TWO WEEKS OF INSPIRING PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS AND MORE FRESH FROM THE NORTH WEST FRI 12 - SAT 27 JAN 2018 Welcome to PUSH 2018! PUSH is HOME’s annual celebration of the North West’s most creative talents.
Over two weeks our stages, screens and spaces will be dedicated to showcasing fantastic works originating from our region as well as offering opportunities for creatives to meet industry professionals, share ideas and inspiration and develop skills across a broad range of topics.
This year, alongside our usual programme of performances, works in progress, screenings, exhibitions and events we are delighted to also present a whole weekend of informative and inspiring workshops and events in conjunction with Random Acts North as well as the premieres of four brand new theatre pieces commissioned by HOME especially for the festival - The Manchester Project (p6); True Stories (p10); Only Speak When Spoken To (p12) and See Me After (p13). SEE MORE, SAVE MONEY! We’re looking forward to meeting you at the festival and hope it will provide Can’t decide what to see in PUSH? Save money when you you with something that fulfils your PUSH 2018 LAUNCH creative thirst! book for two or more festival events. FRI 12 JAN, FROM 18:00 Book two or more theatre shows and save £2 per ticket* homemcr.org/push-2018 Free #Push2018 Book for two or more workshops, events or discussions and save £1 per ticket* Come and celebrate the start of PUSH 2018 with the preview of Jez Dolan’s Buy a day ticket for Propel on Sat 13 Jan for just £10 (see p7) exhibition Anders Als Die Andern (see p5), *All tickets must be purchased at the same time. Excludes works in progress, rehearsed readings, workshops priced at £3 and free events. Terms and conditions apply. followed by celebratory music with a global influence with Manchester International Roots Orchestra from 21:00 (see p6).
in association with
2 Front cover image from The Political History of Smack and Crack 3 SCREENINGS EXHIBITIONS
Keep an eye out for a selection of short films from North West creative talents in our cinemas JEZ DOLAN: ANDERS ALS DIE ANDERN during PUSH, as we screen shorts from Random Acts North and Film Up before our regular programme of feature films. Preview Fri 12 Jan, 18:00 SPIT THAT OUT: NORTH WEST ARTIST FILM PROGRAMME (CTBA) + Q&A Exhibition runs Fri 12 Jan – Sun 4 Mar GRANADA FOUNDATION GALLERIES 1 & 2. Free Sat 13 Jan, 13:30 – 15:30 Jez Dolan’s work focuses on queer identity, often using secrecy, hiddenness and codification of £5.50 full / £4 concs language, working with archival material in the creation of new work. He works with a variety of For over 30 years, in both our current incarnation as HOME but also formerly as Cornerhouse, we disciplines according to the needs and demands of each project. During an artist residency in early have specialised in the exhibition and now also production and distribution of experimental artist 2017 at the Schwules Museum, Berlin, Jez first watched the film Anders Als die Andern (Different film. Puzzling, startling, frustrating, eye-watering and often incredibly inventive, ripping up the from the Others, 1919). filmmaking rule book. For PUSH 2018 we present a round-up of work curated by Bren O’Callahan, Despite being made almost a century ago, the film asks for tolerance and understanding for gay Senior Producer, Visual Art at HOME, drawing upon artists who are living or working in, hailing men. It is simultaneously a museum piece and a prescient call for acceptance, which might provide from, or have studied across the North West. A full line-up will be announced closer to the event. useful instruction to many people, including governments who espouse harmful discrimination and THE ACTING CLASS (CTBA) + Q&A officially sanctioned hatred to deadly means. Watching the film opened up resonances with ideas already under exploration, specifically the Mon 15 Jan, 18:20 eradication and erosion of the rights of queer people in many countries, not least Trump’s USA. Jez £9 full / £7 concs had also been thinking about reparative therapy, ‘homosexual cures’ and the torture, imprisonment Dir Mike Wayne & Deirdre O’Neill/UK 2017/77 mins and murder of queer people currently happening in Chechnya. For HOME Projects, Jez has begun to investigate film stills, images and text outlining legislation, A documentary that deals with the lack of working class representation on our stages and our personal quotes from interviews, and images of ‘homosexual cures’ and other reparative therapy screens, The Acting Class follows actor Tom Stocks who had to twice turn down a place at the found online. The quality of light and darkness in the film, and others of that period, is also an East 15 drama school because he could not afford the fees. Angered by this situation, Tom set up aesthetic reference point. The specific content and form of the work will emerge during its making. Actor Awareness, a campaign to highlight socio-economic exclusion in the arts. Including interviews with actors Christopher Eccleston, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Maxine Peake, Samuel West and others, this film questions who gets to be on our stages and screens, whose stories get told and why it matters to all of us. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Mike Wayne and Deirdre O’Neill with more guests to be confirmed.
