Flow Salford, a three day festival highlighting `the vast, the varied and the very new performance and visual art being made in Salford today', returns for its second year, from Friday 25th September to Sunday 27th September. There's going to be six shows, in four venues, ranging from drama, to dark comedy to installations to experimental mixed media.
"It's great to be able to do the festival again and have new partners and venues on board like First Chop Brewing Arm" says Festival organiser Charlotte Mountford "This year's programme represents a growing standard of performance and visual art in Salford that we hope the Festival can contribute too. Myself and all the artists involved are extremely proud of our city and we hope Flow audiences will agree that Salford has a great cultural offer."
The full line up is...
Friday 25th September 3pm - 6pm
Hannah Hiett - Personal Effects
The Working Class Movement Library free
`An installation exploring the inside of other people's stuff. Real lost luggage is
split open, suspended in free-fall, spilling out the private worlds within. What do strangers carry with them? What does the contents of a suitcase say about their owner? Personal Effects highlights the dark side of real-life entertainment.'
Throughout the weekend
Moonstruck Me -13 Folds
The Kings Arms Studio
£3 for performance, Installation free
Invites the audience into a room of origami birds for a mysterious encounter with a stranger, inspired by an ancient Japanese legend... `Each performance is an experiment between the audience and the performer, the real and the imagined'.
Saturday 26th September 4pm and 6pm
Sunday 27th September 4pm and 6pm
Ransack Theatre - Enveloped in Velvet
First Chop Brewery £6 | £4
`Four people find themselves stranded in the shallow waters of modern existence. Facing up to the self-deception and triviality of their everyday encounters, each challenge themselves to speak honestly about the things we think but don't say. As the four monologues veer in different directions, they eventually collide in an event that unites them all...'
Saturday 26th September 6:30pm
Flow Salford Snippets
The Lowry Studio free
Three local companies battle it out in front of a panel of local industry experts and a live audience. After sharing 15 minutes of a work-in progress, the winning company will receive producing support from Flow producer Charlotte Mountford, rehearsal space at one of the partner venues and £300 towards making the production. The three companies are...
Jack Nicholls - Pal Good Times Day: a brand new holiday for the very best of friends, as immersion, blindfolds, headphones and balloons prove just how great it is to have good times with a pal.
Poison Apple Theatre - As Long As You're Paying: an original fact-based drama that uses a mixture of spoken word, drama and multi-role-playing to explore issues surrounding street prostitution in Manchester.
Horrorpig Productions - Nose To Nose With the Thing That You Wished You'd
Never Learned You Loved the Most: An LA transvestite showgirl opens naked talks with her bitter father in a play about prejudice and the strong bond of family ties.
Saturday 26th September, 8pm
Oliver Sykes -The Old Gloves Hung There Waiting
The Lowry Studio £8
`A new solo show about re-visting the past to find happiness. Part-social experiment, part-ludicrous stunt, the show follows Oliver Sykes, a 26 year old layabout with a mild addiction to doner pizzas, as he attempts to turn his life around by revisiting his long forgotten passion – boxing – with the help of a film-maker, his dad and his local boxing gym.'
Sunday 27th September, 7:30pm
Nathan Birkinshaw and Matthew Pearce - When I Grow Up
Salford Arts Theatre £8/£6.50
A dark comedy `about the passages of time and what they mean. It's about
finding how you become a grown up in a world so childish. Matt and Nath create intimate performances about relationships and folk tales with autobiographical and existential undertones'.
Flow Salford
Friday 25th - Sunday 27th September
Various locations
For further details see www.flowsalford.co.uk
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