warnmcr: our Turn to dance...

Word of Warning...

So, with the scents of Near Gone's 400 blooms still heady, as April dawns we spin into a brief flurry of festivals. 

FutureEverything (27 Mar - 1 Apr) is now underway in Manchester; our friends The Larks are at Manchester Town Hall for Manchester Histories Festival; and the two day Derelict Live/Talk with LEAP mini-festival starts today Fri 28 up in Preston, continuing tomorrow, Sat 29 Mar with Sturgeon's Law, Jo Bannon, Anna Parker, Massive Owl and our own Leentje Van de Cruys's Kitsch'n'Sync.

Leeds has entered the fray with West Yorkshire Playhouse's Transform 14 (27-30 Mar) including Selina Thompson, Hannah Bruce, Made in China, Third Angel, Hannah Jane Walker + Chris Thorpe and Andy Field + Ira Brand AND the Ludus Festival 2014 (seemingly 29 Mar - 4 Apr) with intriguing installations and interventions: Aria, Life Boat and White Cane.

Next week (w/c 31 Mar) sees Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre on Tue 1 and 12 Degrees North on Thu 3 April at Blackpool Grand; Third Angel's Cape Wrath out and about in Cheshire, courtesy of Axis Arts Centre on Thu 3 April; Made in China's Gym Party  is  at DerelictLive, Preston on Wed 2 and at The Royal Exchange Studio, on 4+5 April. Vincent Dance's Motherland is also on Wed 2 April at West Yorkshire Playhouse;  and Unfinished Business's Change My Mind is on Fri 4 at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford. From Fri 28 to Fri 5 you can drop in on SheepKnuckle's Man vs Artist at Islington Mill: a seven day durational, climaxing at 6pm on Fri 5 April.

We, at Word of Warning of course are twirling into action (!) at Contact with Turn on Fri 4+ Sat 5 April - with 17 pieces of dance across the two nights - so, it will be a real one-stop-shop for eye-watering athleticism and scintillating grace!

Next week, the flurry calms down a lot as we head towards Easter - and WoW even gets a couple of weeks without a show - but there's still a Drunken Chorus/Lindsay Bennett double-bill at Derelict Live; James Wilton at Blackpool Grand and the regular Tale of Whatever at Gullivers Ballroom, Manchester.

See you all for a dance at Turn.

best

Tamsin

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Coming up on Word of Warning:

Performance Programme Spring 2014
Fri 4 + Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
Turn 2014
Micro-festival of new dance.

Thu 8 + Fri 9 May, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
Works Ahead 2014
Annual new performance sampler.

Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre
Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.
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warnmcr: flowers and festivals...

Word of Warning...
Emerging, blinking back into the light, I've come down to earth with a bump to realise that Word of Warning is already in week 2 of a four consecutive week run of shows... and I was wondering why I was dazed and confused!

Generally there's a full-on, and rather confusing couple of weeks of clusters and festivals coming up... which I'll attempt to make sense of!

Still to come this week, tonight (Fri 21) there's Dancing Partners, featuring Company Chameleon at The Lowry; Tempered Body Dance's It Goes Here Now at Z-arts and Penny Dreadful's How To Be Immortal at The Lowry. 

At Contact, Flying Solo comes to a close with Jackie Hagan's Some People Have Too Many Legs (Fri 21+ Sat 22 Mar); and, on Saturday, Sophie Willan's The Novice Detective plus drop-in to contribute a story to Quarantine's Between Us We Know Everything.

The Wardrobe Ensemble's 33 is also on Sat 22 Mar at the Carriageworks, Leeds.

The week ahead (w/c 24 Mar), of course, there's only one clear choice, WoW's co-promotion of Two Destination Language's Near Gone on Thu 27 March at Contact! I've not seen the final version but one of my advisors came away absolutely raving about it.

But of course if you really must do something else... over in Bradford at Theatre in the Mill on Wed 26 + Thu 27 March there's Tassos Stevens's Solo 2; or on the dance side, also on Thu 27 March, the third Dance Manchester Homegrown at Z-arts, featuring Joseph Lau and Christopher Owens.

The next couple of weeks see a touch of festival mania:
Here in Manchester there's FutureEverything (27 Mar - 1 Apr) - check out The Hall at RNCM on (29-31 Mar) with a live performance on Sun 30.

