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  • Performing Recovery – Issue 10, OUT NOW!

    Performing Recovery – Issue 10, OUT NOW!

    In Issue 10 of Performing Recovery: The Digital edition is FREE! But you can order printed copies from the webstore.https://performing-recovery.sumupstore.com/ Read more

  • Sean Daniels webinar

    Sean Daniels webinar

    On Thursday 27th March, Performing Recovery and Tarento Productions hosted the a series of FREE Webinars in the run up to the London debut of The White Chip. You can watch the full webinar here: The next Performing Recovery webinar will be with Danielle Tarento, titled “How to … Be a Producer” – Danielle Tarento… Read more

  • Helen Jeffery on her new play “Buckled”

    Helen Jeffery on her new play “Buckled”

    “I could not face being around everybody else drinking. I felt really resentful because they could manage their drinking, and I couldn’t.” Helen Jeffrey Tweet Scene from Buckled, touring England’s North West in March Click here to donate £3 Helen Jeffery is a theatre writer, performer, director and creative facilitator from Merseyside. Four years sober,… Read more

  • Interview With Sean Daniels, writer of The White Chip

    Interview With Sean Daniels, writer of The White Chip

    Sean Daniels, writer of The White Chip “It’s important to have silly songs about recovery. It’s important to show there’s a lot of joy. There’s a vast world that wasn’t there before on the other side.” Here Sean Daniels speaks to Alex Mazonowicz about how art can help change narratives, how the media stigmatises those… Read more

  • Lab Raps: where hip-hop meets classical, jazz and folk

    Lab Raps: where hip-hop meets classical, jazz and folk

    Lab Raps is released via The Glasgow Barons on 28 February 2025. Produced by regeneration orchestra The Glasgow Barons – Lab Raps is an innovative and experimental project in which the Scottish hip-hop community joins forces with musicians from classical, jazz and folk genres. On 28 March 2025, for the first birthday party of FREED… Read more

  • Performing Recovery – Issue 9, Affected Others OUT NOW!

    Performing Recovery – Issue 9, Affected Others OUT NOW!

    Read the latest issue of Performing Recovery. With Sean Daniels, TransSober, Denise Harrison, SUIT, Navier Records, Vita Nova, Gianluca Bonomo, the Sober Festival roundup and the Chaordic Roundtable. Read more