Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

Word of Warning - Happy 2014

So it's a new year and a new season and it feels like we, at Word of Warning are slowly dredging ourselves out from the dark winter sludge!  Around us the green shoots of activity seem to be starting to poke through - so this is a bit of an interim heads-up before things really gear up in earnest.

First up, if you fancy a bit of dance, tonight, Fri 17 January at Z-arts is State of Emergency's Love & Sex, and on Thu 23 Jan, also at Z-arts, the launch of Dance Manchester's Homegrown - featuring Company Chameleon, Joseph While, Shona Roberts, Joseph Lau and Hannah Buckley. (and while I'm focused on dance - today is deadline day for Turn 2014 so, dancemakers, if you want to put a proposal in you've got til 5pm!)

On the live art front, tomorrow, Sat 18 January 4-9pm, at Darwin House, Leeds Valley Park is Vantage 3, Live Art Edition featuring eight pieces of work by Lowri Evans and Lindsay Bennett amongst others.

Meanwhile, next week, over in Sheffield, Third Angel's The Life And Loves Of A Nobody is at The Crucible (21-25 Jan). 

For the more theatrically disposed have a look at the Library Theatre Company's Re:Play Festival, on at The Lowry from 20 Jan - 5 Feb

I'll be back next week with more of a look ahead, particularly to our own Word of Warning season - but if you want to forewarn yourselves with what's coming up across the region the WoW Google calendar is taking shape.

In the interim, our friends at Queer Contact have come up with a special WoW £10 advance ticket offer (normally £15) for Joey Arias & Kristian Hoffman's Lightning Strikes on Thu 6 Feb. Available until midnight 5 Feb online or via 01612740600  using code: SNL1979. For those of us who remember the more experimental edges of the 80's - it's a celebration of Klaus Nomi and for those who don't know who I'm talking about, he's well worth YouTubing!

Until next week...

best

Tamsin

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We, at Word of Warning, busy gearing up to welcome the marvellous Stacy Makishi. Whilst we can't promise meatballs or the mob, we are plotting some Hawaiian-inspired frivolity as a post-show, end of season festivity. 

Stacy Makishi's The Falsettos at Z-arts, tonight, Fri 29 Nov and this is your last chance to grab a bargain double-ticket (£15/8) for that and Bryony Kimmings's Credible, Likeable Superstar Role Model at Contact on Sat 30 Nov as the offer closes today at 5pm. 
For a full-on Saturday experience, join our friends The Larks at Contact from 5pm.

Elsewhere, tonight Fri 29 Nov,  Third Angel's The Life and Loves of A Nobody (work in progress) is at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford and in Stockport Rachel Dean's Nativity is at St Mary's Church.

Looking ahead into December, things are starting to quieten down.  Contact has First Floor Theatre's Our Front Room (4-7 Dec) and Mother's Ruin (Fri 6 Dec).

For the dance-oriented, not to be missed is Yorkshire Dance's Arrivals/Departures in Leeds on Fri 6 and Sat 7 December, with European inspired work by Moreno Solinas/Moreno + Igor, Jordan Massarella, Riccardo Meneghini, Carlos Pons Guerra and more. 

Uncanny Theatre's Instructions for a Better Life is at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford on Fri 6 Dec; and on Sat 7 Dec. Beyond that, also in Bradford, there's Jane Wakeman Company's The Wake (10-14 Dec) and the last Tales of Whatever of the year at The Castle on Wed 11 December... after which I'm not sure that there's a vast amount to talk of apart from panto.

So, this may be our final Word of Warning of the year unless we spot something we've monumentally missed or get excited by! Aside from that, WoW will be back sometime in January as the new season gets into its swing.