In Preston there's the Derelict Live/Talk with LEAP mini-festival on 28+29 Mar - with Sturgeon's Law, Massive Owl and a Forensic Triple Bill including our own Leentje Van de Cruys's Kitsch'n'Sync.

Leeds takes the prize for festival-mania with West Yorkshire Playhouse's Transform 14 (27-30 Mar) including Selina Thompson, Hannah Bruce, Made in China, Third Angel, Hannah Jane Walker + Chris Thorpe and Andy Field + Ira Brand.  AND the Ludus Festival 2014 (seemingly 29 Mar - 4 Apr) with intriguing installations and interventions: Aria, Life Boat and White Cane.

The following week (w/c 31 Mar) sees Fabulous Beast and 12 Degrees North at Blackpool Grand; Third Angel out and about in Cheshire ; Made in China at DerelictLive, Preston and The Royal Exchange Studio; Vincent Dance at West Yorkshire Playhouse; Unfinished Business at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford.

And that's without mentioning Word of Warning's own contribution to the week - the return of Turn to Contact on 4+5 April!

See you all amongst the forest of flowers at Two Destination Language's Near Gone

best

Tamsin

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Remember to check out Arts Council England's A Credit to Britain video.
For more musings on the extraordinary and the random check out doodlebug's weekly Friday morning nugget at 8.30am on All FM radio... doodlebug mixcloud archive.
For all things independent film check Kino events

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Performance Programme Spring 2014
Thu 27 Mar, 8.30pm. £9/5 | Palaver at Contact
Near Gone
Two Destination Language

Fri 4 + Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
Turn 2014
Micro-festival of new dance.

Thu 8 + Fri 9 May, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
Works Ahead 2014
Annual new performance sampler.

Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre
Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.
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warnmcr: ground control to Major Tom

Word of Warning...
...ok so forgive me for the lousy subject, I'm feeling like a bit of a space cadet! I know, Major Tom's a dog, ok? The slightly odiferous but completely loveable star of Victoria Melody's upcoming show!

But before that, Contact's Flying Solo first week continues tonight with a new show from Domestic friend, Greg Wohead's The Ted Bundy Project (Fri 14 + Sat 15 Mar ) and Kaleider's You With Me (til 15 Mar). over in Leeds, Yorkshire Dance's Juncture Festival comes to a close on Saturday (15 Mar) with Wendy Houstoun's Stupid Women

Next week, continuing in a dance vein - there's Dancing Partners, featuring Company Chameleon at Blackpool Grand on Thu 20 and The Lowry on Fri 21;  Tempered Body Dance's It Goes Here Now at Z-arts also on Fri 21. More theatrically, Impulse Collective's Exposed on Tue 18 Mar and The Wardrobe Ensemble's 33 on Sat 22 Mar are both at Carriageworks, Leeds and Penny Dreadful's How To Be Immortal is at The Lowry (19-21 Mar)

Obviously in my completely unbiased opinion - the pick of the week is Victoria Melody's Major Tom on Thu 20 Mar - coincidentally a Word of Warning co-promotion with Contact's Flying Solo (but genuinely one of my favourite shows from Edinburgh 2013).

Also watch out for Jackie Hagan's Some People Have Too Many Legs (also at Contact 21+22 Mar).

The following week - w/c 24 Mar - sees the launch of FutureEverything;  the third Homegrown at Z-arts, and a Derelict Live/Talk with LEAP mini-festival in Preston.
Of course, we at Word of Warning couldn't be left out of the action - so will be popping up again with the very fragrant Two Destination Language at Contact.

For now I'm off for the final furlong of the National Portfolio application.  If you hear very loud strains of the Sugababes Push The Button emanating from the Hulme vicinity, that'll be me submitting... hope to see you at Major Tom!

best

Tamsin

Standing reminders:
Become a Supporter of Warning
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Information for artists:  www.habarts.org
Remember to check out Arts Council England's A Credit to Britain video.
For more musings on the extraordinary and the random check out doodlebug's weekly Friday morning nugget at 8.30am on All FM radio... doodlebug mixcloud archive.
For all things independent film check Kino events

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Performance Programme Spring 2014
Thu 20 Mar, 8pm. £11/6 | Flying Solo at Contact
Major Tom
Victoria Melody

Thu 27 Mar, 8.30pm. £9/5 | Palaver at Contact
Near Gone
Two Destination Language

Fri 4 + Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
Turn 2014
Micro-festival of new dance.

