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Respect Victoria retains The Shannon Company as its creative agency
December 15, 2020 9:45
The Shannon Company has retained the creative account for Respect Victoria, following a competitive tender process.
The agency first won the account through a tender in 2016. It was responsible for the ‘Respect Women: Call it Out’ campaign which targeted domestic violence, and sexist behaviour in cafes, bars and public transport.
Respect Victoria CEO, Tracey Gaudry, praised The Shannon Company for its partnership and efforts in raise awareness of the different forms of domestic violence.
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“Lack of respect for women is a critical factor in family violence, and we know that while we’re dealing with complex, multifaceted issues, we’re seeing encouraging changes that show we’re on the right track,” she said.
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It was several days before Christmas about six years ago when Geraldine Bilston called her mother in fear and asked her to urgently come and pick up her two-year-old daughter.
A verbal altercation between Geraldine and her partner had intensified, and his aggression was scaring her.
Geraldine Bilston left an abusive relationship about five years ago.
Credit:Simon Schluter
“It was so bad, and I saw his behaviour escalating so badly that I called my mum to pick up my daughter so she wouldn t have to be there while that was going on,” she says.
After almost five years in an emotionally and physically abusive relationship, where her partner had slowly gained control of all aspects of her life including her finances, Geraldine knew the danger she and her daughter were in.
Portland creators are getting in on the boom.
By
Julia Silverman
12/13/2020 at 5:00am
Published in the December 2020 issue of
Portland Monthly
An hour before the panel of authors was set to take the stage, the line at the 2019 Portland Book Festival event was already at least 1,000 hard-core, book-clutching fans deep, most of them craning their necks and standing on tiptoe, trying to game out whether they were close enough to the front of the line to snag a spot inside the 376-seat Whitsell Auditorium in the Portland Art Museumâs basement.
Clearly, festival organizers had underestimated the intense enthusiasm for the featured authorsânot pop sociologist Malcolm Gladwell or former United Nations ambassador Susan Rice, who were the festivalâs nominal headlinersâbut instead a group of middle-grade graphic novelists, among them one of the formatâs biggest rock stars, Bay Area author-illustrator Raina Telgemeier, whose 2010 debut memoir,
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