Theater: V-Day 2009: The Vagina Monologues
On March 6 and 7, VOX: Students for Choice, Everywoman's Center and a cast of over 55 people will proudly perform The Vagina Monologues. This event is in honor of International Women's Day.
Performances will be on:
Friday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 7 at 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
These performances will benefit Everywoman's Center and Vox: Students for Choice.
V-Day is a global movement to end the violence that affects one in three girls and women in the United States and around the world. Now beginning its second decade, V-Day was inspired by women's reactions to Eve Ensler's award-winning play The Vagina Monologues, a groundbreaking piece about the violence and the pleasure and the shame that women have had about their vaginas.
Every year V-Day places the focus on a country or geographic area providing an opportunity to bring the lives of girls and women of that country or community to light. V-Day's 2009 Spotlight Campaign focuses on women and girls of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Tickets are being sold at the Fine Arts Center and will also be available at the door on the night of the performance. Due to mature content and language, parental discretion is strongly advised. For more information contact Everywoman's Center at (413) 545-0883 or visit www.umass.edu/ewc.
More about V-Day:
In 1998, when Eve Ensler first performed the The Vagina Monologues in small towns and large cities around the world, hundreds of women came to her to tell her their stories of rape, incest, domestic battery and female genital mutilation and she saw and heard the destructive personal, social, political and economic consequences of this global epidemic. Based on her conviction that theater and language have the "ability to explode trauma, create public discourse, empower people on the deepest political and spiritual levels, and ultimately move them to action," Ensler, with a group of women in New York City, established V-Day on Valentine's Day 1998.
In 2008, over 4000 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date The Vagina Monologues has been performed in 120 countries, in 45 languages, and has raised $60 million dollars providing financial support for over 10,000 organizations working "until the violence stops."