Welcome to Issue 14 of Performing Recovery. This issue has a distinctive Mersey flavour as we spotlight the Liverpool Everyman and Zoe Zontou of Liverpool Hope University, who have been working with the region’s recovery arts groups to create a new network.

The issue includes an interview with Zoe and Hayley Lindley-Thornhill, Head of Young People and Community at the theatre, about how the project began and what it means to have recovery artists truly in the driving seat.

We also feature contributions from members of the Merseyside Creative Recovery Network, including Fallen Angels Dance Theatre, Paula Simms, Heidi Robinson, Duncan Shaw and Micky Tansley. Playwright Helen Jeffery, who helped develop the network’s recovery manifesto, reflects on her own journey to create Sober Scribbles.

In addition, we have news from SUIT Wolverhampton about its art gallery project. Maddie Kitchen also speaks to Thea Gajić about the film Surviving Earth, which is inspired by her father’s life and the work he carried out with the Bristol Drugs Project.

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