Curating Queer Sobriety with Mark Prest
Queer Reflections on Creative HealthThis series of talks offers five queer perspectives on the idea of ‘creative health’, the new name for the field of practice also known as Arts For Health. QUEERCIRCLE have invited a city-wide strategist, an artist, a historian, a community organiser and a ‘recoverist’ to speak on this topic as it relates to our experiences of grief, drug and alcohol addiction and neurodivergence - amongst others. There will be opportunity to reflect, discuss and respond together as part of this five week evening class.
Mark Prest is the founding Director of ‘Portraits of Recovery - a pioneering Manchester-based visual arts charity. PORe works with leading contemporary artists and people and communities in recovery from substance use to create high quality transformational art. Mark will talk about how being a Queer man and its relationship to alcoholism was overlooked during his time in rehab, forcing him to feel that his queer and recovery identities were at odds. He will also talk about the value of queer sober space and some of the art projects he has commissioned which explore alternate ways of relating to one another and ourselves - such as My Recoverist Family featuring performance artist, David Hoyle.
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