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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 5, 2010
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V DAY LCC JOINS GLOBAL EFFORT TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
V-Day LCC 2010
Presents a Benefit Production of
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Eugene, Or - Join Us As We Raise Funds And Awareness To End Violence Against Women And Girls
On April 21, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Lane Community College will present two performances of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play The Vagina Monologues at LCC’s Mainstage Performance Hall.
Last year over 4200 communities hosted V-Day benefits around the world raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. These highly successful events raised over $4 million through performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, readings from V-Day’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer and Any One Of Us: Words From Prison, and screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops. LCC has joined this global movement as part of the V Day 2010 College Campaign.
For the first year ever, LCC will present a benefit production of The Vagina Monologues on behalf of the V Day 2010 Campaign. All proceeds will benefit Sexual Assault Support Services (S.A.S.S.) and the University of Oregon’s Domestic Violence Clinic. This benefit production is sponsored by Minuteman Printing, Lane Community College, Student Productions Association, and the Associated Students of Lane Community College. Tickets are $12 for the general public and $10 for seniors, students and LCC staff, cash only. Tickets may be reserved ahead of time by phoning the ticket hotline at 1-541-740-8544. Tickets are general admission seating.
What are The Vagina Monologues
Hailed by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant" and by the Daily News as "intelligent" and "courageous," The Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off-Broadway by Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s experiences. Ms. Ensler has performed the play to great acclaim throughout the world - from Zagreb to Santa Barbara, from London to Seattle, from Jerusalem to Oklahoma City. Villard Books/Random House first published The Vagina Monologues, which includes a foreword by Gloria Steinem, in February 1998. A special edition was released in hard cover and paperback in February 2008 in honor of V-Day’s ten year anniversary.
What is V Day?
V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.
Through V-Day’s College and Community campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, Any One Of Us: Words From Prison and screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops and the PBS documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. In 2009, over 4200 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.
Performance is just the beginning. V-Day stages large-scale benefits and produces innovative gatherings, films and campaigns to educate and change social attitudes towards violence against women including the documentary Until the Violence Stops; community briefings on the missing and murdered women of Juárez, Mexico; the December 2003 V-Day delegation trip to Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan; the Afghan Women's Summit; the March 2004 delegation to India; the Stop Rape Contest, the Indian Country Project, Love Your Tree, the June 2006 two-week festival of theater, spoken word, performance and community events called UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC. In 2008, V-Day celebrated its 10-year anniversary at V TO THE TENTH at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome. V TO THE TENTH featured two days of speakers, art, performance for all and makeovers, massage, medical testing and healing circles, and yoga for the women of the Gulf South Region. The event was attended by over 30,000 women and men and reached millions of people all over the word, raising over $700,000 for local efforts in New Orleans to end violence against women and girls.
In Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, V-Day commits ongoing support to build movements and anti-violence networks. Working with local organizations, V-Day provided hard-won funding that helped open the first shelters for women in Egypt and Iraq, sponsored annual workshops and three national campaigns in Afghanistan, convened the "Confronting Violence" conference of South Asian women leaders, and donated satellite-phones to Afghan women to keep lines of communication open and action plans moving forward. Through the Karama program based out of Cairo, V-Day works in-depth to build networks ending violence against women and girls in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 130 countries from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities" and in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine’s Top Ten Charities. In eleven years, the V-Day movement has raised over $70 million.
To learn more about V Day LCC call (619) 519-5216 or e-mail the organization at celebratevaginas@yahoo.com. To learn more about V Day and its campaigns visit www.vday.org.
What is a V-Day Campaign?
A V-Day Campaign is a catalyst for mobilizing women and men to heighten awareness about violence against women and girls. By creating this global community, V-Day strives to empower women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the violence that affects one in three women in the U.S and around the world.
V Day LCC is a local effort within the worldwide context of the 2010 V-Day Campaign.
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Public information officer: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Contact: Brandi Dunkinsell: brandietc@gmail.com
