Tonight KinoFilm are back in the building with a selection of KinoShorts which start at 7:30pm sharp.

Tomorrow night, with only 6 tickets left Dave Haslam interviews Dexy’s Midnight Runners front-man Kevin Rowland in the first of his Close Up With… series here at greenroom, the Mark E Smith event on the 20th unfortunately is sold out.

Those fantastic people from Cabaret Formerly Known as Bucket will be holding court in the bar on Friday night with much frivolity and fun, while if you want to catch the best in new bands then don’t miss Green Bohemia, our regular free music night on Saturday night.

Next Friday Proto-type Theater return to greenroom with the clever and visual Third Person (redux). Through video, drawings, reenactments and overhead projections, Proto-type Theater investigate the events that unfolded out of the electric meeting of two of history’s most infamous lovers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Third Person (redux) is a fragmented tale of evidence, violence and surprising connections between love, life, death and donuts.

Still to come: Pigeon Theatre, MethodLab, Dance 3, Levantes Dance Theatre, Krissi Musiol and Imitating the Dog…bring it on!

love greenroom x x

Jeremy Shine, co-founder of greenroom & architect of Streets Ahead, takes a tour of the sites of greenroom performances, before we had a building.

Tosh Ryan, a musician & cultural provocateur, travels back in time to the optimistic post-Second World War era, to the beginnings of the revolution that was to put Manchester at the centre of the cultural landscape of Britain.

Lip Service, the award-winning Mancunian female double-act, give a light-hearted reflection on the 1980’s feminist cultural revolution.

Whilst the live tours have been & gone, we invite you to take your own tour, by downloading the MP3’s & maps here.

Turn 2010 is presented by Dance Initiative Greater Manchester, greenroom & hÅb and takes place this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Installations start from 7pm and performances at 8pm with tickets priced at £6/£4 concessions per night or a 3 day pass is only £12/£8.

Turn 2010 is unmissable: three nights of performance and installations which take place all over the building culminating in our second Turn Prize — an opportunity for a North West artist or company to develop and show a full work in greenroom’s next season.

Come and support the dance-makers of tomorrow today.

Next Thursday, it’s the first in the series of Close Up with… interviews. Dave Haslam journalist, author, academic and legendary Haçienda DJ will be getting up close and personal to former Dexy’s Midnight Runners frontman Kevin Rowland, his second is Mark E Smith of The Fall on Saturday 20 but is already sold out - so call now to avoid disappointment.

Don’t forget Proto-type Theater return to greenroom on Friday 19 with their new show Third Person (redux). A tale of the love affair of two jaded New Yorkers.

The monthly greenroom radio show airs this Friday morning at 10am until 11am on ALLFM (96.9FM) listen in for interviews with artists and performers from the shows in this newsletter as well as forthcoming shows from March and a chance to win tickets for Proto-type Theater.

Enjoy Regular Events in the Bar this upcoming fortnight with Cabaret (Formerly Known As) Bucket, Kino Shorts,  Green Bohemia and Freed Up.

love greenroom x x

On Thursday evening drown your bitterness in the strong liquor of VaudeVille. Watch new electronic cabaret and a selection of the best new performance, video and music from VaudeVille collaborators.

This Friday, and after the critical acclaim on their previous visits, the Chicago based collaborative performance duo Cupola Bobber return to greenroom with their latest production, the ridiculously sublime adventure, Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me.

“This pair of Chicago-based 30-year-olds can lay claim to a special talent for alternative performance-making of disarmingly odd, cosmic charm.” The Times

Infused with gentle humour and melba-dry wit, delightfully low-tech invention, and expansive imagination, Cupola Bobber create a vast internal adventure of miniscule proportions as Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me studies the action of the Sea, both as mythology and as presence, and asks: why is it people are drawn to the Sea?

While researching their work the duo walked across Morecambe Bay with the official Queen’s Guide to the Sands and heard stories about how many things had sunk into that sand over the decades… mail, luggage, people, horses, carts, cars, shoes. They checked out all the Morecambe and Wise books from the Morecambe library. They bought all their DVD’s. They laughed really hard at them. They read all the books in the Lancaster University’s library that mentioned Gilbert and George. They watched the films of Mitchell and Kenyon. They watched the Laurel and Hardy film Way Out West.

On Saturday evening come down to the greenroom bar for fun and games! with Larkin ‘ About - bring all weather clothes as some games are played outside! In the spirit of New York’s ‘Come Out and Play’ and London’s ‘Hide and Seek’ gaming festivals, Larkin’ About hosts a series of games events throughout the year, bringing playful experiences to the people of Manchester. Conceived as Manchester’s first festival dedicated to pervasive gaming Larkin’ About is now an on-going collaboration between theatre practitioners, digital artists, map makers, live artists and game players. Larkin’ About is also proud to announce it will be creating a programme of games as part of the established Manchester based festivals Sounds From The Other City, Eurocultured, FutureEverything and Hazard.

