warnmcr: falling into Autumn


Word of Warning...
Thank you to all those, artists, volunteers and audiences who came along to our fifteenth Emergency - an uproarious day featuring lots of nakedness and some improv. trumpeting! If anyone feels like giving us some feedback - please feel free here.  Though a little jaded still, it's time to move on so...

Currently running over in Leeds is West Yorkshire Playhouse's Furnace (9-11 Oct) featuring RashDash and Theatre Ad Infinitum amongst others.  Tonight, up in Lancaster sees
Imitating The Dog's A Farewell to Arms open at the Dukes (running 10-25 October) and in Sheffield, there's a new one-to-one festival called Wrought on 11+12 October. 

Closer to home at Contact is Mark Bruce Company's Dracula, tonight Fri 10 + Sat 11 October. 

Next week is surprisingly quiet, so you might want to check out Sophie Willan's Novice Detective on Thu 16 Oct at The King's Arms or HOME's presentation on Fri 17 + Sat 18 Oct of the Best of BE Festival at No 1 First Street. 

The week after, however, is more than a bit frantic, so you might just want to gird your loins for that!
In the meantime, as a little extra, we're delighted to announce that Word of Warning's final show of the season is a special little something from Michael Pinchbeck - a hÅb commissioned work in progress of The man who flew into space from his apartment on Fri 28 Nov at Z-arts.

best

Tamsin


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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2014

Sat 4 Oct, 12noon-10pm. Free | Z-arts
EMERGENCY 2014
A free day-out for the curious.
Alice Bunker-Whitney | Ana Mendes | Anton Mirto | Art Of Disappearing | Barbara Dean | Boland-Burrell + Byrne | Debbie Sharp | Eik + Orengo | FM | Frances-Kay | Hamish MacPherson | Hidden Track | Hooligans Present | J. Fergus Evans | Jade Montserrat | Jamil Keating | Jonathan Rogerson | Krissi Musiol | Lydia Cottrell | Martin Hamblen | Matthew Pearce | Nathan Birkinshaw | Neil Callaghan | Odd Comic | Olivia Preye | Paul O'Donnell | Peter Jacobs | Rosanne Robertson | VIA Collective

Fri 24 + Sat 25 Oct, 8pm. £11/6 | Contact
HOKE'S BLUFF
Action Hero

Fri 7 Nov, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry Studio
CHEWING THE FAT
Selina Thompson
[Plus artist workshop, book here]

Fri 28 Nov, 6pm+8pm. By donation | Z-arts
THE MAN WHO FLEW INTO SPACE FROM HIS APARTMENT (work-in-progress)
Michael Pinchbeck
[Booking essential, limited capacity]

warnmcr: Emergency call...


Word of Warning...
It will come as no surprise to most of you to hear that tomorrow (Saturday 4 October at Z-arts) is the fifteenth annual Emergency.  While half of you calculate just how ancient that must make me  - other relevant factoids are that, being us, as usual we're doing in one day, what our peers do in a week and there are 50 people participating in 29 pieces and the youngest artist was just 5 when Emergency started...

The micro-marathon runs from 12midday til about 10pm and falls into roughly three sessions - Lunchtime (12-3.0o), Afternoon (3-5.30), Evening (5.30-10pm).  The first two take the form of a live exhibition of some 21 gallery-type works plus durationals and one to ones, with the Afternoon being more adult in content.  The Evening is a quick gambol through 8 short theatre-type shows.  The full list of artists is below - and, overall, we can promise some silliness, some seriousness, some DIY trumpeting and quite a lot of nakedness... and it's all FREE!

If I haven't sold you on Emergency, elsewhere you can catch - Daniel Bye's The Nine O'clock News tonight, Fri 3 Oct at the Storey Institute in Lancaster), Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam on Fri 3 + Sat 4 Oct at Contact, Space Life at Manchester Central Library and, down in the Midlands, Fierce Festival (continuing til 12 October).

In the week ahead, Weds 8 Oct sees Axis Arts Centre, Crewe host Victoria Melody's Major Tom and
Tales of Whatever is back at Gullivers in Manchester. Up in Lancaster, Live at LICA premiers Imitating The Dog's A Farewell to Arms at the Dukes (running 10-25 October), whilst over in Sheffield, there's a new one-to-one festival called Wrought on 11+12 October. 