Thu 8 + Fri 9 May, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
Works Ahead 2014
Annual new performance sampler.

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


Word of Warning...
Taking a quick break from application writing (those 'in the npo' will empathise) to look at all the things I can't permit myself to go to!

First up - a quick shout for Yorkshire Dance's Juncture Festival which launched in Leeds last night and I foolishly missed out last week.  Curated by Wendy Houstoun, there's loads of work on that brushes at the edges of dance and performance with a particular focus over this weekend (6-8 March).  Special picks, for me, are this afternoon's double bill of Grace Surman + Cathy Butterworth | Oliver Bray and next Saturday (15 Mar) with Wendy Houstoun's Stupid Women

Elswhere, still to come this week is Junk Ensemble's The Falling Song on Sat 8 March at Contact and Hannah Nicklin's Songs for Breaking Britain is at The HUB, Leeds on Sat 8 March.

Next week (w/c 10 March) things really kick off in Manchester with Contact's Flying Solo including Word of Warning's co-promotions of Sylvia Rimat's If You Decide To Stay and Kindle Theatre's A Journey Around My Skull on Wed 12 March; Rachel Mars's The Way You Tell Them on Thu 13 Mar plus the return of Jo Bannon's Exposure (one on one both Wed + Thu).  Also look out for our Domestic friend, Greg Wohead's The Ted Bundy Project on Fri 15 Mar plus the intrguing Kaleider's You With Me (12-15 Mar). 

Elsewhere, in Manchester on Wed 12 is the regular Tales of Whatever at Gulliver's Ballroom and further afield have a look at mapdance's Mixed Bill on Tue 11 at Axis, Crewe and Ihirley MacNamara's Let Me Stay (12+13 Mar) at the Bluecoat. 

The following week is big on dance - with Henry McGrath at Axis; Dancing Partners at Blackpool Grand and The Lowry;  Tempered Body Dance at Z-arts or more theatrically, Impulse Collective and The Wardrobe Ensemble at Carriageworks Leeds. Contact's Flying Solo continues til Sat 22 Mar - watch out for Jackie Hagan - and of course the highlight of this week will be Word of Warning's and Contact welcoming of Victoria Melody and her show-stealing Major Tom.

So I'm back to the closeted, monk-like world of writing - hoping you all enjoy the shows - not jealous at all!

best

Tamsin

Standing reminders:
Become a Supporter of Warning
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
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Information for artists:  www.habarts.org
Remember to check out Arts Council England's A Credit to Britain video.
For more musings on the extraordinary and the random check out doodlebug's weekly Friday morning nugget at 8.30am on All FM radio... doodlebug mixcloud archive.
For all things independent film check Kino events

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Performance Programme Spring 2014
Wed 12 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
If You Decide To Stay
Sylvia Rimat

Wed 12 Mar, 9pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
A Journey Round My Skull
Kindle Theatre

Wed 12 + Thu 13 Mar, 5-9pm. £3 | Flying Solo at Contact
Exposure
Jo Bannon

Thu 13 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
The Way You Tell Them
Rachel Mars

Thu 20 Mar, 8pm. £11/6 | Flying Solo at Contact
Major Tom
Victoria Melody

Thu 27 Mar, 8.30pm. £9/5 | Palaver at Contact
Near Gone
Two Destination Language

Fri 4 + Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
Turn 2014
Micro-festival of new dance.

Thu 8 + Fri 9 May, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
Works Ahead 2014
Annual new performance sampler.

Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre
Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.
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warnmcr: addendum...Juncture Festival, Leeds

A quick additional mention for Yorkshire Dance's Juncture Festival which launches in Leeds tonight (Thu 6 March) with Gary Stevens, Lucy Suggate & Louise Wallinger Curated by Wendy Houstoun, there's loads of work on that brushes at the edges of dance and performance with a particular focus over this weekend (6-8 March).  Special pick of the weaken for me, is this Friday's double bill of Grace Surman + Cathy Butterworth | Oliver Bray

warnmcr: Marching on... (ouch!)


Word of Warning...
March tomorrow... really? How did we get to March already?!

Following a rousing Word of Warning christening of the STUN Studio @ Z-arts with Ira Brand, Nicki Hobday + Sara Cocker, we have a week 'off' (as if!) before resuming our incursions into Contact.

