs of Z-arts for Emergency's sixteenth (yes, really 16th!) birthday, tomorrow Sat 3 Oct, 12-10pm, free. 

Kicking off at midday, with an afternoon of durational and gallery based work then, from 4pm, an evening of short shows Emergency sees an impossible attempt to halt the sands of time and a mother and son performance duo; a stand-up comedian hitting an all time low and a ‘a-rousing’ final ascension from GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN’s Lucy McCormick.  The 26 participating artist/groups include:  Adam Lowe; Adam York Gregory + Gillian Jane Lees; Alicia Radage; Eleanor Fogg; Gwendolen Osmond; Howl Yuan; Nicola Smith; Paul Hughes + Andy Edwards; Rachel Gomme; Simon Farid; Simon Gerrard; Sturgeon's Law; Terri Donovan; The Demolition Project; Tim Anderson + Tessa Buddle; Tin Can People; Trendscendence; Ali Matthews + Leo Burtin; Ali Wilson; Chris Jenkins; Dr Mango; Gareth Cutter; James O'Donoghue; Jon M Coleman; Lucy McCormick; Stephen Donnelly.

Though we might not like to admit it, there is life beyond Emergency,  and elsewhere, tonight Fri 2 Oct you can still catch Hetain Patel's American Boy at Contact; whilst HOME has Nanterre-Amandiers' La Mélancolie Des Dragons (2+3 Oct).

Next week (w/c 5 Oct), while we take the opportunity to flake out from exhaustion, you can see Zendeh's Cinema (6-10 Oct) in STUN Studio at Z-arts;  1927's Golem at HOME (7-13 Oct); Contact Young Company's Under the Covers, (7-10 Oct) and, also on Thu 8 Oct, Le Gateau Chocolat's I❤︎ Chocolat both at Contact.

Further afield, Bradford's Theatre in the Mill has The Other Way Works' Black Tonic (7-11 Oct); Leeds Cariageworks has Madeleine Shann's Little Terrors on Wed 7 Oct and West Yorkshire Playhouse has Furnace Festival (8-10 Oct; be warned you have to dig quite deep in their website to work out what's going on - click both ticketed and festival pass tabs!)
For those up for a longer outing, Fierce Festival is in Birmingham (7-11 Oct), with Chris Goode, Neil Callaghan & Simone Kenyon, Selina Thompson, Katherine Araniello, Ria Jade Hartley, Ursula Martinez, Season Butler, Tim Etchells and more.

The following week (w/c 12 Oct) there's Stan's Cafe at Axis, Crewe; Rash Dash at West Yorkshire Playhouse and both Andy Smith and Drunken Nights in Preston.

I'm off to go and receive a giant Asda delivery for the annual Emergency artist buffet... oh the glamour of it all!

Best

Tamsin

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Sat 3 Oct, 12noon-10pm. FREE | Z-arts
EMERGENCY 2015
A free day-out for the curious. Manchester’s manic micro- marathon of the bizarre + the beautiful celebrates sweet sixteen.

Thu 22 Oct, 8pm. £8/5 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
BODY OF LIGHT
Darren Pritchard

Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi

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warnmcr: having a domestic...

Word of Warning... 

So we're all moved in and Domestic II is up and running at Matthias Court, our pop-up tower block home, with an intensely intimate night of work last night from Audio Caff, Ria Hartley, Louise Wallwein, Cheryl Martin and guest Liz Clarke.  While tonight is sold-out, we have just released a few extra tickets for Saturday night (guest show Ellie Stamp's Are You Lonesome Tonight?).

You can also join us tomorrow, Sat 26 Sep (12-5pm) for the free daytime event which boasts our ongoing Audio-Caff with free tea and cake; Ria Hartley's My Brother's Father performance installation and durational and one to one work from Leo Burtin | Clare Charnley | Charlotte CHW | Afreena Islam | Jamil Keating | Doris La Trine | Mackenzie & Reed | Ana Mendes | Threshold | Louise Wallwein | Laura Wyatt O’Keeffe.

Flow Salford also gets underway tonight (Fri 25- Sun 27 Sep) with a series of shows in venues like The Lowry, Salford Arts Theatre and the Kings Arms.  On Saturday don't miss Oli Sykes' The Old Gloves Hung There Waiting; and on Sunday Matt & Nath's When I Grow Up; or combine a daytime visit to  Domestic II with Hannah Hiett's Personal Effects and Christine Fitzgerald's 13 Folds installations.

Further afield you can also see Lancashire Encounter across Preston (also Fri 25- Sun 27 Sep) - of interest are Krissi Musiol, Angel Club North, Martin Hamblen and Andy Smith and more.