I'm off to do the glamorous last minute tasks of a festival promoter (like photocopying programmes and buying bottles of water).  Hoping to see lots of you tomorrow at Emergency.

best

Tamsin


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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2014

Sat 4 Oct, 12noon-10pm. Free | Z-arts
EMERGENCY 2014
A free day-out for the curious.
Alice Bunker-Whitney | Ana Mendes | Anton Mirto | Art Of Disappearing | Barbara Dean | Boland-Burrell + Byrne | Debbie Sharp | Eik + Orengo | FM | Frances-Kay | Hamish MacPherson | Hidden Track | Hooligans Present | J. Fergus Evans | Jade Montserrat | Jamil Keating | Jonathan Rogerson | Krissi Musiol | Lydia Cottrell | Martin Hamblen | Matthew Pearce | Nathan Birkinshaw | Neil Callaghan | Odd Comic | Olivia Preye | Paul O'Donnell | Peter Jacobs | Rosanne Robertson | VIA Collective

Fri 24 + Sat 25 Oct, 8pm. £11/6 | Contact
HOKE'S BLUFF
Action Hero

Fri 7 Nov, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry Studio
CHEWING THE FAT
Selina Thompson

Fri 28 Nov, 6+8pm. By donation | Z-arts
Save the date... details coming soon!
 

warnmcr: a chilling thought...


Word of Warning...
 
With an autumnal chill in the air, here is your last call for sited shows this weekend: especially Raisin & Willow's Sea Breeze at the Morecambe Winter Gardens (23-27 Sept) and Dog Kennel Hill Project's Tug at The Waterside (26-28 Sept).  Also, in Manchester, CFCCC presents ATM: Yuan Gong - Losing Control, 2014 失控 on Sat 27 + Mon 29  Sept.
 
Next week sees TheatreState's The Fanny Hill Project on Wed 1 Oct at Bradford's Theatre in the Mill, Daniel Bye's The Nine O'clock News on Fri 3 Oct, courtesy of Live at LICA (but at the Storey Institiute in Lancaster), Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam on Fri 3 + Sat 4 Oct at Contact and, down in the Midlands, Fierce Festival (2-12 Oct) kicks off with a Forced Entertainment premiere at Warwick Arts Centre  (1-3 Oct) and, also catching my eye, Tania El Khoury's Gardens Speak (2-5 +9-12 Oct). 

Closer to home, we've just discovered yet more competition for your attention on Sat 4 Oct with the Space Life event at Manchester Central Library (from 7pm), including Mechanical Air (featuring Michael Mayhew) plus talks, music and installation.

What's chilling my bones, is the thought that the 15th Emergency (12-10pm at Z-arts, FREE) is just over a week away!  I'm sure I don't need to remind you but, at the risk of broken record syndrome, look out for full programme details + schedule at emergencymcr.org early next week.

best

Tamsin


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Become a Supporter of Warning
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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2014

Sat 4 Oct, 12noon-10pm. Free | Z-arts
EMERGENCY 2014
A free day-out for the curious.
Alice Bunker-Whitney | Ana Mendes | Anton Mirto | Art Of Disappearing | Barbara Dean | Boland-Burrell + Byrne | Debbie Sharp | Eik + Orengo | FM | Frances-Kay | Hamish MacPherson | Hidden Track | J. Fergus Evans | Jade Montserrat | Jamil Keating | Jonathan Rogerson | Krissi Musiol | Lydia Cottrell | Martin Hamblen | Matthew Pearce | Nathan Birkinshaw | Neil Callaghan | Odd Comic | Olivia Preye | Paul O'Donnell | Peter Jacobs | Rosanne Robertson | VIA Collective

Fri 24 + Sat 25 Oct, 8pm. £11/6 | Contact
HOKE'S BLUFF
Action Hero

Fri 7 Nov, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry Studio
CHEWING THE FAT
Selina Thompson

Fri 28 Nov, 6+8pm. By donation | Z-arts
Save the date... details coming soon!

warnmcr: still fresher than the rest...

Word of Warning...
 
Despite the unseasonally warm weather, Autumn is upon us as are the waves of Freshers' Weeks, so if you can pick your way through the hordes of fresh-faced newbies...

To recap: This weekend, today Fri 19 to Sun 21 Sept sees Flow Salford dotted around various venues in our adjoining city including The Lowry and the King's Arms.  Simultaneously, over in Liverpool, again at various venues is the Biennial's performance weekend The Companion and in Leeds, Tom Frankland + Keir Cooper's Don Quijote is at Slung Low's HUB also tonight and tomorrow, 19+20 September.

In the week ahead, on Tue 23 Sep West Yorkshire Playhouse hosts The Secret Project's A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts (coming to the Royal Exchange on 27 Oct); and in Morecambe, Raisin & Willow's Sea Breeze returns to the Winter Gardens (23-27 Sept).  Closer to home, in Sale, Dog Kennel Hill Project's Tug boat experience is at The Waterside (26-28 Sept); and in Manchester, CFCCC presents ATM: Yuan Gong - Losing Control, 2014 失控 on 26+27 Sept.
 
