Archived Content Warnings

Updated 30 September 2024

Age Advisories/Limits & Content Warnings for past events and archived livestreams on our YouTube channel are available below, including elements that may distress, cause upset, or trigger. Go to → 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 (Please click here for upcoming events.)

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2024

28 Sep. Contact | Emergency 24

Age Advisory: 16+ (aimed at adults, parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: some works involved interaction and/or participation; specific warnings follow…
Afternoon, Noon-4pm.
Diane Dwyer — use of fake blood.
Emergency Chorus — strong language.
Farida Yesmin — nudity; use of raw meat (stage only).
Heather Alice White — audience interaction & participation; references addiction.
Riley Hamshaw-Mills — partial nudity; references bipolar & depression.
Robyn Greeves — partial nudity; potential binding of performer’s body; references blood; use of religious imagery.
The Paula Davy — potentially references death & suicide; swearing.
Evening, 4pm-10pm.
Annie Finn & Poppy Waxman — loud noises; partial nudity.
Drunken Chorus — references anxiety, burnout, grief, mental health; strong language.
Isabella Victorie A. — Age Advisory: 18+; semi-nudity; strong language; themes & depictions of emotional abuse, illness, mental health, sexual coercion (including mention & physical hints of sexual actions), suicide threats.
Jana Aizupe & Company — sudden, unexpected noise.
Kelvin Atmadibrata — images of choking.
Luke McDonnell — audience interaction & participation.
Maria Garcia — references pain, violence, death.
Martha Pailing — audience interaction & participation; strong language.
Mi Otra Hermana — partial nudity; references conflict & death; strong language.
Shannon Mulvey — audience interaction; references the social construct of femininity & sexual innuendos.
Yafei Zheng — discussion of ableism & racism; repetitive sounds.

27 Jul. Z-arts | Haphazard 2024

Age Advisory: suitable for all ages (parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: some works involved interaction and/or participation; no specific warnings were given to us by any of the participating artists.

24 May. MMU Grosvenor East | Works Ahead: Radiator

Age: 18+
Content Warnings: some works involved interaction or participation, some may disturb, specifics follow…
Ash Cox — strong language, themes of ableism; potential interaction.
chris brown — performers’ use of their bodies may be distressing; potential interaction.
E.M. Parry — simulates pins penetrating flesh; potential interaction.
Heather Alice — imagery of blood, suicide reference & symbolism, themes of mental illness, flashing projections, loud noise.
ITZATNA — bodily harm, loud noises, distressing video images of migration; references death, violence, threat. Allergy Warning: Aloe Vera juice/sap.
Jamil Keating — involves interaction; potential disturbing content. Allergy Warning: shoe-cleaning products.
Kelvin Atmadibrata — includes a scene that may suggest choking.
Lauren Greer — involves digital interaction; may include strong language & topics of a sensitive nature.

27 Apr. The Lowry | HIGH STEAKS by ELOINA

Age Advisory: 18+ (parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: full frontal nudity, strong language, handling and cooking of raw meat, discussion of genital surgery, discussion of self-harm, depictions of real mother-daughter relationships. Potential audience interaction could have included coming on stage and drawing ELOINA — this was an invitation and you were encouraged to only do this if you would like.

22 Mar. Company Chameleon Studios | Turn 2024

Age Advisory: 16+ (parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may disturb, specifics follow…
chris brown — may contain moments of distressing use of human body.
Fabíola Santana — deals with social construct of race and colonial histories/troubles.
Isaac Glenister — none.
Jake Evans — strong language; sexual innuendo; references to homophobic violence; strobing/flashing lights.
Just_Ina — references mental health.
Lily Antonia — strobing/flashing lights.
Lisa Chearles — flashing lights; some gore; use of fake blood.
Louiseanne Wong — swearing.

