Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

Word of Warning
...next Sampler Series at Zion just round the corner!

The Easter lull seems well and truly over and performance seasons are starting to pick up apace!
A reminder for anyone who, like me, has signed up for Proto-type Theater's Fortnight - it all kicks off on Monday 16th.

Obviously we're getting set for the next Sampler Series evening... rumours of bonkers bingo are currently hanging in the ether... please do join us on Fri 20 April at Zion Arts Centre for Tom Marshman's Legs 11 and GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN's External.  We start the evening with Tom's (true) story of how he entered the Pretty Polly Best Legs of 2011 competition and reached the final - followed by GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN - the two women who entranced Emergency Accommodation with their almost-kissing-wordgame.

The Lowry Studio is busy with Chris Thorpe + Hannah Jane Walker's The Oh F**k Moment on Fri 20 + Sat 21 (multiple limited capacity slots) and then Hot Salt Theatre's Honey Blood also on Sat 21 April.

Thurs 19th April is a busy day - with the very atmospheric Victoria Baths playing host to  Voidance's The Ghost of Someone Not Yet Drowned; and dance is also well served outside Manchester with Solos (featuring Kate Jackson, Jo Ashbridge, Genevieve Say, Jen Hale + Gavin Coward) at Pyramid, Warrington.  For a more physical theatre take, there's also Rhum and Clay's Shutterland at The Unity, Liverpool.

Across the border, West Yorkshire Playhouse kicks off the first weekend of its Transform 12 festival with Little Bulb, Uninvited Guests amongst many others - well worth checking out (I'd be there if I wasn't a bit tied up with other things here!)

And, as a final word... at Word of Warning we are just gearing up for this summer's Hazard incursion into Manchester City Centre on Saturday 21 July.  In the past we've wrapped Cathedral Gardens in 6 km of hazard tape, given the image of banking a wash and brush up and created dry-wipe graffitti on Harvey Nichols! The artist call for proposals is now open at hazardmcr.org and we have also launched a crowdfunding appeal at Sponsume. So if you're feeling a bit generous, or indeed, mischievous, please help us to make this event happen - all contributions, however large or small, very gratefully received - and the top 'reward' gives some 'lucky' (?!) person the chance to help me choose some of the programme!

Best

Tamsin

Standing reminders:
Word of Warning Spring/Summer Performance Collection listing
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
Support Hazard 2012 at www.sponsume.com/project/hazard-2012

Word of Warning
...just to keep you going!

With Summer 2012 seemingly over (it was the last week of March for anyone who missed it!) and my jaunt to parts Nordic behind me - the first shoots of performance are poking throught the chocolate-covered blanket of Easter, so we thought we'd wake you up with a brief interim Word of Warning.

A reminder that registrations for Proto-type Theater's Fortnight close on Thurs 12 April so don't forget to sign-up for this two week interactive theatrical intervention into the daily lives of Manchester participants running 16-29 April.

If you're looking for day-trip on Sat 14 April, Drunken Chorus's Chris Williams has been working with a group of young people to make a piece about Morecambe - Bright Lights and Golden Sands

And of course, advance notice that the next Word of Warning, Sampler Series event takes place on Fri 20 April at Zion Arts Centre with Tom Marshman's Legs 11 and GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN's External. We're still toying with what this month's half-time extra entertainment might be... so answers on a postcard!

Things do pick up in earnest the following week (especially book a slot for the limited capacity Oh F**k Moment at The Lowry Studio) so WoW will be back to its regular schedule from Friday 13th (how auspicious)

Best

Tamsin

Standing reminders:
Word of Warning Spring/Summer Performance Collection listing
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
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

Word of Warning
...hope you enjoyed the gin and chips..!

As ever huge thanks to Levantes Dance Theatre,  The Mustdashios and everyone who came along and 'sampled' both shows and the free gin jelly at Zion last week - hope your hangovers weren't too bad!
Anyone who missed either company can get a second bite, as the Royal Exchange Special FX is following in our footsteps with The Mustdashios on Friday 29 March, and Levantes Dance Theatre's most recent (greenroom/hÅb/Method Lab commissioned) Two Peas in A Pod is at UCLAN's Media Factory on Weds 28 March. In a double whammy, on Tues 27th, Media Factory also has Grace Surman + Cathy Butterworth's Two Four One One.

