MURMUR issue eight June 2018
Manchester’s monthly newsletter
MURMUR
issue eight // June 2018
Illustration: Moody June
Editors: Olivia Havercroft, Nicole Peeters Huw Spencer & Tom Waring Design: Lisa Lorenz
Moody June are Manchester Ar t & Film duo Br yony Dawson and Tomas Walmsley.
Get in touch for to get involved via: murmurmanchester@gmail.com
Welcome to MURMUR: Your alternative guide to Manchester’s independent, radical & inclusive events
What a lovely start into this year’s summer season! We hope you were able to make the most of both warm bank holiday weekends. Here’s more to come!
L I S T E N 7 June Factory Acts, Ethereal, Patchwork Rattlebag, Code: Marla and Éntha @ Peer Hat A cornucopia of everything brought to you by Manchester DIY promoters Tilted Fiction. Expect a powerful mix of Synth Pop, Folktronica, Abstract Techno and Trip Hop. £4, 8pm - 11pm
9 June Cult Party Record Launch w/ Kiran Leonard @ St James & Emmanuel, Didsbury Join Cult Part for the EP launch »And Then There Was This Sound«. Written between 2011 and 2016, it features adaptations of 20th century folk songs, cosmic stories of weather spirits and meditations on sadness and joy. Support comes from the talented Kiran Leonard, filling the church space with the etherial sounds of the piano.
Insta: @moody_june
21 June Oklo w/currentmoodgirl @Eagle Inn London-via-Manchester newcomers Oklo will be familiar to some. Can you spot the money and kult? After having spent some time focusing on personal projects both close to home and further afield we’ll see them reunited. Same faces, remodeled union, different sound! £7, 8pm - midnight
30 June Gardenback @ Soup Kitchen Psych/Garage rock up-and-comers Gardenback kick off their Health and Wellbeing tour at Soup Kitchen, performing ‘ambition, frustration, and ultimately disappointment’. Support your local music scene! £5/6, 7pm - 11pm
D A N C E 1 June Boogizm @ Partisan Collective Two-Tom-Ting? Tom Boogizm and Tom Ireland are doing what they do best at Partisan to guide you into the summer. You know the gist: your boogie at Partisan will spare you stress (saver space) and give back to the community (supporting local charities). Boogie on, Babies! £5, 11.59pm - 4am
2 June Index: w/ Hidden Spheres & VASE (live) @ The Peer Hat Berlin label Index presents Manchester’s alternative dance talent Hidden Spheres & Vase live at the Peer Hat. £5, 11pm - 3.30am
2 June Kiss Me Again x Meat Free @Soup Kitchen We still carry the warm feeling of May’s KMA with us and are excited to see some more excellent female DJ talent in Manchester’s finest basement. KMA have teamed up with Meat Free legends Blasha & Allatt - serious groove alarms ringing. As usual, bring the good vibes ditch the smelly prejudice. £5, 11pm - 4am
8 June DRIFT @ Unit 5 (The Great Northern) & The White Hotel Support Drift, a new venture that aims to support development of local artists looking to create work which combines art, technology, and performance. On 8 june they’re taking over Unit 5 of the Great Northern to bring you a day of leading audiovisual performances, live music, dance, followed by a night at the White Hotel showcasing some of Manchester’s best DJs. £10/13, 6 - 11pm
£5, 7.30pm-11pm
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23 June Charity Book & Print Flash Sale @Portico Library
CALL OUT
LET’S TALK PORN! Athanasia and Carolina from the University of Liverpool are looking for women to interview about their thoughts and experiences with pornography. Their study aims to document the lived experiences of women, whose voices have been