4 5 THEATRE & PERFORMANCES PROPEL Sat 13 Jan THEATRE 1 POP UP STUDIO £3 each / £10 day ticket (inc 20% off in the restaurant/café-bar) Join four local theatremakers in our pop up studio space as they try out and share the first stages of new pieces of work. The sharings will be followed by a short Q&A to help in the development of their pieces. MONKEYWOOD THEATRE COMPANY THE MANCHESTER PROJECT Square Peg Theatre and conversational performance Josh Coates & Ali Pidsley Sat 13 & Sat 27 Jan, 14:30 THE RETURN style, he explores fantasy, UNTITLED A.I. THEATRE 2 consumption, curiosity and a loss PROJECT INTERACTIVE LAUNCH / MANCHESTER 12:30 – 13:30 of reality. £12.50 full / £10.50 concs WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL ROOTS Inspired by the macabre tales of Being Mancunian has always been a huge part of Stephen King and Arthur Miller’s ORCHESTRA Monkeywood’s identity. Now they are trying to 18:30 – 19:30 The Crucible, The Return tells find out what that means… the story of a town torn apart by Ali and Josh wondered what Fri 12 Jan, 21:00 would happen if they were to The award winning Monkeywood Theatre have faith, superstition and modernity. make a show about artificial GROUND FLOOR commissioned 18 astounding Mancunian writers Square Peg Theatre seeks intelligence, for fun. But then an Free, drop inn to write 18 tiny but titanic new plays exploring to explore the use of mime, A.I. robot committed suicide and Manchester and its people. The plays take us from live foley sound effects and Elon Musk called on governments Join HOME and the Manchester International Moss Side to Middleton, Flixton to Failsworth, ensemble theatre practices to to stop making autonomous Roots Orchestra (MIRO) to mark the opening of Droylsden to Didsbury and ask, when we push the create a rich and vivid world Elmi Ali weapons of mass destruction. PUSH 2018 with an evening of celebratory music clichés aside, what does it really mean to be part from nothing. Come join them in this workshop with a global influence. of this city? SAID THE SEISMOGRAPH ABOUT to explore our fears, anxieties MIRO is a unique ensemble of musicians with A short play from The Manchester Project will also and possibly our excitement roots from across the world and includes be performed before every Theatre 2 show during THE TREMOR surrounding artificial intelligence. students from the Royal Northern College of the festival. There may be some robots Music. Its repertoire skilfully combines diverse 16:30 – 17:30 joining them and participants musical influences – from haunting Eastern 1970’s post-revolutionary Somalia must be up for playing with European melodies, to the delicate textures of meets post-war, present day robots. Middle Eastern percussion and vocals, through Mancunian diasporic sensibilities to soulful Sufi chants of South Asia, and joyful in this scratch performance. African gospel – embracing rap, hip-hop, classical music and jazz along the way. Elmi Ali is a writer, performer and James Monaghan facilitator based in the North FORREST West. He presents this new piece of work in its early stages. 14:30 – 15:30 “Have you ever consumed something out of compulsion? Something out of guilt? Is the guilt part of why you like it? Or is that just confusing, because the guilt also makes you sick?” James Monaghan is one half of Sheep Knuckle. Through an open
6 7 PEN:CHANT Young Identity YESYESNONO YESYESNONO In The Mirror Theatre Company Offstage Theatre & Most Wanted HATCH HOME [INSERT SLOGAN HERE] 5 ENCOUNTERS NARCISSIST IN THE THE POLITICAL HISTORY Sat 13 Jan, 20:00 ON A SITE CALLED MIRROR OF SMACK AND CRACK Mon 15 Jan, 18:30 Mon 15 Jan, 19:45 THEATRE 2 CRAIGSLIST REHEARSED READING & Fri 19 Jan, 19: 30 & Tue 16 Jan, 21:00 Tue 16 Jan, 19:00 £10 full / £8 concs THEATRE 1 POP UP STUDIO THEATRE 2 Mon 15 Jan, 21:15 & Wed 17 Jan, 21:00 Tue 16 Jan, 19:15 After toiling down the art £12.50 full / £10.50 concs £12.50 full / £10.50 concs & Wed 17 Jan, 19:00 THEATRE 2 THEATRE 1 POP UP STUDIO mines, tapping the seams In an increasingly hostile Sam’s reading into magpies. THEATRE 2 £12.50 full / £10.50 concs £3 of spoken word, comedy, £12.50 full / £10.50 concs world, Hatch Home looks He thinks he sees the future. Written and performed by Rosie Written by Ed Edwards. Directed by live music, contemporary to connect to humanity Fleeshman. Directed by Sue Jenkins. Cressida Brown. An accident takes place. A Sam is anxious about the performance and everything using poetry and theatre. car crash. It must have been way he gets to know people. She expected the world to Neil and Mandy’s paths in between, Pen:Chant return Poets from Young Identity an accident; the Volvo XC60 About the way he self- fall at her feet…she was so cross as kids on the night to HOME for a PUSH special, will reflect on the comic, has IntelliSafe technology sabotages his attempts to sure. of the Manchester uprising presenting a line-up drawn the tragic and everything and auto-brake functionality communicate and reach out in 1981. Little do they know from the best talent that the in between – visual arts, But the twenty-something designed to prevent to those around him. how this event will shape North West has to offer. psychology, the news, girl in the dressing room deliberate collisions and their future lives. They share science, sex and alienation; Sam wants this to be a is no longer sure about Hosted by award-winning is specifically designed to some laughs, an occasional this show is a microcosm chance for you to get to anything, least of all herself. writer and performer Ben protect you and your family. bed and finally their love of the human experience. know him. She explores her flaws and Mellor. Open mic spots as they seek to maintain a Encapsulating the spirit And every time she mentions comes face to face with the available, please contact “Would someone like to join fragile recovery against the and essence of Manchester, anyone she’s ever kissed, ‘narcissist in the mirror’. [email protected] to me up on stage?” addiction that blights their with metaphor and rhythmic Sam has a panic attack. book a slot. A dark comedy about life, lives and the drug epidemic performance, Hatch Home Desperately hilarious and A show about fictions. The ambition and expectation, that smashes the inner city “Pen:Chant makes for an brings the city’s finest and achingly bleak, 5 Encounters fictions we tell ourselves. The laced with acerbic wit, communities at the height of exciting night of different most fierce poets to centre on a Site Called Craigslist fictions we impose on others. punchy dialogue and intricate Thatcherism. artforms… There’s something stage. is an intricate and tender A show about one person spoken word, Narcissist in for everyone to discover and question mark around our Offstage Theatre & Most Young Identity is a and everyone and nobody the Mirror is stage and radio enjoy” – The Reviews Hub attempts to encounter each Wanted create ground- Manchester-based spoken at all. performer Rosie Fleeshman’s other in a technologised breaking work harnessing word collective which first one-woman play, which YESYESNONO makes work world. the energy, instincts and life runs creative workshops premiered at the Greater concerned with discovering experiences of prisoners, ex- locally, giving young people Winner of Total Theatre Manchester Fringe in 2017. what democratic artistic prisoners and young people opportunities to perform Award for an Emerging endeavours can look like. “A highly enjoyable way to at risk of offending. They their written work across the Company/Artist 2017. spend an hour” – Northern bring original stories from UK. “A bittersweet and moving Soul these from these unheard experience” - Lyn Gardner, voices to the stage and look The Guardian to offer fresh insights into the criminal justice system.
