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It’s an honour to have a piece of music included in this podcast featuring @seanddaniels !

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery The latest @performingrecovery podcast is out! Our fifth edition includes:

- the latest news and callouts in UK and USA addiction recovery arts

- @alexxmazonowicz interviewing The Recovery Project and @livetampabaystories @seanddaniels, playwright of ‘The White Chip’

- a piece of @leonclowes music for @naviarrecords

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST BY COPYING THE LINK BELOW OR CLICK ON THE LINK IN OUR BIO:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/116257705

Here are links to copy and past to reach all the projects and people mentioned in the podcast:

@seanddaniels

The White Chip - https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-the-white-chip-makes-a-welcome-return-off-broadway_1728186/

The Recovery Project -https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/.../therecoveryproject/

Live Tampa Bay - https://livetampabay.org/about/

@leonclowes

https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes

News and callouts

@notsaintsuk -

https://www.notsaints.co.uk/

https://recovery-arts.org/2024/11/04/musical-futures-from-not-saints/

@Vita Nova -

https://www.pdsw.org.uk/whats-on/vita-nova-heath/

Transformation project -

https://www.artslettersandnumbers.com/transformation-project

@adfamuk Carol Concert

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adfam-carol-concert-2024-tickets-1014400568407

#arts #performance #theatre #music #recovery #addictionrecovery #addictionrecoveryarts #recoveryarts #performingrecovery

It’s an honour to have a piece of music included in this podcast featuring @seanddaniels !

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery The latest @performingrecovery podcast is out! Our fifth edition includes:

- the latest news and callouts in UK and USA addiction recovery arts

- @alexxmazonowicz interviewing The Recovery Project and @livetampabaystories @seanddaniels, playwright of ‘The White Chip’

- a piece of @leonclowes music for @naviarrecords

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST BY COPYING THE LINK BELOW OR CLICK ON THE LINK IN OUR BIO:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/116257705

Here are links to copy and past to reach all the projects and people mentioned in the podcast:

@seanddaniels

The White Chip - https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-the-white-chip-makes-a-welcome-return-off-broadway_1728186/

The Recovery Project -https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/.../therecoveryproject/

Live Tampa Bay - https://livetampabay.org/about/

@leonclowes

https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes

News and callouts

@notsaintsuk -

https://www.notsaints.co.uk/

https://recovery-arts.org/2024/11/04/musical-futures-from-not-saints/

@Vita Nova -

https://www.pdsw.org.uk/whats-on/vita-nova-heath/

Transformation project -

https://www.artslettersandnumbers.com/transformation-project

@adfamuk Carol Concert

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adfam-carol-concert-2024-tickets-1014400568407

#arts #performance #theatre #music #recovery #addictionrecovery #addictionrecoveryarts #recoveryarts #performingrecovery

First time ever I’ve come first at Games (I was always last to be picked at school!). With Henry and Camilla at @hexclapham this morning.

First time ever I’ve come first at Games (I was always last to be picked at school!). With Henry and Camilla at @hexclapham this morning.

This Saturday morning, I’m presenting ‘Catching Thoughts’ a work-in-progress at the inaugural Ambient Research Symposium at @unicreativearts in Farnham.

This is the schedule for the day: https://audio-research.com/ambient-music-conference-2024.html

Tickets are free and can be booked here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contemporary-ambient-research-symposium-2024-tickets-1026707197867

This new work draws from a 2021 mindfulness project and compositions from @naviarrecords weekly haiku challenges. In the latest @performingrecovery I write about rebuilding my musical confidence and talk to Naviar’s founder @marco_s_alessi.

You can read that article here: https://recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/issue-8/

This Saturday morning, I’m presenting ‘Catching Thoughts’ a work-in-progress at the inaugural Ambient Research Symposium at @unicreativearts in Farnham.

This is the schedule for the day: https://audio-research.com/ambient-music-conference-2024.html

Tickets are free and can be booked here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contemporary-ambient-research-symposium-2024-tickets-1026707197867

This new work draws from a 2021 mindfulness project and compositions from @naviarrecords weekly haiku challenges. In the latest @performingrecovery I write about rebuilding my musical confidence and talk to Naviar’s founder @marco_s_alessi.

You can read that article here: https://recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/issue-8/

What a most splendid exhibition @martinobrienart & @zackmennell’s ‘Whistling As The Night Calls’ is. On at the marvellous @vsslstudio at weekends until 1st December. @futureritual

What a most splendid exhibition @martinobrienart & @zackmennell’s ‘Whistling As The Night Calls’ is. On at the marvellous @vsslstudio at weekends until 1st December. @futureritual

I’ve been searching for the 1977 LP ‘Bernelle on Brecht and..’ for over thirty years and it was worth the wait. @discogs kindly suggested I might also want a 1981 EP of Brecht & Weill ‘Happy End’ songs by the album’s producer Philip Chevron (best known for being guitarist in The Pogues). Quite right they are too.