Looking ahead, w/c 29 Sept sees TheatreState's The Fanny Hill Project at Bradford's Theatre in the Mill, Daniel Bye's The Nine O'clock News in Lancaster, Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam at Contact and Fierce Festival in Birmingham. 

Of course, you won't be wanting to schlepp off to Brum when THE place to be is here at Z-arts for our fifteenth Emergency (Sat 4 October, Z-arts)! At this rate the event will soon be older than some of the artists... speaking of which, the full list of 28 artists/groups is listed below, alongside details of Word of Warning's compact Autumn/Winter programme... That said, save 28 November for a special, very limited capacity bonus show!

best

Tamsin


Standing reminders:
Become a Supporter of Warning
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
Word of Warning Google calendar
Information for artists:  www.habarts.org
Pala// here is always somewhere else online artist video transmissions.

Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2014

Sat 4 Oct, 12noon-11pm. Free | Z-arts
EMERGENCY 2014
A free day-out for the curious.
Alice Bunker-Whitney | Ana Mendes | Anton Mirto | Art Of Disappearing | Barbara Dean | Boland-Burrell + Byrne | Debbie Sharp | Eik + Orengo | FM | Frances-Kay | Hamish MacPherson | Hidden Track | J. Fergus Evans | Jade Montserrat | Jamil Keating | Jonathan Rogerson | Krissi Musiol | Lydia Cottrell | Martin Hamblen | Matthew Pearce | Nathan Birkinshaw | Neil Callaghan | Odd Comic | Olivia Preye | Paul O'Donnell | Peter Jacobs | Rosanne Robertson | VIA Collective

Fri 24 + Sat 25 Oct, 8pm. £11/6 | Contact
HOKE'S BLUFF
Action Hero

Fri 7 Nov, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry Studio
CHEWING THE FAT
Selina Thompson
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warnmcr: nexus or flow?

Word of Warning...
 
Autumn seems to be picking up apace with a series of mini festivals:

Over in Leeds (from today Fri 12 to Sun 14 Sept) there's the multi-faceted Nexus - including Live Art Bistro plus performances by some familiar faces like Lydia Cottrell, Josh Coates, Nathan Birkinshaw, Paul O'Donnell.  To be honest I struggled with the website, so my tip would be to download the printable version of the programme!
 
Next weekend (19-21 September) gets really busy with Flow Salford including  Nathan Birkinshaw, the Peel Park Project, Inkblot and Manoli Moriaty.  The same weekend sees Liverpool Biennial plays host to a performance weekend entitled The Companion, in collaboration with US artist Angie Keefer; running alongside which is the Interactions' Mini-Symposium on Fri 19 Sept at the Bluecoat. 

On the single show front, in Leeds Tom Frankland + Keir Cooper's Don Quijote is at Slung Low's HUB also on 19+20 September; and on Tue 23 Sep at West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Secret Project's A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts.

In Morecambe, Raisin & Willow's Sea Breeze returns to the Winter Gardens (23-27 Sept).  

Closer to home, in Sale, Dog Kennel Hill Project's Tug boat experience is at The Waterside (26-28 Sept); and in Manchester, CFCCC presents ATM: Yuan Gong - Losing Control, 2014 失控 on 26+27 Sept.

And as a final word, look out for the list of Emergency artists (Sat 4 October, Z-arts) coming very soon...

best

Tamsin


warnmcr: location, location, location...

Word of Warning...
 
So here we are, in that funny interim period, where Summer seems to have deserted us but the full force of the student return and the Autumn seasons haven't landed...

Things are a bit quiet still, but there are a few events to look out for, before things get going in earnest in October, and it's all about the site:
Moving back indoors, in Leeds on 4+5 September, at Slung Low's HUB,  are the outcomes (installation + sharing) of a residency for Unfinished Business' Change My Mind project; and on Tue 23 Sep at West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Secret Project's A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts. 

To the west, the weekend of 19-21 September sees Liverpool Biennial play host to a performance weekend entitled The Companion in collaboration with US artist Angie Keefer; running alongside which is the Interactions' Mini-Symposium on Fri 19 Sept at the Bluecoat.

Looking longer term, for those of a travelling inclination, there is a trio of festivals coming up which you might want to bookmark - Fierce in Birmingham (2-12 Oct), Spill in Ipswich (29 Oct - 2 Nov) and Compass in Leeds (13-23 Nov).