8 9 Talawa Theatre Company Truth Be Told Manchester Collective Dorna Arts Group Box of Tricks PAN LID TRUE STORIES CABARET: SOLITUDE PLAYBOX TAKEOVER REHEARSED READING A SHOW ABOUT THE END OF Thu 18 & Sat 20 Jan, 19:00 Fri 19 Jan, 19:00 LOVE A CREATIVE DAY OF NEW PLAYS AND CONVERSATIONS Fri 19 Jan, 21:00 & Sat 20 Jan, 21:00 Wed 17 Jan, 18:00 Sat 20 Jan THEATRE 2 THEATRE 2 THEATRE 1 POP UP STUDIO Thu 18 Jan, 20:15 THEATRE 1 POP UP STUDIO £3 £12.50 full / £10.50 concs THEATRE 1 POP UP STUDIO £12.50 full / £10.50 concs £12.50 full / £10.50 concs A day-long takeover by Box of Tricks to showcase new plays “I’m a First Generation Light There’s a story behind Solitude is like a shadow from current PlayBox playwrights in the form of rehearsed Brown Could be Wanna be every face that you Comprising some of the spreading across the whole readings and connect with local writers and theatremakers. Drag Queen Mancunian who’s couldn’t make up. True most exciting musical talent world, indiscriminate of PlayBox is a year-long writer-on-attachment programme with Box of Tricks offering bespoke residencies and support to three never Stories journeys through from a new generation of geographical boundaries. early career North West playwrights. Been to Jamaica the most unbelievable, international instrumentalists, Dorna Arts Group will be Africa hilarious, unsettling and Manchester Collective make exploring two examples of WRITERS’ BREAKFAST Brazil captivating personal stories their debut at HOME with a such an experience and in 10:30, Free, booking required Or Cuba” of five different artists. Their musical exploration of love doing so they hope they will Join Box of Tricks and current PlayBox playwrights for coffee, pastries and a chat about how they develop new plays and foundations and art forms and loss. be able to better connect Adam lives with his nan. may come from all over the with our feelings towards support the next generation of playwrights. He’s her carer. But when she world, but they all have one Although the project takes solitude, and live a more 30 DAYS by Farquan Akhtar announces she’s moving to thing in common. Each of the form of a live musical positive life. 12:00, £3 Tenerife he has to work out their stories is true. cabaret show, the heart It’s the start of Ramadan. Adil is consumed by guilt as his love who he is without her. of the show is a series Dorna’s aim is to introduce and faith are tested to their limits. As fasting begins, will he Seamlessly blending spoken of real love letters and Iranian arts to the diverse survive the next 30 days and find the light of Eid? This is the first opportunity word, instrumentation, hip- communities of Manchester spoken stories submitted to WORKSHOP / TOURING NEW WORK to see this brand new play by hop, singing and storytelling, and the surrounding area. Talawa Writers’ Programme Manchester Collective. These 14:30, Free, booking required this new show explores stories and recordings are Currently engaging 25 A 90-minute workshop exploring the challenges and playwright David Judge, some of the most bizarre artists, this busy collective opportunities in touring new work across the UK. a playwright, poet and to be woven into the music and uncommon experiences that makes up the show – a performs work across the performer from Manchester. people go through. North West. MÖBEL by Patrick Hughes set that ranges from songs 16:30, £3 Produced by Remi by Nina Simone and Judy Solitude will be performed in Olive and Moss are moving into a new home and looking for a Adefeyisan, a critically Garland through to tracks Iranian with English subtitles. new start. But can their relationship overcome the challenges acclaimed lyricist from by Elbow, performed by of depression, anxiety and flat-pack furniture? Manchester, Truth Be Told acclaimed cabaret singer LAND’S END by James Harker brings together people Nichla Smith together with 18:30, £3 together from different Manchester Collective. Two girls, one thousand miles, no hope. A riotous road trip backgrounds who have featuring death, dancehall and the redemptive power of Cliff Richard. settled into Manchester but never fully integrated into the wider community.
