Word of Warning - works ahead...

I think I was tempting fate calling a project Works Ahead... the work level is pretty intense: we've been stuck in a darkened room while everyone else is enjoying the sunshine..!

Nevertheless next Thurs 31 May and Fri 1 June see the climax of the project at Contact.  On Thursday, three performances in development by Lowri Evans, Gareth Cutter and Krissi Musiol and, on Friday, explore backstage at Contact with four installations and interactions by: Julieann O'Malley, Angel Club (north), Small Acts and Fallen Wall Arts.

Book here: Works Ahead or, follow these links for more info about Thursday and Friday's programmes.

At the risk of decimating our own audience - Friday 1 June also sees a collaboration between Trace Theatre and the University of Salford in a doublebill including Nicki Hobday Conquers Space at the Lowry Studio.  Given that Works Ahead: interactions run from 4pm and the Lowry shows run from 7.30pm YOU CAN DO BOTH!

Made in Art, Michael Mayhew's space, also sees The Allery ~ A Large Scale ~ Pop-Up Gallery
from Fri 1st - Tues 5 June. 

And finally... gear yourselves up as the following week is a busy one - particularly as the Flare Weekender takes place here at Z-arts...

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

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And so the Word of Warning Tonka-toy-juggernaut hurtles onwards... following Getting It Out There we are now in production for Works Ahead,  seven new works in development coming up at Contact at the end of the month...

Before we crash headlong into that, tonight, Friday 18 May,  is Word of Warning's last standalone Sampler Series of the season at Z-arts (formerly Zion Arts Centre) featuring Olwen Davies, Levantes Dance Theatre and Ellie Harrison.  Levantes are well known to many of you, and you may remember Ellie Harrison from her greenroom Instant Winning Dressing The Part with Ollie Smith, and various emergency events.  Olwen is a newcome to these parts and you can catch her taster videos here.

Since the Word of Warning google calendar is strangely empty next week - the only thing I've come across is on Friday 25th, Taciturn and Tmesis in a Physicalfest doublebill at the Unity, Liverpool  - please do take advantage of the plethora of work still remaining this week.  Of course we really hope to see lots of you at the mega-Sampler Series evening tonight, but you can also check out the ongoing FutureEverything programme, Saturday's Larkin' About followed by Amy Lamé's Unhappy Birthday at Contact - or  DV8's Can We Talk About This at the Lowry.

And a final plug - the call for Hazard proposals is still open... and it's the final week of our crowdfunding campaign  - the lucky top donors get the chance to select a project to happen on the streets of Manchester!

Hope to see lots of you tonight!

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
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

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Following our frantic three days of dance with Turn last weekend, we're now about to hot-foot it up to Lancaster for Franko B's Because of Love today (Friday 11 May 7pm) and the Getting It Out There symposium (nb being streamed here tomorrow, Sat 12 May).

Next week presents a bewildering array in Manchester. Obviously my somewhat partisan pick of the week is Word of Warning's last standalone Sampler Series of the season at Z-arts (formerly Zion Arts Centre) on Friday 18 May.

But with FutureEverything kicking off and in the interests of fair play, I thought I'd do you a little week planner to take in the maximum possible, so:

On Thurs 17 May Blast Theory's I'd Hide You online game (as part of FutureEverything - also on 18th+19th) and/or for a little live queer entertainment Club Wotever: Bethany Black, Joey Hateley, Rosie Lugosi, Saltylips, Ajah UK and Hooker  

Of course, on Friday 18th May, Sampler Series with Olwen Davies, Ellie Harrison and a touch of Canapé Art from Levantes Dance Theatre in the café bar. (Though if you really must, DV8 and Amy Lamé are also on that night too!)

And on Saturday 19th May - either Larkin' About followed by Amy Lamé's Unhappy Birthday at Contact - or  DV8's Can We Talk About This at the Lowry.

Hope that works for you... Lancaster here we come..!

