Word of Warning...
So Word of Warning's Spring Performance Collection is well and truly up and running with the lovely Lowri Evans's The Secret Life of You and Me at the Lowry Studio. Very nice to be sold out for our first night, there may still be a tiny handful of tickets available for tonight (Fri 1 Feb, 8pm). Next week sees Queer Contact taking over - with The House of Contact on Tue 6; Art with Heart's The Secret Diaries of a Teenage Queer (only matinee tickets remaining); Mother's Ruin's Who's Got The Max Factor?; and The Polari Mission and Bourgeois and Maurice on Sat 9 Feb. Of course, for us, Saturday 9 Feb is dominated by our own (free) Haphazard from 12-4 at Z-arts (but if you plan well there's time to come along AND do Queer Contact!). Haphazard artists include Volkov Commanders, Ultra Violets, Lydia Hirst (Eggs Collective), whatsthebigmistry, Katherina Radeva and more. Ten mesmerically madcap and insanely interactive adventures all over the building - it's live art for everyone, children and adults alike. Drop-in at any time between 12 and 4; rounding off with an informal discussion on making work for inter-generational audiences at 4pm. Further afield the LBT, Huddersfield has imitating the dog's 6 Degrees Below the Horizon (Tue 6 + Wed 7 Feb). Live at LICA has Two from A Smith on Wed 7 and Unity, Liverpool has Clout Theatre's How A Man Crumbled on Thu 8 Feb. The following week is even busier - including our (Word of Warning's) first collaboration of the season with Contact with Hetain Patel's Be Like Water on Thu 14 (4 tickets JUST released, book fast!) and Fri 15 Feb (tickets available). The Royal Exchange has the I'm Spilling My Heart Out festival, The Gramophones End to End is at UCLAN, Daniel Bye is at the Unity, imitating the dog continue their two show world domination plan and the premiere of Company Chameleon's The Pictures We Make is at The Lowry. I, meanwhile, will be heading for Bristol to IBT13 - the In Between Time Festival. Having thoroughly freaked myself with how much there is to do, I'm off to plan bucket dancing, ping pong ball dropping, leaf blowing, hula-hooping and a minotaur maze... a thoroughly Haphazard way to spend the day! best Tamsin Next up on Word of Warning:TONIGHT: Fri 1 Feb, 8pm. The Lowry
THE SECRET LIFE OF YOU AND ME Lowri Evans Sat 9 Feb, 12noon-4pm. Z-arts FREE
HAPHAZARD For the curious of all ages. Thu 14 + Fri 15 Feb, 7.30pm. Contact
BE LIKE WATER Hetain Patel