A free day out for the curious of all ages.
Sat 22 July. 12noon-3pm at Z-arts. FREE
Save the date and get your thinking caps on!
Intriguing images and offbeat oddities dotted around and about the historic Z-arts building in Manchester.
Playful, quirky, engaging, and sometimes plain daft: this is Live Art for kids and their adults, adults and their adults.
hÅb|Word of Warning and Z-arts are now calling for proposals for Haphazard 2023, our sixth free ‘all ages’ Live Art day taking place on Saturday 22 July, Noon-3pm in and around Z-arts, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5ZA.
To date, Haphazard has seen ping pong balls and squeaky toys; a singing fish and a sax-playing bear; paintball golf and human quoits; a giant periscope, a golden toilet, and a tiny bee-shaped world… Have a look at the 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 image galleries, and 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 archives to get an idea of what's gone before.
This is not Live Art for children, but Live Art for ALL AGES — and we mean from tot to timeworn, 8 months to 80 years — so work should have appeal for adults and children alike (even if the kids need to explain it to the adults!)
From experience, what works best are big surreal images, interesting repetitive movement, and nothing too text heavy.
We
have access to a number of spaces within Z-arts (see space info sheet below): a café,
an atrium, some small spaces, some stairwells, and a big black box theatre that we may well use as a 'dark gallery'. Work immediately outside the building may also be possible.
Durational, intervention, and ‘come and go’ work seems to work the best — we’re not really looking for sit-down theatre shows.
This
isn’t a really formal selection process with lots of criteria, but work
does need to be safe, legal, and you must have the right to perform it — and we need to have enough information to know whether we can make it work — so please fill out the Haphazard proposal form by Friday 2 June, 5pm,
after which we’ll let you know if you’re on the list of possible
projects and get in touch to take it from there — we aim to have made
programming decisions by mid/late June.
If you’d like to talk to us about
your ideas first — please email haphazard@habmcr.org.
We
have a small budget and can offer an honorarium of up to £300 per
piece.
If you'd like to discuss a bigger proposal please get in touch
first.
Proposal form URL https://forms.gle/Wz3q9txpiMiWRP6J8
Proposal deadline: 5pm, Friday 2 June 2023.