November highlights at Contact
27 Oct 2014
The best in contemporary spoken word, music and performance
Krip-Hop Nation
Wednesday, 19 November (8pm)
Tickets: £6/3. Suitable for over 16s. Led by founder Leroy Moore.
This international Hip Hop collective uniquely blend lyricism, activism and breakbeats. Krip-Hop Nation works internationally as a platform for disabled Hip Hop artists and an independent voice for disability led justice and politics. Featuring MC’s, rappers, DJ’s and musicians from the USA, Germany, Uganda and the UK.
Krip-Hop is more than music; it’s activism and education. The collective have followed developments in the UK from hate crime to the cuts to disability benefits and their work is responds to this with astonishing lyricism.
Supported by Disability Arts Touring Network (DATN) and Arts Council England.
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The Worst of Scottee
Thursday 20 and Friday 21, November (8pm); Saturday, 22 November (8.30pm)
Tickets: £9/5. Over 18s only.
Directed by Chris Goode. Everyone has done stuff they regret. Most of us bury the worst of our past, but eight months ago Scottee hired a psychotherapist and a film-maker to dig up his regrets. The Worst of Scottee sees the Time Out Performer of the Year encounter past flames, ex-friends, and people who no longer like him, in an attempt to find out where he went wrong.
‘Recklessly brave and devastating.’ ★★★★ The Guardian
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Bryony Kimmings: That Catherine Bennett Show
Saturday, 22 November (2pm and 7pm)
Tickets: £11/6 (Under 12s £5). For anyone aged 6 to 106.
BSL interpreted performance: 2pm showing.
Following the UK tour of their outstanding Contact-commissioned performance, Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model, Bryony and her niece Taylor have made a family show based on the pop-star they created as a rounded female role model: Catherine Bennett. Expect pop songs, silly dances, lots of real-life video and more in a show about believing in your power to change the world, no matter what your age.
Expect pop songs, silly dances, lots of real-life video and more in this new show about believing in your own power to change the world, no matter what your age.
‘A mould-breaking pop powerhouse!’ Time Out
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The Arches presents
Peter McMaster: Wuthering Heights
Tuesday, 25 to Thursday, 27 November (8pm)
Tickets: £12/7. Suitable for over 16s.
Post-show talk Wednesday 26 November.
McMaster’s all male, award-winning interpretation of Emily Bronte’s seminal text, re-visits the iconic landscapes and characters from Wuthering Heights and places them alongside the stories of the male performers. This bold, re-imaging of the classic novel considers what should be left to history and what should be held onto as we move through the 21st century.
‘Honest, inventive… beautifully choreographed.’ ★★★★ The Guardian
Presented by Switchflicker Productions, supported by Arts Council England. Originally developed as part of Queer Contact’s Shortcuts.
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Debs Gatenby: Hi, Anxiety
Tuesday, 25 to Thursday, 27 November (7.30pm)
Tickets: £9/5. Suitable for over 16s.
Post-show talk Wednesday 26 November. www.contactmcr.com/hianxiety
With one in four people estimated to experience mental illness, Debs Gatenby’s one woman show is a laugh-out-loud-funny yet wistful look at how mental illness affected her. And her mum.
‘Two breakdowns – mine and my mum’s – and two recoveries. Yes, it’s a two-for-one. An emotional meal-deal.’
Apples and Snakes and Ben Mellor present
Hit the Ode
Friday, 28 November (7.30pm)
Tickets: £6/3. Suitable for over 14s.
Hosted by Ben Mellor and Bohdan Piasecki.
Hit the Ode brings the most exciting poets from the region, the country and the world to the heart of Manchester. For this edition we’re pleased to welcome three-time world champion spoken word artist, Buddy Wakefield as our international guest alongside Anna Freeman and Manchester based Keisha Thompson. Wakefield is a three-time world-champion spoken word artist who delivers raw, rounded, disarming performances of humour and heart.
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