Event

Improv Night: Phantasmagoria
Mash Guru, Macclesfield
20 December 2016

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About this event
One of a series of experimental art performance nights at music venue Mash Guru, curated and organised by Sabine Kussmaul and Mark Sheeky. The theme of the evening was Phantasmagoria.

Becca Smith showed ink-blots with looping speech on a mic, and later read a poem to improvised music by Steve Young and Alix Hyde, while wearing a ghost-like sheet which was painted onto.

The many acts also included video by Felix Prater, poetry from Claire Bassi, Helen Kay, and Chris Godber, a video by Sue Mascarenhas, poetry and prose by Michael Chisholm, soundscapes by Simon Ross, and a ghost story by Sara MacKian read by Sabine Kussmaul.

The night ended with a video and music from Warrington group Klaut MD, and a final music jam featuring Sabine, Simon Ross, Becca Smith and Steve Young.