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:
Zebra Day CSA - Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Pride 2026
On 31st January 2026, we’re inviting our community of survivors and allies to gather online for
Zebra Day CSA as we bear witness and celebrate our collective survival.
What is Zebra Day CSA?
It first began in 2024 on 31st January (International Zebra Day!) when we held the first ever CSA
Survivor Pride with the intention to bear witness to the scale and impact of child sexual abuse,
bring an end to stigma and celebrate our survival together.
Why zebras?
In our ABC of CSA, developed with survivors, the Z card is ‘Feeling like a zebra in a world of
giraffes’. Zebras remind us that every survivor is unique and we think they are a potent image to
celebrate CSA survival.
This will be a secure online space. The Zoom link will not be shared publicly and will only be
sent to people who book via Eventbrite. The link and password will be emailed on the day.
Register your place for free via Eventbrite by clicking here.
Upfront Survivors Weekender 2026
We’re so excited to be returning to Bristol with our annual UpFront Survivors pop-up cultural space for CSA survivors and allies.
Friday 6th – Sunday 8th February 2026
People’s Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol
Join us for a weekend of community and creativity, including:
Creative workshops led by our community
‘Sharing The Words’ open mic night
Social gatherings
Find out more here. UpFront Survivors
Celebrating Three Years of Creative Changing-Making with Upfront Survivors!
Our incredible community has shown us the true power of creativity to make change, to build community and give language and expression to our experiences.
For so many of us, social justice is often the only justice we can hope for, so we’re keeping it moving towards a survivor-led revolution.
In just 3 years, we’ve achieved so much together:
- 94 Finding The Words workshops
- Over 110 CSA survivors attended National Social Change Network meetings
- 32 CSA survivor leaders trained through our Creative Leaders Training programmes
- Over 1000 people attended our 4 pop-up spaces - with 27 workshops and 23 performances by CSA survivors!
We’re so proud - and so grateful! Thank you to everyone in our community who has made this work possible.
We’re so excited to be returning to Bristol with our annual UpFront Survivors pop-up cultural space for CSA survivors and allies.
Friday 6th – Sunday 8th February 2026
People’s Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol
Join us for a weekend of community and creativity, including:
Creative workshops led by our community
‘Sharing The Words’ open mic night
Social gatherings
Find out more here. UpFront Survivors
Celebrating Three Years of Creative Changing-Making with Upfront Survivors!
Our incredible community has shown us the true power of creativity to make change, to build community and give language and expression to our experiences.
For so many of us, social justice is often the only justice we can hope for, so we’re keeping it moving towards a survivor-led revolution.
In just 3 years, we’ve achieved so much together:
- 94 Finding The Words workshops
- Over 110 CSA survivors attended National Social Change Network meetings
- 32 CSA survivor leaders trained through our Creative Leaders Training programmes
- Over 1000 people attended our 4 pop-up spaces - with 27 workshops and 23 performances by CSA survivors!
We’re so proud - and so grateful! Thank you to everyone in our community who has made this work possible.
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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