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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


 

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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

Word of Warning... 

Finally, seemingly, the storms have given way to some relatively clement weather... just hoping it holds out for our little outing to the urban oasis that is Hulme Community Garden Centre next weekend for Tom Marshman's We Need to Talk About Bambi (Sat 13 and Sun 14 June).

Before that, the performance climate has brightened up a bit too.  At The Lowry, you can still catch Luisa Omielan's Am I Right Ladies?! on Sun 7 June; then next week on Wed 10 + Thu 11 June there's Igor and Moreno Idiot-Syncrasy (you may remember Moreno from a rather unique rendition of Nessun Dorma at Emergency in 2012..!)  At Contact on Thu 11 and Fri 12 June there's Moving Dance Forward, featuring Joseph Lau, Bridget Fiske, Christopher Owen and Lisi Perry.

Over the Pennines there's 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. 

The following week parts Mancunian seem a bit quiet again, though there's Stella Grundy in Bradford and Idle Motion in Leeds.
The combined forces of WoW and Derelict meanwhile are off on a daytrip to see Robert Wilson IN Krapp's Last Tape before coming back for WoW's final show of Spring/Summer - Ria Hartley's Matilda and Me.

I'm off to order rain ponchos as insurance to keep the rain away through to next weekend! Have a good week.

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

Word of Warning... 
Here we're looking forward to a bank holiday weekend and a bit of a lull in proceedings, unless you're headed for a certain homewarming...

Still to come over this weekend, tonight (Fri 22 May) in Liverpool on  there's Wendy Houstoun's Pact with Pointlessness at the Unity as part of Physical Fest. Last seen at Hazard 2014, Hidden Track's Scavengers also makes an appearance at Chorlton Arts Festival on Sat 23 + Sun 24 May.

Next week brings Chris Thorpe's Confirmation to the Royal Exchange (Tue 26 - Sat 30 May); Leo Burtin's Midnight Soup to Live at LICA on Thu 28th and Instant Dissidence's auto/mobile to Theatre in the Mill on Sat 30 May. Over in Liverpool Physical Fest has, The Wild Trio (Mon 25+ Tue 26 May) and Jamie Wood's O No!  also at the Unity on Sat 30 May. 

The following week (w/c 1 June) worth an glance is Kathryn Beaumont's  I Told You This Would Happen in Bradford and Luisa Omielan's Am I Right Ladies?! at The Lowry. 

I think that's about it for this week - have a good bank holiday!

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

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With the election storm clouds blowing over, we find ourselves in rather calmer theatrical time in these parts, though tonight Fri 15 May you can still see: Ellie Harrison, Bethany Wells + Adam Young's The Unfair at Bradford's Theatre in the Mill have or Guillermo Katz's To Sing at Live at LICA, Lancaster.

In the week ahead (w/c 18 May) in Manchester there's David Hoyle's I Victim on Wed 20 May at Contact.
Further afield, in Bradford at Theatre in the Mill there's the intriguing Luca Rutherford's Learning How To Die; on Tue 19 May, while in Liverpool on Fri 22 May there's Wendy Houstoun's Pact with Pointlessness at the Unity as part of Physical Fest (in which also look out for the Wild Trio (25+ 26 May) and Jamie Wood's O No!  also at the Unity on Sat 30 May.)

The following week brings Chris Thorpe's Confirmation to the Royal Exchange; Leo Burtin to Live at LICA and Instant Dissidence to Theatre in the Mill. 

The summer slumber is creeping ever nearer, though we at WoW still want to entice you out for a seasonal stroll in the garden in June with the lovely Tom Marshman followed by the less al fresco but equally lovely Ria Hartley.


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