Hello everyone!
How are you? I hope you have a lovely week planned ahead of you.
Below are this weeks listings. I hope there’s something for you to enjoy.
Thursday 17 December - 9pm
All you need is a camera, an internet connection and something to say.
Last year, 34% of young people voted YouTuber as their top career choice. Claire was intrigued. She decided to have a go. Part documentary, part live performance, part parody, part desperate as f*ck, Claire does everything she can to entertain her online audience while remaining 100% totally authentically real.
Adapted during lockdown and live-streamed from her bedroom, Claire delivers an intimate performance that invites you to see behind the camera.
This is Black by Uproot Productions
Monday 14 December to Wednesday 16 December - 7:30pm
This Is Black 2.0 is an urgent response to the injustices faced by Black people around the world. Uproot Productions are platforming seven artists to curate an online experience that takes audiences through artistic expressions of the joys and tensions of being Black today.
Institute for Mediated Intimacy by Lena Chen & Michael Charles Neumann
Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th December - Various Times
The Institute for Mediated Intimacy explores intimacy, isolation, and connection through individualized roleplay sessions that attempt to bridge the distance between strangers during the current crisis of quarantine. Two strangers in different cities engage with each other through remotely controlled human avatars whom they instruct to speak and act on their behalf. The conversation and interactions evolve according to the audience members who can manipulate the avatars to embody their emotions, desires, and commands with intimate or absurd results.
Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
until 20th December
Four Catholic conservative friends gather at a late-night backyard party in Wyoming, shortly before the 2017 eclipse. As they wait for the arrival of their mentor and newly appointed college president, secret passions and fears surface, revealing their troubled place in a divided country.
LETSBY AVENUE by The Circus House
From 20th December
LETSBY AVENUE will be the first circus show at the historic Playhouse Theatre in Hulme, once the renowned home of the BBC Northern and the Nia Centre for African & Caribbean Culture.
A co-production between NIAMOS and Manchester's circus-specialists The Circus House, the show promises to be a riotous, physical celebration of Mancunians in lockdown; a council house cabaret in the sky!
Wednesday 16th until Friday 18th December
A two-woman 100% faithful, word-by-word* remake of the Christmas film we all hate to love:
‘Love Actually’.
‘Love Actually’ is Sh!t Actually.
The ‘rising stars of performance art’ (Telegraph) Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole take on their hardest roles yet. All the roles. With live songs, queer love stories, and politics questioned by women with actual lines – come to this adults-only celebration of Christmas Actually.
*Just kidding
Materiality Will Be Rethought by Joe Moran
Until 17 Dec
Conceived as a site-specific work, Materiality Will Be Rethought was developed as a live performance within the sculptural environment, now reimagined as a film.
The piece navigates dance’s potential to animate and disrupt architectural space, the physicality of the dancer’s voice and the moving body as a site of political unrest and complex subjectivities. Moran’s choreography offers new contextual frameworks within which Something Necessary and Useful can be experienced. In turn the sculptural environment created by Bunga creates a space of friction, interrogated by the present bodies of dancers with whom Moran works.
a note
I hope you enjoyed the chat with Ben Kulvichit last week and the blog entry the week before. I’ve brought it back to just the listings this week as I’ve spent the week writing a fair amount of applications. Next week I’m going to try something new before signing off for the year. Over January I think my plan is to experiment with what etude offers and then in Febuary spend some time figuring out what works best by asking for some more firect feedback. We have now reached over 100 subscribers and I’m really happy with that, hopefully we’ll grow some more over the coming weeks. Thanks so far for the support.
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Hope you have a lovely week and talk soon!
Josh x