underrepresented in the literature about pornography consumption. All participants will remain anonymous. Drop them a line to get involved or find out more via email. ☞ a.daskalopoulou@liverpool.ac.uk
29 June DJ Storm, Lee Gamble, Mumdance & Szare @ The White Hotel
4 June Disabled Writers Workshop / How to pitch for TV @ HOMEmcr
Forceful Drum n Bass and Techno. If the weather’s not warmed you up yet - a dance to this in the depths of the White Hotel will sure do! £7 - £13, midnight - 7am
Learn how to develop your idea for a successful TV pitch. The event will include a networking session with industry professionals. This event is a direct result of discussions between artists and industry guests at Disabled Artists Networking Community events that identified a desire to increase the number of pitches for TV submitted by disabled writers. FREE, 1 - 4pm
D O 1 June Small Fry Print Fair @Goodstock Come on down to support Manchester School of Art (almost!) graduates by buying their laser cuts, photography, zines, posters. The event will be hosted in the upstairs of Goodstock, Manchester’s indie charity shops for fashionable bargain hunters. BYOB, bring your pre-loved clothes, and also bring some dosh and pennies for this lovely bunch of young artists. Follow them @smallfrycollective FREE, 5 - 10pm
1 June Women of Manchester Tour @ Coffee Cranks Cafe Let Lady Pedal Manchester take you on a historical tour ride to landmarks connected to the women that put Manchester firmly on the map. FREE, 6 - 8.30pm
7 June PechaKucha Night Manchester Vol. 22 - Magazines! @ The Bright Building Come and see murmur’s very own Lisa Lorenz amongst a plethora of talented Manchester magazinemakers present at PechaKucha No. 22, an informal presentation event where creative people get together to share their ideas. Saffa Khan from Tender Hands Press will also be running a zinemaking event. £7/8, 7 - 9.30pm
9 June Women Hold Up Half The Sky @Coffee Cranks Cafe To celebrate the close of Ekua Bayunu’s eight week residency you are invited to participate in a day of events - outdoor sculpture trail, art workshops, and a party - presenting and ref lecting on her work on global women’s leadership and consider culture.• An exhibition, including films of the project’s development, at Chorlton Lodge: 11am - 3pm FREE, 1 - 6pm
Catch this one-off f lash sale during the usual Saturday opening hours of this Mancunian library gem. Attention book nerds: new and antiquarian books, exclusive greetings cards, postcards and prints, will be sold from just 50p! All proceeds from sales contribute to the library’s non-profit public programme. FREE entry cheap books: 11am - 3pm
A R T 1 June Mental State Signs Preview @ Paradise Works Nick Jordan’s Mental State Signs explores the assessment of mental health disorders, psychosis and surveillance inspired by artefacts salvaged from an abandoned hospital’s psychiatry video studio. His short documentary Thought Broadcasting portrays the blurred lines of reality, illness, and imagination. FREE, 6 - 9 pm
5 June My Mate Dave @ Night&Day Cafe ‘My Mate Dave Has Come Out Tonight In My Dead Husband’s Wedding Suit’ explores the disruption to an everyday act and space through the creative and improvised disposition of amateur graffiti, as well as analysing its societal and political effect on its audience by artistic means.