Moving into slightly more sensible chronology and geography... Dance is serviced on Tues 27th by Wayne McGregor/Random Dance's Entity, at The Lowry -  unmissable for some of you... whilst those of a more poetic/theatrical bent should check out Dominic Berry's Wizard at Contact (28-31 March). 

In Leeds, Thurs 29th, sees the next development of Michael Pinchbeck's The Beginning in a double bill with Dan Canham's 30 Cecil Street at Leeds Met at Northern Ballet Theatre; and on Fri 30th, Foursight Theatre's Bette & Joan and The Carriageworks. 

In Sheffield Sat 30 March marks the beginning of a new evening of live art and performance: Last Saturday Live at Bank Street Arts.

Looking ahead, Leeds Seven Arts has Trace Theatre's Doublebill on Easter Saturday (7 April) and  even further afield, in Birmingham, the Fierce Festival runs from 29 March - 8 April.

Given the impending Easter break, I'm going to give the mailer  a week or two off, as there's not a huge amount more to talk about... meanwhile I'm hitting the M62 again for the Juncture Festival in Leeds tonight and then heading off to sample the peformative delights of Copenhagen at the Informal European Theatre Meeting next week.

Best

Tamsin

 

 

Word of Warning
...here we go again...

It may only be two weeks since the launch of Word of Warning, but terrifyingly we're off again... Next week sees our first co-promotion with Contact: Brian Lobel's Ball and Other Funny Stories About Cancer (Weds 7 and Thurs 8 March)  and Stacy Makishi's The Making Of Bull: The True Story (Thurs 8 March).  See both on Thursday for the bargain price of £12/8 via 0161 274 0600.  We then hurtle straight into our next event at Zion Arts Centre on Fri 16 March - with the start of Sampler Series, a regular double or even treble-bill of work you won't see anywhere else in the region.  Kicking off with an irreverent and playful take on dance, we see the return of Levantes Dance Theatre's Gin & Satsumas and The Mustdashios' Chips

Before all that, Sat 3 March sees Bryony Kimmings's 7 Day Drunk at Contact and Larkin' About at Manchester Histories Festival at the Town Hall on Sat 3 March.  Weds 8th also sees the first Platform Zero at Zion Arts Centre - an exploration of watching and learning to give critical feedback to emerging dance work.

Liverpool's Unity has Uninvited Guests' Make Better Please tonight Fri 2 and tomorrow,  Sat 3 March.

Live at LICA, Lancaster continues with Fevered Sleep's A Forest on Sat 3 and Mandy Romero's Stevenage  on Tues 6 March.  Carriageworks, Leeds has Skeleton Project's LOLZ on Tues 6 March

Axis Arts Centre, Crewe is busy with Leen Dewilde's String Section running 6-23 March, Francesca Millican-Slater, Me, Myself and Irene on Tues 6 and a double bill of Probe's Small Talk and Fenton/Van de Cruys's Feedback on Thurs 8 March. 

And as a final heads-up - Proto-type Theater's Fortnight, a two week interactive experience, is coming to Manchester between 16-29 April - sign-up to participate at the link above!

Meanwhile, I'm hitting the road for Liverpool (tonight), Contact (tomorrow), Crewe (Monday) and Leeds (Tuesday), before installing myself in Contact for Brian and Stacy's shows and workshops on (Weds/Thurs)... so hoping to see some of you along the way - or back at Zion on 16 March!

Best

Tamsin

Word of Warning
...that was The Beginning

Firstly a huge thank you to all those who came along to our launch and for making it such a truly lovely night!  For those who didn't make it, in addition to What I Heard About The World, we snuck in a work in progress preview of Michael Pinchbeck's The Beginning and a huge balloon-drop.. albeit with some rather spontaneously volatile balloons!

