A couple of people seem to be having problems with the links so the direct ones are: 

Proposal form:  http://lanb.it/mLFB

Monitoring form: http://lanb.it/Dg3n

We are also looking for generous people to help support the project – so if you can spare a fiver (or more!) please go to http://www.sponsume.com/project/hazard-2012

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Proposals are now invited for Hazard 2012

Deadline 6pm Friday 31 May 2012:

Hazard 2012 – Saturday 21 July 2012 – Manchester City Centre
Presented by Word of Warning, produced by hÅb and Larkin’ About in collaboration with the participating artists, a greenroom legacy project.

A micro-festival of incidental intervention and sited performance, with a hint of mischief!  Chance encounters and random occurrences… cheeky, thought-provoking and sometimes raunchy sprees of eccentricity…

In a 2012 Britain, seemingly obsessed with the notion of games and playing, Manchester’s unique micro-festival of all things bizarre and mischievous returns for its fourth outing and is inviting you to come and play with the city… and to see if it will play along with you..!

So far we’ve wrapped Cathedral Gardens in fluttering hazard tape, given the image of banking a makeover, circumnavigated the city by canoe and created a wheelchair moonlanding… Look out for a flash of yellow and black to see what 2012 will bring…!

To date Hazard has produced three micro-festivals of sited performance and intervention - over 60 artists have taken to the streets of Manchester including: Action Hero, Alex Bradley, Angel Club North, Richard DeDomenici, Eggs Collective, Jordan McKenzie, Michael Pinchbeck, Mkultra, Shahram Entekhabi and the vacuum cleaner.

For a glimpse of previous city onslaughts see the quick links to the right of this window.

In 2012 we are seeking to do it all again, once more incorporating an outbreak of pervasive gaming courtesy of Larkin' About.

We are also looking for generous people to help support the project – so if you can spare a fiver (or more!) please click here.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

This year we are using St. Ann’s Square as our focal hub, with projects happening in, or radiating out from there.
We are now looking for proposals of work for a daytime event(12-5pm) in Manchester City Centre:

• work that intervenes in public spaces in the city centre,
• work that is socially engaged, and/or conceptually motivated,
• work that is low or no-tech and self-sufficient
• we will give bonus points for creative engagement with the idea of hazard - chance, danger, risk, and/or use of yellow and black tape!
• In addition to the general call for proposals of work, there are also a number of specific opportunities:
• One small commission/budget for a ‘launch’ event embodying the notion of Hazard and that focuses on and draws attention to the event.
• Ideas for flashmobs or mass gaming interventions.

Hazard will be programmed by Tamsin Drury of hÅb, with gaming projects programmed with the Larkin’ About team. We will select from proposals from this call and other research, to put together the best possible programme of work for the event. There are no fixed criteria aside from the guidelines above and the feasibility/legality of the ideas for realisation in the public domain.

Honorarium/expenses (£2-300 per piece) available. To be negotiated on an individual basis. Please include outline budget with your proposal. For projects needing significantly more money, please contact hazard@habarts.org to talk it through first.

To apply
Please complete the proposal form (and the monitoring form too if you can bear it!)

A couple of people seem to be having problems with the links so the direct ones are: 

Proposal form:  http://lanb.it/mLFB

Monitoring form: http://lanb.it/Dg3n

It would be great if you could send us a link to video of your work – either things you’ve done in the past – or a mock-up or pitch of what you’re planning!

Deadline 6pm Friday 31 May 2012.

The small print:
•    pieces must be the artist's own, original work 
•    the artist must hold copyright/ownership of the piece and materials included 
•    artists must conform with statutory and local authority rules concerning health and safety, obscenity and defamation and any other licensing conditions imposed.
•    Equal Opportunities will be employed in the selection and programming of this platform.

To apply:
This year we are piloting a new online proposal form.  We would appreciate it if everyone could use it, but if you have significant difficulties, contact hazard@habarts.org for a .doc version.

1.    Fill-in and submit the proposal* (http://lanb.it/mLFB) & monitoring forms* (http://lanb.it/Dg3n)
2.    Send photos and supporting material by email to hazard@habarts.org or by post to hÅb, c/o Zion Arts Centre, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester, M15 5ZA

3. If you have some video for us – either put your own YouTube/Vimeo etc link into the form and/or upload to www.youtube.com/hazardmcr (log-in hazardmcr@gmail.com, password: randomsprees)

Closing Deadline 6pm Friday 31 May 2012

*nb: The forms must be completed at one sitting (you can't save and return later) so please copy and paste the longer elements from another document.

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Hazard is looking for very generous, and maybe slightly mischievous, people to support the 2012 event.  If you are minded to help this artistic incursion into Manchester City Centre - then have a look at our pitch at:

www.sponsume.com/project/hazard-2012

Every donation counts... and the top 'reward' is to join us in selecting one of the projects to be produced!

So if you've ever fancied being a part of playing with a city, here's your chance!

