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