Works Ahead

7.30PM May 31

Contact Theatre

Don’t miss your chance to see my debut performance post Arts Council funding- live next week at Contact Theatre with Gareth Cutter and Krissi Murisol.

As Word of Warning say:

Three artists, three performances, three takes on singledom, absence and the onset of the thirties. An emerging programme full of surprises and an insight into performance that defies definition.

October 2011 saw an extraordinary coming together of over 30 artists in a day-‘maze of performance’:emergency accommodation. Two whole buildings resonated with small exchanges, moving installations and intriguing conversations, punctuated by naked encounters and full-blown performances. Recapturing that spirit of adventure, Works Ahead invites a group of the most intriguing emergency accommodation artists to develop and present their work in a takeover of Contact Space 1.

Book tickets here !

The Solo Show Steps Forward

Yes, very good news: the Arts Council England are funding the first stage of development for my solo show, which is programmed at The Lowry next year. Work begins next month, expect lots more about that soon. In the meantime you may just want to save the 4 May and the 31 May respectively.

Live Letter

7.30pm 31st May 2012
Word of Warning, Contact, £5

In time for my performance ‘Live Letter’, I took some photos. It was chucking it down, a really shitty Manchester day with bad lighting- the perfect backdrop! So me, my wonky tripod and pink camera hung out by the derelict pub in front of my flat and shot some pics. Here’s an exclusive preview!

More details about the show here

Love is an Orange (Never Going to be Carmen Miranda)

10am 24 February 2012
Allerton Studios, Salford University

I am making a new experimental performance, which I will be videoing as it is at an unsociable hour.

The challenge is to make a new performance based on an orange. I like the juicy, stingy and squirty properties of fruit.

This is my influence:

Mother’s Ruin Theatrical Extravaganza

10 February 2012, 8pm
Contact Theatre, Manchester
£12/£7

Performing with the mighty, mad Eggs Collective. Should be a raunchy, raucous pre-Valentine’s do.

Tickets available here

Works Ahead 31 May 2012

31st May 2012
Contact, Manchester
£5

Emergency Accommodation artists takeover Contact’s studio and secret spaces with surprising encounters and definition-defying performance.

Artists include: Lowri Evans, Krissi Musiol, Gareth Cutter, Julieann O’Malley, Angel Club North, Small Acts, and Fallen Wall Arts.

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Book tickets here

Tales of Whatever

8PM 21 November 2011
The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester
Free

Come and see me tell a story at an open mic with a difference. Last performance of 2011.

Find out more here

October and November Listings 2011

You can see some of my new performances coming up at:

9pm Friday 28th October  Sophie Willan’s Birthday @ Taurus, Canal Street, Manchester free (but donations for her Oyster Card welome)

Lots of poets and me performing for Sophie before she turns 24 and moves to London. Here we are:

More here

9pm Monday 31st October Murder Mystery @Islington Mill, James Street, Salford with Eggs Collective, free

Join us if you dare for an immersive theatrical Halloween experience in and around the famously haunted Islington Mill. Eggs-pect strange happenings, encounters with the Mill’s most tormented inhabitants and, of course, the uneggs-pected!

Featuring a film screening of the cult 1963 film ‘The Haunting’, survivors will be invited to drink, dance and make merry as we bob for apples, competitively carve pumpkins and freak out to a live set from Maria and the Gay.

Fancy dress is encouraged. Be there or we’ll egg your windows. Trick or treat, love?

More here

Saturday 5th November David Hoyle’s Northern Lights @ Platt Fields Chapel, Wilmslow Road, Fallowfield, £5

I am performing a new piece of work with the brilliant David Hoyle this bonfire night. There’ll be fireworks on AND off the stage!

More here

Salford Zine Library Exhibition

15 October 2011 – 29 January 2012

Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, Salford

FREE , Preview 1pm 15 October

See my book and video in this exhibition of DIY publications. Check out the poster and trailer below for details! Including my very own Blue Peter-esque How to Make a Zine clip!!

And don’t miss:

Creative Lunch

17 September, 8 October, 12 November 2011 12.30 – 2.30PM
Cornerhouse, Manchester

I am facilitating exciting sessions with the aim to create a new performance network in Manchester. Everyone welcome.

Are you an emerging artist looking to make your own theatre / performance work?

Theatre Makers Creative Lunch is the Library Theatre Company’s brand new network aimed at supporting emerging artists to make their own theatre / performance.

Find out more here

Hold My Hand

1 October 2011 12 – 9 PM
Emergency Accommodation Festival, Manchester
BlankSpace + International Anthony Burgess Foundation

The Live Art festival is back, and I’m in it!

I’m going to tell a story just for you as we walk together, hand in hand. What moves us around the world? What makes us stay at home? This is an unforgettable five minute journey about travelling, trust and truth. Join me on my investigation into migration as she shuttles you between Emergency Accomodation venues. A £1 deposit is required for this performance which will be fully refunded on the safe return of the artist.

The Resonance of Seclusion

5 + 6 October Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Free, booking advised, call 0161 275 7450

I am performing in this new piece of theatre with Small Things, which I think will be quite magical! Details below.

In the year 2000 artist Joash Woodrow left his home in Leeds for the final time to move to a new life in sheltered housing in North Manchester. Having lived as a recluse for almost 40 years few people could believe what was discovered when the contents of the house were finally revealed. Despite his apparent seclusion Joash had painted and drawn throughout his life filling, the rooms of the normal suburban semi with over 700 paintings, 3000 drawings and hundreds and hundred of books.

Join Small Things to discover an extraordinary story inspired by one man’s unstoppable drive to create and the equally unstoppable support of his family that made his artistic life a reality.

A story of amazing discoveries, journeys that last over the years and brothers quietly growing old together.

Word Up

September – December 2011
Wythenshawe

I am project managing Word Up, a series of performance poetry workshops for young people in Wythenshawe which will end in a performance and publication of their poems. It’s my first experience of management and I’m really enjoying working behind the scenes, so much so I’ve invested in a pair of fifties reading glasses, step into the office baby!

The Life and Death of Eggs Collective

3.30PM 16 September 2011
Zion Arts Centre, Manchester

Eggs Collective are presenting a 20 minute sharing of our summer show, The Life and Death of Eggs Collective at Decibel, the Arts Council Performing Arts Showcase. We are hoping to develop and tour the show in 2012.

Find out more here