UpFront Survivors project launch Bristol: Viv Gordon

Short video featuring a performance by Viv Gordon, Survivor Activist & Artistic Director of Viv Gordon Company, performing her own material and reading a poem by activist Sophie Olson, at our open mic night event during the UpFront Survivors pop-up cultural space from 23rd to 26th March 2023 at The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft CIC in Bristol.
UpFront Survivors is a project that supports adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) to step into cultural leadership through creating visible survivor-led community spaces and experiences. The project is a collaboration of survivor activism and frontline services, working towards effective, holistic, sustainable communities.
The project was launched with one of the first ever pop-up cultural spaces for the CSA survivor community, friends and allies from 23rd to 26th March 2023 at The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft CIC in Bristol, featuring a free programme of daily creative workshops and cultural events.
The videos in this playlist provide a snapshot of the launch event and open mic night, with thanks to our amazing performers.
UpFront Survivors is funded through the Home Office Support for Victims and Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (SVSCSA) Fund 2022/25, and developed and delivered in partnership with SARSAS, The Green House and Coventry University.
For more information, visit www.vivgordoncompany.co.uk/upfront-survivors.html
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Information, resources and support are available for child sexual abuse survivors, family and friends: The Survivors Trust Website: www.thesurvivo...
Support is available right now for survivors, friends and allies on the Rape Crisis England & Wales 24/7 Rape & Sexual Abuse Support Line: 0808 500 2222.
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Their specialist support team can chat with you for up to 45 minutes per day by webchat (via www.survivorsuk.org/helpline/) or you can send a text to 020 3322 1860 or email the helpline at [e-mail].
About Viv Gordon Company (VGC)
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.
VGC’s work seeks to remove barriers to participation for CSA survivors and drive narrative change moving away from ideas of 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.
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.
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