Experience Lullaby – Sonic Cradle 🌛
This is an unforgettable immersive performance blending sound, voice and atmosphere. Using over 300 lullabies gathered internationally, the show combines improvised electronics, evocative field recordings, Carnatic vocals and live harp to create a bespoke performance for every audience.
Performed internationally from Riverside Theatre to WOMAD and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, this is a powerful celebration of music’s ability to connect us across cultures. 🌍🎶
Featuring sound artist Duncan Chapman, vocalist Supriya Nagarajan and harpist Lucy Nolan.
📅 Thursday 21 May 7:30pm
📍George Street Chapel, 58 George St, Oldham OL1 1LS
🔗 Link in bio!
#LullabySonicCradle #manchesterjazzfestival #OldhamColiseum #livemusic #Oldham
Her Revelation come to Oldham 🎹🎤
Her Revelation are an electronic trio creating intense, shape-shifting live sets built from improvisation, instinct and connection.
Formed by Kinna Whitehead, Peter Bell and Vato Klemera, their sound moves between delicate soundscapes and disruptive textures where everyday feelings stretch into something transcendent.
First colliding during a sleep-cycle installation in Birmingham, their early 2-hour lullaby/night-terror performance sparked a collaboration that’s since grown through late-night improvising, songwriting sessions (fuelled by air-fried halloumi), and unforgettable live shows.
Drawing inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin, Louis Andriessen and FKA twigs, Her Revelation blur the line between the mundane and the extraordinary — weaving ‘comprovisations’ into songs that linger long after the last note.
With singles Actress and Dare already emerging, and a debut album coming in 2026, expect to hear some unreleased singles this is a live experience you won’t forget.
📹 Jamie Lou Land and James Sharif
📅 Thursday 21 May 9:00pm
📍George Street Chapel, 58 George St, Oldham OL1 1LS
🔗 Link in bio!
#HerRevelation #manchesterjazzfestival #OldhamColiseum #livemusic #Oldham
See you all at George St Chapel, Oldham, for #RunningCommentary 7.15pm tonight @oldhamcoliseum
For poems and banter. The show is much more professional than this reel, btw...
Ps Do not show my girlfriend this video. Or at least not for like... two more weeks.
Pps Have I mentioned that I've got a girlfriend...
#poetrunner #queerpoet #ultramarathontraining #comedyreel
Calling all art fans 📣
Have you seen @oldhamcoliseum spring / summer programme?
Don’t worry if you’ve missed out on what’s been on so far this year because there’s plenty more going on in 2026!
🏃🏼♀️ Running Commentary
📍 George Street Chapel
🗓️ Wednesday 13th May - TONIGHT!!!!
⏱️ 7:15
🎺 Vipertime - Part of Manchester Jazz Festival
📍 Whittles Oldham
🗓️ Wednesday 20th May
⏱️ 7:30
🎵 Lullaby - Sonic Cradle & Her Revelation
📍 George Street Chapel
🗓️ Thursday 21st May
⏱️ 7:30
🌿 Khushi Festival 2026
📍 Cultural Quarter Oldham
🗓️ Saturday 1st August
⏱️ All day
There is so much happening and plenty that you can get involved in! Check out coliseum.org.uk or socials for more information.
We’re so excited! See you there 🙌🏻
#loveoldham #oldhambynight #theatrelife #artforall #manchester
Marathon fever still running high? 🔥
Blow off some steam at Running Commentary by P-Burton Morgan, TOMORROW at George Street Chapel!
After a decade of no exercise 41 year old poet P Burton-Morgan finds themselves newly single and hungry to return to pre-childbirth levels of fitness. Expect tantalisingly fast race times, tears and toenails falling off (sorry). A silly, sexy, sweaty romp - don't forget to stretch first.
ALSO — If you wanna carb load before hitting the ground running, come to Culture & Chips tonight at the Old Museum! 🍟 P-Burton Morgan will be our guest speaker and you'll get a chance to meet other creatives over chips and drinks. FREE to attend so come swing by!
RUNNING COMMENTARY
📅 Wednesday 13 May 7:15pm
📍George Street Chapel, 58 George St, Oldham OL1 1LS
🔗 Link in bio!
The GM Creative Industries Exchange presented by @bizgrowthhub and @elevate_north welcomed hundreds of creatives to @newcenturymcr .
It was a pleasure to photograph the event hosted by @therealnihal . Loads of great networking, panel discussions, performances, a live art battle and a fabulous insight with @jhesmondhalgh about @oldhamcoliseum .
MANCHESTER JAZZ FESTIVAL COMES TO OLDHAM! 🎶🎷
@manchesterjazzfestival has programmed two genre-pushing events for our 2026 season, bringing jazz right into the heart of the Oldham community.
