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Wed 13 Jan, 8pm. Donations welcome | Online

DOMESTIC

New work, live from home.
Alice Connolly | Avital Raz | Loïs Soleil | Lydia Cottrell | Miray Sidhom | Mitzee | Voidance Company | hosted by Peader Kirk
Participating artists subject to change.

Ongoing. 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

Date to be confirmed. Donations welcome | Contact

21ST EMERGENCY

A journey for the curious.
Ayzmar | Dan Sanders | Ghost and John | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Kelvin Atmadibrata | Lydia Cottrell | Maryam Hashemi | Miray Sidhom | Mitzee (DEAD PIG) | Rowena Gander | Sebastian H-W | Simon Carroll-Jones & Wayne Steven Jackson | Tom Ryalls

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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2020

Hi, ho, hi, ho; back to Tier 3 we go - or 3plus as it appears to be - no theatre, no cinema, no restaurants... but you can go shopping... To draw on the govt's rhetoric of cliché, the faint light at the end of the tunnel, sniff of cavalry etc etc is that it's reviewed fortnightly so there's a small chance we might sneak out just in time for everything to close down for the season of corona-giving. 

If you're desperate for a festive show, Six at The Lowry is hanging on in there in hope; or, Chester Storyhouse is due to reopen its xmas show as soon as lockdown lifts (but of course we're urged not o travel from Tier 3 to Tier 2)

Otherwise, it's all online:
This weekend: tonight, Fri 27 Nov, HOME has David Hoyle's A Grand Auction of My Life (Fri 27 Nov) both live; while Homemakers continues.
Ongoing to 4 Dec, Drake Music hosts On The Air - new work from their resident artists including Gareth Cutter's Anxious Mansions
also tonight Fri 27 Nov.
DaDaFest Translations Festival runs online from today, 27 Nov until 2 Dec with a mix of pre-records and discussions, including new work by Chanje Kunda, Alexandrina Hemsley, Nicola Smith and many more.
Action Hero are also celebrating 15 years with a series of online commentaires - the first went up yesterday.

Next week: on Mon 30 Nov, HOME has Louise Orwin's Your Favourite Scary Movie;
From 2-4 Dec NSCD has New Ground; while Project Intimacy runs from Leeds Playhouse 6-20 Dec (bookings by 4 Dec).
For the young Contact has Virtual Forest of Forgotten Discos on Sat 5 Dec.

The following week HOME has Seayoncé's Déjà Voodoo Tue 8+ Wed 9 Dec; followed by Sh!t Theatre's Sh!t Actually (12-21 Dec) and, for the young, Le Gateau Chocolat's Duckie (14-23 Dec) (I guess there's a chance the last two might be live after 16 Dec).
MIF has Riz Ahmed's Long Goodbye on Sat 19 Dec (bookings open 1 Dec).

As ever, I'll be back when I spot something to say, as ever 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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On this particularly lacklustre, mid-lockdown morning, my diary is curiously empty - reminding me that we should have been in full production for the 21st Emergency tomorrow. That said, our own form of suspended animation doesn't come close to that of those left hanging, poised to do live xmas shows...

Meanwhile, online tonight, Fri 20 Nov, The Lowry has Victor Esses + Yorgos Petrou's Unfamiliar at Home; while if you fancy an early show, on Sunday TomYumSim's A Suffocating Feeling is on in Melbourne at 10am (GMT)!

Next week, there's a fusion of the live, pre-recorded and discursive:
HOME has Daniel Kitson's Dot.Dot.Dot (24-26 Nov) + David Hoyle's A Grand Auction of My Life (Fri 27 Nov) both live; while Homemakers continues.
In discursive territory, on Wed 25 + Thu 26 Nov, Contact hosts LINK-UP, a series of conversations with Queer Contact artists including Mandla Rae + Mark Croasdale.

From 26 Nov to 4 Dec, Drake Music hosts On The Air - new work from their resident artists including Gareth Cutter's Anxious Mansions.
DaDaFest Translations Festival runs online 27 Nov - 2 Dec with a mix of pre-records and discussions, including new work by Chanje Kunda, Alexandrina Hemsley, Nicola Smith and many more.

As ever, I'll be back when I spot something to say, as ever 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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... with the US warm + fuzzies starting to dissipate, it's nice of our (unelected) leadership seemingly to be following suit by skulking back to Barnard Castle - all we need is some kind of E-U-turn and Friday the 13th won't be so much of a horror show...

So to business - I wasn't intending to write this week but I've realised there are a few things worth mentioning, so in brief:
The remainder of HOME's November programme is livestreaming: Bertrand Lesca + Nasi Voutsas's The End is on tonight Fri 13 + Sat 14 Nov; High Rise eState of Mind  is next week (18-19 Nov); and the following week, Daniel Kitson's Dot.Dot.Dot (24-26 Nov) + David Hoyle's A Grand Auction of My Life (Fri 27 Nov); while Homemakers continues, with new content.Best

Tamsin


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... the fifth of November... As last night's firework smoke clears to reveal unseasonable sunshine, the irony of locking us down on the anniversary of the most famous attempted act of sedition in English history seems to have been lost - or has it..?