10 11 Nwando Ebizie Kane Power Theatre Meraki Collective Marcus Hercules Yandass Ndlovu and Anna Berentzen 20 MINUTES OF ACTION MENTAL ONLY SPEAK WHEN RASTA LIVE SEE ME AFTER SPOKEN TO Sat 20 & Sun 21 Jan, Mon 22 & Wed 24 Jan, 19:00 Thu 25 & Sat 27 Jan, 19:00 Fri 26 Jan, 19:00 13:00 & 16:00 Tue 23 Jan, 21:00 Tue 23 Jan, 19:00 Fri 26 Jan, 21:00 & Sat 27 Jan, 21:00 GALLERY THEATRE 2 & Wed 24 Jan, 21:00 THEATRE 2 THEATRE 2 £5.50 full / £4 concs £12.50 full / £10.50 concs THEATRE 2 £12.50 full / £10.50 concs £12.50 / £10.50 concs Nwando Ebizie’s new works Mental tells a moving and £12.50 full / £10.50 concs Rasta Live is a biographical look at the life of One room. A group of people. Everyone is were created after she personal story about one Laugh with us and at us, a man committed to the future well-being of here for a reason. discovered she had a rare son’s relationship with his his family, his community and the country he as we play with rules that See Me After is an explosion of dance, spoken neurological condition called mother and her mental called home, Africa. govern polite behavior. Only word and sound, devised by some of the ‘visual snow’ - which means health. Speak When Spoken To is The story follows Ellis Hercules’ journey most exciting young talent in Manchester. that she sees everlasting At a time when mental health a bright and bold dance from 1957 St Kitts to 2013 Ethiopia, via images, halos and dots all the Yandass Ndlovu and Anna Berentzen is increasingly making the theatre show; an exploration Leeds and Manchester in the 60s, 70s and time. collaborate on a brand new theatrical headlines, yet still so many into social etiquette with 80s. Interviews with friends and family and experience that explores the relationship Twice a day there will be are unable to speak about wigs and wit. a rich archive of letters, photographs and between words, body and music. Giving a 20 minute performances their experience for fear of other ephemera are uncovered through Tackling social and political voice to the young people of our city, See Me by Ebizie featuring a live stigma, this show tells a physical performance, video projection and themes in a vibrant and witty After looks at the human condition, how we electronic score and drawing personal story that will get a live performance of a newly composed way and using the body as interact and where we all end up. on the artist’s research into people talking. a storytelling device, Meraki soundtrack. perceptual disorders and Winner of the very first Collective create intriguing, Manchester-based acclaimed writer and dance research into Haitian Mental Health Fringe Award meaningful and socially- performer Marcus Hercules makes a welcome Vodou, Vogue and Ballet. given by The Scotsman engaged shows. return to PUSH following his 2016 show During this visceral and The Mental Health Prison Game. performance, she will relive Foundation, Mental is an actions again and again and exploration of the mind question what ‘20 minutes with music, anecdotes and of Action’ means when medical notes. experienced by a survivor of “Beneath its home-made trauma. aesthetic, this is a tightly The gallery will be open on scripted, smartly performed Sat 20 & Sun 21 Jan, 13:30- production inspired by his 20:00 for you to step in mother Kim’s experience of to Ebizie’s accompanying mental illness” – The Stage installation and encounter the world as she sees it. Entry to the installation is free. 12 13 Thu 11 Workshop 18:00 – 21:00 Pen:Chant Masterclass The Weston Room Fri 19 Performance 19:00 – 20:00* Solitude Theatre 2
Fri 12 Preview 18:00 Jez Dolan: Anders Als Die Andern Granada Gallery 1 & 2 Performance 19:30 – 20:30* Hatch Home Theatre 1
Launch 21:00 – 22:30* Manchester International Roots Orchestra Ground Floor Performance 21:00 – 22:00* True Stories Theatre 2
Sat 13 Panel Discussion 11:00 – 12:30 Making It As An Artist Filmmaker Theatre 2 Sat 20 Networking 10:30 – 11:30 PlayBox: Writers’ Breakfast Theatre 1
Performance 12:30 – 13:30 Propel: The Return Theatre 1 Installation 13:30 – 20:00 20 Minutes of Action Gallery
Screening 13:30 – 15:30* Spit That Out: NW Artist Film Programme Cinema Performance 12:00 – 13:00 PlayBox: 30 Days Theatre 1
