Events

Mac

Encounters

Venue: Mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham.
www.macarts.co.uk

Box Office: 0121 440 3838

Mac proudly presents a new season of innovative and intimate performance focused events, which allow visitors the opportunity to engage with work on a one to one basis in and around mac. Three exciting and intriguing events exploring the senses will take place during October.

FRIDAY 6 - SUNDAY 8 OCTOBER
BREATHE: THE SPACE BETWEEN US
Foyle Gallery, crèche and Cannon Hill Park
Bookings available every 10 minutes, Fri 5pm-7.30pm, Sat and Sun 12 – 2.30, 3 – 5.30pm
Duration: 40 mins. Tickets: £5/£3.50

Breathe present The Space Between Us; a one-to-one journey experience. A trail has been left for you to follow – alone. Starting in the Foyle Gallery at mac, you will receive instructions which take you out into Cannon Hill Park. There you’ll discover how the intimacy of a stranger can resemble a cinematic moment. You may unexpectedly feel that you’re connected. Will you meet again? The Space Between Us investigates private moments between two people in public settings. Can a stranger be a potential friend or lover?
This encounter has only just begun…

THU 19 - SUN 22 OCT
THE OTHER WAY WORKS: TREASURED
3pm – 8.30pm, Foyle Gallery.
Entry times: 3pm, 3.30, 4.00, 4.30 & 7pm, 7.30, 8.00, 8.30. (Approx 30 mins)
Tickets (prices): £5/£3.50. Very limited places, booking advised. Ages 14+

Birmingham-based performance company The Other Way Works return to Encounters after last year’s remarkable Homing Instinct, with a one to one sensual experience that combines jewellery and performance. Treasured features 3 specially commissioned pieces of jewellery by West Midlands jewellers, Mikaela Lyons, John Moore and Louise Bryan.

THURSDAY 19th OCT
8pm – 9.15pm
1157 PERFORMANCE GROUP: THE LIVING ROOM
An exquisite inquisition by Jo Dagless
Join 1157 in the living room for Part 1 of CUL DE SAC - 3 contemporary new works concerning suburbia. The entire contents of Jo Dagless’s actual living room will be installed in mac’s Foyle Gallery. Visitors will be invited to enter the living room for a nice cup of tea and a chat. The Living Room is an evolving audio visual space where visitors are encouraged to leave their mark, express themselves and make themselves at home, exploring how easy it is to lose ourselves in fascination with the uncanny and ignore the ordinariness of it all.