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After 9 hours of musing and countless days of schedule crunching, the selection is now complete.

Though still subject to change, the current list of participating artists is:

Anaïs Lalange, Andy Nizinskyj, angel club (north), Angst Performance, Chris Fitzsimmons, Cutteruption, Dani Abulhawa, {digame}, Façade Theatre, FallenWall Arts, Four Cats Theatre , GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, Jessica Lee, Julieann O’Malley, Katherina Radeva, Krissi Musiol, Laura Bradshaw, Lowri Evans, Lucy Hutson, Matt & Nath, Nicola Canavan, Pinkorange Project, Rebekka Platt, Robin Sidwell, Shona Harrison/Nicola Ellis, Small Acts, Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Sturgeon’s Law, Wayne Steven Jackson, Zoë Washington

The full schedule will be published here from Monday 26 September, but look out for teasers before that!

Due to the nature of the buildings, many of the pieces will be very limited capacity, first come first served and the programme will fall into 3 sessions

Session 1 - 12-3 pm - durationals, one-on-ones, limited capacity and some larger capacity sit-down performances

Session 2 - 3.30-6.30pm - durationals, one-on-ones, durationals, one-on-ones, limited capacity and some larger capacity sit-down performances

Session 3 - 7-9pm - sit-down performances and a possilbe (weather dependent) finale!

For a map of the venues go to: EmergencyMap

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After a brief, Edinburgh-centric hiatus, the reading and selection process for emergency accommodation is now underway - which means we’ve got some phonebook size piles of paper to wade through!

For all those who submitted can we just remind you to hold Saturday 17 September free in your diaries for technical meetings in case you are selected.  The selection meeting is Saturday 3 September - we will be in touch with everyone as soon as possible after that to let them know.

Scroll on down for forms and details

Just a quick note to say that the open evening at BLANKSPACE (Thursday 11 August 1730-1930) is, for now, going ahead as planned… If the city is over-run by ‘late night shoppers’ again tonight we may think differently, but for now it’s still on.

If you’re planning on coming down, especially if you’re travelling, please keep your eye on the news and the transport situation - and check back on this site.  We’ll update if there are any changes.

Useful sites might be:

Manchester Evening News http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/

Manchester Confidential www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk

and the transport sites including http://www.tfgm.com/