2023

30 Sep. Contact | Emergency 23

Age Advisory: 16+ (aimed at adults, parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may disturb, specifics follow…
Afternoon, Noon-4pm.
Chris Brown — performers’ use of their bodies may be distressing; the Afternoon performance uses audience participation.
E.M. Parry — simulates pins penetrating flesh.
GOWD — sexual references.
Hot Storm Productions — themes of death/spirituality.
ITZATNA — bodily harm, loud noises, distressing video images of migration; references death, violence, threat. Allergy Warning: Aloe Vera juice/sap.
Kelvin Atmadibrata — use of medical tourniquets (no blood drawn).
Lauren Greer — includes digital interaction; may include strong language & topics of a sensitive nature.
Louise Ward Morris — live streams to YouTube (to avoid, please see signage in the space).
Luisa Amorim — use of strobe; swearing.
Porcelain Delaney — none.
Theresa Bradbury — Allergy Warning: unfired porcelain.
Victoria Bone — physical binding of their body.
Evening, 4pm-10pm.
Alex Billingham — draws on lived experience of being Trans, Disabled, Neurodiverse.
Chris Brown — performers’ use of their bodies may be distressing.
Egan & Pinchbeck — some loud music/noise; contains verbatim text which references amputation & loss of sight.
Gillian Dyson — female nudity; loud & misophonia-related ‘small’ sounds.
Gisou Golshani — loud noise.
Heather Alice — imagery of blood; suicide reference & symbolism; themes of mental illness; flashing projections; loud noise.
Jana Aizupe & Company — none.
Kellie Colbert — references anxiety, depression, emotional abuse, trichotillomania.
Laurie Bayley-Higgins — references violence, death, suicide, depression, drowning; loud noises & flashing lights.
new func — promenade; involves participation.
Orla Collier — strong emotions which some may find distressing; partial nudity.
Raz & Khan — deals with addiction and its causes, impacts, and issues.

22 Jul. Z-arts | Haphazard 2023

Age Advisory: suitable for all ages (parental/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: some works involved interaction or participation, some may disturb, specifics follow…
Gemma Lees — use of, and potential interaction with, neon & flashing light.
Joe Beedles — use of laser & haze.
Krissi Musiol & Amy Vreeke — loud/sudden bangs or noise, e.g. popping balloons, Allergy Warnings: latex / popcorn.

18+19 May. Contact | Works Ahead 2023

Age Advisory: 16+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: works included complex themes that may disturb, specifics follow…
Jade Williams — included optional audience interaction; references slavery.
Kellie Colbert — references anxiety, depression, online trolling, trichotillomania.

3 May. The Lowry | Unnatural Cycles — A Ghost Story by Avital Raz

Age Advisory: 14+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: contained some strong language; mentions of rape, war, miscarriage.

10 Mar. Contact | Turn 2023

Age Advisory: 15+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may disturb, specifics follow…
Lizzy Owen — sudden loud noises.
Matter of Fact — concept covers violence against women, but not depicted in the piece.
Orla Collier — strong emotions which some may find distressing.

2022

1 Oct. Contact | Emergency 22

Age Advisory: 16+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may disturb, specifics follow…
Daytime, Noon-5pm.
Noon-1.30pm, Julie Burrow — body horror.
Noon-1.40pm, Ursula Troche — none.
Noon-2pm, Hazel Lam — none.
Noon-2pm, Tania Camara — a conversation about race.
Noon-3pm, kane stonestreet — imagery may evoke feelings of drowning.
Noon-5pm, Clodagh Chapman & James Varney — likely allusions to death; when contributing please be sensitive with label and include warning if needed.
Noon-5pm, Malandra Jacks — personal conversations about relationships and dementia; partial nudity.
Noon-5pm, Maya Chowdhry — participatory one-to-one with optional alcohol offered, challenge 25 in operation.
Noon-5pm, Nicky Murmann — participatory one-to-one with optional food offered which may contain allergens, please check ingredient list before accepting.
Noon-5pm, Sweætshops® — participatory one-to-one including filming and photography of audience members. In the light of recent national events, certain imagery may be upsetting/disturbing.
2.30pm-3pm, Charlotte McShane — mild violence, sexual aggression.
3pm-3.20pm, Ran — none.
3pm-5pm, leon clowes — references to rape, incest, paedophilia.
3pm-5pm, Nathan Walker — none.
Evening, 5pm-10pm.
5pm, DNA Studio — none.
5.30pm, Jian Yi — none.
6pm, Kerensa Diball — adult themes, mentions of reproduction, politics, Roe v. Wade.
6.30pm, Christian Asare — none.
7pm, Bold Mellon Collective — sudden loud noises.
8pm, Emergency Chorus — none.
8.30pm, Josh Coates & Alicia Jane Turner — loud sounds, earplugs available.
9pm, Kellie Colbert — self-harm, emotional abuse, eating disorders.
9.30pm, Bitterroot — violence and flashing/strobe.

26+27 May. Contact | Works Ahead 2022

Age Advisory: 16+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: included complex themes that may disturb, specifics follow…
Helena Ascough — clown imagery may disturb; discusses violence and discrimination.
Ross McCaffrey — includes audience interaction, flashing lights, haze, loud noises, swearing, and vocal references to police/state brutality + death.
Will Dickie — addresses themes of addiction and the social construct of race; makes direct references to the transatlantic slave trade, and gives detailed descriptions of addictive behaviours.

4 May. The Lowry | Dead Cats by Proto-type Theater & Adam York Gregory

Age Advisory: 14+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: included strong swearing & complex themes.

2021

22 Oct. Holden Gallery | Concord by Dani Abulhawa

Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
Content Warnings: references to periods of conflict in Israel/Palestine and the current situation that may evoke upsetting memories in some audience members.