Anyway, since it's all back online, a very quick word: as some of you will have seen via socials, I put out an update flagging that
we have reluctantly postponed Emergency until Spring. It was entirely conceived for live presence, and would make a very poor livestream, so we're not doing that; but we are working on the possibility of some tasters of it, Domestic-style, and will let you know details as we figure them out!
  Best

Tamsin


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Sat 21 Nov, 12-5pm. Donations welcome | Contact

EMERGENCY

A day out for the curious.
Ayzmar | Dan Sanders | Ghost and John | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Kelvin Atmadibrata | Lydia Cottrell | Maryam Hashemi | Miray Sidhom | Mitzee (DEAD PIG) | Rowena Gander | Sebastian H-W | Simon Carroll-Jones & Wayne Steven Jackson | Tom Ryalls

Welcome to Tier 3, now the topsy turvy government poker game has wound down, the chips are being counted but the stakes are still unclear. To date, it *seems* like the optional extras to close cultural venues haven't been invoked: I've been hitting refresh, but as of 1115am there's no mention of any on gov.uk; but Manchester City Council is still holding off saying anything in the absence of full Govt information! 

I'm really hoping that my outing to a real show in an actual theatre - Rash Dash's Don't Go Back To Sleep at HOME (running til Sat 24 Oct) doesn't prove a one-off! The live flurry of the past week seems to have calmed down, but you can still catch Petrichor, a live VR and online experience at The Lowry (26 Oct - 1 Nov), while next up, HOME has Javaad Alipoor's The Believers Are But Brothers (3-5 Nov).

Apologies to anyone reading from beyond Greater Manchester, but since we're now advised not to travel beyond our borders,  for now I'm not going to taunt Mancunians with mentions of live performance beyond these realms... I suspect work purposes might lead me to start looking further afield again in the not too distant; so if you're doing something outside Greater Manchester that you think really fits and should be mentioned, then email me!

Online: this weekend it's all about Black Gold Arts Festival (23-25 Oct) including High Rise Theatre's Lil.Miss.Lad and Travis Alabanza's Smashing Down The Doors (both tonight Fri 23 Oct); Mele Broomes's Surrounding by Listening to Manifestations of Love and Solidarity #4and Cheryl Martin's One Woman (both tomorrow Sat 24 Oct); and The Garden Party Sunday Sessions on Sun 25 Oct.
CLAY's Chasm programme also has Jo Hauge's Kiss and Cry tonight, Fri 23 Oct. 
HOME's Homemakers continues, with new content, including Stacy Makishi's Homeward (house) Bound (5-7 Nov - book early it's a one to one phone encounter and very lovely).
LevyFringe is online until 31 Oct, including, on Fri 30 Oct Janet Charlesworth with Proud + Loud Arts' Article 19 UNCRPD (keep scrolling down the bookings list); while elsewhere Katye Coe, performs perch by Amy Voris from her home on Thu 29 Oct .

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

I'm on tenterhooks waiting for the Tier 3 edicts so I can finalise (or not) the Emergency programme... fingers crossed we can do it!

Best

Tamsin


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...Tiers of a Clown or No More Tiers, Enough is Enough - the song-pun potential is endless as the great battle of Manchestier3 rages on. Planning live performance becomes ever more precarious as we try to second guess potential impact - will the optional extras restricting performing arts venues be invoked? Can we ask artists to travel? My programming preoccupations aside, looking at the weeks ahead inevitably, the usual pinch of salt caveat is to be employed...

In the physical world, it should actually be quite a busy week or so: The Lowry has Imitating the Dog's Dr Blood's Old Travelling Show on Sat 17 Oct (also at Lancaster Arts, 20+21 Oct); Circuit - a trio of dance and circus works on Sun 18 Oct; and Petrichor, a live VR and online experience (26 Oct - 1 Nov). HOME has Rash Dash's Don't Go Back To Sleep (21-24 Oct).
Elsewhere Krapp's Last Tape + La Voix Humaine continues at Leeds Playhouse to Sat 17 Oct.

Online: CLAY's Chasm programme runs through October and November, including Ellie Harrison's Loose Ends tonight, Fri 16 Oct, Nando Messias's Aurora on Mon 19 Oct and Jo Hauge's Kiss and Cry on Fri 23 Oct. 
In more discursive territory, celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress in Manchester (until Sun 18 Oct) are happening at See My World Festival (Sunday's programme has more performative work); and at PAC@75 - including Tania Camara's Poetics of Freedomaudio work. 
HOME's Homemakers continues, with new content, including Stacy Makishi's Homeward (house) Bound (5-7 Nov - book early it's a one to one phone encounter and very lovely).
LevyFringe goes online 22-31 Oct, while elsewhere Katye Coe, performs perch by Amy Voris from her home on Thu 22 + 29 Oct .
Next weekend (23-25 Oct) sees Black Gold Arts Festival including Cheryl Martin, High Rise Theatre, Mele Broomes and Travis Alabanza.

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

Right, back to trying to piece together a reasonably achievable Emergency programme without too many tiers.

Best

Tamsin


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