Performance fest: Emergency 2017 ft. giant tiddlywinks & sleep experiments at Z-Arts

Emergency, Manchester’s immersive marathon of the bizarre and the beautiful, returns to Z-Arts on Saturday 30 September 2017. The Hulme arts centre hosts a plethora of performances in one action-packed day, from stage shows to curious installations to limited-ticket experiences. It’s worth watching out for abstract physical dance from Lydia Cottrell and Ben Mills: the pair’s movements are influenced by Russian sleep experiments, mind control experimentation and the space race. Look out too for performance artist and poetry slammer Jamal Gerald with his conversational thoughts on racial inequality. And there’s plenty more, with around two dozen performances and installations across ten hours – there’s even a giant tiddlywink installation for adults. Browse all these happenings from noon, before a series of sit-down shows from 5pm. Emergency 2017 is organised by hÅb and Word of Warning, and the whole day is Pay What You Decide.

Sat 30 Sep, Z-arts, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester M15 5ZA. Tel: 0161 226 1912, 12pm – 10pm, pay what you decide, www.wordofwarning.org