15 Oct. STUN Studio at Z-arts | Oreo by Tania Camara

Age Advisory: 16+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: included an archive recording of a speech by Diane Abbott MP where she uses a term that may offend (the N-word).

25 Sep. Contact | Emergency 21

Age Advisory: 15+ (mainly aimed at adults; parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may disturb, some included audience interaction, specifics follow…
Ayzmar — includes Blackface references and mentions of police brutality, rape, and slavery.
Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton — exploration of loss, death, and trauma.
Lydia Cottrell — a one-to-one interactive experience; discussion of sensitive and complex topics.
Miray Sidhom — includes footage of protest that may be considered violent.
Mitzee — set within a darkened space, includes flashing imagery.
Sebastian H-W — includes partial nudity, sharp noises, and possible flashing light.
Simon Carroll-Jones & Wayne Steven Jackson — set within immersive projected imagery and soundscape; short and flashing screen movement may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.

26 May. Online | Oreo Prelude by Tania Camara

Age Advisory: 16+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warning: includes an archive recording of a speech by Diane Abbott where she uses a term that may offend (the N-word).

10 Mar. Online | Domestic

Age Advisory: 18+ (mainly aimed at adults; parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may disturb, some included audience interaction, specifics follow…
Eleanor May Blackburn — includes reference to self-harm, mental health, drug misuse, medication, strong language, sexual assault, consent, and very minor violence
TomYumSim — includes live interaction over the phone, with potential for any subject matter to be brought up.

13 Jan. Online | Domestic

Age Advisory: 18+ (mainly aimed at adults; parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may disturb, some included audience interaction, specifics follow…
Avital Raz — mentions of rape and miscarriage.
Lydia Cottrell — discussion of potentially sensitive and complex topics.
Mitzee — includes flashing imagery.

2020

7 Oct. Online | Domestic

27 Sep. Hulme Community Garden Centre | Botanic

Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
No Content Warnings.

12 Aug. Online | Domestic

Age Advisory: 18+ (mainly aimed at adults; parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may disturb, specifics follow…
Andrew Neil Hayes — includes partial nudity.
Daniel & Clara — includes flashing imagery.
Kellie Colbert — deals with issues of social anxiety + panic attacks; includes popping of balloons.
melissandre varin — includes ingestion + references to eating disorders.
Sebastian H-W — includes partial nudity.

1 Jul. Online | Domestic

Age Advisory: 18+ (mainly aimed at adults; parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may disturb, some included audience interaction, specifics follow…
Afreena Islam — includes satirical content, swearing.
Cheryl Martin — includes mention of abuse, alcohlism, illness, suicide.
Nathan Birkinshaw — includes nudity, a recording of defecation, taxidermy.

22 May. Online | Works Ahead 2020 — Will Dickie’s White Sun

Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
No Content Warnings.
N.B. planned as a sited double bill from Will Dickie + Ross McCaffrey at NIAMOS on 21/22 May in partnership with Contact:
Will adapted his work for livestreaming; Ross postponed sharing his work until it can be shown to a physical audience.

1 May. Online | Oreo Variations by Tania Camara

Age Advisory: 16+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: included simulated gagging/retching.
N.B. Rescheduled from 23+24 April in STUN Studio at Z-arts to a livestream.

1 Apr. The Lowry | We Are Fucked by Jo Bannon (CANCELLED)

Age Advisory: 16+ (parental/guardian discretion).
No Content Warnings.

19—21 Mar. Royal Exchange Theatre | IDOL by Jamal Gerald (CANCELLED)

Age Advisory: 16+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: includes strong language, sexual references + full nudity; uses haze + flashing lights (not strobe). Please note that candles + joss sticks are lit throughout the show.

27 Feb. NIAMOS | Emergency StopGap

Age Advisory: 18+ (mainly aimed at adults; parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: please note that some works may disturb, specifics follow…
Bethany Mountain — potential audience interaction; includes references to self-harm, depression + suicide.
Chris Owen — none.
Kris Canavan — includes blood-letting, nudity + penetration of their body (strobe lighting was not used).
Krissi Musiol — includes references to pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, exhaustion + well-being; potential for audience interaction.
Martin Hamblen — none.
Natalie Wardle — includes nudity.
Oliver Ford — none.
Philip Bedwell — includes nudity.
Powder Keg — potential audience interaction; potential loud noise.
Shkiesha — none.
Susanna Amato — includes sounds of a shredder which could be loud/harsh/offensive; includes references to hoarding, holding on + letting go.
Tink Flaherty — requires audience interaction; audience members need to feel comfortable + aware of the possibility of oversharing.
TomYumSim — requires audience interaction; audience members need to feel comfortable + aware of the possibility of oversharing.

