Bittersweet: The Survivor Nest Project Documentary

Join us at The Artful Life Counseling Center and Studio to view the short documentary film by Kate Brockway. Learn how one Beverly resident, healing from sexual trauma, brought together a team of artists, survivors and allies by organizing the Survivor Nest Project. 

Following the screening of Bittersweet: The Survivor Nest Project there will be a Q & A with Carla Beatrice and Donna Jenson, collaborator in the project and founder of Time To Tell. Time To Tell will display collages created based on online writing workshops for survivors in an exhibit called VISIONS FROM OUR VOICES.

Additionally, Nest participant Maggie Donovan will be on hand to share Beneath the Soil, a collaborative zine featuring artwork from queer survivors of sexual violence. Maggie is one of the creators of this zine and also, as moderator of Time To Tell, one of the collage artists.

Light refreshments will be served and copies of Voices Heard, the magazine of the survivor’s artwork and narratives will be available for purchase.

*All donations for this event go towards Survivor Nest providing arts programming to survivors of incest and childhood sexual abuse at the Artful Life Counseling Center and Studio* 

More about  Bittersweet:

Kate Brockway, filmmaker, documents the story of Carla Beatrice, a north shore artist and organizer of The Survivor Nest Project. Taking place over the course of two years, The Survivor Nest Project was a transformational healing arts project for survivors of incest and childhood sexual abuse. Brockway follows Beatrice as she builds a giant life sized nest with Debbie Baxter of the Nest Project and then moves it to her backyard, inviting others to be nurtured. Beatrice then brought this collaborative passion project and healing programming/exhibit to Salem the following spring.