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Photos: Tamsin Drury @ Word of Warning | Emergency Presented by Word of Warning, STUN + Z-arts
Saturday 4 October 2014, 12noon-11pm. Free Manchester’s marathon micro-festival celebrates its fifteenth birthday — expect the unexpected as the bizarre, the bold + the beautiful pop up throughout the cavernous realms of Z-arts… We’ve previously taped performers to windows, played a uniquely guttural rendition of Nessun Dorma and unearthed a viscerally prehistoric woman… This year’s equally eclectic performance lucky-dip is staged entirely within Z-arts for the first time — your chance to sample the different and all for free. Drop-in for ten minutes or stay for the full eleven hours — a free day-out for the curious with 28 new works, featuring (participating artists subject to change): Alice Bunker-Whitney ¦ Ana Mendes ¦ Anton Mirto ¦ Art Of Disappearing ¦ Barbara Dean ¦ Boland-Burrell + Byrne ¦ Debbie Sharp ¦ Eik + Orengo ¦ FM ¦ Frances-Kay ¦ Hamish MacPherson ¦ Hidden Track ¦ J. Fergus Evans ¦ Jade Montserrat ¦ Jamil Keating ¦ Jonathan Rogerson ¦ Krissi Musiol ¦ Lydia Cottrell ¦ Martin Hamblen ¦ Matthew Pearce ¦ Nathan Birkinshaw ¦ Neil Callaghan ¦ Odd Comic ¦ Olivia Preye ¦ Paul O’Donnell ¦ Peter Jacobs ¦ Rosanne Robertson ¦ VIA Collective Venues + Booking Details Date: Saturday 4 October 2014, 12noon-11pm Venue: Z-arts, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester, M15 5ZA Tickets: FREE no booking required; some limited capacity works will have sign-up sheets on the day Venue Tel: 0161 232 6089 What people said about Emergency 2013 A review of the work presented at BLANKSPACE by C. James Fagan. A review of some of the work presented at Z-arts by The Mancunion. Access Information Emergency 2014 takes place in a number of different spaces and formats — some seated, some standing, some spoken word, some visual, some limited capacity, some participatory. Largely adult-focussed, some works will not be suitable for younger viewers (i.e. under 16’s). For specific age and access information please see the programme notes, email [email protected] or call 0161 232 6086. Credits Emergency 2014 is produced by hÅb; supported using public funding through Arts Council England, funded by Manchester City Council, supported by STUN + Z-arts; a greenroom legacy project. Websites http://emergencymcr.org ¦ #EmergencyMcr KINDLING is an examination of the nature and value of reading and the printed word in an increasingly digital age. What is the value of printed books? And how can you control, manipulate and destroy education, ideas and narratives once transferred from page to human consciousness? KINDLING explores the relationship between words and ideas, imagination and experience in a durational installation performance that questions why we read, the value of books as artefacts and where they take us individually and as a society. KINDLING is the first work created by Peter Jacobs to be performed and has been successfully submitted to Emergency 2014 (Word of Warning) and will be performed at Z-Arts in Manchester on Saturday, 4 October 2014. Peter will be joined by around 10 volunteer performers. People have burnt books for almost as long as they have printed them. JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels are regularly torched for promoting witchcraft. Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses were burned by Muslims in 1988 for allegedly insulting Islam. Burning a book is a symbolic act – words are not just being suppressed, they are being destroyed by fire. In reality, the Nazi burnings were a very public, very threatening public relations stunt. The real impact was felt in homes, libraries and bookshops. Ray Bradbury once said: “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” |
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