Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

Word of Warning...
So, am I writing from the depths of East Anglia? Has the carrier pigeon brought my words safely back to Manchester? Or am I cheating and writing ahead of time..? You'll never know - unless I make a monumental mistake which gives the game away...

Anyway the next week seems to be all about food and families...
Tomorrow, Sat 1 Nov - you can still catch Family Matters (5 short pieces by artists including Yusra Warsama, Ben Mellor and Tuheen Huda) at Z-arts. While from tonight - Halloween  over in Sheffield there's the rather intriguing Theatre Delicatessen (31 Oct - 22 Nov).

We, at Word of Warning, also have a foodie week! With a double serving of the irrepressible Selina Thompson with Chewing The Fat on Fri 7 Nov at the Lowry Studio preceded by a gastronomically enticing workshop earlier in the week (now full).

Away from things epicurean, Contact has the site specific Commonwealth's No Guts No Glory (5-8 November) and Home is playing host to Riotous Company's Insomnia (Thu 6+ Fri 7 Nov)

Further afield, on Tue 4 Nov Axis, Crewe has H2 Dance + Sharon Smith's Duet + How to be a Woman and Homotopia has Jarman's All This Maddening Beauty at the Unity, Liverpool. 

On Wed 5 Nov Live at LICA, Lancaster hosts Ockham's Razor's Not Until We Are Lost. 
On Sat 8 Nov The Continental in Preston has a Fuel presentation of David Rosenberg + Glen Neath's Fiction and on Sun 9 Nov Homotopia also has David Hoyles's Scars on Sunday at Fredericks, Hope St, Liverpool.

Meanwhile, I'm going to plunge back into the East Anglian delights of Spill!

best

Tamsin


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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2014
Fri 7 Nov, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry Studio
CHEWING THE FAT
Selina Thompson

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]
 

Word of Warning...
Unaccustomed as I am to sporting invocations, go wildcats, go! is the call to arms for the latest Word of Warning venture, tonight Fri 24 and tomorrow Sat 25 Oct: Action Hero's Hoke's Bluff at Contact.
I've just heard that, while transforming the space, they've managed to squeeze an extra few seats in - so move fast if you want to grab one of the remaining few tickets.

For something more theatrical than the WoW norm, you can also still catch Tuheen Huda's Transmissions at The Lowry Studio, tonight Fri 24 Oct.

Further afield, in Bradford, Theatre in the Mill has Paper Birds' Blind also on Fri 24 Oct; and Lowri Evans's The Secret Life of You and Me on Sat 25 Oct; while in Preston UCLan's Derelict has Search Party's My Son and Heir tomorrow Sat 25 Oct.

Next week (w/c 27 Oct) is a bit of a half-term lull - though ongoing, is The Secret Theatre Co's Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts (27 +30 Oct + 1 Nov) and you can catch Family Matters (5 short pieces by artists including Yusra Warsama, Ben Mellor and Tuheen Huda) at Z-arts on Sat 1 Nov. 

I meanwhile will be off at Spill Festival in Ipswich, so just in case I don't manage to put this together, here's advance warning for the hecticness that is the following week (w/c 3 Nov):
On the more theatrical side, in Manchester is Commonwealth's No Guts No Glory; and in Preston David Rosenberg + Glen Neath's Fiction.
On the dance side, in Manchester is Riotous Company's Insomnia; and in Crewe H2 Dance + Sharon Smith's Duet + How to be a Woman.
On the aerial side is Ockham's Razor's Not Until We Are Lost in Lancaster;
And in the non-stop festival world that is Liverpool, Homotopia has Jarman's All This Maddening Beauty + David Hoyles's Scars on Sunday at Homotopia and the beginning of DaDaFest.

On the unmissable side (ooh dear, cheese alert!) Word of Warning, is back in the fray with Selina Thompson's Chewing The Fat on Fri 7 Nov at the Lowry Studio plus workshop (book here) in the STUN Studio at Z-arts on Mon 3 Nov.

best

Tamsin


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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2014


Fri 24 [last 2 tickets remaining] + 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]

Word of Warning...
Seemingly in these parts it never rains but it pours, after a relatively drizzly couple of weeks, the week commencing 20 Oct is a proper soaking!

Still to come this week is HOME's presentation of the Best of BE Festival, tonight, Fri 17 and tomorrow Sat 18 Oct at No 1 First Street and ongoing is Imitating The Dog's A Farewell to Arms, Live at LICA at the Duke's, (til 25 October).

In Preston UCLan's Derelict kicks off with Two Destination Language's Near Gone on Wed 22 Oct + Search Party's My Son and Heir on Sat 25 Oct.
In Bradford at Theatre in the Mill there are two Manchester-grown shows - Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam at Theatre in the Mill Bradford on Wed 22 Oct, and our own Lowri Evans's The Secret Life of You and Me on Sat 25 Oct plus Paper Birds' Blind on Fri 24 Oct.
In Crewe, Axis Arts Centre has David Rosenberg + Glen Neath's Fiction on Thu 23 Oct.
In Liverpool, Homotopia is now underway, with its first live show DV8's John at Liverpool Playhouse (23+24 Oct) - already sold out!

In the Manchester environs, the Royal Exchange has The Secret Theatre Co's Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts (various dates from 21 Oct - 1 Nov).
The Lowry is playing host to two local premières - Company Chameleon's Beauty of the Beast on Wed 22 + Thu 23 Oct, and Tuheen Huda's Transmissions on Thu 23 + Fri 24 Oct.

Word of Warning, meanwhile leaps (?!) back into action, co-promoting Action Hero's Hoke's Bluff at Contact on Fri 24 + Sat 25 Oct.  Friday is already sold out, so grab the remaining Saturday tickets while you can!

The following week seems to dry up a bit up North, so I'll be gearing up for the long haul to Ipswich for the 2014 Spill Festival!

best

Tamsin


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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2014


Fri 24 [sold-out] + 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]
 

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]

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!
 

Word of Warning...
 

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


Standing reminders:
Become a Supporter of Warning
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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-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!

Word of Warning...
 

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

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!
 

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

best

Tamsin