I’ve been searching for the 1977 LP ‘Bernelle on Brecht and..’ for over thirty years and it was worth the wait. @discogs kindly suggested I might also want a 1981 EP of Brecht & Weill ‘Happy End’ songs by the album’s producer Philip Chevron (best known for being guitarist in The Pogues). Quite right they are too.

I love this city so much

I love this city so much

An inspiring, poignant + uplifting afternoon at the @derbyuni Recovery In Practice conference yesterday, thank you @drdavidpatton & Dot Smith of @recovery_connections for making it all possible.

Great to meet @wedossett12 & @nita_nitro & Marcus of @suit_services and so many other brilliant creatives.
Such a brilliant atmosphere and great energy in the room. Really fantastic @performingrecovery

An inspiring, poignant + uplifting afternoon at the @derbyuni Recovery In Practice conference yesterday, thank you @drdavidpatton & Dot Smith of @recovery_connections for making it all possible.

Great to meet @wedossett12 & @nita_nitro & Marcus of @suit_services and so many other brilliant creatives.
Such a brilliant atmosphere and great energy in the room. Really fantastic @performingrecovery

We are in the Top Ten. THE TOP EFFING TEN.

(The ‘we’ being is @joannecoxcello + @elinorrowlandsart + @springle_1108 + @sarah_lianne_l + @purpleviolets101 and me with our pieces commmissioned by @drakemusicscotland for the amazing Siwan Rhys all thanks to superstar blunnmusic)

Which is just flipping brilliant. You can listen to the album by copying and pasting this link:

https://soundraiser.io/link/siwan-rhys-letting-the-light-in/

We are in the Top Ten. THE TOP EFFING TEN.

(The ‘we’ being is @joannecoxcello + @elinorrowlandsart + @springle_1108 + @sarah_lianne_l + @purpleviolets101 and me with our pieces commmissioned by @drakemusicscotland for the amazing Siwan Rhys all thanks to superstar blunnmusic)

Which is just flipping brilliant. You can listen to the album by copying and pasting this link:

https://soundraiser.io/link/siwan-rhys-letting-the-light-in/

How gorgeous is this? Cracking record too

Posted @withregram • @portraits_of_recovery Get your ears around the Let’s Talk About Chemsex E.P, now available to buy on Bandcamp.

You can also pick up the special edition clear pink/purple marbled vinyl with artwork, with a 16-page risograph of sleeve notes including an interview with @leonclowes & lead artist @harold_offeh, and a limited-edition print.

The E.P was made through a series of workshops which explored themes of desire, chemsex, consent and intimacy. Artists @harold_offah, @jak.skot, @cheddar_gorgeous and @the_niallist_aka worked with a small group to tell their stories and create an unashamedly electro-synth fantasy and a mellow musing on an absence of intimacy.

Made with @Brightersound.

Lose yourself in these intimate tracks via the link in our bio.

How gorgeous is this? Cracking record too

Posted @withregram • @portraits_of_recovery Get your ears around the Let’s Talk About Chemsex E.P, now available to buy on Bandcamp.

You can also pick up the special edition clear pink/purple marbled vinyl with artwork, with a 16-page risograph of sleeve notes including an interview with @leonclowes & lead artist @harold_offeh, and a limited-edition print.

The E.P was made through a series of workshops which explored themes of desire, chemsex, consent and intimacy. Artists @harold_offah, @jak.skot, @cheddar_gorgeous and @the_niallist_aka worked with a small group to tell their stories and create an unashamedly electro-synth fantasy and a mellow musing on an absence of intimacy.

Made with @Brightersound.

Lose yourself in these intimate tracks via the link in our bio.

Having SUCH an amazing experience :))

Posted @withregram • @multitrackfellowship Our next fellow is leon clowes:

“I’m a transdisciplinary artist researcher at London College of Music.

Starting in community radio in 2017, I’ve been exploring difficult issues (kinship care, being a gay teenager during the AIDS crisis, addiction recovery) in self-compassionate ways.

An editorial board member of the Addiction Recovery Arts Network, I also write for ‘Performing Recovery’ magazine.

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leon will be at @wisebuddah

@leonclowes

Having SUCH an amazing experience :))

Posted @withregram • @multitrackfellowship Our next fellow is leon clowes:

“I’m a transdisciplinary artist researcher at London College of Music.

Starting in community radio in 2017, I’ve been exploring difficult issues (kinship care, being a gay teenager during the AIDS crisis, addiction recovery) in self-compassionate ways.

An editorial board member of the Addiction Recovery Arts Network, I also write for ‘Performing Recovery’ magazine.

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leon will be at @wisebuddah

@leonclowes

Our latest issue is out now!

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery Issue 8 of @performingrecovery is out now and it’s our biggest issue yet!