FREE, 7pm - late
6 June Proforma: Launch Event @ Soup Kitchen Find out more about Manchester’s newest festival for contemporary art at their launch event at Soup. Proforma will take place 28th July, showcasing the work of 20 upand-coming artists from our city and the North-West. During the launch event you can learn more about this one day art festival, get to know the curators and artists involved. FREE, 6pm - late
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7 - 10 June In One Room @ Islington Mill »In One Room« invites ten contemporary printmakers risography and silkscreen printmakers from around the UK to showcase fresh ideas with 20 brand new works on display. FREE
7 - 13 June Art & Reflections of a Retired Trained Killer @ The Horsefall Manchester based artist Alan S began creating art whilst he was homeless and has continued to develop more work over the last eight years. He intuitively combines collections of found materials - often discovered around the city in skips, bins and charity shops. FREE, 7pm - 9pm
10 June Revolutionary Women Around the World @ Manchester Central Library Learn about revolutionary women like Queen Amina of Zaria, Elizabeth Gaskell and others who contributed to our world’s educational, political, economic and societal structures. Part of Manchester Histories Festival 2018. FREE. 1 - 2pm
15 - 19 June Stockport Art School Degree Show @ LEAF Stockport in Manchester on Portland Street! Stock-ception saves you a short train or bus journey bringing Art School talent directly to you. Check out the works of new local talent during regular LEAF opening times or join us for the preview! FREE, Preview: Friday 6pm
16 June Sonia Boyce Artist Talk @ Manchester Art Gallery Sonia Boyce’s first retrospective exhibition exploring wide-eyed wonder and social interaction will come to an end on 22nd July. Meet the artist herself and find out more about her work during this ref lection on her exhibition, her practice, current interests and other projects. FREE, 3 - 4pm
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8 - 10 June Telling Tales Festival @ 70 Oxford St (Ex-Cornerhouse)
2 June Cluny: The Other Issue Launch @ Partisan Collective
Telling Tales welcomes documentary lovers for a three day films and audio festival. Learn about the 1970s Gay Liberation Movement San Francisco, Latin American Hip Hop, Parkinson’s disease and love.
Cluny’s 7th issue aims to give a voice to those who are marginalised and promote equality and diversity in art. This day party has performances from murmur favourites BLOOM and Limbo Radio. FREE, noon - midnight
14 - 16 June Carmen @ King’s Arms Salford
4 June FLIM NITE: Harry Potter @ 3MinuteTheatre
£6 film/£12 day/£30 festival
The Opera Shack bring Carmen into the 21st Century with their immersive production by Bizet; combining opera, spoken word and jazz. Set in the roaring 20s of New York, the production will challenge the stereotype of Carmen as the seductive femme fatale, exploring narratives of domestic violence, with a percentage of proceeds going to support Manchester Rape Crisis. £6/£12, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
14 June Dispossession @ HOME Narrated by Maxine Peake, Dispossession examines the catastrophic failures that have led to a chronic shortage of social housing in the UK. This is the story of people fighting for their communities, of people who believe that housing is a human right, not an expensive luxury. From £5, 6.10pm-8.30pm
16 June Radical and Real Film Shorts Package + Q&A @HOME A selection of short films created by international filmmakers based in Manchester exploring different aspects of being a refugee, from the deeply personal and political to the artistic and abstract. £5/£7, 12.45pm
Hello! We, the editors of MURMUR, can take no responsibility for the words said and events spiralling from any of the listing. Please stay mindful, share the love and respect the ones around you. Get in touch if you’d like us to feature your event or get involved with MURMUR in general. MURMUR xoxo
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This month’s centre of attention: Harry Potter! Watch, and listen, to a bunch of talented folk turning this instant cult classic inside-out & upside-down. Harry unrecognisable but very enjoyable! £3, 7.30pm - 10pm
9 June Caramel: Like Our Skin Launch @ Goodstock Tender Hands Press invite us to a one-night exhibition that explores aspects of Caramel - a shared journal documenting the past ten years of two sisters as immigrants. Have iftar with Saffa and Deena and bring your favourite South Asian dish. Expect a lot of Mango juice& feelings. FREE, 7pm - 10pm 13 June
No Matter 1: Amy McCauley / Nisha Ramayya / Alice Tarbuck @ The Castle Hotel Check out this new bi-monthly performance & poetry series. Featuring an all female line-up! FREE, 7 - 10pm
16 June Peter Barlow’s Cigarette #28 @ Waterstones Deansgate June’s PBC brings you poets from Buffalo, Toronto, Sheffield, even Morecambe! Expect the usual free refreshments and infallible poetry delights. FREE, 4 - 6pm
30 June Mitzi Cunliffe: An American in Manchester @ The Whitworth This talk by Ann Summer and Cunliffe’s daughter Antonia will explore the work of American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe. FREE, 2.30 - 3.30pm