Best

Tamsin

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Kicking off with a reminder that Turn 2012 is well underway at Contact - tonight Fri 4 and tomorrow Sat 5 May - there are still 12 short pieces to catch plus a Mixed Movement finale.  Schedules are at turnmcr.

Next week there's loads on all over the place:  Gecko's Missing is at Contact, Weds 9 - Sat 12 May; and Lucy Foster's The Pirate Project is at the Royal Exchange Studio, Thurs 10 - Sat 12 May.

The Carriageworks, Leeds also plays host to The Pirate Project on Tues 8 May and to the intriguing Foundry Group's Big Daddy vs. Giant Haystacks on Thurs 10 May.

Live at LICA, meanwhile, continues with The Quiet Volume, Curate the Campus, plus Franko B's Because of Love on Friday 11 May (nb 7pm) before launching into the Getting It Out There symposium (nb registration closes on Weds 9 May).

For those nostalgic for a bit of VaudeVille/greenroom action, Tam Hinton's The Package is also getting a re-boot at the Wordsmith Festival in Oldham on Fri 11 May.

Final word is a quick reminder that Word of Warning's own Sampler Series returns on Friday 18 May with a full line-up featuring Olwen Davies, Ellie Harrison and a touch of Canapé Art from Levantes Dance Theatre in the café bar!

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As ever, thanks to Tom Marshman, GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN and Chris Fitzsimmons for another enjoyable Sampler Series evening last week - hope the bingo winners enjoyed their prizes!

Final reminder that West Yorkshire Playhouse's Transform 12 festival is reaching its final weekend, I'd be there if we weren't deep in rehearsals for Works Ahead.

Curiously, things seem quite quiet next week, which gives me the chance to do an unashamed plug for our own Turn 2012 at Contact, Thurs 3 - Sat 5 May. Seventeen pieces and three very different evenings of dance - and you can see all three days for £20/12 concessions! The line-up is online now and we'll be releasing full schedules early next week.

Elsewhere, you can catch Caustic Widows' Paperwork, at the Unity (3-5 May), or for the poetically inclined, a second chance to see Dominic Berry's Wizard in Nelson, Lancs on Thurs 3 May.  If you happen to be around Lancaster, Live at LICA's The Quiet Volume (Curate the Campus 2012) kicks off on 1 May and runs to 12 May.

I'm off now to gear up for a couple of hectic weeks - first loads of dance and then the industry-focused Getting It Out There symposium at Live at LICA the following week! If the cliché's true, I must be very wicked indeed!

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
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

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...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

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...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

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...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

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...the Sampler Series has landed and with it a full-on taste explosion. 
Gin...check; Satsumas...check; Chips...not yet, you wouldn't want them to get cold!

So tonight Friday 16 March at Zion Arts Centre,  sees the first Sampler Series and, with it, my showday burst of adrenalin and nerves!   Tonight's double-bill of award-winning Levantes Dance Theatre's Gin & Satsumas and The Mustdashios' Chips. promises a fusion of beautiful images, downright silly dance moves, a spot of UV and the odd mirrorball.  Added to that, we've dispensed with the spontaneously exploding balloons and gone a bit Heston Blumenthal with the interval refreshments.  Given that they involve jelly, it's all beginning to sound a bit kids' party... but don't be fooled, they come with a drink-drive warning..!

Next week the dance theme carries on at Zion with Boundaries: art of spectra [Peter Svenzon]on Thurs 22 and, across the border is the Juncture Festival of experimental practice, curated by Charlotte Vincent at Yorkshire Dance in Leeds (Thurs 22 - Sun 25).

In fact, next week seems to be 'live on the M62' week - as West Yorkshire is a real focus for activity with: Chris Goode's The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley at the LBT,Huddersfield on Tues 20 and at the Carriageworks on Thurs 22;  Paper Birds' Thirsty also at the Carriageworks, (Tues 20 - Weds 21) and Wendy Houstoun's 50 Acts at Leeds Met at Northern Ballet on Thurs 22.

