Rising Up

Amplifying the Voices of Survivors' of Domestic Abuse

Since March 2021, We Make Culture has worked in Wearside Women in Need’s recovery unit, using creative interventions to support the women to “tell their stories”.

Musician Liz Corney, writer Emily Wiseman and artist Josie Brooks have led variety of creative interventions- singing, writing, animation, drawing and songwriting- guided by the participants interests and needs. Using trauma-informed approaches and working informed by the research that creative activity can have a therapeutic effect on people who have experienced domestic abuse, creative work has focused on raising confidence, building trust and enhancing mood.

Together they have co-created “Rising Up”- lyrics, music and an animation- about their recovery journeys and their lived experiences of domestic abuse and addiction.

The film is released on International Women’s Day 2022 to amplify the survivors’ voices and highlights the ongoing prevalence of domestic abuse, which has only increased over the last two years. 

If you would like to support the Rising Up project, please buy the song on Bandcamp: https://wemakeculture.bandcamp.com/track/rising-up

All profits will go back into the project and ensure it continues into the future.

Written, created and performed by a group of wise, wonderful and witty women with lived experience of domestic abuse and addiction and the journey of recovery.

Supported by: Liz Corney, Emily Wiseman and Josie Brooks

Thanks to Lisa Murphy from The Production Room for support with mastering and editing the track.

This project has been made possible through funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Sunderland City Council Washington Area Committee, The Barbour Foundation and the Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

Rising Up is a partnership project between We Make Culture and Wearside Women in Need.