Here at Word of Warning, meanwhile,  are just starting to gear up for the fifteenth (!) Emergency (Sat 4 October, Z-arts) which, in reality means reading and selecting from the 94 proposals we received!

This mailer will be back to its normal weekly pattern, towards the middle of September, with news of our Autumn programme including the Emergency line-up and a look ahead to what else is happening in October.


best

Tamsin


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warnmcr: Edinburgh special

Word of Warning... 


And so it's time for WoW's occasional summer attempt at a signpost to the great theatre supermarket that is Edinburgh!

But first, a little bit closer to home, Yorkshire Sculpture Park has a series of performances starting with Helen Benigson's Breathe Harder on 2 August and coming up on 30 Aug, Hester Reeves's YMEDACA, an experimental open air academy.

Edinburgh all seems to be happening strangely early this year - including Forest Fringe - pretty much from the beginning of August onwards, so we're in the middle of a slightly panicky planning process.  Obviously if you aren't planning on going that way then feel free to hit delete right now...

If you ARE going - I'd be here all year if I tried to be comprehensive and link to every show worth a look,  so the easiest route in is to pinpoint venues and plan from there. As a no-brainer, the easy, one-stop shop is to head out a little way towards Leith and spend a day at Forest Fringe (6-17 August at Out of the Blue Drill Hall, EH6 8RG) with the likes of Action Hero, Brian Lobel, GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, Bryony Kimmings etc etc.  Escalator East to Edinburgh  is another easy mini-festival including Caroline Wright and Helen Paris; Two Destination language; the vacuum cleaner; 30 Bird, etc at a range of venues, significantly including Summerhall, which also plays host to some intriguing Belgian work, Amy and Rosana Cade, Ellie Stamp and KILN (formerly Kindle Theatre). Northern Stage  has a new home at King's Hall, and includes work by Selina Thompson, Geddes Loom and Chris Thorpe + Rachel Chavkin. Fans of Aurora Nova can see various shows scattered around the Fringe; Dancebase is definitely worth a look, with a truly international programme including some old friends like Volcano and Déjà Donné.

This year's handy tip for planning (or how I went about it) is to sign-up/log-in to the new Edfringe website, search by venue (eg Summerhall) then go through and save shows to your favourites, then export them into something digestible (pdf or csv) from there! Of course Forest Fringe isn't on Edfringe, so that one you have to do separately. Once more if you're in as much as a hurry or 'dedicated' as us, I'm uploading my work in progress spreadsheet planner with a long-list of 49 shows (inc Forest Fringe) below.

Of course we shouldn't forget the main Edinburgh International Festival - I'd be intrigued to see Back to Back, Third World Bunfight and of course, Tanzteater Wuppertal (but it's all happening I'm there!).  I do have to say I find their website tedious in the extreme, so try downloading the brochure

If you're pressed for time or slightly phased by the list above then either head for Forest Fringe and/or Summerhall and settle in for the day! We'll be doing our own Edinburgh supermarket sweep next week - 25 shows in 36 hours between two of us!

Word of Warning will be back towards the end of August with a preview of our season to come.  And finally, for the artists amongst you, the Emergency call for proposals is now open - deadline 5pm Mon 25 August, details at  emergencymcr.org.


best

Tamsin


warnmcr: #HazardMcr raring to go...

Word of Warning... Hazard Special.

Writing this, as I am, in an office piled high with yellow A-boards, banners, badges, t-shirts, gazebos (not to mention 100kg of beans - well there had to be something utterly random..!) - the fact is inescapable, that tomorrow, Saturday 12 July, brings Hazard, our micro-biennial of incursion into Manchester city centre.

Between 12 + 5pm St Ann's Square will play host to nineteen pieces of live art...  It is an event that's primarily aimed at an unsuspecting city to stumble upon by chance.  But, as the discerning Word of Warning public, we thought you might be after a bit more structure so... we've organised the website by the hour (ongoing, 12-1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4 and 4-5pm), so you can see what's available - basically there'll be something happening whenever you arrive! Additionally there's now a schedule and map available to download from hazardmcr.org.  Please bear in mind that, with an environment as unpredictable as the city centre, times, and sometimes locations, are very approximate!  We are also aiming to be paper-free on the day, so if you're as uptight as me and approach these things like a military operation, then please print and bring with you, or, better still save the info to a mobile device!

I won't attempt to run down the whole programme but there are twelve pieces ongoing throughout the day - including very easily spottable - the ICD Life Boat (climb into a hammock for a gentle trip around the Square), and Rachel Ramchurn's crochet sculptures; ones you might need to keep your eyes a bit more peeled for - like Martin Hamblen's Level Head and No More Page 3's Hidden Women Trail; those you need to interact with - like Leo Burtin's Le Bistroquet and a trio of pervasive games hosted by The Larks and those that you will only encounter by accident like Natasha Vicar's News Feed (Display of Caution).