Right, back to the gin & chips... hope to see you tonight!

Best

Tamsin

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...gearing up for the Sampler Series!

Thanks to Brian Lobel, Stacy Makishi, all at Contact and everyone who came along to a genuinely special pair of shows... I'm not prone to gross hyperbole - but if you missed them you did miss out!  After a manic week of shows in the far-flung reaches of the region and featuring the varied delights of peach-eating, newspaper-reading, chair-leg sawing and turn+cough exams, the next week is a bit more static - though I will be heading to The Lowry Studio on Tues 13 March for Mandy Romero's Stevenage

That said, for us at Word of Warning, the week is completely taken over by the start of Sampler Series, on Friday 16 March at Zion Arts Centre and a doublebill of Levantes Dance Theatre's Gin & Satsumas and The Mustdashios' Chips.  I'll spare you the excesses of press-friendly copy - but my favourite recent adjectives have included juicily delicious and lewd, lary and lascivious..!

Further afield, on Wednesday 14th, UCLAN's Media Factory in Preston continues its new season with Pigeon Theatre's The Twice Removed.  On Thursday 15 March, Leeds Mets Studio & Gallery Theatre has Gary McNair's Crunch and in Liverpool, the Bluecoat sees the monthly If Only residency. 

I've also been asked to give a special mention to V-Day Liverpool 2012, - a benefit production, starting on Sun 11 March, of The V*gina Monologues, raising funds for Migrant Artists Mutual Aid and featuring a host of local live artists like Lena Simic, Jennifer Verson, Caz Black, Abi Horsfield, Niamh Malone, Anne Green, Sarah Han. (*sorry- spam filters!)

Hoping to see lots of people at Zion on Friday 16th  - be warned, we may be experimenting with gin flavoured foodstuffs...

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...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

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...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

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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!

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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.

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Mercifully static with an internet connection this week, just staring out at the cold, grey skyline of Hulme!  Even if the weather doesn't agree, the Spring performance season seems to be warming up, so here goes an ultra-concise round-up!

Reminder of Iona Kewney with Joseph Quimby at the Bluecoat, Liverpool on Sat 28th and a late addition also on Saturday from  4pm The Tunnel by Daniel Ingram Brown, Parveen Ghir & Hannah Siba, Theatre in the Mill (call 01274 233200 for bookings).

The week ahead kicks off with Sleepwalk Collective - As The Flames Rose... at the Carriageworks, Leeds on 31st and sees Protein Dance - LOL at both the Nuffield/Live at LICA, Lancaster on Tues 31st and at the LBT Huddesfield on Thurs 2 Feb.

Live at LICA is mad busy all week - with Peter Moser - 24 Hours in a Tower on Weds 1 Feb and Donna Rutherford - Kin - Thurs 2 Feb.  Donna Rutherford is also closer to home at the The Lowry Studio on Fri 3 Feb.

Starving Artists - Days of Light  is at the Royal Exchange Studio 1-4 Feb, Blind Summit - The Table at The Lowry Studio on Thurs 2nd and the week finishes of with Pernille Spence - NaCi at The Bluecoat on Sat 4th.

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This week's Word of Warning comes to you from a train - I would say hurtling, but more like trundling, on its way to Bristol! I completely overestimated the powers of 3g in aiming to do this en route - so it's anyone's guess at what point I'll actually get to finish and post it!

The week ahead sees Invisible directed by Douglas Rintoul of Complicité fame, at the LBT, Huddersfield on Tues 24th/Weds 25th; and, at the Bluecoat, Liverpool on Sat 28th: Iona Kewney with Joseph Quimby - a sound/movement collaboration in response to the ongoing Gina Czarnecki Exhibition. 

