About Viv Gordon Company CIC
Our work is a campaign to increase visibility, voice and community with adult survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA).
CSA remains a taboo subject and is rarely talked about outside therapeutic support settings and, because of this, survivors lack cultural and political representation resulting in CSA survivors being the largest marginalised group most people have never heard of.
There’s an estimated 11 million of us in the UK.
Our work seeks to remove barriers to participation for CSA survivors and drive narrative change moving away from ideas of victimhood, guilt, shame, isolation and cultural silencing towards celebrating survival, joining together and laying claim to cultural space to make noise about our experiences, rights and concerns. We do this through creative activities: performances, installations, poetry, writing, workshops, campaigns, consultancy and more.
Artistic Director, Viv Gordon has a strong track record as a theatre maker, arts/mental health campaigner & survivor-activist grounded in her lived experience of Child Sexual Abuse.
Find out more about Viv Gordon and our work by watching the following TEDx video:
There’s an estimated 11 million of us in the UK.
Our work seeks to remove barriers to participation for CSA survivors and drive narrative change moving away from ideas of victimhood, guilt, shame, isolation and cultural silencing towards celebrating survival, joining together and laying claim to cultural space to make noise about our experiences, rights and concerns. We do this through creative activities: performances, installations, poetry, writing, workshops, campaigns, consultancy and more.
Artistic Director, Viv Gordon has a strong track record as a theatre maker, arts/mental health campaigner & survivor-activist grounded in her lived experience of Child Sexual Abuse.
Find out more about Viv Gordon and our work by watching the following TEDx video:
Current Projects
Restless
Restless is an arts activism project to raise awareness, build community and inspire change, visibility, and voice with and for survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA). At the heart of our show lies the sea, which serves as a metaphor for the strength of continuous collective action in affecting change.
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UpFront Survivors
UpFront Survivors is a pioneering, three-year programme about creative changemaking, designed and led by CSA survivors in partnership with frontline services to work against stigma, silencing and censorship towards social justice, access and inclusion.
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An ABC of CSA
An ABC of CSA is a creative resource to support better conversations about child sexual abuse. In collaboration with over 40 CSA survivors through Women's Centre Cornwall, moMENtum, SARSAS and Devon Rape Crisis, Viv Gordon Company has co-created a beautiful set of alphabet cards, illustrated by Artist Imogen Harvey-Lewis, the designer behind Cutting Out.
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Cutting OutIn a tipi in the middle of Somerset, when she was a new mum and there were only the wilds, Viv Gordon remembers. Through her characteristic humour and warmth, Viv leads us through the act of remembering and what happened next. A powerhouse of a show combining installation, live performance and collective acts of resistance - this is a vital call to arms.
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