EVERY WRONG DIRECTION CIC
C.I.C. no: 17225311
Every wrong Direction CIC - where community arts meet social impact.
Every Wrong Direction CIC uses trauma-informed performance, storytelling and creative workshops to help people explore difficult life experiences, strengthen communication, build emotional literacy and create safer conversations around family, mental health, recovery, shame, connection and community wellbeing.
The work may open up reflection around difficult experiences, family patterns, silence, shame and cycles of harm, while always remaining underpinned by safeguarding, emotional safety and trauma-informed practice.
Every Wrong Direction CIC is a new community arts organisation using short trauma-informed performances, storytelling and creative workshops to help adults talk more safely about difficult life experiences.
We bring short plays, spoken word pieces and musical performances to projects, institutions and community settings, followed by a break and then a facilitated discussion and/or creative workshop. This can happen on the same day or as a follow-up session, depending on the setting and location.
With our collaborators, we offer a range of performances exploring a variety of specific social and human themes such as grief, addiction, depression, ageing, late diagnosis of ADHD or autism, family breakdown, grooming, sexual abuse, chronic illness, physical and mental health, recovery and more.
The aim is to build a range of work created and performed by people with lived experience.
The work is not therapy or crisis support. It is creative, reflective and community-focused. Safeguarding, emotional safety and trauma-informed practice are built in, and EWD CIC will work with appropriate facilitators, counsellors, trauma-informed practitioners or the host organisation’s own support staff where needed.
The stories we tell are based in truth and reflect humanity’s struggles and triumphs as we seek connection, sometimes hurting ourselves and others when we do not find it. In the end, perhaps that’s what we are: stories. Part of being human is learning how we tell them, to each other and to ourselves.
Through theatre, writing, humour and emotionally intelligent conversation, Every Wrong Direction CIC creates spaces where difficult experiences can be explored without shame, simplification or easy answers.
We aim to take this work into universities, recovery programmes, family centres, prisons, community settings, arts venues and other places where honest creative conversation could be useful.
Funding is the goal so the work can be free or subsidised wherever possible, but some sessions may need to be paid for while the CIC grows.
For more information about bringing performances, workshops or collaborative creative programmes to your institution, organisation or community group, please visit the Contact page.
To see examples of developing offers, please visit the Themes & Performers page.
If you think you can help or would like to support us in anyway please go to the Support Us page.
Tracy "Tig" Savage
Founder/Director
Tig’s one-woman tragicomedy Every Wrong Direction grew from personal experience and developed into something wider after audience members repeatedly responded by wanting to talk about their own families, silences and difficult histories. That response helped shape the creation of Every Wrong Direction CIC: a community interest company using trauma-informed performance, storytelling, workshops and creative discussion to support communication, emotional literacy, connection and community wellbeing.
Tig’s background, a portfolio career, includes writing, performance, mental health work, addiction work, education, community work, customer service, museum management and somatic practice. Her work is shaped by lived experience, creative practice and a long-standing interest in how people survive, hide, tell and reshape their stories.
The CIC has also grown from Tig’s own need to build a sustainable working life around health, neurodivergence and the reality that conventional employment no longer fits her capacity. It is both a social impact project and a practical attempt to create meaningful, manageable work from lived experience, creativity and community connection.
Every Wrong Direction CIC is not a therapy service. Its work is creative, reflective and community-focused, underpinned by safeguarding, emotional safety and trauma-informed practice.