warnmcr: dancing with tiers in my eyes...


...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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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2020


Sat 21 Nov, 12-6pm. Donations welcome | Contact

EMERGENCY

A day out for the curious.

Participating artists to be announced.

warnmcr: HOME not from home...


So once more we find ourselves teetering on the brink of some kind of new lockdown - since they seem to be holding off til Monday to confirm what that might look like, you might just have to take anything about live work with a pinch of salt! Following a zoomtastic week (14 hours in one day is too much) I've been a little too preoccupied to trawl the websites, so apologies for brevity or omissions!

In the physical world, next week HOME reopens its doors to live performance on 16 Oct with Young Identity's Working from Home; while Imitating the Dog's Dr Blood's Old Travelling Show lands at The Lowry on Sat 17 Oct (also at Lancaster Arts, 20+21 Oct).
Krapp's Last Tape + La Voix Humaine (2-17 Oct) are ongoing at Leeds Playhouse; then the following week, HOME has Rash Dash's Don't Go Back To Sleep (21-24 Oct).

Online: you can catch We Dance Our History on Sat 10 Oct; Journey's Festival enters its final week (til Sun 18 Oct). CLAY's Chasm programme runs through October and November, including Ellie Harrison's Loose Ends on Fri 16 Oct, Nando Messias's Aurora on Mon 19 Oct and Jo Hauge's kiss+cry on Fri 23 Oct.  Dante or Die's User Not Found continues and Black Gold Arts Festival runs 23-25 Oct, 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.

As a single person household, having just tried to book a solo ticket, it's painful... so a plea to venues: we know it's hard for you, but blocks of 4 aren't selling, so please make some more single tickets available and don't add theatre to the long list of things that those of us who live alone in Manchester can't do!

I'm off to see what this afternoon's Emergency application deadline might bring! 

Best

Tamsin


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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2020


Sat 21 Nov, 12-6pm. Donations welcome | Contact

EMERGENCY

A day out for the curious.

Participating artists to be announced.


 

warnmcr: kitchen sink drama...


This week, either my senses are dulled or we seem to be less on tenterhooks awaiting Govt regulations, so I'll take a punt on a more normal mailing time!

After a very lovely Sunday afternoon in the garden doing actual live performance in front of physically present people last weekend, as the evenings close in, we find ourselves firmly ensconced back in our homes for the next Domestic on Wed 7 Oct (booking open now). We have contributions from friends old and new: Ali Wilson, Elly Rutherford & Fanis Sakellariou, Helena Ascough, Jane Munro, Madame Zucchini, Maryam Hashemi, Michael Pinchbeck & Ollie Smith and Victoria Firth, all hosted by Peader Kirk.

In the physical world, if you are up for a trek, Leeds Playhouse has Krapp's Last Tape + La Voix Humaine (2-17 Oct) plus Imitating the Dog's Dr Blood's Old Travelling Show (7+8 Oct) - also going to The Piece Hall, Halifax (9+10 Oct), The Lowry (Sat 17 Oct) and Lancaster Arts (20+21 Oct). HOME reopens its doors for actual live performance on 16 Oct with Young Identity's Working from Home plus more WoW-like work thereafter. 

Online: Dante or Die's User Not Found continues; The LBT has a trio of streamed danceworks(28 Sep - 12 Oct) and Journey's Festival (28 Sep - 18 Oct) is underway - look out for a new video version of Avital Raz's My Jerusalem on Thu 8 Oct.  Coming up later in October there's also the first online Black Gold Arts Festival (23-25 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.

Hoping to see you in a Zoom window for Domestic next Wednesday and for anyone looking to perform, the deadline to apply for Emergency is on Fri 9 Oct. 

Best

Tamsin


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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2020


Wed 7 Oct, 8pm. Donations welcome | Online

DOMESTIC

New work, live from home.
Ali Wilson | Elly Rutherford & Fanis Sakellariou | Helena Ascough | Jane Munro | Madame Zucchini | Maryam Hashemi | Pinchbeck & Smith | Victoria Firth | hosted by Peader Kirk



Sat 21 Nov, 12-6pm. Donations welcome | Contact

EMERGENCY

A day out for the curious.
Participating artists to be announced.



 

warnmcr: glory of the garden...


