The ARA Network Blog

  • The ARA Network Partners with the Recovery Street Festival

    The ARA Network Partners with the Recovery Street Festival

    Recovery Street Film Festival, an annual event that highlights recovery journeys and aims to combat the stigma associated with addiction, is now accepting submissions for its ninth edition. Aspiring filmmakers are invited to participate in this prestigious competition that celebrates stories of resilience and personal growth. This year, the festival explores the theme, ‘The Sky… Read more

  • Staging Recovery from Geese, Birmingham, free performance, 14th June.

    Staging Recovery from Geese, Birmingham, free performance, 14th June.

    Birmingham-based community theatre group Geese have announce a performance from Staging Recovery to take place in Foyle Studio at Midlands Arts Centre (mac), Birmingham. The performance will begin at 1:45pm. They ask that audience members arrive promptly at 1:30pm. Entry is free! Capacity in the space is limited. You can book your space through Eventbrite: Read more

  • Creative High documentary showing at the Addiction-Recovery Arts Futures one day conference in Liverpool

    Creative High documentary showing at the Addiction-Recovery Arts Futures one day conference in Liverpool

    The Creative High, a film documenting nine artists in recovery, will be shown as part of the one day Addiction-Recovery Arts Futures conference taking place at Liverpool Hope University on Friday 16th June 2023. The film, from Director Adriana Marchione and producer Dianne Griffin documents the nine artists as they are transformed by creativity in Read more

  • New Note Orchestra to play the Brighton Fringe tomorrow (9 May).

    New Note Orchestra to play the Brighton Fringe tomorrow (9 May).

    New Note Orchestra composes beautiful music, summed up by an audience member in Feb 2023 – “I was utterly blown away by the pieces the orchestra have created. I’ve not seen anything so sonically curious or absorbing since the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra did a tour commemorating Kraftwerk’s Autobahn in 2018.” Hullabaloo Quire, the Grand Dame Read more

  • Check out LittleTealeif’s new single, Hold Heart

    Check out LittleTealeif’s new single, Hold Heart

    Little Tealeif, one of the many great artists on the Not Saints label, put out his first release of 2023 in April. Read more

  • Watch KT Tunstall in this amazing TUFR show

    Watch KT Tunstall in this amazing TUFR show

    A little Saturday morning treat, here’s KT Tunstall singing some solo acoustic songs and talking about recovery in her online Turn Up For Recovery show. You can read more about the amazing work Turn Up For Recovery do in Issue 2 of Performing Recovery. Performing Recovery Issue 2 – Apr/May 2023 Read more