Next week you can see Hetain Patel's American Boy, 1+2 Oct. at Contact; whilst HOME has Nanterre-Amandiers' La Mélancolie Des Dragons (1-3 Oct).

Meanwhile, on Sat 3 Oct, we at Word of Warning  return to Z-arts for our sixteenth (yes really sixteenth) annual Emergency 2015 with an afternoon of durational work and, from 4pm, an evening of short shows, including the very exuberant Lucy McCormick!

The following week (w/c 5 October) there's 1927 at HOME; another chance to see CYC's Stacy Makishi directed Under the Covers and Le Gateau Chocolat (both at Contact) plus a smattering of things coming up in Bradford, Crewe and Leeds.

I'm off to sort out pallets and hoists and all things terribly construction - see you at Domestic II!

Best

Tamsin

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DOMESTIC II
at Matthias Court, M3 6JD. For details: domesticmcr.org [phone enquiries: 07581 299 429]
Thu 24 – Sat 26 Sep, 7.30pm. [Booking essential]
Audio Caff | Ria Hartley | Cheryl Martin | Louise Wallwein + guests: Liz Clarke, Catherine Hoffmann + Ellie Stamp

Fri 25 Sep, 7pm + 10pm. £3 [Booking essential]
Michael Pinchbeck

Sat 26 Sep, 12noon-5pm. FREE
Audio Caff | Leo Burtin | Clare Charnley | Charlotte CHW | Ria Hartley | Afreena Islam | Jamil Keating | Doris La Trine | Mackenzie & Reed | Ana Mendes | Threshold | Louise Wallwein | Laura Wyatt O’Keeffe

Sat 3 Oct, 12noon-10pm. FREE | Z-arts
EMERGENCY 2015
A free day-out for the curious. Manchester’s manic micro- marathon of the bizarre + the beautiful celebrates sweet sixteen.

Thu 22 Oct, 8pm. £8/5 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
BODY OF LIGHT
Darren Pritchard

Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi

Domestic II is produced by hÅb with support from The Guinness Partnership and Guinness Property and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
hÅb is supported using public funding by Arts Council England and supported by Manchester City Council.
Word of Warning Autumn/Winter 2015 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, The Guinness Partnership, STUN + Z-arts


 

warnmcr: hi-visibility...

Word of Warning... 

With less than a week to go before we land on, Matthias Court, an unsuspecting tower block in Salford, for Domestic II,  the Word of Warning team is modelling the latest in building-site chic - bovver boots, hi-viz and hard-hats (and if you want to see my all-black version of hi-viz you'll just have to come along!)

For the princely sum of a fiver, each Domestic II evening (24-26 Sep) brings you:
Friday also boasts a separate bonus performance: Michael Pinchbeck's The man who flew into space from his apartment, with guest performers Niki Woods (7pm) and Oliver Bray (10pm).  Saturday 26th daytime, meanwhile, offers a whole new experience, with another ten pieces in a walkaround gallery-style event 12-5pm, FREE.

Parts salfordian see a general creative flood as Flow Salford also takes to venues around the city (25-27 Sep).  Things to look out for are Matt & Nath's When I Grow Up and Oli Sykes' The Old Gloves Hung There Waiting; or you could make a day-out of it on Sat 26th with a trip to Domestic II, Hannah Hiett's Personal Effects and Christine Fitzgerald's 13 Folds installations.

And still in Salford... Laura Lindow's then LEAP is also at the Lowry on 24 + 25 Sep, while back in Mancunia, Rachel Goodyear's Blind Spots is at Contact on Thu 24 Sep .

The following week sees Hetain Patel's American Boy, 1+2 Oct. at Contact; whilst over at HOME there's Nanterre-Amandiers' La Mélancolie Des Dragons (1-3 Oct).

The following weekend, Word of Warning loses its construction clobber in favour of an equally manic, but rather cleaner (in surroundings if not content) Emergency at Z-arts (Sat 3 Oct).

Before all of the above, however, you could always take a trip north tonight, Fri 18 Sep to catch Kate O'Donnell's Big Girls Blouse at the Duke's, Lancaster and/or Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Grizedale Forest, 18-20 Sep.

We're off to pretend we're builders (though the effect is really more Village People)... hope to see you all next week at 'our site'!

