Join us on Thursday 2nd April, 6.30–8.30pm for Recovery Street presents: He aha te mea nui o te ao…? (What is the most important thing in the world…?), a performance and workshop exploring Māori-informed practices in addiction recovery–engaged arts, with Chris Ranui-Molloy and Leon Clowes.
Recovery Street is an arts-led recovery organisation from Aotearoa New Zealand that works at the intersection of creativity, cultural knowledge, and clinical practice to support people experiencing addiction and mental health challenges.
Marking their UK debut, this two-hour session brings together live performance by four Recovery Street performers, followed by a Q&A and an interactive workshop. The event draws on Māori-informed practices, psychodrama, and drama therapy to offer practical exercises and tools used by Recovery Street to support people facing addiction and mental health challenges.
The session will be led by Recovery Street Aotearoa founder Chris Ranui-Molloy, and introduced by Leon Clowes, co-founder of Performing Recovery magazine, a publication that highlights and shares artistic practices developed to support addiction recovery internationally. Together, Chris and Leon present an arts-led methodology shaped through lived experience, cultural knowledge, and clinical practice.
This event is free to attend and will be held at Auto Italia. To book, follow the link here or email info@artworkassociation.org
Chris Ranui-Molloy is a Māori Addictions and Mental Health Clinician, Creative Arts Therapist, and founder of Recovery Street Aotearoa. He works at the intersection of storytelling, art, and recovery, developing Māori-informed, peer-led methodologies that support people facing addiction and mental health challenges to reconnect with their identity, voice, and community. His practice helps those impacted by addiction and mental health challenges to stand in their truth, reshape their narratives, and reestablish connections with identity and Te Taiao (the natural environment). Through live performance, pūrākau processes, and creative facilitation, his work centres lived experience as a powerful pathway to healing and collective transformation.
Leon Clowes is a multidisciplinary artist in addiction recovery and a co-founder of Performing Recovery magazine, a publication that platforms the emerging international field of addiction recovery arts praxis.
Ed Baxter began as a sculptor and conceptual artist before he created and ran Resonance 104.4 FM, an experimental arts and sound radio station in London. Resonance programming is directed by Baxter with over 300 volunteer staff. It is supported by the London Musicians Collective and Arts Council England.
Octavo Books practices a unique bookshop model, originated and run by Boris Jardine, a History of Science Curator at the Science Museum in London. Based on intensive historical research and drawing on a large private collection, Octavo offers only a few rare and important books at a time. A new web project is underway that will archive the work of running Octavo Books, sorting its research and images into a series of reading lists, syllabi and other resources.
Mark Pawson has been experimenting with self-organized museums and collections for over 30 years. His extensive and unique library of printed matter includes zines, mail art, small press art publications, and a large number of miscellaneous print phenomenon. Mark also creates his own books, and distributes hard to find artist books. Mark has recently ‘unboxed’ his archive in a solo exhibition at Xero Kline & Coma.