12 Feb. The Lowry | Sex Education by Harry Clayton-Wright

Age Limit: strictly 18+
Content Warnings: includes themes that some people may find distressing, nudity + explicit sexual content.

2019

6 Nov. The Lowry | I Promise You That Tonight by Tom Cassani

Age Advisory: 14+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warnings: includes mentions of death + description of drowning. During the show, the performer:
• talks about being close to death and nearly dying;
• describes what it might feel like to drown;
• describes a mechanism used in water boarding torture;
• mentions a person bursting into flames;
• walks bare foot on broken glass, places his face on the broken glass, and pushes it into the glass;
• does not cut himself, and no wounds are made to his body;
• does not intend to harm himself during any of these actions.
A loud drone sound is used multiple times during the show.

23 Oct. NIAMOS | Acephalous Monster by Ron Athey

Age Limit: strictly for those aged 18+
Content Warnings: an intense viewing experience for some, if you are sensitive to any of the following or of a more general sensitive disposition we recommend using discretion before buying tickets. The show includes:
• live nudity;
• live blood-letting;
and on projected film:
• BDSM (not safe to open at work);
• depictions of graphic consensual sexual activity;
• depictions and descriptions of violence (including symbolic beheading).
For context read a review by The Dance Enthusiast (contains spoilers).

2 Oct. The Lowry | Tetra-Decathlon by Lauren Hendry, dir. Jenna Watt

Age Advisory: 12+ (parental/guardian discretion).
Content Warning: includes mild swearing.

21 Sep. Hulme | Emergency 2019

Age Advisory: the overall event is mainly aimed at adults, parental/guardian discretion is advised, some works are not suitable for under 18s.
EVENING at STUN Studio + Z-arts
Helen Sulis Bowie | Smashing It!
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
— Content Warnings: contains swearing + references to personal + political violence.
Lara Buffard + Gur Arie Piepskovitz | Confessional on The Dance Floor (Madonna’s true vassals)
— Age Limit: 18+ for one to one participation.
— Content Warnings: mature content + drinking of tequila.
Rebekka Platt | Do you want fries with that?
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion
— Content Warning: features nudity.
Ross McCaffrey | Sometimes History Needs a Push
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
— Content Warnings: mentions political violence + references to genocide.
Shahireh Sharif | I am an orange dot
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
— Content Warnings: a work about refugees, includes mentions of death, drowning, hanging, dead bodies floating + the taste of blood that some may find upsetting.
Vendetta Vain | Taking the Piss
— Age Advisory: 16+ (parental/guardian discretion).
— Content Warnings: features nudity + bodily functions.
DAYTIME at NIAMOS
Alex Bradley | Almost Everything is Black + White
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
— Content Warning: features nudity.
Bill Duffy | Scar Tissue / Symmetry
— Age Advisory: 18+ (parental/guardian discretion).
— Content Warnings: features blood-letting, disturbing content + themes of abuse.
Charlotte McShane | Tell Me Lies
— Age Advisory: 18+ (parental/guardian discretion).
— Content Warnings: includes swearing, shouting, mild sexual content; requires active audience participation in a one-to-one setting; audience members need to feel comfortable by themselves + aware of the possibility of oversharing.
Gillian Knox | Everybody Always Tells the Truth
— Content Warning: discusses aspects of giving birth which some may find upsetting.
Holly Spillar | Hole
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
— Content Warnings: the work is about sex, sexual problems + Vaginismus, which may be distressing to some.
Jade Williams | An Intimate Confession Cup
— Age Advisory: 18+ (parental/guardian discretion).
— Content Warning: requires active audience participation in a one-to-one setting; audience members need to feel comfortable by themselves.
Kellie Colbert | Bad Feminist
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
— Content Warning: includes photographic nudity.
Kris Canavan | Back To Basics
— Age Advisory: 18+ (parental/guardian discretion).
— Content Warnings: includes blood-letting, nudity, strobe lighting; insertion of dental retractor into mouth; insertion of fishing hook through tongue; stapling onto forehead; symbolic act of castration by using surgical staples in scrotum.
Pierce Starre | Labels
— Content Warning: as an interactive piece the artist has no control over what is written on the labels.
rahtattoo | Solvet et Coagula 22
— Age Advisory: 18+ (parental/guardian discretion).
— Content Warnings: features blood, needles + live tattooing.
Ross Graham | Making Histry
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
— Content Warnings: contains food + drink; optional audience discussion + participation; discussion of death.
Tamar + Jo | Unseen Beings
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
— Content Warnings: includes partial nudity + some sexual movement.
Thomas Mayer | Countless Lives
— Age Advisory: parental/guardian discretion.
— Content Warning: features nudity.