Events in September–October 2019
- Quiz Night
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Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8.30 is quiz night Keiran Lawless.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes - Comedy Sportz: Improv Mullet
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Comedy Sportz: Improv Mullet
Improvised comedy on the first Saturday of the Month from the team behind ComedySportz.Why Improv Mullet? Because it's shortform in the front and longform in the back. In other words, quick-witted 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' style gags and games in the first half and longer improvised sketches and scenes, maybe a whole unscripted play, in the second. Watch as this team of comic minds make like MacGyver to craft comedy from nothing but your suggestions. Find out more about CSzUK and their Improv shows and workshops at www.comedysportz.co.uk or find them on twitter: @ComedySportz_UK“The team have certainly earned their title of ‘North-West’s top improvised comedy troupe'” North West End
Show Starts 7.30pm. £3 on the door of free entry to anyone with a genuine mullet. - Lydia Lunch presents Verbal Burlesque
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Lydia Lunch presents Verbal Burlesque
A night of spoken word & music
w/ Official: Lydia Lunch, Louise Woodcock & Slow KnifeVerbal Burlesque combines the dynamic spoken word histrionics of Lydia Lunch, one of the genres most controversial performers plus Louise Woodcock & Slow Knife. This will be a very intimate seated show.
Only 50 tickets available.Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch is passionate, confrontational and bold. Whether attacking the patriarchy and their pornographic war mongering, turning the sexual into the political or whispering a love song to the broken hearted, her fierce energy and rapid fire delivery lend testament to her warrior nature. Queen of No Wave, muse of The Cinema of Transgression, writer, musician, poet, spoken word artist and photographer, she has released too many musical projects to tally, has been on tour for decades, has published dozens of articles, half a dozen books and simply refuses to just shut up.Lousie Woodcock
Spirit worker, reiki master, performer/creator and avid non-musician, Woodcock appears in whichever guise suits her purpose and has no time for limitations. Woodcock is a lynchpin of Manchester’s experimental music and art scenes, is a seasoned performer and immersive theatre actor working across venues from Manchester Gallery to pubs to glitzy bars like Albert’s Schloss, performing controversial characters including the infamous trashy glamour puss, Trish Dee. She’s agitated The Fall fans at the request of Mark E Smith and incited public walk-out’s from Manchester Gallery.Slow Knife
Slow knife are the sound of Edgar Allan Poe writing soundtracks to pagan Hammer Horror films with a jazz ensemble. Think Ed Wood and Christopher Lee in the sack with Ken Nordine.Quiz Night–
Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8.30 is quiz night Keiran Lawless.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes - Quiz Night
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Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8.30 is quiz night Keiran Lawless.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes - Quiz Night
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Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8.30 is quiz night Keiran Lawless.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes - Greater Manchester Skeptics Society present: Matt Tompkins: The Spectacle of Illusion
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Greater Manchester Skeptics Society present: Matt Tompkins: The Spectacle of Illusion
Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing? How can we hope to conduct experiments on things that only exist within our minds, and, on a related note, can scientists ever be trusted to study deception without being deceived themselves? What can scientists learn about the mind from the illusions developed and practiced by professional magicians? Join magician and experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins, author of The Spectacle of Illusion, for a fascinating talk exploring the psychology of magic.
Everyone’s heard, and most of us have told, a story about an uncanny or supernatural seeming experience. Accounts of wondrous and impossible phenomena can be found around the world throughout recorded history. These extraordinary events often seem to be facilitated by extra-ordinary individuals: sorcerers, spiritual mediums, psychic sensitives. Such phenomena have even been reported under ‘test conditions’, witnessed by scientists—men professionally trained in the practice of empirical observation. To date, such events have not led conventional scientists to embrace the reality of supernatural phenomena- but they have arguably led to scientific breakthroughs how we understand the psychology of illusion.
This talk will feature a mixture of storytelling and magical scientific demonstrations to explore how scientists, past and present, have approached the study of illusion. Matt will discuss how magic played a weird but fundamental role in the in the establishment of psychology as a scientific discipline, and how he and other contemporary researchers have been using magic tricks to create new experiments in order to investigate human memory, perception, and reasoning.