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Watch this space for the Call for Proposals... very imininently!

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Hazard has been asked to pass on the following request from Helen Cole, Director of Inbetween Time Productions, who is creating a twitter memory bank for greenroom:

Tweet #WSF with your perfect or poignant performance moments to help us build our memory bank for greenroom before it closes... http://tiny.cc/jn4ud

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This Friday + Saturday, Chester will see an explosion of image and performance on and around the city's ancient walls and structures.Curated by hÅb, the driving force behind Hazard, take a journey to Chester to check it out.

7-9pm, Chester Roman Gardens - FREE

upthewall.posterous.com
www.chesterperforms.com/Content/Projects/UptheWall/UptheWall2010Programme.aspx

UP THE WALL FLYER FINAL fr.pdf Download this file

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Hazard MMX doc.flv Watch on Posterous

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if you liked Larkin' About...

NO FORMAT by Doldrum Theatre

Saturday 31 July
3pm – 8pm

Audience depart greenroom at 10-minute intervals

Duration 60 minutes.
£4 / £3 (concessions)

Doldrum Theatre makes site specific theatre and interactive events around the north west of England. They like to create experiences, adventures and journeys for people. 

Some may have taken part in (or even unwittingly watched) their kidnap piece Killing Time on Chorlton Green during last year’s Not Part Of festival.  This summer Doldrum return with No Format, a computer game brought to life on the streets of Manchester for one day only…

Departing greenroom in groups of 3 the audience will encounter peculiar characters in unusual places who give them clues and set them tasks as the story unfolds…

 ‘Are you afraid of the devil?

A life-sized computer game spanning the city centre.

But you don’t need a computer. Just a map, a carrot and your wits about you.

Accept the quest to visit peculiar characters and help them locate their lost powers.

Find yourself in a parallel universe where time stands still and everyone is counting on you.

Become a hero. Restore order to the world.

Take on the devil himself.

Win back your soul.

No Format is suitable for children over 12 but they must be accompanied by an adult.  Call greenroom on 0161 615 0500 to book your time slot.  Slots available every ten minutes between 3pm and 8pm for groups of up to three.

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Then check out its older-sister: emergency - just as frantic, but this time under-cover! Still calling for proposals - deadline 6 August 2010, 6pm.

emergency2010
Friday 1 October 2010, from 5pm
Saturday 2 October 2010, from 12noon
For further information and to download forms: greenroomarts.org/emergency
Deadline Friday 6 August, 6pm

Now entering its second decade, hÅb and greenroom’s platform for contemporary performance and live art is calling for proposals.

A paper dress, lovingly hand-typed and stitched; a giant circular skirt leaving filligree traces of icing sugar through its lacy trim; racous rememberings of a decade of madness and one woman's musings on her identity as a horse...
emergency's tenth epic featured saw all this plus a mermaid and a giant post-box, paddling pool performance and tea parties, romance and heartbreak in a tent and a mass celebratory conga.  40+ performances filling every nook and cranny to bursting and spilling out onto the street.

This is your chance to participate in this extraordinary free marathon of the bizarre and the beautiful, the glamorous and the thought-provoking.  Proposals are welcome for both short black-box/studio performance pieces and durational installations and interventions in the bar.
Artists working in live art, contemporary performance, time-based media and interdisciplinary arts are invited to submit proposals of short pieces of work, works in progress or extracts of longer works for inclusion in this event.

To get a feel check out emergency’s MySpace and take a look at last year’s line up.

emergency2010 will take place at greenroom, on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 October and at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation on Saturday 2 October.

For further information and to download proposal forms: www.greenroomarts.org/emergency
Deadline Friday 6 August, 6pm
enquiries:  emergency@greenroomarts.org     0161 615 0500

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To bring pedestrian traffic to a standstill, of course!
http://cutteruption.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/hazard-festival-why-did-the-zebr...

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Check out a handful of pictures from the day's goings-on - all taken by Roshana Rubin-Mayhew www.otgdesign.org

See the full gallery on Posterous

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White Umbrellas_Tracy Piper-Wright.doc Download this file

Visit Tracy Piper-Wright's blog at: www.randomaccumulator.co.uk

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And Counting 3pm_Tracy Piper-Wright.doc Download this file

Visit Tracy Piper-Wrights blog at: www.randomaccumulator.co.uk

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To land on the moon_JL.doc Download this file

Visit Joanna Loveday's blog at: http://www.joannaloveday.blogspot.com/

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Apologies, we are having trouble with this upload - it will download, using the yellow button below it, it just doesn't want to display on the page. We are working on it!

Hazard_Response.pdf Download this file

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Hap Hazard_Tracy Piper Wright.doc Download this file

www.randomaccumulator.co.uk

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Hazard Reaction_Joanna Loveday.docx Download this file

Visit Joanna Loveday's blog at: http://www.joannaloveday.blogspot.com/

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