Performance 14:30 – 15:30 Propel: Forrest Theatre 1 Performance 13:00 – 13:20 20 Minutes of Action Gallery
Performance 14:30 – 16:00* The Manchester Project Theatre 2 Workshop 14:30 – 16:00 PlayBox: Touring New Work Theatre 1
Workshop 16:00 – 18:00* The Beginner’s Guide to Applying for Funding Event Space Performance 16:00 – 16:20 20 Minutes of Action Gallery
Performance 16:30 – 17:30 Propel: Said the Seismograph About the Tremor Theatre 1 Event 16:00 – 18:00* Show & Tell Event Space
Performance 18:30 – 19:30 Propel: Untitled A.I. Project Interactive Workshop Theatre 1 Performance 16:30 – 17:30 PlayBox: Möbel Theatre 1
Event 18:30 – 19:30 Exposure Launch Event Space Performance 18:30 – 19:30 PlayBox: Land’s End Theatre 1
Event 20:00 – 22:00* Pen:Chant Theatre 2 Performance 19:00 – 20:00 True Stories Theatre 2
Sun 14 Panel Discussion 11:00 – 12:30 Setting Up As A Freelancer Theatre 2 Performance 21:00 – 22:00 Solitude Theatre 2
Workshop 13:30 – 15:30* The Beginners Guide to Applying for Funding Event Space Sun 21 Workshop 13:00 – 16:00* On The Brink Draw Club Event Space
Workshop 13:30 – 15:00 Marketing 101: Branding & Selling Yourself The Weston Room Performance 13:00 – 13:20 20 Minutes of Action Gallery
Workshop 15:45 – 17:45* Don’t Forget To Look After Yourself! Event Space Installation 13:30 – 20:00 20 Minutes of Action Gallery
Workshop 15:45 – 17:45 Marketing 101: Branding & Selling Yourself The Weston Room Event 15:00 – 18:00 Become Takeover Theatre 2
Mon 15 Workshop 10:30 – 12:30 Performers Playground: Freeing Up Your Creativity Meet at Box Office Performance 16:00 – 16:20 20 Minutes of Action Gallery
Screening 18:20 – 20:20* The Acting Class + Q&A Cinema Mon 22 Workshop 10:30 – 12:30 Mothers Who Make The Weston Room
Performance 18:30 – 19:30* Hatch Home Theatre 1 Performance 19:00 – 20:00* Mental Theatre 2
Performance 19:45 – 20:45* [insert slogan here] Theatre 2 Tue 23 Panel Discussion 18:30 – 20:00 A Room Of One’s Own: Artist Studio Space Event Space
Performance 21:15 – 22:15* 5 Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist Theatre 2 Performance 19:00 – 20:00* Only Speak When Spoken To Theatre 2
Tue 16 Workshop 10:00 – 14:00 Afro-Ancestral Ritual Movement Meet at Box Office Performance 21:00 – 22:00* Mental Theatre 2
Workshop 18:30 – 20:30 Creating Content to Engage Your Audience Event Space Wed 24 Workshop 14:00 – 17:00 Making Your Participatory Activities Accessible Event Space
Performance 19:00 – 20:00* Narcissist in the Mirror Theatre 2 Performance 19:00 – 20:00* Mental Theatre 2
Performance 19:15 – 20:15* The Political History of Smack and Crack Theatre 1 Performance 21:00 – 22:00* Only Speak When Spoken To Theatre 2
Performance 21:00 – 22:00* [insert slogan here] Theatre 2 Thu 25 Event 18:30 – 20:00 Creative Matchmaking Event Space
Wed 17 Workshop 14:00 – 16:30 Introduction to Theatre Producing Meet at Box Office Performance 19:00 – 20:00* Rasta Live Theatre 2
Event 18:00 – 20:00 Disabled Artists Networking Community Launch Gallery Fri 26 Performance 19:00 – 20:00* See Me After Theatre 2
Performance 18:00 – 19:00* Pan Lid Theatre 1 Performance 21:00 – 22:00* Rasta Live Theatre 2
Performance 19:00 – 20:00* 5 Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist Theatre 2 Sat 27 Panel Discussion 13:30 – 15:00 Getting Your Film On The Big Screen Event Space
Performance 21:00 – 22:00* Narcissist in the Mirror Theatre 2 Performance 14:30 – 16:00* The Manchester Project Theatre 2
Thu 18 Event 19:00 – 21:00* (De)Construction Gallery Workshop 15:30 – 17:30 Film Producing 101 Event Space
Performance 19:00 – 20:00* True Stories Theatre 2 Performance 19:00 – 20:00* Rasta Live Theatre 2
Performance 20:15 – 21:15* Cabaret: A Show About the End of Love Theatre 1 Performance 21:00 – 22:00* See Me After Theatre 2
14 * Approximate end times, may finish earlier. 15 WORKSHOPS, EVENTS RANDOM ACTS NORTH WEEKENDER Random Acts North helps artists and creatives from all fields to develop bold, daring and challenging & DISCUSSIONS expressions of creativity in short film form, as well as offering a programme of training and personal development to further their creativity, networks and career. As we share similar ambitions and goals, it would have been silly not to team up and bring you a weekend of events, screenings and networking opportunities!
