Name: Cutting Out
Uploaded: 2024-08-06T15:35:27Z
Description: Cutting Out is a powerhouse of a show combining installation, live performance and collective acts of resistance.

Cutting Out

Viv Gordon Company's 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.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.Viv Gordon Companyis working to bring survivor stories out of the darkness and into the light, to raise awareness and to celebrate strength and resilience.

Viv Gordon Company

Cutting Out is a powerhouse of a show combining installation, live performance and collective acts of resistance.

Viv Gordon Company shop space (formerly known as Shoe Zone) , Broadwalk Shopping Centre

I was like wot! Abuse has shaped my whole life, and no-one ever talks about it. Listen. Silence. And around this time the NSPCC published the report about the 11 million...and then Jimmy Savile and up to a thousand victims...and everyone agrees it's awful...but you're still the downer at the dinner party if you talk about yourself as part of that narrative. 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.

Show timings: Doors Open @ 7pm. Show @ 7.30pm. Post Show Discussion @ 8.30pm. Event End @ 9pm.Age Guidance: 14+—<h3>Venue Information</h3>Unit 22 Broadwalk Shopping Unit, Viv Gordon Company shop space (Formerly Shoe Zone), Knowle, BS4 2RAGetting there: Broadwalk Shopping Centre is a 36-minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads train station <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Temple+Meads,+Redcliffe,+Bristol/Broadwalk+Shopping+Centre,+Broad+Walk,+Knowle,+Bristol/@51.4426301,-2.5852953,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x48718e6366adab5f:0xe1297ea4824fb7af!2m2!1d-2.5806219!2d51.449235!1m5!1m1!1s0x48718ef2a0a1674b:0x7d09d6fb67884d5c!2m2!1d-2.5675931!2d51.4340252!3e2?entry=ttu" title="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Temple+Meads,+Redcliffe,+Bristol/Broadwalk+Shopping+Centre,+Broad+Walk,+Knowle,+Bristol/@51.4426301,-2.5852953,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x48718e6366adab5f:0xe1297ea4824fb7af!2m2!1d-2.5806219!2d51.449235!1m5!1m1!1s0x48718ef2a0a1674b:0x7d09d6fb67884d5c!2m2!1d-2.5675931!2d51.4340252!3e2?entry=ttu" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">(directions here).</a> There are also many bus stops nearby with regular buses on various routes. To note, this is NOT Broadmead Shopping Centre, it is BROADWALK Shopping Centre.Parking: The multi-storey car park system at Broadwalk shopping centre is free but limited to 2-hours maximum parking, and it is controlled by CCTV cameras on the way in and out of the car park, so the 2-hour parking limit is strictly enforced. Cutting Out is 90 min duration including the Q&A - the show starts at 7.30pm and the Q &amp; A will be finished at 9pm. If you want to park in this car park and stay for the whole show, to avoid receiving a ticket, you will need to ensure you are parked for under 2 hours e.g 7:15 pm entry to 9:10 pm exit would allow for you to view the full show and not receive a ticket.Please note that although Broadwalk Shopping Centre is NOT within the Bristol Clean Air Zone, you may have to travel through it. Details on the CAZ, whether you are eligible to pay and the charges are available <a href="https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/streets-travel/bristols-caz" title="https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/streets-travel/bristols-caz" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here.</a>Access: Broadwalk Shopping Centre is a wheelchair accessible venue. The entrance, Viv Gordon Shop Space and Toilets (Male, Female and Accessible) are all on a single level. The entrance to the shopping centre and our shop space is at pavement level / step free.Flickering lights are used once in the show, for approximately 30 seconds. Within the 30 seconds of flickering, the light level intensifies.Full venue details and visual/access guide available <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bLWpyPgvojgdV1XLge9csJVwpsvrp3Y8/view?usp=sharing" title="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bLWpyPgvojgdV1XLge9csJVwpsvrp3Y8/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here.</a>All our events are safer spaces where professional well-being support and signposting are available as needed.—

“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 “Without doubt the best example of theatre activism I’ve ever seen.”Jo Watson - Founder, A Disorder for Everyone “This brilliant work needs to be available to all survivors and should be compulsory viewing for allies, service professionals and policy makers.”Claire Bloor - Former CEO, SARSAS—Written and performed by Viv GordonDirected and co-written by Tom RodenMusic composed and performed by Thomas JohnsonDesigned by Imogen Harvey-LewisProduced by Kate McStraw &amp; Sarah Blowers—Supported by Strike A Light through their Let Artists Be Artists scheme, Women's Centre Cornwall and National Centre for Creative Health. With thanks to East Street Arts for supporting us in securing the shop space in Broadwalk shopping centre, Bristol.—2021 show creation and preview tour supported by National Lottery funding through Arts Council England, with additional support from Exeter Northcott Theatre, BARN Growth Fund through Take Art, Strode Theatre, Prema, Strike a Light and Lighthouse. Produced by Molly Scarborough and Emma Bettridge.—

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