The new normal appears to be waiting with bated breath on a Friday for a rule update to see whether anything planned can go ahead in parts Mancunian...  Seemingly we are still permitted out of our homes, so here's a somewhat hasty word - largely because I'm simultaneously working on two selection processes and a live event, and my head is not really on the wider world, beyond the strangely nostalgic BCV* Mancunian pastime of watching the weather; and hideously current métier of watching the Government! (*Before CoVid).

This Sunday, 27 Oct, we at Word of Warning are presenting Botanic - a series of performance encounters in Hulme Community Garden Centre with Christian Asare, Chanje Kunda, Jade Williams, Jamil Keating, Maya Chowdhry and Shkiesha. As it's outdoors, it's free, no booking, stay as long or as little as you like but please wrap up warm and remember social distancing and the 'rule of six'. There is a café, and one (composting) toilet (I know how important these things have become in these times!)

Thereafter we are back on screen for the third Domestic on Wed 7 Oct - booking opening soon and you can visit our YouTube for all our online work this year.

Beyond the end of my own nose, Leeds Playhouse is back up and running - including Krapp's Last Tape + La Voix Humaine (2-17 Oct) plus Imitating the Dog's Dr Blood's Old Travelling Show (7+8 Oct) also going to The Piece Hall, Halifax (9+10 Oct), The Lowry (Say 17 Oct) and Lancaster Arts (20+21 Oct).

Online: Dante or Die's User Not Found continues; The Lowry has Rambert's Drawn From Within (until Sat 26 Sep); and The LBT has a trio of streamed danceworks (28 Sep - 12 Oct). Journey's Festival (28 Sep - 18 Oct); and later in October there's Black Gold Arts (23-25 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.

Hoping to see you, for real, at Botanic on Sunday!

Best

Tamsin


For those of you not as old as me - Glory of the Garden is both a Kipling poem and was the name of an Arts Council report from the 80s bemoaning the inequalities between London and the regions - that we spent the end of that decade dissecting! Plus ça change?

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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2020

Sun 27 Sep, 12-4pm. Free | Hulme Com. Garden Centre

BOTANIC

A walk in the garden, with:
Christian Asare | Chanje Kunda | Jade Williams | Jamil Keating | Maya Chowdhry | Shkiesha
Participating artists subject to change.



Wed 7 Oct, 8pm. Donations welcome | Online

DOMESTIC

New work, live from home.
Participating artists to be announced.



Sat 21 Nov, 12-6pm. Donations welcome | Contact

EMERGENCY

A day out for the curious.
Participating artists to be announced.


warnmcr: hands, knees and boompsadaisy...

Better late than never... on this sunny autumnal Friday, I have been holding back to see if the icy fingers of added lockdown restrictions were about to grip us, potentially making redundant anything I might be about to say, but to date no word from our lords of misrule of six so it seems like Mancunia may be going unchanged for now and we just carry on hands, knees and boompsadaisy fashion....

We at Word of Warning continue to entertain ourselves, and hopefully you, through this weird time. Next weekend, on Sun 27 Sep, if regulations still allow, we are tiptoeing back IRL - the actual physical world - with Botanic - a series of performance encounters in Hulme Community Garden Centre.  Then we return to our couches for the third Domestic on Wed 7 Oct; and finally, we are attempting the 21st Emergency, live at Contact on Sat 21 Nov. The artist calls for both Domestic and Emergency are both open now and you can visit our YouTube for all our online work this year (please subscribe so we can get it a sensible URL!) 

Having been down the rabbit hole of 80+ venue and festival websites, I've spotted a few chinks of light: the galleries have started to reopen, including most recently The Whitworth and Castlefield Gallery; and a handful of theatre venues are testing the water with live shows, albeit most not in Word of Warning territory. Chester Storyhouse and The LBT in Huddersfield are back up and running with shows, and a few more join them next month - most notably, HOME's forthcoming season, due to take to a physical stage in mid October. Imitating the Dog are also touring Dr Blood's Old Travelling Show to venues throughout the North in October, including The Lowry.

Online: Dante or Die's User Not Found is hotly tipped; you can support The Lowry by watching Mark Thomas's The Red Shed on Thu 24 Sep and Rambert's Drawn From Within (24-26 Sep); and The LBT has a trio of streamed danceworks (28 Sep - 12 Oct). There's also Stan's Cafe's For Quality Purposes; plus Journey's Festival (28 Sep - 18 Oct); and later in October there's Black Gold Arts (details coming soon); plus there's more discoverable via the Guardian's guide.