And don’t forget it’s Turn 2010 next week, three days of Dance and Installations all over the building!

love greenroom x x

Our spring season opens officially this Friday night with the magical show Class of ‘76 by Third Angel. Our gift to you is a special reduced price ticket - so phone the Box Office on 0161 615 0500 and get yours for £6 instead of £9.

Have you ever wondered where your old school mates are? You can track down some on facebook and through Friends Reunited but what about those who have completely dropped off the map. What do you do then?

Third Angel embarked on a ten year journey to track down everyone in Artistic Director Alex Kelly’s primary school class photo from 1976. This show is their stories and his story of discovery.

Don’t miss out on this special Season Opener ticket offer!

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Next weekend, after the critical acclaim on their previous visits, the Chicago based collaborative performance duo Cupola Bobber are set to make a welcome return to the UK with their latest production, the ridiculously sublime adventure, Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me.

Infused with gentle humour and melba-dry wit, delightfully low-tech invention, and expansive imagination, Cupola Bobber create a vast internal adventure of miniscule proportions as Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me studies the action of the Sea, both as mythology and as presence, and asks: why is it that people are drawn to the Sea?

Performing the destructive magnetism of The Sea using Cupola Bobber’s home-spun minimal aesthetic and poker-faced absurdist charm, whilst channelling both Laurel and Hardy and Gilbert & George, the show builds a remarkably engaging exploration of how the Sea functions as a dwarfing muse of existential contemplation, a place of leisure, and as heartless destroyer. All this is explored through the locations of British Edwardian sea-side resorts and surrounding “work towns”, the disappeared sea-side town of Hallsands, the disappearing town of Dunwich, and 1930’s dust bowl Kansas. Lancaster.

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Our Regular Events include Freed Up tomorrow night, VaudeVille next Thursday and don’t forget Larkin’ About is back and in the bar on Saturday 27th Feb from 6pm for more playful experiences. If you want to volunteer or help out with Larkin’ About please email larkin.about2009@gmail.com for more details.

love greenroom x x

Performance artists from across the North West are invited to pitch a new performance idea in 60 seconds! A panel of judges including Kevin Bourke (MEN Theatre reviewer); Baba Israel (Artistic Director – Contact Theatre); Liz O’Neill (CEO Zion Arts Centre) and Garfield Allen (greenroom Artistic Director) will select the best idea, using imagination and originality as their only criteria. The ‘instant winner’ will receive a £500 commission to realise the idea and present it as part of the autumn/ winter 2010 season at greenroom.

Please email info@greenroomarts.org for the short Registration Form, fill it in and return it to greenroom ASAP by e-mail or in person, if we have any questions we’ll get back to you.

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Don’t forget: our Special Invitation to you and your friends to Third Angel’s Class of ’76!
Say the word “Reunion” when making a telephone booking (0161 615 0500) and get your tickets for £6 instead of £9 to this magical show.

Don’t you ever wonder what happened to your primary school class mates?

Wouldn’t you like to track them down and ask them?

That’s exactly what Third Angel did over a period of ten years.

“The school reunion has become a feature of 21st-century life. While it allows you to measure your own achievements against those of your former classmates, their faces can also act as a mirror to your own middle-aged appearance” Lyn Gardner - Guardian.co.uk

Alex Kelly (Co-producer Third Angel) fulfilled his childhood dreams of being a detective, tracking down as many of the 34 children in his primary school photograph as he could find. When he found them, he asked them what they had been doing for the last 24 years, what they remembered about school and each other: a catalogue of both shared and unique memories.

“I have talked about Class of ’76 since first reading about it… I am so very grateful to have had the opportunity to finally see a live version.” LiveArtMagazine

“Magical and beautiful” Total Theatre Magazine

“Incredibly moving” Yorkshire Post

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Don’t forget: Our Regular Events in the Bar
This week, KinoFilm have a premiere and a full length feature film ‘Diary Of A Disgraced Soldier’ based on the Iraq war, Green Bohemia celebrate the second part of their 6th Birthday on Saturday night and tickets are selling like hotcakes for Dave Haslam’s talk with Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) and Mark E Smith (The Fall) – so don’t miss out!

love greenroom xx

A panel of judges including Kevin Bourke (MEN Theatre reviewer); Baba Israel (Artistic Director – Contact Theatre); Liz O’Neill (CEO Zion Arts Centre) and Garfield Allen (greenroom Artistic Director) will select the best idea, using imagination and originality as their only criteria. The ‘instant winner’ will receive a £500 commission to realise the idea and present it as part of the autumn/ winter 2010 season at greenroom.

In the past, the ‘outcomes’ of Instant Win! have included experimental theatre, one to one performance, an interactive exhibition, an installation of grafittied toilet doors and a wrestling match in the bar!

‘Pitches’ are invited from performance artists across a range of non-narrative disciplines, and the idea could be realised as experimental performance, dance, installation, interactive exhibition, durational performance or live art.

What you need to do in advance

Please complete the short Registration Form (attached) and return it to greenroom asap by e-mail: info@greenroomarts.org or in person, if we have any questions we’ll get back to you.