A month-long series of events, in collaboration with other Manchester-based artists and organisations, that bring the diverse and ever popular interests of the Manchester literary, music and cultural community into the Galleries at Cornerhouse. Book tickets for all the events below (including free events) at Box Office 0161 200 1500.The Final Verse
Saturday 8 October, 7.30pm
After 13 years, it’s time to wave goodbye to Manchester Poetry Festival and celebrate the coming of a new literature festival in 2006 with a screening of a DVD tribute to the Hovis Presley and readings from Sophie Hannah and Diké Omeje. www.manchesterpoetryfestival.co.uk
Tickets: £5Superquiz
Monday 10 October, 7.00pm
Test your knowledge of film, TV, music and other random bobbins from the past 20 years, pitting your wits against a host of unusually clever invited guest teams. With loads of extra-special birthday prizes to be won. To register your team, contact Chris at Box Office or chris.payne@cornerhouse.org
Sponsored by FOPP.
Tickets: £10 per team, maximum four people per team.Lunchtime Readings – Body Shorts
Wednesday 12 October, 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Three Comma Press short story writers, Maria Roberts, Zoe Lambert and Patrick Belshaw read on the subject of the body.
Sponsored by Literature Northwest. www.commapress.co.uk
Tickets: Free LiveWire Party
Thursday 13 October, 7.00pm
Watch the premiere of LiveWire Studio short films & launch the new LiveWire website with a guest DJ, VJ and special prizes to be won. LiveWire is Cornerhouse’s programme of activities for 14 to 18 year olds.
Tickets: Free, please email rebecca.mcknight@cornerhouse.org if you would like to attend.Vespertine & Son present Daydream
Friday 14 October, 7.00pm
An evening hosted by Vespertine & Son Records: The Montgolfier Brothers will launch their new album, All My Bad Thoughts, accompanied by the visual stylings of Matt Norman (Fig Films) and R. Quigley. They will be supported by labelmate The Otto Show.
Tickets: FreeNoir Shorts
Wednesday 19 October, 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Writers Dinesh Allirajah, Margaret Murphy and Michael Symmons Roberts will be shedding some light on the short story’s obsession with all things dark.
Sponsored by Literature Northwest. www.commapress.co.uk
Tickets: Freeexposures adaptation Masterclass: Deborah Moggach
Thursday 20 October, 7.00pm
Deborah Moggach has adapted several of her novels for TV along with Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate for BBC1 and Goggle-Eyes, which won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She’ll also be talking tonight about her feature film adaptation of PRIDE AND PREDJUDICE, starring Keira Knightley.
Tickets: £5 full/£4 concs www.exposuresfilmfestival.co.ukFilmonik
Saturday 22 October, 8.00pm
Filmonik provide a monthly platform for the North West’s independent filmmakers, whether they’re making movies in their bedroom or working in the industry. Here Filmonik will present some of the best films screened since its launch in January, as well as some new films made especially with Cornerhouse’s birthday in mind! www.filmonik.com If you want to participate in making a film for this evening email info@filmonik.com
Tickets: FreeCinemas & Bookshop Bazaar
Sunday 23 October, 1.00 – 7.00pm
The cinemas and ground floor bookshop are clearing out their cupboards: pick up some bargains to decorate your walls or fill your bookshelves. Arrive early for best pickins’! One Hour Intro: 20 years in the Cornerhouse Bar
Monday 24 October, 5.00pm
Writer, lecturer and performer CP Lee presents a look back at the events, courses, gallery openings, general happenings, hootenanny and hoopla of the last two decades at Cornerhouse.
Tickets: Free Just bring your own fond memories! Lunchtime Readings Surrealist Shorts
Wednesday 26 October, 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Writers Jeanie O’Hare, Tim Cooke and Emma Unsworth are your hosts for this midday foray into literature of the uncanny. In conjunction with A Haunting – Manchester Metropolitan University’s interdisciplinary arts festival celebrating Freud’s famous theorem.
Sponsored by Literature Northwest. www.commapress.co.uk
Tickets: Freeexposures animation Masterclass MacKinnon & Saunders
Wednesday 26 October, 7.00pm
To accompany TIM BURTON’S CORPSE BRIDE, exposures presents a Q&A session with world class puppet masters Peter Saunders and Ian Mackinnon, the founders of leading stop-motion animation studio Mackinnon & Saunders.
This event is BSL interpreted.
Tickets: £5 full/£4 concs www.exposuresfilmfestival.co.ukThe Halloween Society Present “I Scream!”
Monday 31 October, 7.00pm
A selection of the best scary shorts from the Halloween Short Film Festival. Compere Timothy of London will host a night of spot prizes courtesy of Wallflower Press, on the eve of their new book The Lure Of The Vampire. With DJs, visuals and a live set from Wigan’s premiere B-movie theremin fiends The V.Cs. With prize for best costume.
Sponsored by Wallflower www.shortfilms.org.uk
Tickets: £5Lunchtime Readings New Shorts
Wed 2 November, 1.00pm-2.00pm
Newly-minted literature is on offer at the fourth in the lunchtime short stroy reading series. This time the shorts in question belong to Jamie Campbell, Andy Murray and Charlotte Allan – all writers whose first story was published in Comma Press’ Bracket anthology. .
Sponsored by Literature Northwest. www.commapress.co.uk
Tickets: FreeOwl Project Present: Sonic Undergrowth
Thu 3 November, 7.00pm
Artists Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons lauch Sonic Undergrowth – a website archiving a series of masterclasses by artists creatively exploring low level technology, physical computing and unusual methods of sound production.
Plus demonstrations of Owl Project’s Sound Lathe, a MUIO interface, FUTUREDISCO and a raffle where you could win a freshly turned piece of wood. www.sonic-undergrowth.org
Tickets: £1.50Owl Project Present: Sonic Undergrowth
Thu 3 November, 7.00pm
Artists Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons lauch Sonic Undergrowth – a website archiving a series of masterclasses by artists creatively exploring low level technology, physical computing and unusual methods of sound production.
Plus demonstrations of Owl Project’s Sound Lathe, a MUIO interface, FUTUREDISCO and a raffle where you could win a freshly turned piece of wood. www.sonic-undergrowth.org
Tickets: £1.50B-Music: Burn Your Own Books
Sat 5 November, 7.00pm
Those vintage-vinyl obsessives B-Music (DJs Andy Votel and Dominic Thomas) host an explosive fusion of cinema an live music with special guest David Holmes. Graham (808 State) Massey’s 12-piece operatic commune band Toolshed will provid alternative psychedlic soundtracks to moving images inspired by avant garde visual experiments from the 60s and 70s. Sirconical will re-score Jiri Trinka’s animation classic Cybernetic Grandmother. With sets by Voice Of The Seven Woods and Samandtheplants. www.b-music.co.uk
Tickets: £10