Here’s the full list of articles & interviews & art & poetry:

Theatre maker @seanddaniels on The Recovery Project, Florida, and media representation

Writer and filmmaker Denise Harrison (@justagirl2017x) on her new guide to recovery

The new play from @vitanova_newlife

Multidisciplinary artist @leonclowes and musician and record label founder @marco_s_alessi of @naviarrecords on the poetry of music

Creative Arts and Research Lead @nita_nitro of @suit_services writes on community arts engagement

@youcancallmeaz speaks about @transsober’s recent art exhibition ‘Expression Through Freedom’

The article on sober festivals features @freezone_festival in Eastbourne, Bristol’s @recfestbristol @bristoldrugsproject @thedetoxfactor @chaserecoveryuk Glasgow’s @therec_collective @freedupevents + Essex Recovery Festival @essexrecoveryfoundation @notsaintsuk

A roundtable discussion with @mcrartgallery @castlefieldgall @whitworthart about @portraits_of_recovery’s CHAORDIC Project

A poem by Laurie Culley

The short films of artist Gianluca Bonomo

Back page art by @willbelshah

READ THE LATEST ISSUE HERE: https://recovery-arts.org/2024/09/27/performing-recovery-issue-8-out-now/

#arts #performance #theatre #music #visualarts #poetry #recovery #addictionrecovery #recoveryarts #performingrecovery

Our latest issue is out now!

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery Issue 8 of @performingrecovery is out now and it’s our biggest issue yet!

Here’s the full list of articles & interviews & art & poetry:

Theatre maker @seanddaniels on The Recovery Project, Florida, and media representation

Writer and filmmaker Denise Harrison (@justagirl2017x) on her new guide to recovery

The new play from @vitanova_newlife

Multidisciplinary artist @leonclowes and musician and record label founder @marco_s_alessi of @naviarrecords on the poetry of music

Creative Arts and Research Lead @nita_nitro of @suit_services writes on community arts engagement

@youcancallmeaz speaks about @transsober’s recent art exhibition ‘Expression Through Freedom’

The article on sober festivals features @freezone_festival in Eastbourne, Bristol’s @recfestbristol @bristoldrugsproject @thedetoxfactor @chaserecoveryuk Glasgow’s @therec_collective @freedupevents + Essex Recovery Festival @essexrecoveryfoundation @notsaintsuk

A roundtable discussion with @mcrartgallery @castlefieldgall @whitworthart about @portraits_of_recovery’s CHAORDIC Project

A poem by Laurie Culley

The short films of artist Gianluca Bonomo

Back page art by @willbelshah

READ THE LATEST ISSUE HERE: https://recovery-arts.org/2024/09/27/performing-recovery-issue-8-out-now/

#arts #performance #theatre #music #visualarts #poetry #recovery #addictionrecovery #recoveryarts #performingrecovery

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery Hello. @leonclowes here with a recommendation to go see the brilliant @our_moh ‘How to Survive the Apocalypse’ before it closes at the end of November. I’ve just been and intend to rave about it to everyone in a 10 metre radius of me for the next few weeks. Don’t miss out!

#theatre #performance #storytelling #museum #homelessness #solidarity #community

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery Hello. @leonclowes here with a recommendation to go see the brilliant @our_moh ‘How to Survive the Apocalypse’ before it closes at the end of November. I’ve just been and intend to rave about it to everyone in a 10 metre radius of me for the next few weeks. Don’t miss out!

#theatre #performance #storytelling #museum #homelessness #solidarity #community

Posted @withregram • @nmcrecordings OUT NOW - letting the light in 💿

🎼 Music by Sorcha Pringle, Leon Clowes, Elinor Rowlands, Sarah Lianne Lewis, Jo-anne Cox, Sonia Allori
🎹 With performances by Welsh pianist Siwan Rhys

The first commercial album to showcase disabled composers working in the UK.
Listen now using the link in our bio!

Partnership project with Drake Music Scotland, Disabled Artist Network, Tŷ Cerdd, supported by PRS Foundation Beyond Borders

@drakemusicscotland @tycerdd blunnmusic @prsfoundation @prsformusic @leonclowes @elinorrowlandsart @joannecoxcello @sarah_lianne_l @purpleviolets101 #classicalmusic #newmusic #albumrelease #disabledmusicians #disabledartist

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Posted @withregram • @nmcrecordings OUT NOW - letting the light in 💿

🎼 Music by Sorcha Pringle, Leon Clowes, Elinor Rowlands, Sarah Lianne Lewis, Jo-anne Cox, Sonia Allori
🎹 With performances by Welsh pianist Siwan Rhys

The first commercial album to showcase disabled composers working in the UK.
Listen now using the link in our bio!

