12th July
ALL DAY - FREE MANCHESTERS MONSTERS
City Centre
Conjure up your own monsters using text messages and set them free on the streets of Manchester. Look for flyers around the city or click on the link to find out how.
ALL DAY - MEMORY
On the Interweb
The Spinneyhead blog team have been working on a video serial. The first episode will debut on 29th June and there will be a new episode every friday for the next four weeks.
11AM - 11PM - MARK KING EXHIBITION
COST : £0
Taurus
1 Canal St, M1 3HE
Mark King displays his art on the walls of one of our hub venues.
11AM - 11PM - SALFORD ART STUDENTS EXHIBITION
COST : £0
The Castle
66 Oldham St, Northern Quarter, M4 1LE
A pro-active group of Salford art students get their art up at another of our hub venues.
10AM - 6PM - EMEK RETROSPECTIVE
COST : £0
59 Thomas St, Northern Quarter, M4 1NA
Winner of the prestigious Pollstar poster of the year award 3 years running, the music industries award for all rock and concert posters. Emeks politically charged intricate posters have made him the leader of the new generation of rock poster artist. The Emek art show will provide a rare opportunity to see old long sold out and unavailable posters and original drawings, along with variants from emeks own personal collection. There will also be a number of Emek original paintings available. He has designed posters for everyone from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flaming Lips, Radiohead, The Verve, Tool, Nick Cave and many more. In Emeks posters, psychedelic 60s imagery collides with 90s post-industrial iconography. To this collision of the organic vs. the mechanical worlds he adds humour, social commentary and fantasy. Even in the smallest details there are messages.
11AM - 4PM: LAST ORDERS
COST : £0
Dale St, Northern Quarter, M1 1JW
A look at mcr's nightlife ranging from the deterioration & loss of the traditional Mcr pub to the decadence and glamour of a night out on the town. The venue itself will be transformed into a chronologically ordered installation of a nite out in mcr which will house work including sketches, photography, film, sculpture, jewellery and several planned live events which will happen during the course of the exhibition.
The majority of the artists involved are from Manchester or NW based and include; Kolyn Amor, Catherine Camp, Martyn Mills AKA The Starvin Artist, Mark Page, Lauren Roberts, Tomoko Takahashi AKA Anti-cool & Georgina Vinsun. The installation design and build is by Bex Melvin & Emma Dibb.
11AM - 6PM - IAN TILTON AT STROON
COST : £0
40 Thomas St, Northern Quarter, M4 1ER
From his world famous photo of Kurt Cobain's tearful release of energy backstage in 1990, Iggy Pop well near booting the camera out of Tilton's hands, to images of Manchester's pop and rock glitterati, Tilton's pictures ooze warmth, beauty and the visceral power of great Rock 'n' Roll. Now at Stroon Gallery in Manchester's Northern Quarter, Tilton is opening his vast archive of Stone Roses photos to public view, alongside Nirvana and never-before-seen photos of a youthful Oasis. It's an archive that chronicles an amazing period in music's history; 'Madchester', Grunge, Brit-Pop and all those bits in-between when genres nibbled at each other. Professional yet maverick, Tilton is widely recognised as one of the best on the scene.
MIDDAY - 6PM - BLANK CANVAS - Guerilla Gallery
COST : £0
23 Edge St, Northern Quarter, M4 1HW
An exhibition involving both students and practicing artists, named due to its lack of restrictions placed upon the artists involved. The only restriction being the limits of their imaginations! Each artist has chosen and created their own pieces and the result is an exciting and eclectic collection of works. The exhibition includes a broad range of painting styles, photography and installation. Each participating artist has also donated money to the ‘Rainbow Family Trust’ for the privilege of exhibiting, a charity dedicated to helping terminally ill children and their families, a cause close to the organisers’ heart. To sum up, ‘Blank Canvas’ has anything but blank canvases; it’s an exciting and diverse collection of works from an equally exciting and diverse group of artists.
1PM - THE DUMB WAITER - 3 Ducks Theatre Company
COST : £5 & £3.50 Concs
1 Canal St, M1 3HE
Directed by Ian Townsend, starring Liam Fox (credits include Dinner Ladies & Coronation Street and Touch of Frost) and Karl Lucas (currently warm up man for Loose Women, acting credits include Phoenix Nights, Ideal and Max and Paddy)
A classic play by Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter is set in the basement kitchen of a
deserted rooming house, where eccentric hit men Gus and Ben wait impatiently for instructions on their next job. Unfortunately for them, their predicament takes a bizarre turn as unsettling messages are received from the presumably abandoned floors above.
7PM - SOMEONE BORROWED, SOMEONE'S BLUE - No Attitude Theatre Company
COST : £7 Ticketweb
Withy Grove, M4 3QA
Sandy Beach, Manchester's drag queen extraordinaire is getting married and you're all invited.
7PM - LADY BOYS OF BANGKOK
COST : £19(plus fee's) Quay Tickets
Sabai Pavilion
M.U.F.C, Car Park N2, Old Trafford M16 0RA
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are in champagne-sparkling form with more than 200 specially designed lavish costumes – everything from fabulous feathers to barely-there from funky to frontier…. you won’t believe your eyes! More songs and production numbers than ever before.
It’s more than just a show – it is a total experience. It is a party night like no other! From the moment the audience enters the luxuriously appointed and carpeted foyer of the Sabai Pavilion, the everyday humdrum world is left behind. They can enjoy a drink - alcoholic or not - sample authentic Thai cuisine, or browse the delights of the Boudoir retail outlet.
8PM - SOUTH BY NORTHWEST
COST : £0
66 Oldham St, M4 1LE
If you fancy a wander down memory lane then this is the band for you.
8PM - THE DUMB WAITER - 3 Ducks Theatre Company
COST : £5 & £3.50 Concs
1 Canal St, M1 3HE
Directed by Ian Townsend, starring Liam Fox and Karl Lucas. See above.
9.15PM - LADY BOYS OF BANGKOK
COST : £19(plus fee's) Quay Tickets
Sabai Pavilion
M.U.F.C, Car Park N2, Old Trafford M16 0RA
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are in champagne-sparkling form with more than 200 specially designed lavish costumes – everything from fabulous feathers to barely-there from funky to frontier…. you won’t believe your eyes! More songs and production numbers than ever before.
It’s more than just a show – it is a total experience. It is a party night like no other! From the moment the audience enters the luxuriously appointed and carpeted foyer of the Sabai Pavilion, the everyday humdrum world is left behind. They can enjoy a drink - alcoholic or not - sample authentic Thai cuisine, or browse the delights of the Boudoir retail outlet.
***Please note all events are subject to change***
