Creative Leaders Training Call Out

Training Opportunity: We are looking for CSA survivors who are professional creatives based in or within travelling distance of Gloucester.
Deadline: Monday, 28th October, 10am | Find out more

Cutting Out is coming back!

We are delighted to bring back Viv's solo show, Cutting Out, which we will be presenting in our very own performance space in Bristol.
Performances: Fri 20th Sep, Thu 26th & Fri 27th Sep, Thu 3rd & Sat 5th Oct

Finding The Words Workshop Series

Facilitated by 3 inspiring CSA survivor creatives, this iteration of our Finding The Words workshops will feature 3 FREE workshops over 6 weeks for CSA survivors, friends and allies, exploring puppetry, collage and various other creative activities.
Dates and times: Wednesdays, 18th September - 23rd October, 10:30 am - 1 pm
Venue: Viv Gordon Company shop space (Formerly Shoe Zone), inside Broadwalk Shopping Centre, unit 22, Knowle, BS4 2RA

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.
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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.
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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:  
Viv Gordon Company is an Associate Artist with Strike a Light and Exeter Northcott Theatre. ​

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.

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.
Find out more and sign up for the latest workshops and opportunities.

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. 

Cutting Out

In 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.
Performances: Sep/Oct in Bristol