Haphazard 2024


A free day out for the curious of all ages.

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Updated 1 August 2024

Presented by Word of Warning + Z-arts

Playful, quirky, engaging, and sometimes plain daft: Haphazard is for kids and their adults, adults and their adults — anyone looking for a different day out!

Look at some of our artists’ images & read their programme notes — and now it’s over, see images from the event.

A free Live Art takeover of Z-arts on Saturday 27 July from 1pm to 4pm. Turn up at any time, come and go as you please… and expect the unexpected!

Artists

Chanje Kunda · Chicken Shop Hermits · Chris Sav · Failed Artists Society · Jana Aizupe & Company · perfectly serviceable · Porcelain Delaney · Sohail Khan · Thomas Daniel Byrne & Aimee Williamson
Participating artists subject to change.

Details

Entry: FREE, there’s no need to book… just turn up!

Times: Saturday 27 July 2024, from 1pm to 4pm (turn up at any time).
NB artists will take breaks on an ad hoc basis and some works have a short duration — although some works repeat you may not get a chance to see everything.

Location: Z-arts, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester, M15 5ZA

Access

Age Advisory: suitable for all ages (parent/guardian/carer discretion).

Content Warnings: some works involve interaction and/or participation; any specific warnings will be listed here.

Features: nine Live Art, contemporary performance, and participatory works with varied content.
NB multiple spaces are in use and works are varied in format — some roaming, some seated, some standing, some spoken word, some visual, some participatory.

Queries: please contact Z-arts via 0161 226 1912 or boxoffice@z-arts.org

About

Haphazard is our frequent foray into ‘all ages’ Live Art, with intriguing images and offbeat oddities dotted around and about Hulme’s historic Z-arts building.

This seventh edition will present nine works — 2023 saw, lasers, slinkies, silver birds, woolly jellyfish, and a shower of confetti… We’ve previously seen ping pong balls & squeaky toys; singing fish & a sax-playing bear; paintball golf & human quoits; a giant periscope, a golden toilet, and a tiny bee-shaped world…

Get a feel for it by looking at image galleries from 2023, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013 — and programmes from 2023, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013.

Credits

Haphazard 2024 produced by hÅb with Z-arts; supported using public funding by Arts Council England, and by Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
Image: Puppetfingers at Haphazard 2023

Websites

haphazardmcr.org
 Chanje Kunda — chanjekunda.com
 Chicken Shop Hermits (Chiara Scoglio & Hector T.J. Huang) — Insta @chickenshophermits
 Chris Sav — chrissavartist.wordpress.com
 Failed Artists Society
 Eleanor Webster — eleanorwebster.co.uk
 Emma Bourke Theatre — emmabourketheatre.com
 Rose Wilson Arts — rosewilsonarts.co.uk
 Jana Aizupe & Company — Insta @1001create
 perfectly serviceable (Lewys Holt) — lewysholt.com
 Porcelain Delaney — Insta @porcelaindelaneyy
 Sohail Khan — YouTube @trilobitefulness
 Thomas Daniel Byrne — YouTube @ThomasDanielByrne
 & Aimee Williamson — Insta @aimeelilywilliamson
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