Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

In this funny grey unlockdown limboland, I had been intending to remain in my anti-social bubble for another week before mailing again, but there's another little flurry of activity I thought worth flagging.

In livestream world, Forest Fringe TV's June Programme has been released, with Tim Etchells, Jim Fletcher & Chris Thorpe's We are the King of Ventilators (Delirium Loop) on Thu 18 Jun; and Harry Robert Wilson on Thu 25 June. 
HOME's Homemakers has James Monaghan's Let's Spend the Night Together + Complicité's everything that rises must dance both live on Sat 20 Jun. Quarantine's No Such Thing continues on Wed 17 June (and first + third Wednesdays of the month).

New online: while we missed its Forest Fringe TV launch last night, Two Destination Language's A Journey of a Home (Online) is available until Sun 21 Jun.
Homotopia also has new video pieces: Leo J Skillbeck's Love Song for the Wild from tonight Fri 12 Jun; and Kenneth Morris's CATEGORY IS FETISH on Sat 20; Jun plus on Tue 16 Jun, they release Harry Clayton-Wright's You Otter Know online magazine. 
HOME's Homemakers on demand programme continues, as does Hester Chillingworth's The Caretaker.

You can also 'watch again' the work Word of Warning presented live with Tania Camara and Will Dickie.
We'd be really grateful if you fancied subscribing to our YouTube channel, as we forlornly aspire to the untold riches that reaching the magic 100 number bestows!

Archive video online: MAYK is sharing video of  Still House's Of Riders and Running Horses(17-21 Jun); Sleepdogs' The Bullet and The Bass Trombone (24-28 Jun); while The Place + Fuel are sharing Requardt + Rosenberg's Dead Club (18–22 Jun)

For those involved in the industry, Greater Manchester Artist Hub continues to offer ongoing artist advisory sessions. Next Friday 19 Jun at 2pm, we will also be attempting to unpick some of the challenges GM venues and organisations are currently facing in Where Do We Go From Here? with a panel of leading figures from across the venues - and me (from the small, non-building based perspective).

I'll be back next week, hopefully with a bit of news of our own, meanwhile, 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

So here we are, on the brink of Word of Warning's second live streamed performance, coming to you at dusk tonight. Curiously, for me, these are every bit as nerve-wracking as a theatre show - maybe even more so as much is beyond our control - so keep your fingers crossed that the gods of 'internet weather' are benevolent, and join us at 9pm tonight, Fri 22 May for Will Dickie's White Sun. We've just pushed back our virtual walls to allow more in, so please book via Eventbrite and you will receive a code at about 5.30pm.

If you fancy making a night of it you also have a good selection of aperitifs - Anatomy's Leaves From The Bone Library  (7-8.30pm) or Arden School of Theatre's It's About Time (7.30pm) (also returning on Thu 28 May with their Class of '20)

Over the weekend, you can still view Mark Croasdale's Landbreaks; while Ridiculusmus are screening a trilogy of their work with discussions (22-24 May); or you can view a screening of Rosana Cade's Walking Holding until Sun 24 May. 

Next week, on Wed 27 May, Contact has Uninvited Guests' Love Letters Straight From Your Heart; while MIF has Hafsah Aneela Bashir's The Other ‘P’ Word. On Thu 28 May Forest Fringe TV  has The Museum of Hope in the Dark. There's also a series of live events as part of Block Universe - Sessions (25-30 May).

Ongoing: you can join Quarantine's No Such Thing on the first + third Wednesday of the month. MIF has two online games -  Paloma Dawkins's Songs of the Lost and Nina Freemans Lost Memories Dot Net (til 31 May). HOME's Homemakers has added Javaad Alipoor's A Series of Metaphors About A Plague and Chad Taylor's Lost Online; and you can still watch Bryony Kimmings's I am falling in love with you and it's making me do stupid things and Chris Thorpe + Yusra Warsama's Tell Me (all til 31 Dec). Meanwhile Hester Chillingworth's The Caretakercontinues throughout lockdown from The Royal Court Theatre

Hoping to virtually see you at Will Dickie's White Sun tonight, which brings our 'planned' Spring/Summer 2020 season to a close. While the latter half wasn't exactly what we originally intended, we're both happy to have realised a lot of it; and proud of the lockdown work created by both Tania Camara and Will Dickie.

Unless something unmissable crops up, I'm going to take a few weeks break from this to figure out what comes next. In the meantime 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

Given my general penchant for caveats, you might think I'd embrace the english govt's new slogan, but like many, I was left in a general state of wtf and think I'll maintain my homebound stupor. On other matters linguistic, the overuse of the words 'live stream' is challenging my sense of purpose for this mail, so, in an attempt to maintain a sense of event, I'm trying to focus primarily on things that are actually happening live rather than pre-recorded video, though inevitably the boundaries will blur...

The next couple of weeks bring a new mini flurry of online events - including one of our own. While we can't bring you Works Ahead 2020 as originally planned, as darkness begins to fall on Fri 22 May, Will Dickie will be performing a new work in progress, White Sun from his home in Liverpool.

Before that, this weekend, BEatHome Festival is running online until Sat 16 May with performances by Francesc Serra Vila and Edurne Rubio & María Jerez.  Coney's Telephone also takes place on Fri 15-Sun 17 May; plus, of course there's Richard DeDomenici's Coronavision Song Contest on Sat 16 May. On Sun 17 May, Yard Online hosts a full day programme including Christopher Green and Marikiscrycrycry (unfortunately Stacy Makishi's 1-2-1 is sold-out).