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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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2020

Sun 27 Sep, 12-4pm. Free | Hulme Com. Garden Centre

BOTANIC

A walk in the garden, with:
Christian Asare | Chanje Kunda | Jade Williams | Jamil Keating | Maya Chowdhry | Shkiesha
Participating artists subject to change.



Wed 7 Oct, 8pm. Donations welcome | Online

DOMESTIC

New work, live from home.
Participating artists to be announced.



Sat 21 Nov, 12-6pm. Donations welcome | Contact

EMERGENCY

A day out for the curious.
Participating artists to be announced.

warnmcr: special measures...


While Greater Manchester+ languishes in its own mini-lockdown like some under-performing school put in special measures; and the tantalising tease of indoor performance has move further out of reach; I'm taking the opportunity for an ad hoc mail as we at Word of Warning are sticking our heads above the virtual parapet again, with the second Domestic. 

Happening on Wed 12 Aug at 8pm, it features Andrew Neil Hayes, Daniel & Clara, Dominique Savitri Baron-Bonarjee, Kellie Colbert, melissandre varin, Niya B, Sebastian H-W and is hosted by Peader Kirk. It's our first open call online event and we think this one will have a more meditative feel - please do remember Domestic is a beta-test to try out new things on limited resources!

Elsewhere on the internet, the massive Electric Dreams festival continues until Sun 16 Aug; or for a global experimental dive into Shakespeare there's What You Will on Sat 8 Aug.

While we might not be making the annual pilgrimage north to Edinburgh; there is a plethora of digital content emanating from what's being called Edinburgh Reimagined. To be absolutely frank, I haven't fully got my head round it, especially when it comes to crossovers and duplications. There seems to be a mixture of pre-recorded and live streamed content and you might want to check out the Ed Fringe site itself as an overview (to narrow it down I've searched 'theatre' for you); and have a good look at Zoo Festival (17-22 Aug); and especially SHEDINBURGH - live streamed from sheds (I think from Fri 14 Aug, programme tba tomorrow).

New recordings online: Online@TheSpace starts Sat 8 Aug; while ongoing: HOME's Homemakers, BBC's Performance Live on demand programmes and Hester Chillingworth's The Caretaker all continue. You can also still 'watch again' our work with Tania Camara and Will Dickie; plus the first Domestic.

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. Hope to 'see' you at Domestic!

Best

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Summer 2020

Wed 12 August, 8.00pm. Donations welcome | Online.

DOMESTIC

Andrew Neil Hayes | Daniel & Clara | Dominique Baron-Bonarjee | Kellie Colbert | melissandre varin | Niya B | Sebastian H-W | hosted by Peader Kirk



 


warnmcr: untogether in electric dreams...


Not a Phil Oakey reference but a very quick check-in, largely to flag the Electric Dreams online festival that kicks off today, Fri 24 Jul (until Fri 16 Aug) - including, in its enormous programme, work by Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari, Javaad Alipoor, Coney and Lundahl & Seitl. 

New online: HOME's Homemakers has new offerings including Jo Bannon + Candoco's Absent Tense and Naomi Sumner Chan's Wait I'm from Wuhan; while Forest Fringe + The Place haveDadderrs The Lockdown Telly Show by Frauke Requardt and Daniel Oliver until Fri 21 Aug. Forest Fringe TV also havs Abigail Conway's Primrose Broadcast coming up on Thu 30 Jul.  

Ongoing: it's your last week to catch: Dancing at Dusk - A moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring via Sadlers Wells; and Leo J Skillbeck's Love Song for the Wild and Harry Clayton-Wright's You Otter Know via Homotopia (all til 31 Jul). The BBC's Performance Live on demand programmes continues, as does Hester Chillingworth's The Caretaker.

You can also 'watch again' our work with Tania Camara and Will Dickie; plus the first Domestic - or if you're keen to enter the fray, you have til Mon 27 Jul to submit a proposal for the next one.

I'm going back to my joyous revision of Project funding guidelines old and new for our GM-Artist Hub ACE NLPG refresher on Fri 31 Aug. 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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Performance Programme Summer 2020

Wed 12 August, 8.00pm. Donations welcome | Online.

DOMESTIC

Artists tbc


warnmcr: domestic bliss...