Take a look at what we’ve got lined up and get booking... 👀
🐍 Born in the snake pit of Leeds house parties, aggro-jazz four-piece Vipertime have earned a ferocious reputation making a series of incendiary appearances at venues and festivals across the UK, honing their craft while pushing their line up of saxophone, bass and twin drum sets to its sonic limits. Both live and in the studio, their music is a sweaty dance floor incarnate.
🌃Lullaby–Sonic Cradle is an immersive music performance for family audiences and adults alike. The show weaves improvised electronics with nighttime soundscapes collected from across the globe by sound artist, Duncan Chapman, soothing Carnatic vocals from Supriya Nagarajan and luscious improvised harp music from Lucy Nolan. They have collected over 300 lullabies internationally from libraries to office blocks and these are woven into the soundscape and used as a stimulus for improvisation.
🎤Birmingham-based trio, Her Revelation, combine electronic and vocal improvisation with thought-provoking lyrics, to create mesmerising, emotional music. They’re a part-improvised ritual exulting the everyday. Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s idea of the ‘Life Story’, they weave arranged songs exploring mundane feelings between improvised soundscapes built on reactivity to each other.
📅20-21 May 2026, 7:30pm
📍Whittles & George Street Chapel, Oldham
🎟️ From £12.00 | Tickets on our website!
LINK IN BIO!
I’m a working-class kid from Oldham.
And somehow… I got handed a gift.
The chance to bring back to life the very theatre that lit something in me in the first place. ✨
That’s not lost on me. Not for a second.
Because this place… it’s not just bricks and a stage.
It’s every laugh, every tear, every kid who sat in the dark and thought maybe that could be me.
It’s all still there. You can feel it in your bones.
And now I get to hold that. Tell that story. Carry it forward.
I won’t lie—there have been moments where it’s felt like I’ve been pushing a boulder up a hill on my own.
Proper graft. Quiet. Unseen.
The kind that makes you question everything.
But today… people got it.
And for the first time—I actually enjoyed it.
The nerves, the fear of fucking it up… didn’t get in the way.
I was just in it. Fully. And it felt right.
Not politely. Not intellectually.
They felt it. They were with us. They ate it up.
And that’s the shift. That’s the moment you wait for.
But let me be clear—this isn’t mine.
It never will be.
I’m just looking after it for a bit.
Holding it steady. Protecting it.
So the castle 🏰 can become what it’s meant to be—
a lighthouse.
For the kids coming through.
For the town.
For the next generation of working-class dreamers who just need to see what’s possible.
Oldham… this is us.
And we’re only just getting started. 🙌
Sun is shining, May is coming, and we’ve got a line-up of ways to spend your evenings!
🍟We’ve got our last culture and chips of the season, a brilliant way to get to know other artists in the area.
🏃Running Commentary by P Burton Morgan, to keep you heart pumping and legs moving chasing the poetic rollercoaster that is their life.
🎶And a first for us, banging live music brought to you in collaboration with @manchesterjazzfestival . Three incredible artists, Vipertime, Her Revelation, and Lullaby Sonic Cradle, are bringing the tunes to get you in the summer mood!☀️
🎟️Book now on our website!
#OldhamColiseum #Oldham #Poetry #Music #Spring
🏃♂️🎤 Running Commentary coming to Oldham this May!
Funny, honest and sharply observed, this one-person poetry show by P Burton-Morgan dives into art, ambition, parenthood and the messy reality of trying to get your life back on track — all set to a Rocky-style comeback you won’t forget.
Keep the marathon vibes going and make the final stretch to George St Chapel, tickets on our website!
📅 Wednesday 13 May 7:15pm
📍George Street Chapel, 58 George St, Oldham OL1 1LS
🔗 Link in bio!
#RunningCommentary #PBurtonMorgan #OldhamColiseum #Oldham #Running
There’s a moment before things open…
where you can feel it in your body before it’s real anywhere else.
That’s where I am right now.
Next week I’m at the GM Creative Industries Exchange with Julie Hesmondhalgh — talking about rebuilding a theatre, yes…
but really talking about rebuilding belief. In a place. In people. In what culture can do when it’s rooted properly.
And if I’m honest… I’m buzzing and bricking it in equal measure.
Watch out for all my nerves coming out of my hands.
Because this bit matters to me. Deeply.
Not the stage. Not the spotlight.
But what sits underneath it all — the why.
Oldham isn’t a side note. It’s the main story.
And I’ve got the privilege of helping write the next chapter.
Let’s blow the bloody doors off.
If you’re there, come find me.
If you’re not… keep watching. You’ll feel it soon enough.
✨
#GMCreative #Oldham #CreativeIndustries #Theatre #Leadership CulturalRegeneration
