Bittersweet: The Survivor Nest Project Documentary

Come support a Beverly resident and her mission to support survivors through the healing arts. Together We Act, United We Change is the theme for this year’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Join us at Beverly Community Television to view the short documentary film Bittersweet by Kate Brockway. Learn how Carla Beatrice, 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 we will have a Q & A recorded podcast courtesy of Beverly Community Television with filmmaker Kate Brockway, Carla Beatrice and Lisa Kawski, sound healer and integral collaborator in the project.

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 in Beverly*

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.

– review from 2022 premiere viewing”Bittersweet is a film that follows the cathartic healing journey of 7 survivors of sexual abuse through the process of building a life-sized nest from local vines and then being photographed within the nest. The film captures the essence and experience of this journey through the beautiful slow rhythmic use of the natural surroundings, light and sounds present during the process. The film has an interspersed narrative thread of Carla speaking about the project to bring perspective to the experience.”