Really hoping to see loads of you tonight at Z-arts to give this, our second full year of Word of Warning a rousing send-off with the lovely Stacy Makishi otherwise see you all in 2014!

best

Tamsin


Still to come on Word of Warning: Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2013
Fri 29 Nov, 7.30pm. Z-arts
THE FALSETTOS
Stacy Makishi
* Stacy Makishi/Bryony Kimmings ticket offer or call Contact on 0161 274 0600

Standing reminders:
Become a Supporter of Warning
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
Information for artists:  www.habarts.org

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I'm reeling a bit from our domestic excesses - not leaving the place that you live for 2 weeks does funny things to you - but a huge thanks to artists, audiences and volunteers alike.

Still to come this week is Spectacle is at the Media Factory, Preston, tonight Fri 22 Nov - and PGB's They Never Let Me Play at Contact tonight and tomorrow (though I've heard rumbles that it may be sold out.)

Next week (w/c 25 Nov) in Manchester, Word of Warning is back in action with our season closer: Stacy Makishi's The Falsettos at Z-arts on Fri 29 Nov. For a double-fix of feisty females, team that with Bryony Kimmings's Credible, Likeable Superstar Role Model at Contact on Saturday 30 Nov with a bargain double-ticket (£15/8)... plus join in The Larks larking about from 5pm on Sat 30th, also at Contact.  And, whilst I don't normally mention exhibitions, just a quick word for former DooCot member, Nenagh Watson's DEADpuppet at Z-arts from Mon 25 Nov.     

Elsewhere, Laila Diallo's Hold Everything Dear is at Live at LICA on Tue 26 Nov; Third Angel's The Life and Loves of A Nobody (work in progress) is at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford on Fri 29th, and also on Fri 29th in Stockport at St Mary's Church is Rachel Dean's Nativity.

Looking ahead into December, things are starting to quieten down, but there's Mother's Ruin at Contact;  Uncanny Theatre in Bradford and J.Fergus Evans at the Duke's, Lancaster.

My final word of warning, therefore is to get out and see stuff now, before the slow creep of xmas erases culture from the map... chiefly of course, join us at our end of season blow-out with the marvellous Ms Makishi.

best

Tamsin


Still to come on Word of Warning: Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2013
Fri 29 Nov, 7.30pm. Z-arts
THE FALSETTOS
Stacy Makishi
* Stacy Makishi/Bryony Kimmings ticket offer or call Contact on 0161 274 0600

Standing reminders:
Become a Supporter of Warning
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
Information for artists:  www.habarts.org

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With slight trepidation after last week's multiple technology gremlins, here goes with this week's Word of Warning!

Very last call to join me at home, for the final weekend of Domestic this Sat 16 and Sun 17 Nov at Cooper House.  There are still spaces left for the very charming Greg Wohead's I like the way you wear your hair and you can team that with a pair of individual experiences: Jo Bannon's Exposure and Small Acts Shower Scenes plus Alex Bradley + Scott Smith's Field Test in Garageland is ongoing. J. Fergus Evans's My heart is hitch-hiking down Peach Tree Street has literally one or two available tickets on Sunday. We strongly advise booking online before the end of today, though you can sign up for any remaining spaces and returns in person on the day(s) at our lovely garage box office. For ticket enquiries on the day call 0758 129 9439.

Beyond my tower block domain life goes on, and in Liverpool Two Destination Language + Natasha Davis are at The Capstone, Liverpool Hope University tonight Fri 15th; and West Yorkshire Playhouse's Furnace is on Fri 15 and Sat 16 Nov.

Saturday 16th is generally busy - in Liverpool, Affront is at Homotopia and House of Suarez:Vogue-Deco at the Bluecoat; whilst in Yorkshire Stan's Cafe's The Anatomy of Melancholy is at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford, and closer to home Kieran Hurley's Beats is at Contact.

Next week, (w/c 18 Nov) the lavishly eccentric Levantes Dance Theatre's Two Peas Without A Pod is at the Rose Theatre, Edgehill University on Mon 18 Nov;  Stan's Cafe's The Anatomy of Melancholy is at Live at LICA, Tue 19 + Wed 20 Nov, Lancaster; and Spectacle is at the Media Factory, Preston on Fri 22 Nov.
Closer to home PGB's They Never Let Me Play is at Contact on Fri 22 and Sat 23 Nov.

