Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

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.

 

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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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Been to one of our events recently (even virtually)? 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 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.

 

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Been to one of our events recently (even virtually)? 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 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.

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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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Been to one of our events recently (even virtually)? 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 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



 

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Been to one of our events recently (even virtually)? 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 Summer 2020

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

DOMESTIC

Artists tbc

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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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

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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


 

Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

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Future Domestic events to be announced.

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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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

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