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greenroom
54-46 Whitworth Street West, Manchester, M1 5WW
Friday 27th September 2008, from 5pm
Saturday 28th September 2008, from 12noon
FREE
From the folk who brought you HAZARD… now come inside for emergency
emergency, the annual open platform for contemporary performance, live art and intervention returns for its 7th manic year.
Forty short performances in a day and a half – and all for free.
From the contemplative to the downright bonkers.

 For HAZARD MMX - 17 July 2010 - click here

Hazard08 – Saturday 12 July 2008 – Manchester City Centre produced by hÅb and greenroom in collaboration with the artists.

A micro-festival of incidental intervention and sited performance, with a hint of mischief! Chance encounters, random occurrences and risky ventures around and about the city centre. Cheeky, thought-provoking + sometimes raunchy sprees of eccentricity…

Hazard07 was a pilot event, produced on very limited resources and thanks to the goodwill and collaboration of a vast number of people. It saw 17 pieces of new original work across 2 days involving 32 artists, 23 participating young people and conservatively calculated audiences of 12000.

Participating artists were: Action Hero, Angel Club North, The Bucket Company, Caution Horses, CHIRP, Richard DeDomenici, DIRECT ACTion, Doldrum Theatre, Shahram Entekhabi, Escape Theatre, The Fictional Dogshelf Theatre Company, Jamie Fletcher/Ellie Harrison, MANDY ROMERO, Shabnam Shabazi, the vacuum cleaner.

Work presented ranged from wrapping a public space in 2.5 kms of Hazard tape, to shop window burlesque, dry-wipe graffiti to mass yawning. For a glimpse of what went on, have a look at the video below

Largely playful and often mischievous, the artists took over the city centre, bringing Market Street to a halt on several occasions and with swathes of yellow and black tape making their mark on the entire city centre.

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In Transit is regional touring project produced by hÅb on behalf of LANWest (Live Art North West) - an informal network of promoters and producers comprising Alsager Arts Centre, Bluecoat Arts Centre, greenroom, hÅb, Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre, Matrix Arts Project, Nuffield Theatre, University of Central Lancashire.

Originally produced in 1997, Still Running was a unique collaborative project by Municipal Constructions (Graham Clayton-Chance), Alex Bradley and hÅb. Taking over an underground car park in Manchester City Centre, it was a journey of discovery around a landscape still resonating from the impact of the Manchester IRA bomb.