stage ii community engagement - capturing your words
Continuous Voices works with artists in Ballarat and our community of survivors, friends, family and supporters to create the inspiration for a memorial to acknowledge survivors of sexual violence in Ballarat. We’ve worked with survivors, their loved ones, advocates and supporters who have provided us with guidance to help design a public space and memorial.
The design is now complete and we are moving into the final stages. An opportunity has opened up for community to once again participate in shaping the design through submitting words which correlate with their experience. Stage II is a chance for the community to submit words which will be considered for the permanent engraving around the base of the scultpure.
All you have to do is complete our secure form. No identification is necessary. Your submission is completely anonymous.
What is Continuous Voices?
Continuous Voices is a project that connects trauma and creativity to stand for change and resistance against sexual assault and sexual abuse. The project acknowledges the courage of those who have stood for change and provides hope for these continuous voices to be heard. The project is creating a public space in Ballarat to reflect. The shape of this space and memorial has been determined through creative collaborations with community.
what is your experience?
The Continuous Voices Memorial will stand for a hundred years or more. This Memorial will continue to speak to visitors well into the future. The words on the Memorial will resonate tomorrow, next week and years from now.
If you could speak to those who will stand in front of this Memorial into the future, what would you say?
How would you describe your experience to them? Would you reach out to them to tell them of the sadness, the hope or the darkness? Would you reassure them? Give them guidance? Or would you choose to remember someone you’ve lost?
submissions remain open until xx june 2025
steps to participate
Your experience, your words, are important. As someone who has experienced, lived with, encountered the crime of sexual assault, your words matter.
“If you could speak of your experience to someone 150 years from now,
what would you say?”