- Quiz Night
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Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8.30 is quiz night Keiran Lawless.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes - Comedy Sportz: Improv Mullet
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Comedy Sportz: Improv Mullet
Improvised comedy on the first Saturday of the Month from the team behind ComedySportz.Why Improv Mullet? Because it's shortform in the front and longform in the back. In other words, quick-witted 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' style gags and games in the first half and longer improvised sketches and scenes, maybe a whole unscripted play, in the second. Watch as this team of comic minds make like MacGyver to craft comedy from nothing but your suggestions. Find out more about CSzUK and their Improv shows and workshops at www.comedysportz.co.uk or find them on twitter: @ComedySportz_UK“The team have certainly earned their title of ‘North-West’s top improvised comedy troupe'” North West End
Show Starts 7.30pm. £3 on the door of free entry to anyone with a genuine mullet. - Quiz Night
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Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8.30 is quiz night Keiran Lawless.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes - Greater Manchester Skeptics Society present: Caroline Ward: Fantastic Beasts and Why to Conserve Them
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Greater Manchester Skeptics Society present: Caroline Ward: Fantastic Beasts and Why to Conserve Them
Conservation can be magical. Literally. And this complicates things. That is why protesters in Iceland will blockade road building projects which threaten the habitat of the endemic Icelandic elf. And why in some parts of Ethiopia people will protect Hyenas because they eat evil spirits. And why Caribbean owls are endangered because people persecute them because they are witches.
Dr Caroline Ward of the University of Leeds will explore how beliefs in magic can endanger but also protect species, with important real world impacts. She'll show how this produces complex ethical and practical dilemmas for conservation, and talk about solutions.
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Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8.30 is quiz night Keiran Lawless.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes - No Matter
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No Matter
No Matter presents New Matter feat. Bhanu Kapil, Callie Gardner, Sarah Crewe & Sascha Aurora AkhtarNo Matter is an experimental poetry & performance series. This year, No Matter has funding from Arts Council England to commission six new pieces of work, which will be performed bi-monthly alongside exciting readings and performances. This event is the fourth in our series of commissions, and will feature new work by Bhanu Kapil. Kapil is the author of 5 published works including Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat, 2015), & her work develops the intersections of poetry, performance, prose and embodiment to explore memory, trauma, racial and gendered violence, and personal and cultural histories. For more: https://nomatterpoetry.com/This event is free and unticketedQuiz Night–
Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8.30 is quiz night Keiran Lawless.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes - Quiz Night
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Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8.30 is quiz night Keiran Lawless.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes - Velody: One Woman & a Mic: Live streaming worldwide
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Velody: One Woman & a Mic: Live streaming worldwide
Spend an evening with Velody as she entertains you with original songs, comedy improv and more... This is a perfect midweek (trick or) treat! You can commission a customised song to be composed that day and performed on the night - as a gift, or just because! It's all about entertainment, and you can be as much or as little part of the show as you want - just be sure to buy the VIP option if you want to be serenaded, the standard ticket if you want to sit on the back row and keep yourself to yourself, or the live-streaming ticket - the recording of the live show can then be yours to keep - forever!
Dress up, dress down for the occasion as fits your mood. Daisy Belle WILL be dropping by, and Velody hopes you will too!
There will be singing, there may even be dancing. Looking for a great way to kick off Halloween Celebrations? You've found it. Looking for a quirky date-night? Check. Curious to see if she can pull this off? Book it and see!
If you are VERY easily offended, this might not be the show for you. But if you have a sense of humour you'll be fine.
TICKETS:
VIP - book a commissioned song, composed on the day, performed on the night, get a video and audio keepsake. Don't forget to buy your ticket plus a standard ticket for your guest so they have a seat too! (yes they will be sat next to you , your ticket price includes reserved seating for you both)
LIVE STREAMING - you get a special link to watch the live show on youtube - you only need to have a youtube account to interact with the live show, not to simply watch. The show will then be available for you to catch up with anytime you feel like watching!
GENERAL ADMISSION - to be part of the live show, interact as much or as little as you like- Velody will not be picking on anybody who keeps quiet!