The following week (w/c 25 Nov) sees Laila Diallo at Live at LICA; Third Angel in a work in progress at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford and our stablemates The Larks gaming at Contact.  Word of Warning springs back into life for its final outing of the season with Stacy Makishi's The Falsettos at Z-arts.  Combine that with Bryony Kimmings at Contact on the Saturday with a bargain double-ticket (£15/8).

It's all very well getting 1/4 ton of potatoes onto the 8th floor and worth it for the hot coals effect but figuring out getting them out again - that's another matter.  I'm off back to my glamorous life!

best

Tamsin


Next up on Word of Warning: Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2013
Fri 8 — Sun 17 Nov. Cooper House
DOMESTIC
Performance stripped bare.
J. Fergus Evans | Greg Wohead | Small Acts | Alex Bradley + Scott Smith | Jo Bannon

Fri 29 Nov, 7.30pm. Z-arts
THE FALSETTOS
Stacy Makishi
* Stacy Makishi/Bryony Kimmings ticket offer or call Contact on 0161 274 0600

Standing reminders:
Become a Supporter of Warning
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
Information for artists:  www.habarts.org

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Welcome to November, dark nights, loud bangs, bright flashes, and when, with keys newly in my hot little hand, we look forward to moving into the Domestic flats... I see a weekend of household chores ahead!

Tonight, meanwhile, Forced Entertainment's All Tomorrow's Parties continues at Contact followed by a rehearsed reading of And Night Follows Day on the afternoon of Sat 2 Nov. 

Next week (w/c 4 Nov) Axis Arts Centre is busy with GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN's Number 1, the Plaza on Tues 5 Nov and Florence Peake's Make on Thurs 7 Nov, while Company Chameleon's double bill Eden + The Pictures We Make is at Live at LICA, Lancaster on Weds 6th.

Over in Liverpool, worth checking out at Homotopia are: Joseph Mercier's Of Saints and Go-go Boys (Wed 6); Dickie Beau's  Lost in Trans (Wed 6 + Thu 7) Rosana Cade's Walking Holding, a Triple Dance Bill and David Hoyle (all on Sat 9 Nov).   Also in Liverpool, a new space to us,  the Lantern, has Nostalgia>>2012 on Tues 7 Nov followed, on Wed 8 Nov by Lena Simic's 1994 (a hÅb/WoW commission). 

MUCH closer to home, in Manchester, Domestic kicks off at Cooper House (M15 6DX) on Fri 8th + Sat 9 Nov with three pieces: Alex Bradley + Scott Smith's Field Test in Garageland (we're only saying by appointment so we know to let you in - you can just ring the box office phone on arrival too!), Small Acts Shower Scenes (yes you get to take a shower, but really, honestly there's NO ONE watching  and it's a really gentle experience - I'm a wuss and I've done it) and the, the vacuum cleaner's Mental (unfortunately already sold out).

Domestic continues the following week with Leentje Van de Cruys's Kitsch'n Sink (Thu 14 + Fri 15 Nov), then our big weekend of Sat 16 + Sun 17 Nov sees a pairing of J. Fergus Evans's My heart is hitch-hiking down Peach Tree Street and Greg Wohead's I like the way you wear your hair plus Jo Bannon's Exposure (with Field Test and Shower Scenes continuing).

Elsewhere, the week of 11 Nov continues to be busy round the region, with Kieran Hurley's Beats at Contct; Sleepwalk Collective at Axis, Crewe; Every House Has Its Door at Live at LICA; Two Destination Language + Natasha Davis at The Capstone, Liverpool Hope; Affront at Homotopia; Vogue-Deco at the Bluecoat; Stan's Cafe at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford.