On other fronts, next week (w/c 3 March) look out for:  Vincent Dance Theatre's Motherland on Tue 4 March and Junk Ensemble's The Falling Song on Sat 8 March both at Contact. 

Further afield, newcomer of the week is Derelict, the new programme brand at UCLAN's Media Factory in Preston, opening its Spring season on Wed 5 March with a doublebill of our very own Lowri Evans's The Secret Life of You and Me and Nicki Hobday + Sara Cocker's Age Concerns (wip).

Axis Arts Centre in Crewe has Cacalano, Cacalano + Cooper's Event on Thu 6 March; Junk Ensembles' The Falling Song is also at Live at LICA on Thu 6 March and Hannah Nicklin's Songs for Breaking Britain is at The HUB, Leeds on Sat 8 March. Also intriguing is The United Artists' For Their Own Good at Unity Liverpool on Tue 4 March.

The following week (w/c 10 March) things go a bit mad in Manchester with Contact's Flying Solo including Word of Warning's co-promotions of Sylvia Rimat, Jo Bannon, Kindle Theatre, Rachel Mars plus Greg Wohead and Kaleider. Elsewhere, have a look at mapdance at Axis, Crewe and Let Me Stay at the Bluecoat. 

Have a good start of the new month and (possibly...or not) the end of winter...
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
Remember to check out Arts Council England's A Credit to Britain video.
For more musings on the extraordinary and the random check out doodlebug's weekly Friday morning nugget at 8.30am on All FM radio... doodlebug mixcloud archive.
For all things independent film check Kino events

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Performance Programme Spring 2014
Wed 12 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
If You Decide To Stay
Sylvia Rimat

Wed 12 Mar, 9pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
A Journey Round My Skull
Kindle Theatre

Wed 12 + Thu 13 Mar, 5-9pm. £3 | Flying Solo at Contact
Exposure
Jo Bannon

Thu 13 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
The Way You Tell Them
Rachel Mars

Thu 20 Mar, 8pm. £11/6 | Flying Solo at Contact
Major Tom
Victoria Melody

Thu 27 Mar, 8.30pm. £9/5 | Palaver at Contact
Near Gone
Two Destination Language

Fri 4 + Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
Turn 2014
Micro-festival of new dance.

Thu 8 + Fri 9 May, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
Works Ahead 2014
Annual new performance sampler.

Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre
Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.
You have been sent this email by hÅb as a legacy of greenroom. Word of Warning is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.


warnmcr: the old and the new...


Word of Warning...

Following a rousingly operatic start to the Word of Warning season with Proto-type Theater, the week ahead sees us gear up to work in a brand new space, with some brand new work (one piece so new we haven't even seen it yet).  The space is so shiny and new, the wrapping's barely off, but our first outing to the STUN Studio at Z-arts on Wed 26 Feb with an ageing double-bill (the theme not the work!) with Ira Brand's A Cure For Ageing + Nicki Hobday + Sara Cocker's Age Concerns (work in progress).

Elsewhere, in Manchester, Kate Tempest's Brand New Ancients continues at Contact tonight Fri 21 and tomorrow Sat 22 Feb and, further afield, Selina Thompson's Dark and Lovely continues - at Union 105, Leeds and our very own Lowri Evans The Secret Life of You and Me is also in Leeds at The HUB tonight.  On Saturday there's also the LEAP Encounters in Lancaster City Centre and Instant Dissidence's Caramel at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford...

Next week, w/c 24 Feb, there's a huge swathe of work at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford all week including Lizi Patch, Jaye Kearney, Hannah Nicklin and Daniel Bye; on Tue 25 at Leeds Carriageworks there's Gary Winters + Claire Hind's Dream Yards
Gob Squad's Western Society is at LICA on Wed 26 Feb; Sleepdogs' The Bullet and The Bass Trombone is at Axis, Crewe on Thu 27 Feb; and White Rabbit's 366 Days of Kindness is at The Lowry also on Thu 27 Feb.

Of course, in my hugely biased opinion, the unmissable event of the week is our own Ira Brand |  Nicki Hobday + Sara Cocker doublebill at the STUN Studio on Wed 26 Feb.

The following week, look out for Cacalano, Cacalano + Cooper's Event at Axis; Junk Ensembles' The Falling Song at Live at LICA and Contact; Hannah Nicklin's Songs for Breaking Britain at The HUB, Leeds and special mention for Vincent Dance Theatre's Motherland at Contact. 

