UpFront Survivors Leeds

Video about the UpFront Survivors Pop-Up Cultural Space from 20th - 24th March 2024 in Leeds.
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. The Leeds event was the second of three in this three-year project.
Thank you to all our amazing performers during the opening night and open mic night. Check out a cross section of their individual performances here:
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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.
You can also use the live chat option on 247sexualabuse...
SurvivorsUK runs the National Male Survivors Online Helpline - a webchat and SMS service for men, boys and non-binary people who have experienced sexual abuse at any time in their lives.
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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[@TruthSeeker-m1f]

Looks like an amazing event! Will it be coming to London?? 😊

[@deborahanne675]

@TruthSeeker-m1f I would like to go but hope it’ll come closer to hometown too.

[@vivgordoncompany]

@TruthSeeker-m1f Unfortunately not right now - the next one is in Gloucester in March - or we have this free online event on Friday 31 Jan www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dazzle-of-zebras-zebradaycsa-online-event-tickets-1111469458069?aff=ebdsshios

[@deborahanne675]

I don’t feel like a survivor, Viv. X. 🫂

[@vivgordoncompany]

That's OK - we're all different and all use different words - what term do you prefer? ✊

[@deborahanne675]

@@vivgordoncompany…every day feels like death. Sorry to sound like such a downer. X

[@deborahanne675]

⁠Thank you all for the great work you are doing. Really fab! 🦓 🙏

[@TruthSeeker-m1f]

@@deborahanne675 Very powerful for you to share this… I can relate to this feeling, so thank you. I’m in a constant cycle of ups and downs but just know you’re not alone 🩵 Sending you lots of healing energy and virtual hugs x

[@deborahanne675]

@TruthSeeker-m1f Thank you.
Deep breath. x🫂