Apples & Other Fruit
HOME Manchester
Visual arts performance
Performed only once, Apples and Other Fruits is an extraordinary, live art walkabout performance in HOME’s gallery space presided over by high-wire avant-guardian and force of nature, David Hoyle.
In collaboration with artist and makers, Jackie Haynes, Another Adele, Greg and Justin this will be a night of laughter and bravery, exploring the non-linearity of recovery from substance use within the LGBT+ community and beyond. It’s anything but dry.
- Directed by Nick Blackburn
HOME
2 Tony Wilson Place
First Street
Manchester
M15 4FN
Performance time
8-9pm, Friday 22nd September
In the spirit of the Recoverist Manifesto
Through poetry, performance, film, live art and installation, this encounter creates a frame for the traces of lived experience — thoughtful, angry and beautiful.
Arrived at through a process of nomadic art making with ideas generated via trips to Southport, Platt Hall Gallery of Costume Gallery and Manchester’s Gay Village, a group of artists Recoverists and makers came together to confront the existing narratives of recovery and ask “what lies beyond?”
Arrived at through a process of nomadic art making we came together to confront existing narratives...
Facing a hard truth
50 years since the partial decriminalisation of Homosexuality, LGBT+ people are still at risk of criminalisation and a loss of freedom. The rising and current phenomenon of chemsex is a visible symptom of the underlying trauma.
It’s time to act by ‘outing’ the community use of substance as far from the recreational norm. It’s time for transcendence, healthier forms of hedonism and alternatives to a greater social connectedness.
We want to tell a story, shine a light, blow away the myths and be proud
Shining a light...
We want to tell a story, shine a light, blow away the myths and be proud. We want to generate new cultural possibilities for the emancipatory re-framing of addiction and recovery identities towards a truer collective freedom.
- Directed by Nick Blackburn