Hoping lots of you will join us at Z-arts on Wednesday - head for the Atrium rather than the bar, where we'll be making a whole new 'social space' in our own inimitable fashion!

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
Remember to check out Arts Council England's A Credit to Britain video.
For more musings on the extraordinary and the random check out doodlebug's weekly Friday morning nugget at 8.30am on All FM radio... doodlebug mixcloud archive.
For all things independent film check Kino events

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Performance Programme Spring 2014
Wed 26 Feb, 8pm. £9/5 | STUN Studio at Z-arts | Double Bill
A Cure for Ageing | Age Concerns (work-in-progress)
Ira Brand | Nicki Hobday + Sara Cocker

Wed 12 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
If You Decide To Stay
Sylvia Rimat

Wed 12 Mar, 9pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
A Journey Round My Skull
Kindle Theatre

Wed 12 + Thu 13 Mar, 5-9pm. £3 | Flying Solo at Contact
Exposure
Jo Bannon

Thu 13 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
The Way You Tell Them
Rachel Mars

Thu 20 Mar, 8pm. £11/6 | Flying Solo at Contact
Major Tom
Victoria Melody

Thu 27 Mar, 8.30pm. £9/5 | Palaver at Contact
Near Gone
Two Destination Language

Fri 4 + Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
Turn 2014
Micro-festival of new dance.

Thu 8 + Fri 9 May, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
Works Ahead 2014
Annual new performance sampler.

Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre
Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.
You have been sent this email by hÅb as a legacy of greenroom. Word of Warning is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.


warnmcr extra: Special 2-4-1 Offer - Homegrown featuring Tmesis | Taciturn | Sian Edwards Davies at Z-arts on 20 Feb

SPECIAL OFFER:
Dance Manchester is offering 2 tickets for the price of 1 for their HOMEGROWN programme 
on Thursday 20 February at Z-arts presenting 

Dispositions by Sian Edwards-Davies
Femme by Taciturn Dance
Variations of the Heart by Tmesis Theatre*

Book tickets via 0161 232 6089 or www.z-arts.org  quoting Dance Manchester 2 4 1 offer 

*for Levantes fans - Eleni Edipidi is performing with Tmesis!

warnmcr: the good, the god and the start of the WoW season!


Word of Warning...

Amidst the howling gales, the gentle start to the season has also taken a more frantic turn.  Not only do we, at Word of Warning, kick off the season at Contact with Proto-type Theater's The Good, The God and The Guillotine on Tue 18 Feb but there's a real frenzy of work taking off all over the place.

In Manchester there's the second Assemble featuring Massive Owl at Antwerp Mansion on Wed 19; on Thu 20th there's Dance Manchester's Homegrown featuring Taciturn + Tmesis plus the Noise Above Noise live art event at The Penthouse; then thre's Kate Tempest's Brand New Ancients at Contact on Fri 21 + Sat 22 Feb.

Further afield, Selina Thompson's Dark and Lovely is at East Street Arts, Leeds (15-22 Feb); 12 Degrees North is at Live at LICA on Tue 18th; Flexer + Sandiland at Axis, Crewe on Thu 21; on Sat 22 there's the LEAP Encounters in Lancaster City Centre and Instant Dissidence's Caramel at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford... not to mention our very own Lowri Evans The Secret Life of You and Me at The HUB in Leeds on Fri 21.

The following week, w/c 24 Feb, there's a huge swathe of work at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford; Gob Squad at LICA; Sleepdogs at Axis; White Rabbit at The Lowry;
Of course, all that pales into insignificance (!) in the face of Word of Warning's first outing to the new STUN Studio at Z-arts on Wed 26th with a double bill featuring Ira Brand and our own Nicki Hobday + Sara Cocker.

So, hoping to see you at the visually stunning, Proto-type Theater on Tuesday - or failing that, back here at Z-arts the following week.