Next week (w/c 18 May) MIF's Festival In My House has House of Noir's Kiki in Our House on Wed 20 May. Forest Fringe TV (Thursdays weekly) has Rachel Mars + Greg Wohead's Story #1 Returns (A Zoom Of One’s Own) on Thu 21 May.

Fri 22 May seems to be the fullest of evenings: you could bounce between Anatomy's Leaves From The Bone Library  (7-8.30pm); Arden School of Theatre's It's About Time (7.30pm); and MIF's Party Skills for the End of the World: Lockdown Special (also 7.30pm) before, of course, joining us for Will Dickie's White Sun at 9pm.

Mark Croasdale's Landbreaks continues with a new upload daily til Fri 22 May; and Ridiculusmus are screening a trilogy of their work with discussions (22-24 May).

The following week, on Wed 27 May, Contact has Uninvited Guests' Love Letters Straight From Your Heart; while MIF has Hafsah Aneela Bashir's The Other ‘P’ Word. On Thu 28 May Forest Fringe TV  has The Museum of Hope in the Dark. 

Ongoing: MIF has two online games: Paloma Dawkins's Songs of the Lost and Nina Freemans Lost Memories Dot Net(til 31 May); and HOME's Homemakers has Bryony Kimmings's I am falling in love with you and it's making me do stupid things and Chris Thorpe + Yusra Warsama's Tell Me (both til 31 Dec). The Royal Court Theatre also has Hester Chillingworth's The Caretaker (throughout lockdown).

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

So, after the irony of the sunniest April on record, May seems to have reverted to Mancunian murk, and I've reverted to hanging around in my natural dark habitat! I'm writing from the middle of a very curious production process - organising a show around PPE and social distancing brings a whole new layer of challenge to the joys of show-week.

Anyway, we'll see what tonight (Fri 1 May) brings in this unpredictable medium, when we go live for Tania Camara's Oreo: variations at 7pm on Facebook, Twitter + YouTube. This isn't the developed show we had planned to present at STUN this Spring, it's an exploration of one action-based section developed over 4 days, following Tania's residency in Senegal with Kaolack, a Czech based choreographer specialising in Traditional + Afro-Contemporary dance practices. See here for trailer.

Also, a reminder that from today Fri 1 May,  GIFT Festival goes online (1-3 May) including Tania El Khoury (one to ones throughout) and Artesbandes with Bertrand Lesca + Nasi Voutsastonight; (Fri 1 May); while tomorrow (Sat 2 May) sees Greg Wohead, Sophie Woolley, Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir and Action Hero. On Sunday there's Luca Rutherford + Greg Wohead, Jonathan Burrows + Matteo Fargion, with Wendy Houstoun and a chance to catch an Instagram version of  Jamal Gerald's Idol.

Unity Theatre's calendar of upcoming online events is also worth checking out especially over this weekend (1-3 May). 
Forced Entertainment's End Meeting For All  (via their partners' websites) has two parts remaining: on Tue 5 + Tue 12 May and you can catch up on Part 1 here.

Between ACE deadlines and show-week, I've had no time to dig around into what else is coming up so keep an eye on @warnmcr on Twitter for rapid info.

As a reminder coming up, MIF Live is showing small Festival In My House commissions on Wednesdays; while Richard DeDomenici's Coronavision Song Contest is on Sat 16 May. Keep an eye on Theatre in the Mill's Live Portal; and also live (but I have no idea of style nor content) is Online Fringe Festival (till 3 May) and The Social Distancing Festival from Canada.

Meanwhile there's an increasing body of show videos being made available online. The Wooster Group, imitating the dog and Company Chameleon  are releasing a different show weekly, while there's a growing repository at Live Stream Archive; plus NRLA30 and recommendations via Ben Kulvichit’s Quarantine performance blog post. Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to show videos online.

Hope you can make a moment in your hectic calendars to join us for Tania Camara's Oreo: variations tonight, Fri 7pm (and if you look carefully you might spot my ghostly cameo in it!) 

Best

Tamsin

facebook/WarnMcr | @WarnMcr

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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.

Performance Programme Spring 2020

Fri 1 May, 7pm | Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
OREO
Tania Camara

Thu 21 + Fri 22 May. Details TBC.
WORKS AHEAD 2020
A double bill from Will Dickie + Ross McCaffrey

(PWYD indicates you Pay What You Decide)

Spread the word that #CultureMatters

Live Stream Archive;
Krissi Musiol's Maternal Matters† daily domestic intervention on Instagram;
Exeunt Magazine - see listings in the middle of the page;
Perform Istanbul's #StayLive on Instagram; 
The Social Distancing Festival from Canada;
For comedy, there's the daily Stay At Home comedy festival + show downloads through GoFasterStripe.

Future things to look out for:
UnitedWeStream - coming imminently, probably mainly music;
GIFT Festival 2020 (1-3 May)
Richard DeDomenici's Coronavision Song Contest (Sat 16 May);
Homespun Festival (Jun 2020);
Live Collision 2020;
BBC's Culture in Quarantine Festival;
HOME's Homemaker commissions;

Keep well and distanced and remember We've Got Each Other

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, a joint project with Live Art UK & The Audience Agency learning about national audiences for live art.
Reminder: The Quiet Man Dave Prize is inviting new writing about theatre and performance across the city (deadline 17 Apr).
 

Performance Programme Spring 2020

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, a joint project with Live Art UK & The Audience Agency learning about national audiences for live art.
Reminder: The Quiet Man Dave Prize is inviting new writing about theatre and performance across the city (deadline 17 Apr).

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, a joint project with Live Art UK & The Audience Agency learning about national audiences for live art.
Reminder: The Quiet Man Dave Prize is inviting new writing about theatre and performance across the city (deadline 17 Apr).