Best

Tamsin

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DOMESTIC II
at Matthias Court, M3 6JD. For details: domesticmcr.org [phone enquiries: 07581 299 429]
Thu 24 – Sat 26 Sep, 7.30pm. [Booking essential]
Audio Caff | Ria Hartley | Cheryl Martin | Louise Wallwein + guests: Liz Clarke, Catherine Hoffmann + Ellie Stamp

Fri 25 Sep, 7pm + 10pm. £3 [Booking essential]
Michael Pinchbeck

Sat 26 Sep, 12noon-5pm. FREE
Audio Caff | Leo Burtin | Clare Charnley | Charlotte CHW | Ria Hartley | Afreena Islam | Jamil Keating | Doris La Trine | Mackenzie & Reed | Ana Mendes | Threshold | Louise Wallwein | Laura Wyatt O’Keeffe

Sat 3 Oct, 12noon-10pm. FREE | Z-arts
EMERGENCY 2015
A free day-out for the curious. Manchester’s manic micro- marathon of the bizarre + the beautiful celebrates sweet sixteen.

Thu 22 Oct, 8pm. £8/5 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
BODY OF LIGHT
Darren Pritchard

Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi

Domestic II is produced by hÅb with support from The Guinness Partnership and Guinness Property and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
hÅb is supported using public funding by Arts Council England and supported by Manchester City Council.
Word of Warning Autumn/Winter 2015 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, The Guinness Partnership, STUN + Z-arts


warnmcr: autumn is in the air...

Word of Warning... 

So as the sun sets on the lack of summer and the early shoots of student life start to appear, almost as inevitable as death and taxes, the Word of Warning mailer is back...

Of course, with it, comes the shiny new Word of Warning Autumn/Winter 2015 season, which gets off to an incredibly frenetic start with two festival weekends, then a calmer stroll through autumn with Darren Pritchard's Body of Light and Stacy Makishi's Vesper Time. 

First up however, 24-26 Sep, is Domestic II, our second foray into tower block performance - this time completely uninhabited and in full renovation mode: Matthias Court in Salford.  Three evenings of short shows from Cheryl Martin, Louise Wallwein, Liz Clarke, Michael Pinchbeck, Catherine Hoffmann and Ellie Stamp, plus a performance installation from Ria Hartley and a functional Audio Caff (or café for the posh).  Saturday 26th also brings a daytime live gallery of durational and intimate performances from artists too numerous to mention (right now).  Salford truly is a hotspot for the weekend, as Flow Salford also takes to various venues around the city.

The following weekend (Sat 3 Oct), also brings the sixteenth Emergency to Z-arts: 28 pieces, ranging from durationals and one to ones (12-4pm), to a full programme of sit-down performances from 4pm.

Beyond Word of Warning's slightly over-ambitious machinations, over the next few weeks, worth a look in parts Mancunian might be Annie Siddons Raymondo at Sale Waterside on Thu 17 Sep and Laura Lindow's then LEAP at the Lowry on 24 + 25 Sep.  At Contact there's Rachel Goodyear's Blind Spots on Thu 24 Sep and Hetain Patel's American Boy, 1+2 Oct. at Home; whilst at HOME there's Nanterre-Amandiers' La Mélancolie Des Dragons (1-3 Oct).

Further afield, this Saturday 12 Sep, Lowri Evans's For the Record is at St Helen's Heart of Glass; Abandon Normal Devices Festival takes over Grizedale Forest, 18-20 Sep; and Kate O'Donnell's Big Girls Blouse is at the Duke's, Lancaster on Fri 18 Sep.

I think that's your lot for this week while I go back to figuring out how to turn a very dishevelled tower block into a welcoming venue!

Best

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2015

DOMESTIC II
at Matthias Court, M3 6JD. For details: domesticmcr.org [phone enquiries: 07581 299 429]
Thu 24 – Sat 26 Sep, 7.30pm. [Booking essential]
Audio Caff | Ria Hartley | Cheryl Martin | Louise Wallwein + guests: Liz Clarke, Catherine Hoffmann + Ellie Stamp

Fri 25 Sep, 7pm + 10pm. £3 [Booking essential]
Michael Pinchbeck

Sat 26 Sep, 12noon-5pm. FREE
Audio Caff | Leo Burtin | Clare Charnley | Charlotte CHW | Ria Hartley | Afreena Islam | Jamil Keating | Doris La Trine | Mackenzie & Reed | Ana Mendes | Threshold | Louise Wallwein | Laura Wyatt O’Keeffe

Sat 3 Oct, 12noon-10pm. FREE | Z-arts
EMERGENCY 2015
A free day-out for the curious. Manchester’s manic micro- marathon of the bizarre + the beautiful celebrates sweet sixteen.

Thu 22 Oct, 8pm. £8/5 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
BODY OF LIGHT
Darren Pritchard

Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi

Domestic II is produced by hÅb with support from The Guinness Partnership and Guinness Property and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
hÅb is supported using public funding by Arts Council England and supported by Manchester City Council.
Word of Warning Autumn/Winter 2015 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, The Guinness Partnership, STUN + Z-arts