Recoverist Month, the UK’s only arts-based awareness event that places people in recovery from substance use centre stage, is back for September 2025. Returning for its third instalment, this year will see exhibitions, a film premiere and more at venues around Manchester, including HOME, Castlefield Gallery and The Whitworth art gallery.
African Objects: Psychoactives, Spirituality an Mental Health is an ongoing creative health project exploring the intersections between African heritage, recovery, spirituality, and mental health.
Recoverist Culture Fix is our programme of regular, specially curated cultural events, bringing together a community of recoverists to explore great art.
Over the past year, our dedicated partners have explored the vibrant arts scene across the North West, laying the groundwork for this visionary project.
Recoverist Curators is part of Chaordic, a three-year commissioning strand of work in partnership with the Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery, and the Castlefield Gallery. See here for more details.
Through three art commissions, Chaordic aims to test and explore how deepened access to and participation in the arts can help re-frame addiction and recovery identities.
Portraits of Recovery champion’s Recoverist voices through the transformational power of art.