The big plug for the week, however is reserved for 'one of our own' - the premiere of the 2011 Turn Prize: Ballast by Maelstrom Dance at the Nuffield, Live at LICA, Lancaster on Thursday 26th. Maelstrom have been a regular feature of Turn (and the Turn Out tour) - last year bringing greenroom's bar to a standstill with a terrifyingly bawdy intervention!

The Word of Warning programme at Zion Arts Centre now has online booking availability through We Got Tickets (10% booking fee applies) - see below for links.  We are also working on a new site for Word of Warning, so there will be some disruption to the URL as we move it.  Use www.wowmcr.org or wordofwarning.posterous.com in the interim.

RIght - back to trying to squeeze an internet connection out of 3g!

best

Tamsin

Hot off the Press: Word of Warning @ Zion online bookings:

17 February  Third Angel + mala voadora - What I Heard About the World + Word of Warning launch. 

16 March     Mustdashios + Levantes Dance Theatre - Word of Warning Sampler Series

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I'll try to avoid idiot typos this week, but I am slightly blurry following a mad dash to Liverpool for If Only...! last night, by way of Ikea and late-night curtain-making (the joys of a new office)!

In the week ahead check out Happystorm - The Crypt Project at The Lowry on Tues 17 and Weds 18th; and then on Thurs 19th a full evening event at the Nuffield, Live at LICA, Lancaster with Mel Brimfield - This is Performance Art Pt2  Exhibition Launch and New Art Club - Quiet Act of Destruction.

And, while WoWmcr is trying to be focussed on live performance, of course we wat to be supportive of other work that used to be at greenroom, that's now finding new homes around the city - so, for anyone interested in independent film, check out and bookmark upcoming Kino events - the next one being at the Black Lion on Weds 18th.

SAVE THE DATE(S)! - here's a sneak preview of the upcoming Word of Warning programme for your diaries, more events, details and links to follow soon.

17 February Word of Warning launch + Third Angel: What I Heard About The World – Zion

7/8 March Brian Lobel and Stacy Makishi performances and workshops – with Contact

16 March Word of Warning Sampler Series 1: Mustdashios + Levantes Dance Theatre - Zion

20 April Word of Warning Sampler Series 2: Tom Marshman, getinthebackofthevan - Zion

3-5 May Turn - dance platform – Contact

18 May Word of Warning Sampler Series 3: Ellie Harrison, Levantes, Olwen Davies - Zion

31 May/1 June Works Ahead - two nights of works in development - Contact

8 June Word of Warning Sampler Series 4 in conjunction with the Flare weekender - Zion 

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So it's a new year and a new start for us...

Word of Warning and its 'parent company' hÅb has now moved to a lovely new office at Zion Arts Centre and we're putting the finishing touches to the new Word of Warning programme both at Zion and elsewhere - so there'll be a whole new website here and some print in the near future.

While we sort ourselves out, for those keen to get a headstart on the year here are some heads-ups...

There is a new Word of Warning calendar for events happening within travelling distance of Manchester which you can view here, from the top of the front page and you can subscribe to by scrolling to the +Google calendar button at the bottom of the calendar.  This is a work in progress and we'll keep on updating it as we go.

There are a couple of events coming up in the next week: Seven Sites have an event by Giles Bailey at an 'undisclosed location' on Wednesday 11th, and Liverpool Collective, If Only have an evening of extraordinary encounters around the Bluecoat on Thursday 12th.

And two for your diary:

The premiere of the 2011 Turn Prize, Ballast by Maelstrom Dance, takes place on Thursday 26 Jan at the Nuffield Theatre, Live at LICA, Lancaster.

And finally... the launch of the Word of Warning programme itself takes place on Friday 17 February at Zion Arts Centre, with Third Angel's What I Heard About the World.  

New address:  

 hÅb/Word of Warning, c/o Zion Arts Centre, 335 Stretford Road,  Manchester, M15 5ZA

New telephone:  0161 232 6086

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