‪FINAL ARTIST CALL for #Emergency26 *Probably* England’s longest-running #liveart event… The 26th edition of our annual platform for Live Art & contemporary performance takes over @contactmcr.bsky.social on 26 September… 🔗 emergencymcr.posthaven.com 🔴 PROPOSAL DEADLINE: 5pm this Friday, 7 August

🙏 THANK YOU to our #Haphazard artists, audiences, team, and all at @zarts.bsky.social 💬 Please tell us your thoughts if you came along via our audience survey illuminate-data.org.uk/survey/rnqbgk ✳️ 2026 continues with Emergency: a day out for the curious at @contactmcr.bsky.social on 26 September…

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… OUR 10 JULY EDITION INCLUDES → #AgelessFestival, @yorkshiredance.bsky.social 10+11 July → #Haphazard2026, @zarts.bsky.social 11 July → the @gmfringe.bsky.social 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… OUR 3 JULY EDITION INCLUDES → #Didsbury Arts Festival until Sunday 5 July → #Haphazard2026 at @zarts.bsky.social on Saturday 11 July 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… OUR 26 JUNE EDITION INCLUDES → #Didsbury Arts Festival from 27 June to 5 July → #Haphazard2026 at @zarts.bsky.social on Saturday 11 July 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… OUR 19 JUNE EDITION INCLUDES #Didsbury Arts Festival from 27 June to 5 July 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… OUR 12 JUNE EDITION INCLUDES: → #Census by @malandra-jacks.bsky.social in Wythenshawe (13 June) AND Moston (18 June) → Didsbury Arts Festival (from 27 June) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… OUR 29 MAY EDITION INCLUDES → #evileyes by n:u (melissandre varin) at @contactmcr.bsky.social (29 May) → @sickproductions.bsky.social at Contact (29–30 May) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… INCLUDES → @sickproductions.bsky.social at @contactmcr.bsky.social + @thelowry.com (27–30 May) → evil eyes by n:u (melissandre varin) at Contact (28–29 May) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

ENCOUNTER NEW PERFORMANCE with n:u (melissandre varin) next week @contactmcr.bsky.social An experiment with ancient cosmologies… A powerful performance-ritual… An invitation to enter… 🧿 #evileyes 📅 28 MAY 7.30pm / 29 MAY 6.30pm 🔗 worksahead.org 🎟️ Pay What You Can: £10/£5/£2 (book via Contact)

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… INCLUDES → @sickproductions.bsky.social at @contactmcr.bsky.social + @thelowry.com (27–29 May) → #evileyes by n:u (melissandre varin) at Contact (28–29 May) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

🧿 evil eyes 🧿 a performance-ritual from n:u (melissandre varin) at @contactmcr.bsky.social 📅 28 MAY, 7.30pm / 29 MAY, 6.30pm 🔗 worksahead.org 🎟️ Pay What You Can: £10/£5/£2

LIVE ART LATER THIS MONTH 🧿 #evileyes is a new work-in-development at @contactmcr.bsky.social from n:u (melissandre varin) that directly confronts the power dynamics embedded in gaze… 28 MAY, 7.30pm 29 MAY, 6.30pm 🔗 worksahead.org 🎟️ Pay What You Can: £10/£5/£2

WEEKLY WARNING read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best new #performance in #Manchester + beyond… 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… INCLUDES → Mr Blackpool by @hclaytonwright.bsky.social on Saturday @thelowry.com (2 May) → #Liverpool City Region's @leapdancefestival.bsky.social (to 9 May) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

CALLING LIVE ARTISTS: we’re seeking engaging, playful, quirky ideas with @zarts.bsky.social for #Haphazard2026 — a free afternoon of Live Art for all ages on 11 July 🔗 haphazard.posthaven.com ✴️ PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Fri 8 May, 5pm 📷 from Haphazard 2025: Puppetfingers, Shannon Mulvey, Madame Zucchini

THEATRICAL EXTRAVAGANZA 🗼 see @hclaytonwright.bsky.social's new show #MrBlackpool on Saturday night, 8pm at @thelowry.com 🎟️ tickets.thelowry.com

Mr Blackpool by Harry Clayton-Wright (Show Trailer)