Partnership project with Drake Music Scotland, Disabled Artist Network, Tŷ Cerdd, supported by PRS Foundation Beyond Borders

@drakemusicscotland @tycerdd blunnmusic @prsfoundation @prsformusic @leonclowes @elinorrowlandsart @joannecoxcello @sarah_lianne_l @purpleviolets101 #classicalmusic #newmusic #albumrelease #disabledmusicians #disabledartist

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Posted @withregram • @nmcrecordings MEET THE COMPOSERS 🎶👇
Tomorrow marks the release of letting the light in – the first UK commercial album to showcase disabled composers. Here’s an introduction to the featured composers:

Sonia Allori – is a composer, performer, researcher and community music therapist. Her piece ‘Random eddies (in the space time continuum)’ invites the listener into a dreamy/expansive soundscape @purpleviolets101

Sarah Lianne Lewis – a Welsh composer of bold and imaginative contemporary classical music. ‘letting the light in’ is a personal reflection of life over a few months of navigating change and a reminder of hope and newness. @sarah_lianne_l

Jo-anne Cox - writes seriously sensuous music and is a lover of cross-artform collaboration. Her piece, ‘Galwad y Mynydd’, is based on Welsh Folklore and tells the story of Gwyllion, a spirit/hag/witch who haunts lonely mountain roads, leaving travellers completely disorientated @joannecoxcello

Elinor Rowlands – is a UK-based multi-disciplinary performance maker and visual artist. ‘Secrets in the Centrefold’ is based on a true story where an entire town in Norway was wiped out by an earthquake, unbeknownst to the men who were away fighting in a war @elinorrowlandsart

Leon Clowes - is a white working-class queer musician-composer and multidisciplinary artist who lives well with mental health issues and in maintaining recovery from addictions and abuse. ‘Anni, Gini, Joni’ is about a reclaiming of youth, before it went the wrong way @leonclowes

Sorcha Pringle – is a musician, composer and disabled activist based in Dundee. Her piece ‘Diminished Credibility’ is a statement about the chasm that exists between disabled people’s experiences of mobility aids and assistive technology and the inconvenience felt by the rest of society because of these aids

This album was made possible due to a partnership between @drakemusicscotland, the Disabled Artist Network, @tycerdd, and NMC Recordings and funded by @prsfoundation Beyond Borders Fund 2023

blunnmusic #newmusic #contemporaryclassical #disabledartist #classicalmusic #newalbum

Posted @withregram • @nmcrecordings MEET THE COMPOSERS 🎶👇
Tomorrow marks the release of letting the light in – the first UK commercial album to showcase disabled composers. Here’s an introduction to the featured composers:

Sonia Allori – is a composer, performer, researcher and community music therapist. Her piece ‘Random eddies (in the space time continuum)’ invites the listener into a dreamy/expansive soundscape @purpleviolets101

Sarah Lianne Lewis – a Welsh composer of bold and imaginative contemporary classical music. ‘letting the light in’ is a personal reflection of life over a few months of navigating change and a reminder of hope and newness. @sarah_lianne_l

Jo-anne Cox - writes seriously sensuous music and is a lover of cross-artform collaboration. Her piece, ‘Galwad y Mynydd’, is based on Welsh Folklore and tells the story of Gwyllion, a spirit/hag/witch who haunts lonely mountain roads, leaving travellers completely disorientated @joannecoxcello

Elinor Rowlands – is a UK-based multi-disciplinary performance maker and visual artist. ‘Secrets in the Centrefold’ is based on a true story where an entire town in Norway was wiped out by an earthquake, unbeknownst to the men who were away fighting in a war @elinorrowlandsart

Leon Clowes - is a white working-class queer musician-composer and multidisciplinary artist who lives well with mental health issues and in maintaining recovery from addictions and abuse. ‘Anni, Gini, Joni’ is about a reclaiming of youth, before it went the wrong way @leonclowes

Sorcha Pringle – is a musician, composer and disabled activist based in Dundee. Her piece ‘Diminished Credibility’ is a statement about the chasm that exists between disabled people’s experiences of mobility aids and assistive technology and the inconvenience felt by the rest of society because of these aids

This album was made possible due to a partnership between @drakemusicscotland, the Disabled Artist Network, @tycerdd, and NMC Recordings and funded by @prsfoundation Beyond Borders Fund 2023

blunnmusic #newmusic #contemporaryclassical #disabledartist #classicalmusic #newalbum

So great to see @kelly.o.brien’s ‘No Rest the Wicked’ as part of the ‘Hard Graft’ exhibition at @wellcomecollection tonight. Lovely to meet her Mum Janet and @rozdoherty and to bump into @_samuba ! Great show, looking forward to going back and seeing it all properly. @itchyearmusic

So great to see @kelly.o.brien’s ‘No Rest the Wicked’ as part of the ‘Hard Graft’ exhibition at @wellcomecollection tonight. Lovely to meet her Mum Janet and @rozdoherty and to bump into @_samuba ! Great show, looking forward to going back and seeing it all properly. @itchyearmusic

Posted @withregram • @nmcrecordings Our forthcoming album ‘letting the light in’ is the first commercial album to showcase disabled composers working in the UK, resulting from a collaboration with @drakemusicscotland, the Disabled Artist Network, and @tycerdd.

