Re:Tale is an inventive literature event taking place on the 17th November 2011. In the labyrinthine setting of Jigsaw in the Triangle, six of Manchester’s writers will perform six brand new stories.
On the 17th November at 7:30 pm sharp, take a tour through the strange, fascinating world of working in customer service.
Tickets £4 adults.
£2 concessions.
Please purchase your tickets in advance from:http://retale.eventbrite.co.uk/
To compliment their forthcoming exhibition, Inside, Blank Media Collective will be producing an accompanying piece of related writings – short fiction, reportage, memoir, and poetry. These may be existing works, or works created in response to the brief. The publication is intended as a bespoke lateral accompaniment to the Inside exhibition; a provocation of unexpected thoughts and connections in the consciousness of the viewer.
Who: Emerging writers Location: BLANKSPACE, 43 Hulme Street, Manchester, M15 6AW When: Public Preview Thursday 26 January 2012 | Exhibition Continues Friday 27 January – Sunday 12 February 2012 Charges & Fees: Free to submit work. Artist fees TBC
What: Inside is an open call-out to practitioners working within a variety of mediums, which explore the psychological connection between the viewer and the work. Through a process of immersing the participant within the viewing space, Inside aims to focus on the notion of art as a trigger for the generation of a personal narrative. Work submitted may be ambitious, subtle or intimate and can cover a range of mediums including (but not specific to) sound, sculpture, installation, text and so on.
There will be a special drop-in session on Tuesday 13 September, 5-7pm at BLANKSPACE where you will be able to meet with the curators to discuss any questions that you may have and to get advice about your submission.
Submission information: Writers are invited to submit:
ñPoetry up to 40 lines in length
ñShort Prose (Fiction or Non-Fiction) of up to 1000 words
ñ100 word biography of the author
Deadline for Submissions: Deadline Extended: 14 October 2011 (Midnight)
Important Dates:
ñTuesday 13 September 2011: Drop in Session (5-7pm, BLANKSPACE)
ñFriday 14 October 2011 (Midnight): Deadline for submissions (Extended)
ñFriday 21 October 2011: All artists will be notified
ñThursday 26 January 2012: Public Preview
ñFriday 27 January – Sunday 12 February 2012: Exhibition continues
Please contact us for further information or assistance about the submission process. Submissions should be sent via email in pdf or .doc format to exhibitions@blankmediacollective.org clearly stating ‘Submission: Inside - Creative Writing’.
We at Bad Language are always keen to support interesting local projects, none more so than Mad Lab.
The Northern Quarters community arts space MadLab has been growing from strength to strength, initiating a wide range of projects from community co-op support events to hosting DIYBio seminars and alternative life drawing collectives.
They are now pooling their resources to provide top quality courses for individuals who want to expand their interests, career prospects and creative spectrum, with the Omniversity.
The upcoming Short Story Writing Workshop is being run again, due to popular demand. Its led by Jim Hicks, an editor for Comma Press, an initiative set up for short story publishing. The course will take the participants through narrative voice, structure, dialogue and other aspects, and its proactive nature means that participants are challenged throughout by writing a story before each session, so they can exercise what they learn and continually develop and analyse their work in a friendly environment.
You might be surprised, or disappointed, to learn that Bad Shoes Festival is not about your embarrassing footwear.
Instead, it is collaboration between Bad Language Manchester and Shoe String Magazine, two budding young writery projects from Manchester. Their aim is to create an exciting, interactive arts festival that will bring all ages and lovers or all art forms together for one Sunday afternoon.
The event will take place on Sunday 25th September from 12.30pm, in two venues across Chorlton, Manchester; Electrik and Dulicmer. The Dulcimer will be home to music and art exhibitions and just down the road, Electrik will host a spoken word stage, craft stalls and book stalls for you to spend your guilty Sunday pennies.
There will be secret interactive art projects, and writing competitions to get involved with throughout the day, and yes, there will indeed be bad shoes to be won.
Bad Language will be running another brilliant night of poetry, prose, general amusement with a special guest performance from Tom Fletcher.
It will take place on Wednesday 27th July and will kick off at 7.30pm.
Our headline act this month will be novelist Tom Fletcher.
His first two novels, The Leaping and The Thing on the Shore are published by Quercus and are available now. He is currently working on a third, called The Ravenglass Eye.
Flash Mob and Bad Language have teamed up to take part in the Not Part Of festival and created a night of bookish questions to twist your nerdy brains! There will be questions, prizes and a few little surprises!
The quiz is £1 per person to enter and maximum team size is 6 people. You can register your interest at skiddle,facebook or just turn up on the night!
The Not Part Of festival was born in 2007 when Gareth McCann realised that what made Manchester International Festival unique, was that it was comprised of commissioned, curated work. Not Part Of is a festival for all creatives to take part in without the barriers.
You can view the full programme for not part of here.
The upcoming 