There are also a series of shorter performances  - the whole thing kicks off a smidge before midday with Bingo Jazz + Disco Meg's Carboot Disco Bingo (1145, 1pm and 2pm); and includes Nicola Canavan's MILK (2pm) and Kris Canavan's The Leveller at 3.30pm

As a final word, as far as we know that's pretty much it for Spring/Summer... so this mailer is taking its summer break, but will be back with the usual Edinburgh special in a few weeks.

Anyway, back to transporting a large gold throne... Hope to see you on Saturday and fingers crossed for the weather!


best

Tamsin

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre
Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.

Hazard 2014

Subject to change, our schedule includes:

ONGOING ACTIVITY 12noon-5pm
Hanna Rohn + Signhild Wærsted | Harald Smykla | Hidden Track | ICD | Leo Burtin | Martin Hamblen | Natasha Vicars | No More Page 3 | Oliver Palmer | Rachel Ramchurn | Top Joe | Tracy Lumpkin

ALSO HAPPENING 12noon-1pm
Bingo Meg + Disco Jazz

ALSO HAPPENING 1-2pm
Stephen Donnelly | Bingo Meg + Disco Jazz | Antje Hildebrandt

ALSO HAPPENING 2-3pm
Bingo Meg + Disco Jazz | Nicola Canavan | The Association Of Low Visibility Workers | Antje Hildebrandt

ALSO HAPPENING 3-4pm
The Association Of Low Visibility Workers | Stephen Sheehan | Stephen Donnelly | Kris Canavan

ALSO HAPPENING 4-5pm
Kris Canavan | Antje Hildebrandt | Hidden Track (finale)

Information Point Location (Map)

Interactions blog

warnmr: microbiennial


Word of Warning... 
So, we're back for possibly the last burst of the season, which follows what has been an emotional rollercoaster week:  For the arts, courtesy of the outcomes of the ACE's National Portfolio process - congratulations and sympathies go out in equal measures - alongside our own relief and gratitude for another three years funding; and for me, courtesy of my own house-moving maelstrom.

Things seem a bit quiet out there, apart from in Liverpool where tomorrow (Sat 5 July) sees the opening of the newly extended, bumper Liverpool Biennial which runs until 26 Oct.

Closer to home Eggs Collective Get A Round at the Royal Exchange also on Sat 5 July; and the following week should see a Tales of Whatever on Wed 9 July at Gullivers Ballroom.

We, meanwhile, are gearing up for our own micro-biennial:  Hazard, on Sat 12 July, 12-5pm, in and around St. Ann's Square, Manchester.  Nineteen pieces of work playing with the daily life of the city, ranging from a human-powered ride in the form of a lifeboat to a trail of Hidden Women through the city streets; body-focused interventions from Nicola Canavan and Kris Canavan to gaming from The Larks. The full list of artists is at hazardmcr.org now with full detail coming early next week - seek it out or let it find you as you go about your Saturday shopping!

Word of Warning will be back next Friday with a Hazard special - so until then

best

Tamsin

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre
Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.


warnmcr: football-free zone...


Word of Warning... 
Welcome to a guaranteed spherical-object-free zone though I might plague you with my house-moving tales of woe!

Following the frenzy of the last couple of weeks, the slow creep towards summer hiatus has now started... Tonight, Fri 20 June, well worth catching at the Lowry is Chris Thorpe + Hannah Jane Walker's I wish I was lonely and on Sat 21 there's also Jamie Wood's Beating McEnroe is at Bradford's Theatre in the Mill.

Next week, over in Liverpool there's Tmesis Theatre's Wolf Red on 24 + 25 June, and then in Manchester there's Re:Con's Fluxus at Contact on Sat 28 June including the intriguing Will Dickie and the hyperactive Sheep Knuckle.

The following week (w/c 30 June) for the more theatrically inclined there's Square Peg Theatre's Icarus at the Lowry (3/4 July) and, on Sat 5 July, Eggs Collective Get A Round at the Royal Exchange... and then, the following weekend... we're into Hazard, on Sat 12 July... of which much more later...

I, meanwhile, am undertaking what feels like the most painfully long and drawn out house moving exercise - within the same building (those who came to Domestic will remember it)... so suspect that I may be giving this mailer a miss next week as I'll be up to my eyeballs in cardboard boxes!

best

Tamsin

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre
Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.



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