PANEL DISCUSSION WORKSHOP / THE EVENT / EXPOSURE / MAKING IT AS AN BEGINNER’S GUIDE LAUNCH ARTIST FILMMAKER TO APPLYING FOR FUNDING Sat 13 Jan, 18:30 – 19:30 Sat 13 Jan, 11:00 – 12:30 EVENT SPACE THEATRE 2 Sat 13 Jan, 16:00 – 18:00 Free, booking required CALL FOR PROPOSALS / GET ADVICE AND FEEDBACK DURING £5.50 full / £4 concs & Sun 14 Jan, 13:30 – 15:30 You’ve made your film, now EVENT SPACE CREATIVE INTERVENTIONS PUSH Defining yourself as an artist what? Don’t panic! The Random filmmaker, you might as well £7 full / £6 concs Acts North team are here to help We’re taking the opportunity with PUSH to mix claim to be an orchid engineer with the launch of Exposure: A For the duration of the festival, you will get the Do you need funding for your things up a bit! Fancy showing something different or a cloud stylist. But a vocation guide to exhibition, distribution opportunity to get one to one sessions with a project or practice? Are you to our cinema audiences during PUSH? We are can’t be helped; you are what and marketing for filmmakers range of professionals on your practice and/ struggling to put your artistic opening our cinemas for creative interventions you are! So what now? We will and artists. This one-stop-shop or project. Places are limited and booking is ideas into a format that might to take place before our regular programme of be rounding up a bunch of artist booklet will provide you with essential. appeal to funders? This screenings for the duration of the festival. filmmakers at different stages everything you need, from in their career, from those just beginners guide to applying for planning a festival strategy to Subjects will include: All art forms and styles welcome; the only limits starting out to those with a little funding will help you to figure understanding how artist films to consider are that pieces should be no longer • Feedback on specific artist film projects more experience, to talk through out what your options are and are distributed and exhibited in than five minutes and the content will need to be some helpful pointers. de-mystify the grant application the UK and beyond. in line with the certificate of the film to follow your • Advice on social media, website and digital process. We will look at what intervention. content for your creative project and/or From formats to practical funders want; how to identify practice considerations, screening sources of funding; how to Deadline: Wed 13 Dec 2017, 17:00 opportunities and tips we wish • Advice for non theatre makers who have a present your ideas and how to we had been told, we’ll also If you’re interested, please head to theatre project and would like to know if it is approach funders. homemcr.org/push-interventions discuss the necessity of seeing viable, where to start, what they need to think material and not only making it. Run by Miriam O’Keeffe, former about Director of the BBC Performing • Fundraising & grants proposal writing Hosted by HOME’s Bren Arts Fund, freelance project O’Callaghan, who is an artist film manager and grant assessor. • Advice for aspiring producers, curators, makers producer and assistant director and make-believers about the nitty-gritty of who has worked with the likes Please note: due to high demand and making creative projects happen! of Rachael Maclean, John Waler, limited capacity, this workshop is repeated. You only need to book for For details and to express an interest, please John Walter, Jim Richards and La one of the sessions. head to homemcr.org/push-feedback JohnJoseph. Following the panel discussion is a screening of Spit That Out: North West Artists Film WORKSHOP / PEN:CHANT MASTERCLASS Programme, see p4 for details.
Thu 11 Jan, 18:00 – 21:00 THE WESTON ROOM £5.50 / £4 concs Pen:Chant presents a creative masterclass delivered by one of the special guests appearing at our PUSH North West showcase event on Sat 13 Jan. Stay tuned for further announcements… IMAGE CREDITS: Money by Thomas’s Pics (CC BY 2.0). Tournage by Groume (CC BY-SA 2.0) (CC BY-SA by Groume Pics (CC BY 2.0). Tournage CREDITS: Money by Thomas’s IMAGE 16 17 WORKSHOP / will explore both inner life WORKSHOP / (imagination, myth, ancestry) RANDOM ACTS NORTH WEEKENDER PERFORMERS and outer life (the moment, the INTRODUCTION TO PLAYGROUND: FREEING group, the senses) and connect THEATRE PRODUCING PANEL DISCUSSION / WORKSHOP / WORKSHOP / DON’T UP YOUR CREATIVITY with an ancestral movement. SETTING UP AS A MARKETING 101 – FORGET TO LOOK Wed 17 Jan, 14:00 – 16:30 Please wear comfortable FREELANCER BRANDING & SELLING AFTER YOURSELF! Mon 15 Jan, 10:30 – 12:30 clothing. MEET AT HOME BOX OFFICE YOURSELF WELLBEING FOR MEET AT HOME BOX OFFICE £3 Sun 14 Jan, 11:00 – 12:30 FREELANCERS £3 Join Jake Orr, Theatre 503 THEATRE 2 Sun 14 Jan, 13:30 – 15:30 producer and co-director of This workshop is perfect for £5.50 full / £4 concs & 15:45 – 17:45 Sun 14 Jan, 15:45 – 17:45 Incoming Festival, to discuss performers and artists who and demystify what and who THE WESTON ROOM EVENT SPACE Are you considering going are looking to rediscover the a producer is for theatre freelance? Want to set up £7 full / £6 concs £7 full / £6 concs fun in their practice and build companies. your own creative company to a playful relationship with Branding is more than a mark When you work in an area you fellow performers and audience Jake will explore the producer develop the artistic projects - it’s the way you think, speak that you’ve always wanted are passionate about and are members. Using games and role in a theatre company, and present yourself. Holdens a freelancer, it’s easy to tip the exercises, you will explore self-producing and how to start to do? Join a panel of people has experience branding arts who have done exactly that, as work/life balance in favour of ways to begin and refresh your out, budgets and fundraising, organisations and production work and lose energy, sleep and creative process. finding venues and touring work, they discuss their journeys into companies across the North WORKSHOP / CREATING freelancing and/or creating their even self-esteem and confidence. networking and relationship West, including Box of Tricks, Art The session will be physical, own company, sharing the useful CONTENT TO ENGAGE building, how to find a producer With Heart, Monkeywood and In this talk, independent arts but is suitable for all levels experience they’ve picked up YOUR AUDIENCE and if the producer is right for 24:7 