YouTube video by HarryClaytonWright

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WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… INCLUDES → #Liverpool City Region's Leap Dance Festival (24 Apr - 9 May) → Mr Blackpool by @hclaytonwright.bsky.social at @thelowry.com next Saturday (2 May) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s guide to the bizarre, beautiful + best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… INCLUDES → Fixing by Matt Miller at @thelowry.com tonight (10 April) → Census by @malandra-jacks.bsky.social in Nelson next Saturday (18 April) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read today’s no-nonsense guide to the bizarre, beautiful + best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… INCLUDES → @malandra-jacks.bsky.social at Wortley Hall w/ @manifestopress.bsky.social (7 Apr) → #SocialExperiment at @contactmcr.bsky.social (9 Apr) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read our no-nonsense guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #Manchester + beyond… INCLUDES → Victoria Melody at The Old Courts #Wigan (29 March) → @malandra-jacks.bsky.social at Wortley Hall w/ @manifestopress.bsky.social (7 April) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: read our no-nonsense guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in #manchester + beyond… INCLUDES Turn 2026's night of new #dance at @contactmcr.bsky.social (tonight, Friday 20 March) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: discover the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in Manchester + beyond… 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com INCLUDES TWO DANCE EVENTS — RNS Moves w/ @candocodance.bsky.social at @rncmlive.bsky.social (17 Mar) — Turn 2026's night of new #dance at @contactmcr.bsky.social (20 Mar)

HIGHLIGHTING NORTH WEST DANCE — see #Turn2026 at @contactmcr.bsky.social on 20 March, a night of new #dance ft nine short works from 7pm… Alice Robinson Moves Blood Bones Jones Clara Selberg (📷) Emmy Jax & Sophia Egan Hui-Hsin Lu Joseph Adamson Joseph Lau & friends printerror Sap Dance turnmcr.org

WEEKLY WARNING: discover the bizarre, beautiful, and best #performance in Manchester + beyond… 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com INCLUDES — Census by @malandra-jacks.bsky.social at Shakespeare North Playhouse (12+13 March) — Turn 2026's night of new #dance at @contactmcr.bsky.social (20 March)

#PressRelease Acclaimed theatre company @malandra-jacks.bsky.social bring their award-winning show Census to Shakespeare North Playhouse 12th – 13th March ‘The show was a worthy winner of Best Performance at the 2024 Manchester Culture Awards’ artsreviewhub.com/acclaimed-th...

Acclaimed theatre company Malandra Jacks bring their award-winning show Census to Shakespeare North Playhouse 12th - 13th March - Performance Art & Theatre News and Reviews

‘The show was a worthy winner of Best Performance at the 2024 Manchester Culture Awards’ Census is a story that has been shaped by Northern voices, it’s part theatre, part time capsule and undoubtedly...

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🚨FINAL CALL FOR CENSUS🚨 Funny, intimate and defiant, Census is a love letter to working-class communities told through real voices. Last tickets available — book now before they're gone. 📅 Thursday 5 March 📍 Billingtons Oldham, 3 Ascroft Street, Oldham OL1 1HY coliseum.org.uk/whats-on/cen...

A NIGHT OF NEW DANCE — join us for #Turn2026 at @contactmcr.bsky.social on Friday 20 March turnmcr.org SEE NINE SHORT DANCE-WORKS by NW artists… Alice Robinson Moves Blood Bones Jones Clara Selberg (📷) Emmy Jax & Sophia Egan Hui-Hsin Lu Joseph Adamson Joseph Lau & friends printerror Sap Dance

WEEKLY WARNING: our no-nonsense guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best performance in Manchester + beyond… INCLUDES — imitating the dog‘s War of the Worlds at @liveveryplay.bsky.social (4-7 Mar) — Malandra Jacks at Billingtons w/ @oldhamcoliseum.bsky.social (5 Mar) 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com

WEEKLY WARNING: discover the bizarre, beautiful, and best performance in Manchester + beyond… 🔗 wordofwarning.posthaven.com INCLUDES — Census by Malandra Jacks at @storyhouselive.bsky.social, Chester (23 Feb) — imitating the dog‘s War of the Worlds at @thelowry.com (25-28 Feb)