Haphazard


Live Art for the curious of all ages.

Updated 8 February 2024

Haphazard is our frequent foray into ‘all ages’ Live Art, with intriguing images and offbeat oddities dotted around and about the historic Z-arts building in Manchester’s Hulme. Playful, quirky, engaging, and sometimes plain daft: a free afternoon of Live Art for kids and their adults, adults and their adults — in short, anyone looking for a different day out!

After a 4-year hiatus, Haphazard 2023 was our sixth Live Art takeover of Z-arts, with thirteen works on Saturday 22 July 2023 from Noon to 3pm — turn up at any time, come and go as you please… and expect the unexpected!

Get a feel for it with 2023’s programme and gallery of images.

Haphazard 2023 presented by Word of Warning + Z-arts; produced by hÅb with Z-arts; supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Enquiries: haphazard@habmcr.org · haphazardmcr.org · #HaphazardMcr

Past Editions

Taking over Z-arts irregularly since February 2013, Haphazard has previously seen ping pong balls and squeaky toys; a singing fish and a sax-playing bear; paintball golf and 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 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013 — and programmes from 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013.

Image: Nicola Smith at Haphazard 2019