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.
We celebrated the launch of this ground-breaking project with one of the first ever pop-up cultural spaces for the CSA survivor community, friends and allies from 23rd to 26th March 2023 in Bristol, |
An ABC of CSA:
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RESTLESS
Restless is an arts activism project about community, visibility and voice for survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Restless combines walking with creative research, spoken word, music, combined arts and participatory actions for survivors and allies online and in the landscape. The sea provides a central metaphor of the power of continuous collective action to make change.
Our vision for Restless is for it to become a big, bold live music and outdoor spectacle, co-created with child sex abuse survivors. We want to use punky, anarchic art to shout it from the clifftops, that thing that most people can't talk about! |
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. Cutting Out is a powerhouse of a show combining installation, live performance and collective acts of resistance - this is a vital call to arms.
“One of the most moving, thrilling, angry and poised pieces of theatre I have ever seen. Viv Gordon holds the space in a way that made me hold my breath, grip my knuckles, cry and yet feel completely safe. This is brilliant theatre” Sarah Blowers, Co-Artistic Director, Strike A Light Performances: Fri 13th Sep, Fri 20th Sep, Thu 26th & Fri 27th Sep, Thu 3rd & Sat 5th Oct in Bristol |
PLAIN SIGHT
Plain Sight is a creative research project designed to challenge harmful attitudes that exist in society about adult survivors of child sexual abuse.
Viv Gordon Company worked with Dr. Alison McKinlay from the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London to understand what needs to change in terms of how CSA survivors are thought about and talked about in the UK today. The project has been supported by the Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network to work collaboratively to create a series of short films inspired by CSA survivor responses to our anonymous online creative survey. You can watch the videos here. |