Ahead of its release, Ben Lunn blunnmusic (Drake Music Scotland) shares his reflections on disabled composers working within the UK music industry

Read the article by clicking the link in our bio

Posted @withregram • @nmcrecordings Our forthcoming album ‘letting the light in’ is the first commercial album to showcase disabled composers working in the UK, resulting from a collaboration with @drakemusicscotland, the Disabled Artist Network, and @tycerdd.

Ahead of its release, Ben Lunn blunnmusic (Drake Music Scotland) shares his reflections on disabled composers working within the UK music industry

Read the article by clicking the link in our bio

Amazing to be part of this :)

Posted @withregram • @multitrackfellowship Our 2024 Multitrack fellows have just completed their induction day and so we thought it was time to introduce them. So we’ll be posting and bit more about each of these talented emerging audio producers over the next couple of weeks.

Amazing to be part of this :)

Posted @withregram • @multitrackfellowship Our 2024 Multitrack fellows have just completed their induction day and so we thought it was time to introduce them. So we’ll be posting and bit more about each of these talented emerging audio producers over the next couple of weeks.

Posted @withregram • @fallenangelsrising It’s your last chance to book your tickets for a special screening of Transfiguration!

This event includes a special Q&A with our artistic director and co founder Paul Bayes Kitcher, director Dan Thorburn, writer & actor, Eve Steele and Leon Clowes from @performingrecovery

Transfiguration is a trio of 10-minute dance films, focused on a series of defining moments into journeys of recovery from substance use.

Pay what you can.. Book here https://homemcr.org/production/transfiguration-fallen-angels-dance-theatre-qa/

This is a Recoverist Month event that, through the arts, changes the conversation on substance use and recovery. Recoverist = Recovery + Activist. Recoverist Month September 2024 is an initiative led by @portraits_of_recovery

#Manchester #Film #Dance #Recovery #AddictionRecovery

Photo credit: Point of View Photography

Posted @withregram • @fallenangelsrising It’s your last chance to book your tickets for a special screening of Transfiguration!

This event includes a special Q&A with our artistic director and co founder Paul Bayes Kitcher, director Dan Thorburn, writer & actor, Eve Steele and Leon Clowes from @performingrecovery

Transfiguration is a trio of 10-minute dance films, focused on a series of defining moments into journeys of recovery from substance use.

Pay what you can.. Book here https://homemcr.org/production/transfiguration-fallen-angels-dance-theatre-qa/

This is a Recoverist Month event that, through the arts, changes the conversation on substance use and recovery. Recoverist = Recovery + Activist. Recoverist Month September 2024 is an initiative led by @portraits_of_recovery

#Manchester #Film #Dance #Recovery #AddictionRecovery

Photo credit: Point of View Photography

Yesterday at the @saatchi_gallery ‘s ‘Homelessness: Reframed’ exhibition, I met @david.tovey, who shared on the making of his incredible large scale artwork, ‘Home 2013, 2024’:

“A ‘House’… I don’t know what you call it really. The Daily Mail called it a shed! (laughs) The main frame is made of pallet racking, and then you’ve got things like the wine rack up there—talking about my alcoholism. Car springs, a gate from a festival…I used to work at Glastonbury every year in my ‘heyday’ (laughs).

Each panel has a story. The roof, that’s where the inside bit sticks to the top. This wall is me giving credit to school; it’s the only bit I didn’t paint. There’s a little story about living in my car. I used to sleep with my computer down my trousers (laughs), just in case I got broken into.

The seatbelt represents the safety element, even though the car shouldn’t have been a house. The roof is shaped like a double bed because I slept in it. I’m a massive Formula 1 fan, so I made this like an 80s Formula 1 car. People say it looks like a double-decker bus, which highlights that people sleep in buses in the UK.

The clothes are folded like in the military, highlighting that some things you never forget—like pairing up your socks. (laughs) The ball gowns represent the LGBT side of the military, which affected my life a lot. And then, there’s my cap; I’ve worn it in most of my shows for about 10-15 years. Funny, when I did my show at Tate Modern, I wasn’t wearing it, and nobody recognized me! (laughs)

The car is the same make, model, and year as the one I lived in. It took five and a half hours to cut the metal off the frame—an absolute nightmare. The pallet racking came from Manchester, and I had a beautiful trip to the Pennines to get it. I documented everything on video as well.”

‘Homelessness: Reframed’ runs until 20th September at the Saatchi Gallery.

Yesterday at the @saatchi_gallery ‘s ‘Homelessness: Reframed’ exhibition, I met @david.tovey, who shared on the making of his incredible large scale artwork, ‘Home 2013, 2024’:

“A ‘House’… I don’t know what you call it really. The Daily Mail called it a shed! (laughs) The main frame is made of pallet racking, and then you’ve got things like the wine rack up there—talking about my alcoholism. Car springs, a gate from a festival…I used to work at Glastonbury every year in my ‘heyday’ (laughs).