Moving on - a quick reminder about (in)xclusion, tomorrow 25 Feb - 24 hours of live art occupation in Patrick Studios, Leeds - wishing them loads of luck, only sorry I'll be on a motorway!

In Manchester, next week sees the beginning of The Flying Solo Festival at Contact - look out for J. Fergus Evans's My Heart is Hitch-Hiking Down Peachtree Street from Mon 27 to Sat 3, Daniel Bye's The Price of Everything on Tues 28th, and Bryony Kimmings's 7 Day Drunk on Sat 3 March.

Also don't miss Kraak's Exhibition preview on Weds 29th with performative interventions by Taneesha Ahmed and Larkin' About at Manchester Histories Festival at the Town Hall on Sat 3rd March.

Liverpool's Unity is busy again with Rogue Theatre's The Dancer and the Detail and Paper Birds' Thirsty on Tues 28th and Uninvited Guests' Make Better Please on Fri 2nd + Sat 3rd March

Elsewhere, Live at LICA has Fevered Sleep's A Forest, particularly suitable for younger viewers;  Russell Maliphant's Rodin Project is at the LBT, Huddersfield on Mon 27th, Claire Hind's Ghost Track at Axis Arts Centre, Crewe on Tues 28th.

Best

Tamsin

Standing reminders:
Word of Warning Spring/Summer Performance Collection listing
www.facebook.com/warnmcr     @warnmcr
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

Slightly sleep deprived and hysterical after an 18 hour roundtrip to Bristol yesterday - so this week's Word of Warning comes with a warning of possible erraticness!

A running theme of the next two weeks is unabashed self-promotion... Now we have shiny print and a brand new website at www.wordofwarning.org it's time to start plugging the Spring/Summer Performance Collection in earnest! On a serious note, this is our attempt to resuscitate some small corner of what was greenroom and we hope that it fills a bit of a gap in people's lives on an ongoing basis, but we can only keep it going if people want it... and the best way of showing that is by turning up!

So plea over... next Friday 17 Feb at 7.30pm at Zion Arts Centre is the launch of Word of Warning, with Third Angel + mala voadora's What I Heard About The World plus a possbile surprise Beginning..!

The temptation is to tell you that there's nothing else happening anywhere else next week at all.. but Axis Arts Centre in Crewe also has a busy week - with Stephanie Schober & Dance Company's Traffic on Tuesday 14th, and steals a march on us with Third Angel on Thursday 16th! If Only returns to the Bluecoat with Chatshow also on Thursday 16th. Fuel presents Ring at the Unity, Liverpool on Friday 17 and Saturday 18th.  If you fancy a day-trip out on Saturday 18th, then Question Your Teaspoons have another Mayhem in the Market!

 

 

 

 

Just to start with a quick apology - www.wordofwarning.org is still in flux in advance of our launch event with Third Angel on 17 February, it should reappear as the makings of a new site in the next couple of days - in the meanime, wordofwarning.posterous.com should keep working!

Tonight I'm off to see Donna Rutherford's Kin at the The Lowry Studio on Fri 3 Feb, before settling down to a hard weekend's web text entering... but if you've got more time on your hands, check out Pernille Spence - NaCi at The Bluecoat on Sat 4th.

Next week sees Queer Contact, not surprisingly at Contact... particularly Qasim Riza Shaheen's Misplaced Memoirs on Sat 11th. For the ruinously inclined, don't forget Mother's Ruin Theatrical Specatcular on Friday 10th!  And for those after some dance check out in DawN Crandell as part of Shortcuts on Tues 7th, and Peter Grist on Thursday 9th.

For those after something possibly a touch more theatrical, there's Bound at the Lowry Studio on Thursday9th.

Further afield, the UK/Spain collaboration, The Sleepwalk Collective are at Axis Arts Centre on Tuesday 7th and at Live at LICA, Lancaster on Thurs 9th and, for a real live art day-trip out, OUI Performance have an Action Art Now event in York on Saturday 11th (6-10pm) featuring Leo Devlin and Jamie Lewis Hadley plus visiting international artists.