Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

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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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2015

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

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

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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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2015

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


  

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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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


 

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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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

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


 

Word of Warning... 

Thanks to all who joined us last night for Ria Hartley's Matilda and Me last night at STUN - great to end the season with a sold-out show! Whilst WoW's programme now takes a break til late September, festival season is seriously upon us.

But before that, you can still catch Re:Con's Sensored at Contact, tomorrow, Sat 27 June. It's a day long sensory exploration including Jo Bannon, Frances Kay, Ali Matthews, Façade and more.  Starting at 3pm, it's a bit of a lucky dip with lots of one to ones and small capacities, so getting there early to sign up might be a smart move.  

Next week sees the start of MIF and I have to confess to being a little miftified by their website - in the office we've reverted to the calendar pages of their brochure to get an overview of what's on! (If you are without a brochure we've posted the calendar pages below!) That said, the main thing that jumps out to me is Wayne McGregor's Tree of Codes (2-10 July) though Ed Atkins's Performance Capture at Manchester Art Gallery might be of some interest. 

Flare Festival accompanies the second week of MIF (13-18 July).  Recognisable UK names include Sleepwalk Collective, Hannah Sullivan + Figs in Wigs, Rachael Clerke (Clerke + Joy) and Andy Smith plus Jamal Harewood's The Privileged.  Alongside these of course are its USP - the whole host of european guests to get to know! Again there's a lot on and the easiest at a glance is possibly either the the brochure or the booking page - performances take place at the Royal Exchange, Contact, Z-arts and the Martin Harris Centre (University) - generally one around lunchtime, one early evening and one normal showtime.  The nightly triple bills might be a good place to start if you want to catch something but haven't got the whole week.

Unless  something unmissable crops up in the next few weeks, this mailer is going to take a bit of a break and will be back with our quick Edinburgh hints in early August (when we've actually worked out what they are!) and the WoW programme will be back in late September, hopefully in a tower block somewhere in these environs...

Best,

Tamsin

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So, you find WoW poised to head off on a rare safari into the 'country' or at least, the nearest I get : the tranquil little green haven that is Hulme Community Garden Centre for Tom Marshman's We Need to Talk About Bambi (tomorrow Sat 13 June at 3, 5+8pm and Sun 14 June at 3+5pm).  The danger of my general sarcasm is that no one knows when I'm not joking - but for anyone that doesn't know the community garden, it's genuinely really lovely - and you can even indulge in some of Ooh La La's al fresco foodie treats.

You can also still catch Moving Dance Forward, tonight (Fri 12 June) at Contact featuring Joseph Lau, Bridget Fiske, Christopher Owen and Lisi Perry; Theatrestate's Tribute Acts at Bradford Theatre in the Mill on Sat 13 June and Kate O'Donnell's Big Girl's Blouse at Slung Low's HUB in Leeds on Sun 14 June.  Slightly differently, if you fancy a change of life, there's a Life Exchange going on in Macclesfield on Sat 13 June.

Next week (w/c 15 June) seems to be back in lull mode, though on Thu 18 June there's Stella Grundy's Rise and Fall of a Northern Star at Bradford's Theatre In The Mill and Idle Motion's That Is All You Need To Know at the HUB in Leeds.

The following week (w/c 22 June) there's Greg Wohead at LAB Leeds and Re:con's Sensored at Contact and of course WoW is back (with Divergency and STUN) for Ria Hartley's Matilda and Me.

Ponchos and iconic greenroom brollies at the ready - see you and Bambi in the garden!

Best,

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2015

13+14 Jun, various. £5/3 | Hulme Garden Ctr
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BAMBI
Tom Marshman [booking essential]

25 Jun, 7.30pm. £5/3 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
MATILDA AND ME
Ria Hartley