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
Remember to check out Arts Council England's A Credit to Britain video.
For more musings on the extraordinary and the random check out doodlebug's weekly Friday morning nugget at 8.30am on All FM radio... doodlebug mixcloud archive.
For all things independent film check Kino events

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Performance Programme Spring 2014
Tue 18 Feb, 8pm. £11/6 | Contact
The Good, the God and the Guillotine
Proto-type Theater

Wed 26 Feb, 8pm. £9/5 | STUN Studio at Z-arts | Double Bill
A Cure for Ageing | Age Concerns (work-in-progress)
Ira Brand | Nicki Hobday + Sara Cocker

Wed 12 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
If You Decide To Stay
Sylvia Rimat

Wed 12 Mar, 9pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
A Journey Round My Skull
Kindle Theatre

Wed 12 + Thu 13 Mar, 5-9pm. £3 | Flying Solo at Contact
Exposure
Jo Bannon
Thu 13 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact

The Way You Tell Them
Rachel Mars
Thu 20 Mar, 8pm. £11/6 | Flying Solo at Contact

Major Tom
Victoria Melody
Thu 27 Mar, 8.30pm. £9/5 | Palaver at Contact

Near Gone
Two Destination Language
Fri 4 + Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact

Turn 2014
Micro-festival of new dance.
Thu 8 + Fri 9 May, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact

Works Ahead 2014
Annual new performance sampler.
Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre

Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.
You have been sent this email by hÅb as a legacy of greenroom. Word of Warning is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.


warnmcr: the days are getting longer...


Word of Warning...

So, as winter darkness starts to recede, the season is now getting going in earnest - and adrenalin's rising (even if there's no sign of Spring sap yet!)   In Manchester, Queer Contact is now in full swing (continuing until 15 Feb - with the first Mother's Ruin of the year tonight) whilst around the region next week there's a real midweek flurry:

On Tue 11 Feb, Liverpool welcomes a newcomer to the scene: The 1st4 platform  at Camp + Furnace.  Axis Arts Centre, Crewe has Tim Crouch + Andy Smith's What Happens To Hope at the End of the Evening and Live at LICA, Lancaster has Proto-type Theater's The Good, The God and The Guillotine (coming to Word of Warning/Contact Manchester 18 Feb).

Wed 12 Feb sees Sometimes We Play's We Can Be Heroes at the Lowry and the first Tales of Whatever of the year at Gullivers, Oldham Street, while Thu 12 Feb has Geddes Loom's Prelude to a Number at the Lowry (also on Fri 13); LEAP's Love Letters and Other Pointless Scribbles  at the Duke's, Lancaster (continues to Fri 13);  and Hofesh Schechter's Sun at Blackpool Grand Theatre.

The following week (w/c 17 Feb)  in Manchester sees the second Assemble, Kate Tempest's Brand New Ancients at Contact; further afield, 12 Degrees North is at Live at LICA; Flexer + Sandiland at Axis, Crewe and Instant Dissidence at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford.

Of course, without any sense of bias, the highlight of that week will be the start of the Word of Warning Spring 2014 programme, with Proto-type Theater's The Good, The God and The Guillotine at Contact on Tue 18 Feb!

Hope to see you all there!




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
Remember to check out Arts Council England's A Credit to Britain video.
For more musings on the extraordinary and the random check out doodlebug's weekly Friday morning nugget at 8.30am on All FM radio... doodlebug mixcloud archive.
For all things independent film check Kino events

Coming up on Word of Warning:

Performance Programme Spring 2014
Tue 18 Feb, 8pm. £11/6 | Contact
The Good, the God and the Guillotine
Proto-type Theater

Wed 26 Feb, 8pm. £9/5 | STUN Studio at Z-arts | Double Bill
A Cure for Ageing | Age Concerns (work-in-progress)
Ira Brand | Nicki Hobday + Sara Cocker

Wed 12 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
If You Decide To Stay
Sylvia Rimat

Wed 12 Mar, 9pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact
A Journey Round My Skull
Kindle Theatre

Wed 12 + Thu 13 Mar, 5-9pm. £3 | Flying Solo at Contact
Exposure
Jo Bannon
Thu 13 Mar, 7pm. £9/5 | Flying Solo at Contact

The Way You Tell Them
Rachel Mars
Thu 20 Mar, 8pm. £11/6 | Flying Solo at Contact

Major Tom
Victoria Melody
Thu 27 Mar, 8.30pm. £9/5 | Palaver at Contact

Near Gone
Two Destination Language
Fri 4 + Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact

Turn 2014
Micro-festival of new dance.
Thu 8 + Fri 9 May, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact

Works Ahead 2014
Annual new performance sampler.
Sat 12 Jul, daytime, free | Manchester City Centre

Hazard 2014
Micro-festival of intervention.
You have been sent this email by hÅb as a legacy of greenroom. Word of Warning is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.