Word of Warning... Hazard special
Apologies for this unashamed bit of self-promotion, yellow background and all - but this week's Word of Warning is our big chance to harp on about next weekend's artistic goings-on in Manchester City Centre and our shiny new website hazardmcr.org. It's time for the biennial Hazard micro-festival - sited intervention, unexpected performance and occasional strange behaviour. So if you happen to be passing St Ann's Square between 12 and 5pm on Saturday 21 July please do come and see us... we'll be the ones with the big red vintage doubledecker bus. (And if you really want to know - I'll be the one on the scooter probably lookng hassled.) Alternatively if you happen to see a flash of yellow and black anywhere in the city centre then there's a good chance it's one of our roaming artists... or else the City is just playing along! This fourth incarnation of Manchester's stripiest festival invites artists to play with the City - so in this year of all things olympian, get fit in the hula-hoopathon, see the goal posts shifting, or take a soapbox tour from the Olympics to the End of the World. If you prefer things more contemplatvie, you can see the world through teen eyes, locate a missing soldier, have your fortune told or join our flatpack Nottingham tourists on their summer holiday to the North West. All the details are online at hazardmcr.org We are delighted to be joined by Nottingham's Hatch and their bus-load of 'cultural tourists' and to boast a full-on pervasive gaming programme courtesy of our own Larkin' About. We have something like 25 separate pieces (I keep losing count!) featuring: Bill Aitchison, Amelia Beavis-Harrison, Alex Bidolak, sean burn, Clare Cochrane, Dangerous Times, Annette Foster, Gale-Feeny & Fishman, The Gramophones, Martin Hamblen, Tim Jeeves, Larkin' About, Lembrança UK, Liquid, Jessica Mautner, Julieann O'Malley, Rachel Parry, Michael Pinchbeck, Katherina Radeva, Simon Raven, SHRUG, Nicola Smith, Harald Smykla, Small Things, Zoo Indigo The full programme - subject to change, and subject to the vagaries of the weather - is at hazardmcr.org or for more of my ramblings you can follow me @hazardmcr or join in using #hazardmcr. And finally - just to pretend I'm not completely partisan - it is a quiet week elsewhere. To remind you Hazard is slotting itself right in the middle of the Royal Exchange's Truth About Youth Festival (16-29 July); and is followed closely by Urban Moves the following weekend before the world finally gives itself over to non-stop sport! Best Tamsin