Each panel has a story. The roof, that’s where the inside bit sticks to the top. This wall is me giving credit to school; it’s the only bit I didn’t paint. There’s a little story about living in my car. I used to sleep with my computer down my trousers (laughs), just in case I got broken into.

The seatbelt represents the safety element, even though the car shouldn’t have been a house. The roof is shaped like a double bed because I slept in it. I’m a massive Formula 1 fan, so I made this like an 80s Formula 1 car. People say it looks like a double-decker bus, which highlights that people sleep in buses in the UK.

The clothes are folded like in the military, highlighting that some things you never forget—like pairing up your socks. (laughs) The ball gowns represent the LGBT side of the military, which affected my life a lot. And then, there’s my cap; I’ve worn it in most of my shows for about 10-15 years. Funny, when I did my show at Tate Modern, I wasn’t wearing it, and nobody recognized me! (laughs)

The car is the same make, model, and year as the one I lived in. It took five and a half hours to cut the metal off the frame—an absolute nightmare. The pallet racking came from Manchester, and I had a beautiful trip to the Pennines to get it. I documented everything on video as well.”

‘Homelessness: Reframed’ runs until 20th September at the Saatchi Gallery.

The @fallenangelsrising trio of films are extraordinary. They will be breathtaking to see in all their glory this Friday. I’m compering the Q+A with Paul Bayes Kitcher (Co-founder of Fallen Angels), Dan Thorburn (Director), and Eve Steele (Playwright & Actor). If you’re in, or near Manchester, please do come along, would love to see you there x

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery This Friday, join Paul Bayes Kitcher, Eve Steele and @danthorburn with @performingrecovery’s @leonclowes at the @fallenangelsrising Transfiguration screening.

Part of @portraits_of_recovery ‘s Recoverist month, the films begin at 6pm at @homemcr.

More info and tickets available here: https://portraitsofrecovery.org.uk/whats-on/transfiguration/

#dance #movement #film #storytelling #arts #recovery #addictionrecovery #recoveryarts #performingrecovery

The @fallenangelsrising trio of films are extraordinary. They will be breathtaking to see in all their glory this Friday. I’m compering the Q+A with Paul Bayes Kitcher (Co-founder of Fallen Angels), Dan Thorburn (Director), and Eve Steele (Playwright & Actor). If you’re in, or near Manchester, please do come along, would love to see you there x

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery This Friday, join Paul Bayes Kitcher, Eve Steele and @danthorburn with @performingrecovery’s @leonclowes at the @fallenangelsrising Transfiguration screening.

Part of @portraits_of_recovery ‘s Recoverist month, the films begin at 6pm at @homemcr.

More info and tickets available here: https://portraitsofrecovery.org.uk/whats-on/transfiguration/

#dance #movement #film #storytelling #arts #recovery #addictionrecovery #recoveryarts #performingrecovery

Feels great to be making music again as it’s been a wee while. (it has been pretty busy, mind.)

1. spoke no (naviarhaiku555)

A few months back using a Zoom mic I recorded @kate_gallaher_ playing recorders in the nearby woods to her home. Many birds were around us singing. This piece, ‘spoke no’ takes a short rhythmic fragment that she improvised which I compressed slowed down on Logic. I used echo and reverb to build rhythm and dictate paste, and then created new pitches through Ableton, combining this with the layers already created on Logic. This is the first time I’ve use Logic and Ableton to work on one piece.

This piece is a response to this week’s @naviarrecords weekly haiku challenge. Here’s the information about that:

they spoke no words
the visitor, the host
and the white chrysanthemum

For this week’s challenge, I picked another poem by Ōshima.

Ōshima Ryōta was a Japanese poet of the Edo period. Some sources say he was a disciple of Yosa Buson, while others say his master was Hattori Ransetsu. He’s mostly remembered for his essay “Bashō ku kai” 芭蕉句解 (‘Study of Bashō’s haiku’) published in 1759, a magnum opus of his studies and literary theories on Matsuo Bashō’s work.

Haiku by Ōshima Ryōta
Picture by Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov

Submission deadline: 28th August 2024

2. Louis Blues St. (disquiet0660): https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/louis-blues-st-disquiet0660

With this week’s @dsqt challenge, using Ableton Live, I took the denoised version and, using audio effect Robo Voice, slowed the track to just under half the tempo (from 120 to 55) so that the effect created an evolving new rhythm. I recorded this version while playing a 8 second section the opening bars at the same half speed. This second sample has a full range spatial effect that for me recalled the sound of American freight trains. (I have a mild but not adversely affecting obsession about that iconic sound.) I didn’t want to add anymore. It felt like there was enough going on and that the short track was complete.

