HAZARD MMX

17 July 12-5pm Free
Manchester City Centre

One man, a forest of placards and the roar of the crowd… a woman crushed by a celestial object… a solo quest to make over the image of banking… six wheelchair users touching down on the moon in Manchester… one hundred Dorothys celebrating Judy.

HAZARD Manchester’s micro-festival of sited performance and intervention unleashes its third wave of bizarre behaviour onto the city on 17 July. Outbreaks of cheeky, thought-provoking and sometimes raunchy sprees of eccentricity take live art and contemporary performance into the public domain.

The two previous outings of Hazard have seen the bold and the beautiful, eccentric and extreme crop-up in every possible location: Cathedral Gardens swaddled in Hazard Tape, giant dancing traffic cones, impossible circumnavigations of the city by canoe and dry-wipe graffiti have all featured. At times unavoidable, at times subliminal, a flash of yellow and black might be the only clue that the city is one big performance.

For HAZARD MMX, over twenty pieces of work will take to the streets, with participating artists to include:

Alex Bradley, Andy&Gaz&Jon, Astrid Breel, Clare Charnley, Doldrum Theatre, Eggs Collective, Fin de Siecle, Freezechester, Hannah Wiles, Hen’s Teeth Theatre, James Topple, Jordan McKenzie, Martin Hamblen, Natalie Preece, Noise Club, Out Of Hand Theater, Peader Kirk, Rachael Nutter, Scratch ‘n Sniff Cinema, The Muffia, Vickie Fear

>From pervasive gaming to one-on-one performance; a phone-based guided tour to take-away artworks, HAZARD MMX aims to provoke and amuse, involve and engage, demonstrating to the city the playful side of contemporary art.

Get involved:

Larkin’ About’s micro-festival within a micro-festival, brings pervasive gaming to Manchester Arndale Centre. Turn up at Hallé Square from 12pm to join the games.

Find your inner Dorothy:

Eggs Collective is calling for participants to join them on a march through the city from the Emerald City to Canal Street. Contact them at eggs_collective@hotmail.com.

HAZARD MMX is looking for ‘placardeers’ to participate in a mobile intervention from 11-16 July, and for stewards to help spread the word on the day, expenses paid – contact hazard@habarts.org

To keep up to date with information and the inside knowledge on HAZARD, visit: www.hazardmcr.org or follow @hazardmcr

Volunteers from the Northern Mill Engine Society have rescued and restored over 25 old textile mill engines – some of then engines which once drove the cotton mills of Lancashire. Most will be in steam on the following dates from 10.00am to 4.00pm, and admission is free!

• Summer Steaming: August 29,30: 2010
• September Steaming: September 11, 12: 2010
• New Year Winter Warm-Up: January 2,3: 2011

more info on their website here http://www.nmes.org/

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• Abseil Window Cleaning
• High Level Cleaning
• Commerical Cleaning
• Contract Cleaning
• Graffiti Removal
• Carpet Cleaning

PARKLIFE FESTIVAL
Saturday 12 June, Platt Fields Park
www.parklife.uk.com
With an emphasis on value for money, an amazing line-up of local, national and international artists spread across six stages.  Parklife Festival is bought to you by a collective of Manchester promoters including: The Warehouse Project, Mad Ferret, Now Wave, Metropolis, Ape, The Deaf Institute.  The line-up includes Friendly Fires, Booka Shade, Calvin Harris, Vitalic, Erol Alkan, Simian Mobile Disco, Kele, Four Tet, Egyptian Hip Hop, Andy C, Roni Size, High Contrast and many, many more. Gates open at 4.30pm and the event will finish at 11.00pm. Tickets £29.50

For telephone booking call 0161 833 9833.

St Ann’s Square Manchester

The Mezzanine Gallery presents the exhibition OLD AND NEW CITY BY DAVID DUNNICO AND HOWARD BARLOW – until 8 May 2010

David Dunnico and Howard Barlow combine their black & white photography in a unique exhibition of photographs of Manchester. David Dunnico’s photographs of Manchester’s new landmarks juxtaposed against Howard Barlow’s photographs of the city in the 1970s and 1980s shows how far Manchester has come in just a few decades!

The Craft Shop Colonnade presents

SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THINGS NICE – 2 March – 1 May 2010

A sweet and spicy exhibition celebrating Mothering Sunday using floral ceramics and textile accessories, as well as gorgeous jewellery, from a host of exhibitors and makers, including Manchester-based company Don’t Bitch Stitch with floral bags; North-West maker Lucy Smethurst with embroidered jewellery boxes and spring coloured flower brooches; mother and daughter team Naïve with wool, fabric and felt cupcakes and ice-creams; and Alice In Wonderland themed bags and purses by Nicola De Cruz.

The Craft Shop Gallery Corner presents

NORMAN EAMES and his new solo exhibition of wood and resin pictures – 30 March – 15 May

‘My work has developed through many forms since my early experiments some ten years ago. From my first efforts, namely coasters and candle holders, I have progressed and now produce a range of pieces in the form of pictures, sculptures and jewellery utilising the mediums of wood and resin. My work tends to be mainly abstract in form, although I do also produce pictures in a ‘marquetry’ style, which might be pictorial or semi-abstract. All my work is original and hand made and, I believe, unique.’

70 Oxford Street Manchester

Contemporary Art Iraq- 16 April- 20 June 2010

The first comprehensive UK exhibition of new and recent contemporary art from Iraq since the first Gulf War, examining practices that are emerging with fresh perspectives from a culture marked by conflict and turmoil. This show provides a platform for a new generation of artists who acknowledge the aesthetics of conflict, but are not bound by them. Instead, they are fused with collapsing aforementioned associations and seek to broaden awareness of life beyond the brink of war, pointing toward other immediate concerns across the country.

www.chinese-arts-centre.org Thomas Street Manchester

Eastman Cheng- 12 May -21 August 2010

Eastman views an artwork or ‘object’ as a recorder. It visualises experience, records her hands movement and in the act of making, it collects the trace of her heart. For her residency at Chinese Arts Centre, Eastman will observe, analysis and create ‘objects’ from the perspective of a foreigner.

Tasha Whittle (TXLW)‘Note to Self’- 15 May – 15 September 2010

Notes to Self are Illustrated ideas from notes and memories that are written in moments of madness and or clarity. TXLW is a Manchester based artist whose drawings have found themselves onto walls, bags, furniture, posters, flyers, tables, canvas, paper and the odd face.

Mosley Street Manchester

Quarantine: The Soldier’s Song – 15 May 2010 – Sunday 4 July 2010

You’re invited to sing a karaoke duet with a soldier. This quietly provocative installation was made by the Manchester-based Quarantine theatre company over an 18 month period with currently serving soldiers.

David Osbaldeston: Out of Time (The Light of Day / The Action of the Play)-

16 April – 6 June 2010
Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present a solo show of new work by David Osbaldeston, Out of Time (The Light of Day / The Action of the Play). Through manipulated images of news photography and a print series of interpretive book cover designs from Luigi Pirandello’s celebrated play Six Characters in Search of an Author, the exhibition will explore relationships between the gallery and theatre staging, displacement, reality, illusion and social discord.

Left Bank Spinningfields

The art of Politics- 14 May 2010- 1:15pm

A guided tour of the main galleries focusing on our extensive poster collection. Free