I'm off to clean a flat, or three (such a glamorous life) and look forward to welcoming you home...

best

Tamsin


Next up on Word of Warning: Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2013
Fri 8 — Sun 17 Nov. Cooper House
DOMESTIC
Performance stripped bare.
the vacuum cleaner | Leentje Van de Cruys | J. Fergus Evans | Greg Wohead | Small Acts | Alex Bradley + Scott Smith | Jo Bannon

Fri 29 Nov, 7.30pm. Z-arts
THE FALSETTOS
Stacy Makishi
* Stacy Makishi/Bryony Kimmings ticket offer or call Contact on 0161 274 0600

Standing reminders:
Become a Supporter of Warning
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
Information for artists:  www.habarts.org

Word of Warning...

I seem to be increasingly writing these through the power of time-travel... or maybe I've finally succeeded in cloning myself (be afraid)... as I'm presently actually carrying out interviews with a lovely group of possible interns!

Next week (w/c 28 Oct) seems quite calm - the big event being the arrival of Forced Entertainment's All Tomorrow's Parties (Wed 30- Sat 2 Nov) at Contact; Reckless Sleepers' String Section is at Axis, Crewe on Tues 29 Oct and Mary Pearson's Failure is at the Unity, Liverpool on Wed 30 Oct.

The following week (w/c 4 Nov) gets crazy again with GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN and Florence Peake at Axis; Homotopia in full swing in Liverpool, with performances by Joseph Mercier, Rosana Cade, David Hoyle and Dickie Beau; Lena Simic also in Liverpool at the Lantern;  and Company Chameleon at Live at LICA.

We meanwhile enter the Domestic fray on Friday 8th,  and the real meaning of taking work home has started to sink in! We've sold over 100 tickets and whilst the vacuum cleaner's Mental is already sold-out, there are still spaces for all the other shows, the one to ones and the garage installation!

best

Tamsin


Next up on Word of Warning: Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2013
Fri 8 — Sun 17 Nov. Cooper House
DOMESTIC
Performance stripped bare.
the vacuum cleaner | Leentje Van de Cruys | J. Fergus Evans | Greg Wohead | Small Acts | Alex Bradley + Scott Smith | Jo Bannon

Fri 29 Nov, 7.30pm. Z-arts
THE FALSETTOS
Stacy Makishi
* Stacy Makishi/Bryony Kimmings ticket offer or call Contact on 0161 274 0600

Standing reminders:
Become a Supporter of Warning
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
Information for artists:  www.habarts.org

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Brought to you by the power of time travel as I'm actually currently in Liverpool at Hope Street Ltd's On The Verge, a sited festival featuring emerging artists working in a variety spaces all over Liverpool city centre (running until this Sunday 20 October). Also in Liverpool,  Philip Jeck & Rebecca Sharp are at the Bluecoat, Liverpool tonight, Fri 18th.

In the Manchester environs next week, Tim Crouch's I, Malvolio comes to Z-arts on Tues 22 Oct (daytime);  Michael Clark visits the Lowry on Weds 23 Oct, and the Assemble DIY performance platform event is at Sand Bar, Grosvenor St, Manchester on Thurs 24 Oct.

Further afield,  Zoo Indigo's Doublebill is at Live at LICA, Lancaster on Tues 22 Oct; La Petite Morte's No Big Deal (two works by Ellen Turner and George Adams) at Edgehill on Thurs 24th; and New Art Club's Feel About Your Body is at Axis, Crewe also on Thurs 24th.

The following week (w/c 28 Oct) sees Forced Entertainment land at Contact; Reckless Sleepers at Axis Crewe, Mary Pearson at the Unity, Liverpool.

Back to my time-travelling ways in Liverpool and wondering how I'll get to Leeds by this evening.

best

Tamsin

Next up on Word of Warning: Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2013
Fri 8 — Sun 17 Nov. Cooper House
DOMESTIC
Performance stripped bare.
the vacuum cleaner | Leentje Van de Cruys | J. Fergus Evans | Greg Wohead | Small Acts | Alex Bradley + Scott Smith | Jo Bannon

Fri 29 Nov, 7.30pm. Z-arts
THE FALSETTOS
Stacy Makishi
* Stacy Makishi/Bryony Kimmings ticket offer or call Contact on 0161 274 0600