More on the 660th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Louis Blues St. — The Assignment: Break a public domain song into parts and reorganize them — at disquiet.com/0660/

Feels great to be making music again as it’s been a wee while. (it has been pretty busy, mind.)

1. spoke no (naviarhaiku555)

A few months back using a Zoom mic I recorded @kate_gallaher_ playing recorders in the nearby woods to her home. Many birds were around us singing. This piece, ‘spoke no’ takes a short rhythmic fragment that she improvised which I compressed slowed down on Logic. I used echo and reverb to build rhythm and dictate paste, and then created new pitches through Ableton, combining this with the layers already created on Logic. This is the first time I’ve use Logic and Ableton to work on one piece.

This piece is a response to this week’s @naviarrecords weekly haiku challenge. Here’s the information about that:

they spoke no words
the visitor, the host
and the white chrysanthemum

For this week’s challenge, I picked another poem by Ōshima.

Ōshima Ryōta was a Japanese poet of the Edo period. Some sources say he was a disciple of Yosa Buson, while others say his master was Hattori Ransetsu. He’s mostly remembered for his essay “Bashō ku kai” 芭蕉句解 (‘Study of Bashō’s haiku’) published in 1759, a magnum opus of his studies and literary theories on Matsuo Bashō’s work.

Haiku by Ōshima Ryōta
Picture by Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov

Submission deadline: 28th August 2024

2. Louis Blues St. (disquiet0660): https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/louis-blues-st-disquiet0660

With this week’s @dsqt challenge, using Ableton Live, I took the denoised version and, using audio effect Robo Voice, slowed the track to just under half the tempo (from 120 to 55) so that the effect created an evolving new rhythm. I recorded this version while playing a 8 second section the opening bars at the same half speed. This second sample has a full range spatial effect that for me recalled the sound of American freight trains. (I have a mild but not adversely affecting obsession about that iconic sound.) I didn’t want to add anymore. It felt like there was enough going on and that the short track was complete.

More on the 660th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Louis Blues St. — The Assignment: Break a public domain song into parts and reorganize them — at disquiet.com/0660/

Thanks @fionacorridan, @dominicjamesbilton and Helen Wewiora for making the time for this roundtable discussion last month. These Manchester galleries have committed to working with addiction recovery and other communities in long term and meaningful ways. It was insightful hearing you all talk about the CHAORDIC project.

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery CHAORDIC is the collective name of @portraits_of_recovery’s three radical art commissions with @castlefieldgall, @mcrartgallery and @whitworthart.

Manchester Art Gallery Senior Curator @fionacorridan, Castlefield Gallery Director & Artistic Director Helen Wewiora and the Whitworth Project Producer @dominicjamesbilton came together to talk to @performingrecovery’s @leonclowes about their perspectives as art galleries on working with Portraits of Recovery.

You can read the roundtable discussion by clicking through the link on our bio or by copying and pasting this link:

https://recovery-arts.org/2024/08/22/the-chaordic-roundtable-recoverist-communities-and-manchester-art-galleries/

#art #visualart #contemporaryart #curation #curators #sociallyengaged #recovery #recoveryart #addictionrecovery #performingrecovery

Thanks @fionacorridan, @dominicjamesbilton and Helen Wewiora for making the time for this roundtable discussion last month. These Manchester galleries have committed to working with addiction recovery and other communities in long term and meaningful ways. It was insightful hearing you all talk about the CHAORDIC project.

Posted @withregram • @performingrecovery CHAORDIC is the collective name of @portraits_of_recovery’s three radical art commissions with @castlefieldgall, @mcrartgallery and @whitworthart.

Manchester Art Gallery Senior Curator @fionacorridan, Castlefield Gallery Director & Artistic Director Helen Wewiora and the Whitworth Project Producer @dominicjamesbilton came together to talk to @performingrecovery’s @leonclowes about their perspectives as art galleries on working with Portraits of Recovery.

You can read the roundtable discussion by clicking through the link on our bio or by copying and pasting this link:

https://recovery-arts.org/2024/08/22/the-chaordic-roundtable-recoverist-communities-and-manchester-art-galleries/

#art #visualart #contemporaryart #curation #curators #sociallyengaged #recovery #recoveryart #addictionrecovery #performingrecovery

I’m honoured to be compèring this @portraits_of_recovery event, a trio of films by the fantastic @fallenangelsrising. Join me and the panel which is Fallen Angels’ co-founder/artistic director Paul Bayes Kitcher, director Dan Thorburn and playwright/actor Eve Steele from 6.-7.30pm on Friday 6th September at @homemcr.

Posted @withregram • @portraits_of_recovery Experience a powerful transformation from addiction to recovery through dance. Transfiguration presents three captivating 10-minute films by @fallenangelsrising, screened @HOMEMcr.

I Fall, I Need, and We Rise each depict key moments in recovery from addiction, as we are taken on a heartbreaking and hopeful journey.