Theatre Festival. producer Louise Blackwell will of fitness and is led by Alice along the way. your work. explore what’s important to put Robinson, co-artistic director In this two-hour workshop, in place and prioritise when you of Clown Lab, The Performer’s Tue 16 Jan, 18:30 – 20:30 Speakers include Dan Hett, suitable for creatives in all Creative Technologist; Rachel are a freelancer. How do you Playground course and Clownfest EVENT SPACE fields, they will introduce you make sure you take as much care Manchester. Moorhouse, theatre producer and to branding and marketing - £7 full/£6 concs founder of Art With Heart; film of your wellbeing as you do of equipping you with the tools you Please wear comfortable If you have a creative project or producer Loran Dunn (Delaval others you work with? need to drive forward, produce clothing. practice, all your promotional Films) and more. great content and get noticed. Louise will touch on subjects material should give your such as budgeting for yourself potential audience a flavour of Please note: due to high demand and as well as others, building what to expect or intrigue them limited capacity, this workshop is repeated. a supportive network and enough that they want to find You only need to book for one of the understanding your value in the out more! Having a strong set of session. arts ecology. digital assets (and knowing how to make the most of them) can EVENT / DISABLED help with this. ARTISTS NETWORKING In this workshop, Marketing COMMUNITY LAUNCH Manager Sian Ediss, will explore what makes engaging Wed 17 Jan, 18:00 – 20:00 content. From blogs to videos WORKSHOP / AFRO- and social media tips, this GALLERIES ANCESTRAL RITUAL workshop will provide insider Free, booking recommended tools and examples to inspire MOVEMENT you to explore your own content A round table and networking strategy so you can amplify your event to encourage dialogue Tue 16 Jan, 10:00 – 14:00 brand message creatively and between theatres, art galleries, MEET AT HOME BOX OFFICE consistently. venues, TV companies and Delivered in partnership with Random Acts Network Centre North. Random Acts is a partnership disables artists and performers between Arts Council England and Channel 4. Tyneside Cinema is the lead organisation in Random Acts £10 full / £8 concs from all creative practices. Network Centre North, working in partnership with HOME in Manchester and True North in Leeds, one of the North’s leading independent production companies, to commission and produce new moving image Inspired by Haitian folklore, Are you an artist of any art work from young artists and filmmakers aged 16-24. ritual movement, rhythm and form with a disability? Are you song, participants in this an arts organisation wishing workshop will be led by artist to employ more people with and performer Nwando Ebizie disabilities? Then the launch of in group improvisation and the Disabled Artists Networking performance. The workshop Community (DANC) is for you. IMAGE CREDITS: Project 365 by Alan Kleina Mendes (CC BY 2.0). Dandelion by Vincente Villamón (CC BY-SA 2.0) (CC BY-SA Villamón 365 by Alan Kleina Mendes (CC BY 2.0). Dandelion Vincente CREDITS: Project IMAGE 18 19 DANC is a space to EVENT / SHOW & TELL attendees. Especially relevant WORKSHOP / MOTHERS communities should you wish to EVENT / CREATIVE network, create projects for young people aged 18-35. WHO MAKE take the plunge. MATCHMAKING and partnerships, and to Sat 20 Jan, 16:00 discuss how, together as arts organisations and artists, we EVENT SPACE Mon 22 Jan, 10:30 – 12:30 Thu 25 Jan, 18:30 can work to create change. Let’s Free, booking required THE WESTON ROOM EVENT SPACE stop waiting for it to happen; Discover Manchester’s creative Free, to book your place email Free, registration required let’s figure out how to make it [email protected] happen. scene as artists, designers, Are you a composer and/or makers and creatives from all Mothers Who Make is a growing musician itching to work on a walks of life talk about their national network aimed at film or theatre piece? Are you practice, projects or sources of supporting mothers who are a filmmaker or theatre maker inspiration in five minutes flat. artists, working in any discipline looking for an original soundtrack and at any stage of their careers. for your work? Don’t know where WORKSHOP / ON THE It is a peer support group and WORKSHOP / MAKING to stat to find your perfect work creative exchange session for partner? BRINK DRAW CLUB mothers who are – professional YOUR PARTICIPATORY and/or passionate – writers, ACTIVITIES ACCESSIBLE Then register for our creative Sun 21 Jan, 13:00 – 16:00 painters, actors, dancers, matchmaking event. We’ll ask you to talk about your practice EVENT SPACE filmmakers, photographers… Wed 24 Jan, 14:00 – 17:00 every kind of maker and mother (for composers) or specific Free, booking required welcome. Please feel free to EVENT SPACE project (for theatre/film makers) EVENT / for a very short time and then On The Brink Studio went to bring along your children of any £15 DE(CONSTRUCTION) – age, whether they are inside you, give you plenty of time to go and Bad Luck of the Draw Club in Are you a theatremaker, youth DEVELOPING THE CREATIVE beside you or running round the chat to people you want to know Oakland, California when they theatre leader or member of EVENT / BECOME room! more about. Fingers crossed SCENE, DIY STYLE toured up the West Coast of a theatre’s participation and a beautiful work partnership TAKEOVER America. Bringing it back to learning team? Do you want to will come out of it! If you are Thu 18 Jan, 19:00 – 21:00 Manchester, the On The Brink learn in a creative way how to scared to talk in public you can Draw Clubs are now held GALLERIES Sun 21 Jan, 15:00 – 18:00 PANEL DISCUSSION / A make your work accessible to of course still attend and talk to at Trove and various places people with different disabilities? people afterwards. £5.50 full / £4 concs THEATRE 2 around the city, enabling ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: £5.50 full / £4 concs people of all artistic abilities ARTIST STUDIO SPACE This practical workshop will To register your interest please Want to get stuff done? Come to draw together, share their demonstrate how access can be head to homemcr.org/creative- and find out how! Become is a young creative work, mingle and have fun in a Tue 23 Jan, 18:30 – 20:00 added through creative layers matchmaking