you have already survived celebrates the afon wysg (river usk). some rivers have rights, this one has riots, and taught us post-trauma-growth is possible. a lifetime in the making, this body of work layers lived experience with history, myth, politics and nature to offer love&rage aka healing and justice.

exhibition includes large poetry banners; craft paper-flowers and a paper-bird (inspired by welsh poppies and curlews); an a.v. display of 78 photos accompanied by ‘recovering our first rain song’, from our album of sound-art layering riverscape with fragments of song. theres also a number of affordable childlike poem-paintings

‘a truly remarkable work that forges a deep connection with those who experience it, with art that always brings love, hope and thoughtfulness.’ The NewBridge Project

in association with live theatre and supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company

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    research shows saying trigger warning doesn’t help. it primes folx to focus on somethingthat may be fleeting. our show is about post trauma growth, about learning from nature,about finding healing in places of peace. as this is our post trauma growth, brief mentionsof some traumas / ptsd will occur. there is likely to be descriptive swearing; we will expresscontempt for sick-chiatry / sick-chiatrisation and for the dwp especially their medicalassessments for social security; we will also mention our multiple heat-attacks caused byenforced ‘antipychotic’ meds. we reclaim languages relating to madness, bisexuality and weoffer our take on politics of defiance in the eighties. the show is playful, chidlike andconversational. it is also a relaxed performance travelling upstream from britains lastinsurrection to date, asking whats love in yr language, realizing unicorns are real (if extinct),attending our first punk gig as teen in defiance of sick-chiatry, and finally discovering widerhorizons, our place of peace. a narc reviewer summarised the show as coming back tonature and stillness as a radical act of defiance