📅 6 Sept | @HOMEMcr
🎟 Book your tickets now, at the link ☝️

#RecoveristMonthSept24 #recoveryispossible #recoverycommunity #SubstanceMisuse #manchester #bury #stockport

I’m honoured to be compèring this @portraits_of_recovery event, a trio of films by the fantastic @fallenangelsrising. Join me and the panel which is Fallen Angels’ co-founder/artistic director Paul Bayes Kitcher, director Dan Thorburn and playwright/actor Eve Steele from 6.-7.30pm on Friday 6th September at @homemcr.

Posted @withregram • @portraits_of_recovery Experience a powerful transformation from addiction to recovery through dance. Transfiguration presents three captivating 10-minute films by @fallenangelsrising, screened @HOMEMcr.

I Fall, I Need, and We Rise each depict key moments in recovery from addiction, as we are taken on a heartbreaking and hopeful journey.

📅 6 Sept | @HOMEMcr
🎟 Book your tickets now, at the link ☝️

#RecoveristMonthSept24 #recoveryispossible #recoverycommunity #SubstanceMisuse #manchester #bury #stockport

Olé!

Olé!

If you’re coming to @supernormalfestival at @brazierspark this weekend, come find me in the brick gazebo and have your Misfortunes foretold.

From 11am until 5pm each day I’ll be doing one-to-one and small group readings of The Alcoholic’s Tarot using this set so artfully adapted by the wizard @alexxmazonowicz.

Are you an Alky, Addled or just an arsehole? The cards never lie…

If you’re coming to @supernormalfestival at @brazierspark this weekend, come find me in the brick gazebo and have your Misfortunes foretold.

From 11am until 5pm each day I’ll be doing one-to-one and small group readings of The Alcoholic’s Tarot using this set so artfully adapted by the wizard @alexxmazonowicz.

Are you an Alky, Addled or just an arsehole? The cards never lie…

About last night.
@gracejonesofficial + @horse_meat_disco at @wearelovemotion @southfacingfestival @crystalpalacebowl.
With @kate_gallaher_ + Louise Walters.

About last night.
@gracejonesofficial + @horse_meat_disco at @wearelovemotion @southfacingfestival @crystalpalacebowl.
With @kate_gallaher_ + Louise Walters.

I’m very happy to have one of the first copies of this moving and poignant memoir by @florencewetzel108 about loss and friendship. ‘Sara My Sara’ is written as a long poem and I was lucky enough to read an earlier version. Best of luck with the book Florence, it takes an open heart and a hell of a lot of guts to write and publish a book about such personally affecting material drawn from real life. I am sure many people, like I was, will be touched by your book.

I’m very happy to have one of the first copies of this moving and poignant memoir by @florencewetzel108 about loss and friendship. ‘Sara My Sara’ is written as a long poem and I was lucky enough to read an earlier version. Best of luck with the book Florence, it takes an open heart and a hell of a lot of guts to write and publish a book about such personally affecting material drawn from real life. I am sure many people, like I was, will be touched by your book.

I’m ** years old today. This year I started at the wonderful @hexclapham (one of the best things I’ve ever done) and 30-40 of us are now training for the @battle.cancer challenge (see below) aiming to raise £10,000 for the @royalmarsden. If you feel like donating, thank you so much! You can click through the link to donate in my bio, or copy and paste this:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/hex2024

Posted @withregram • @battle.cancer Joining thousands of other fit people to fundraise for those fighting cancer is pretty cool 😎

But you know what’s even cooler?? Being the highest fundraising event EVER🤯

And London, you are well on your way to topping the charts! 📈 We just need YOU to join and contribute to this record breaking event 🫵

Sign up today and join the army with the link in our bio ☝️

Grab your team and fundraise your way through 9 fitness stations all to make a difference! It’s all going down September 14th at the London Olympia 🤩

So London, we DARE you to become even cooler than you already are 😏

https://www.battlecancer.com/london

#battlecancer #fitnesschallenge #london

I’m ** years old today. This year I started at the wonderful @hexclapham (one of the best things I’ve ever done) and 30-40 of us are now training for the @battle.cancer challenge (see below) aiming to raise £10,000 for the @royalmarsden. If you feel like donating, thank you so much! You can click through the link to donate in my bio, or copy and paste this:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/hex2024

Posted @withregram • @battle.cancer Joining thousands of other fit people to fundraise for those fighting cancer is pretty cool 😎

But you know what’s even cooler?? Being the highest fundraising event EVER🤯

And London, you are well on your way to topping the charts! 📈 We just need YOU to join and contribute to this record breaking event 🫵

Sign up today and join the army with the link in our bio ☝️

Grab your team and fundraise your way through 9 fitness stations all to make a difference! It’s all going down September 14th at the London Olympia 🤩

So London, we DARE you to become even cooler than you already are 😏

https://www.battlecancer.com/london

#battlecancer #fitnesschallenge #london

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