Instigate Arts presents a night networking movement whose creative environment. to your work, thereby gaining aim is to inspire young EVENT SPACE the skills in making access an of creative and artistic Do it We encourage anyone to come Yourself, bringing together people (over 18) to become £5.50 full / £4 concs art form in itself. You will learn catalysts of change through along, you don’t have to be the a practical working method Manchester and Salford’s world’s best artist – you’d be Ever fancied getting your own cutting edge, innovative and entrepreneurship and creativity. for your future work which surprised at the great things artist studio? Do you suspect it ensures your company works leftfield creatives, collaborators, For PUSH, Become has that have come from people may make you more productive collectives and spaces. Find out collaboratively towards access programmed an afternoon who think they cannot draw. by creating a space to think with it becoming the team’s who’s doing what, where and of inspiring talks and poetic and work that doesn’t involve how and enjoy an evening of art, You can even bring your own responsibility rather than the performances with plenty of staining the living room carpet individual. performance, music, video and networking opportunities, work in progress or finished with the output of your creative conversations. featuring established and artwork to be displayed as we urges? But what of the cost? In partnership with TripleC, a emerging speakers who will get drink and draw, culminating in And (the horror!) close proximity disabled led organisation with you inspired to achieve your full a mini exhibition showcasing all to other artists? a collective of artists with and potential. the goodness. without disabilities. This is a truth-spilling Speakers include Jerome conversation about what really Lancaster (on marketing and goes on in a selection of artist influence in business), Karen studios across Manchester, Kawadza (on journalism and including who and where they influencing change in the are, specialisms and artist mix, community through movements), the financial costs, the upsides with more to be announced. of carving out a dedicated space, the downsides of sharing Stay on after the event for a a communal sink, and how to bite to eat, a drink and a chance get the most out of these micro
to network with speakers and (CC BY 2.0) D’allessandro by Laura CREDITS: Studio View IMAGE IMAGE CREDITS: Peek by algenta (CC BY-SA 2.0) CREDITS: Peek by algenta (CC BY-SA IMAGE 20 21 PANEL DISCUSSION / GETTING YOUR WORKSHOP / FILM PRODUCING 101 FILM ON THE BIG SCREEN Sat 27 Jan, 15:30 – 17:30 Be the heart of HOME. Become a Friend. Sat 27 Jan, 13:30 – 15:00 EVENT SPACE £5.50 full / £4 concs £7 full / £6 concs EVENT SPACE In today’s DIY filmmaking scene, it is not uncommon for one person to be the writer, As a registered charity, we depend on the generosity of our friends and loyal audiences. What happens when you want your short or indie director and producer of a short film. However, film to be seen in places other than the internet, having a separate director and producer working As a HOME Friend, you can make a huge difference. HOME Friends help us to produce and preferably on a cinema screen where actual together on a project can help take it to a new, people can watch together? and better, level. share thrilling new art and keep our ticket prices affordable, support our work with local In this informal and lively discussion with schools, young people and communities, and help us develop Manchester’s next generation In this talk, Manchester-based producer Dana of creative talent. As a thank you, you will receive all the benefits of HOME membership as filmmakers, venues and festival programmers, Bruce will explore how producers and directors you’ll get to hear about the many factors that work together and go through all the practical well as some added extras to help you get closer to our work. could bring your film to a screen. details to consider when developing a film. Expect To become a Friend, visit homemcr.org/friends or contact Roisin Joyce, Deputy Expect to come out with plenty of tips, some plenty of tips to take away to make your film common sense and an insight into the realities of production run smoothly. Development Director on 0161 212 3435, or [email protected] venue and festival programming that can help you This talk is especially relevant for any creatives better shape your future plans to get your film who are contemplating making a film on their shown. Silver own and need a reminder of all the aspects they Friend Gold Friend Platinum Friend need to think about; aspiring film producers and (£7.50 per (£22 per Friend (£42 Speakers include Jason Wood, HOME Artistic (£10.50 per filmmakers who would like to understand the month) month) per month) Director (Film); Jennifer Hall, producer of month) Manchester Animation Festival; Loran Dunn, role of a producer better in order to shape future founder of Delaval Film; and Chris Paul Daniels, collaborations. HOME membership card 4 4 4 4 artist filmmaker and lecturer.
Advanced priority booking 4 4 4 4
Season magazine 4 4 4 4
Top Picks/recommendations 4 4 4 4
Invitation to Annual Supporters Day 4 4 4 4
Acknowledgement online 4 4 4 4
Acknowledgement in annual report 4 4 4
Private booking line 4 4 IMAGE CREDITS: Silence ça tourne by Guillaume Capron (CC BY-SA 2.0) (CC BY-SA CREDITS: Silence ça tourne by Guillaume Capron IMAGE
Invites to VIP exhibition previews 4 4
High profile acknowledgement in HOME foyer 4
Photo Credit: Paul Karalius, 2015 22 23 RECEIVE UPDATES homemcr.org/members
KEEP IN TOUCH e-news homemcr.org/sign-up Twitter @home_mcr Facebook homemcr Instagram homemcr Pinterest homemcr Flickr homemcr Audioboom homemcr Google+ homemcrorg GETTING HERE YouTube homemcrorg HOME 2 Tony Wilson Place Manchester M15 4FN We are located on Tony Wilson Place, First Street, just off Whitworth Street West, roughly opposite the Hacienda apartments and a short walk from Oxford Road and the Deansgate-Castlefield Metrolink stop. For venue, event information and booking homemcr.org Box Office 0161 200 1500
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
HOME is a trading name of Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd a company limited by guarantee. Registered in England and Wales No: 1681278. Registered office 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN. Charity No: 514719 © 2017