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:
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:
Current Projects
Cutting Out
Part performance, part installation, part collective act of resistance, Cutting Out tells the story of Viv's hands (from abuse to activism) in a co-created installation of paper dolls holding hands in solidarity, bearing witness to 11 million adult UK survivors to Child Sex Abuse.
Cutting Out finished it's tour in Autumn 2021, but you can still get involved with the campaign online. |
Restless
As part of the Restless project, Viv walked just over 100 miles from Starcross to Plymouth on the South Devon Coast Path in May 2021 to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week and National Walking Month.
Along the way she wrote daily blogs as well as poems and songs that will be used as inspiration for the Restless album. |