Or not so blissful looking forward to another fuggy day in a sweltering flat. I'm kind of hoping the grey sky and cool wind last as I've been seriously missing the perennial icebox that is our office, now also frozen in time mid-March...

Back in the present, as July beckons next week is busy for live streaming: we at Word of Warning are back with our pilot Domestic on Wed 1 Jul (8.30pm) with Afreena Islam, Alex Bradley, Cheryl Martin, Emma Geraghty, Levantes Dance Theatre, Nathan Birkinshaw and hosted by Peader Kirk - bookings are now open through Eventbrite  free, donations welcome)
Following that, the Unshut Festival takes place 2-4 Jul with Rachael Clerke, Powder Keg, Pierce Starre and Philip Bedwell amongst lots of others. Meanwhile Quarantine's No Such Thingcontinues on the first + third Wednesdays of the month.

New online: HOME's Homemakers has two new games: Hidden Track's How To Win + Seriol Davies + Mathew Blake's Actualquest; plus Ugly Bucket's ABC (Anything But Covid), Vici Wreford-Sinnott's Siege, Christian Asare's Afrocentricity in Focus, + Ad Infinitum's A Small Gathering. 

Ongoing: is LADA's Summer Programme until 19 Jul. Homotopia has Leo J Skillbeck's Love Song for the Wild; and Harry Clayton-Wright's You Otter Know online magazine (both til 31 Jul). The BBC's Performance Live on demand programmes continues, as does Hester Chillingworth's The Caretaker. You can also 'watch again' our work with Tania Camara and Will Dickie. 

Hoping to see lots of you for Domestic; meanwhile, keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances. Either new live streaming work is slowing down or new content is eluding me, so I might take a couple of weeks' break from this - unless I find something unmissable!

Best

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Summer 2020

Wed 1 July, 8.30pm. Donations welcome | Online.

DOMESTIC

Afreena Islam | Alex Bradley | Cheryl Martin | Emma Geraghty | Levantes Dance Theatre | Nathan Birkinshaw | hosted by Peader Kirk
(participating artists subject to change)


Future Domestic events to be announced.



 

warnmcr: moveable picnic...


So, as the months tick by and the seasons become every bit as befuddled as the rest of us, it's laughingly time to launch Word of Warning's Summer 2020 Performance Programme... Not so summery, and not so much a programme, but a moveable picnic that we'll  add to as conditions (as of just now Level 3) permit. We start with a pilot of Domestic, a beta-test platform for new work from home by six invited artists. If all goes well, we're hoping to keep it going as a regular open call event, possibly on a monthly basis, for as long as necessary... 

Before that, in livestream world, tomorrow Sat 20 Jun is really busy: HOME's Homemakers has James Monaghan's Let's Spend the Night Together + Complicité's everything that rises must dance. Homotopia has Kenneth Morris's CATEGORY IS FETISH; while Gob Squad's Show Me A Good Time is a 12 hour durational performance live from Berlin.
Over the next two weeks: Forest Fringe TV, has Harry Robert Wilson's audio lecture on Thu 25 Jun; while, the following week, we have Domestic on Wed 1 Jul; then the Unshut Festival takes place 2-4 Jul. Meanwhile Quarantine's No Such Thing continues on the first + third Wednesdays of the month.

New online: check out LADA's Summer Programme until 19 Jul.
Ongoing: Two Destination Language's A Journey of a Home (Online) is available until Sun 21 Jun. Homotopia has Leo J Skillbeck's Love Song for the Wild; and Harry Clayton-Wright's You Otter Know online magazine (both til 31 Jul). HOME's Homemakers + the BBC's Performance Live on demand programmes continue, as does Hester Chillingworth's The Caretaker. You can also 'watch again' our work with Tania Camara and Will Dickie. 

I'll be back next week, with booking details for Domestic; meanwhile, keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances. Meanwhile, I'm off to be the minnow in the sea of the Where Do We Go From Here? discussion (sold-out) - wish me luck!

Best

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Summer 2020

Wed 1 July, 8.30pm. Donations welcome | Online.

DOMESTIC

Afreena Islam | Alex Bradley | Cheryl Martin | Emma Geraghty | Levantes Dance Theatre | Nathan Birkinshaw | hosted by Peader Kirk
(participating artists subject to change)


Future Domestic events to be announced.





warnmcr: bubbling under...


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

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