V‑DAY FILIPINA WOMEN’S NETWORK JOINS GLOBAL EFFORT
TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
V-Day Filipina Women’s Network 2010
Presents Two Benefit Performances
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
and
A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT AND A PRAYER: WRITINGS TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
with
A CAST OF PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN AND MEN
Join us as we raise funds and awareness to end violence
against Asian women and girls
Who: Cast of Asian Pacific American Women and Men Speak Out
Against Violence
What: A benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina
Monologues and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant And A Prayer, raising funds for
V-Day Spotlight 2010: Women of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Filipinas
Against Violence, House of Lorrie–House of Hope
Where: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
When: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 7:30pm
Admission: $28 students / seniors, $38 balcony and dress circle, $58 orchestra, $88
VIP seating. $10 discount for
students, cast / crew and FWN members, 10% discount for tickets of 20 or more.
Tickets available at:
City Box Office: www.cityboxoffice.com
or call 415.392.4400
Two Ways to Sponsor:
Sponsor an ad in the V-Diaries, anti-violence resource guide and show
playbill. Go to www.ffwn.org/events and click on TVM. Sponsor a resident and/or a staff
member of a domestic violence shelter or agency so they can come and see the
shows in their honor. Go to www.ffwn.org/events
and click on TVM.
Goal: To raise awareness to stop violence against women and
girls and funds for our beneficiaries – V-Day Spotlight 2010: Women of the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Filipinas Against Violence, House of Lorrie–House
of Hope
Local Sponsors (partial list): Academy of Art University, Asian Week Foundation, GMA Pinoy TV, Philippine Center. National Sponsors: Dramatists Play Service,
Amanda Keidan Jewelry, LUNA, Random House, Shawn & Shane, Vosges
Haut-Chocolat
Contact: Marily Mondejar, 415.935.4FWN, vday@ffwn.org
The Vagina Monologues is a poignant and hilarious tour
of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, a celebration of female
sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a
new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and
at hundreds of college campuses, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent,
compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award winning masterpiece gives voice
to real women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads
it will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same way
again.
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A
Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls (MMRP) is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by
Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle and commissioned by V-Day.
These
diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine
the insidiousness of violence at all levels: brutality, neglect, a punch, even
a put-down. Featured authors and
monologues read by an ALL-ASIAN WOMEN AND MEN CAST:
- Carol Gilligan on a daughter witnessing her mother being hit
- Carol Michele Kaplan on the importance of speaking out and by-stander
intervention
- Edward Albee on S&M
- Edwidge Danticat on a border crossing
- Jane Fonda on reclaiming our Mojo
- Mark Matousek on growing up in a household of raped women
- Maya Angelou on women's work
- Nicholas Kristof on questioning his own responsibility as a journalist to a
child prostitute in Cambodia
- Erin Cressida Wilson on a woman soldier who lost her hands in war
- Patricia Bosworth on her own physically abusive relationship
- Tariq Ali on a Middle Eastern woman's refusal to be afraid
These
writings are inspired, funny, angry, heartfelt, tragic, and beautiful. But
above all, together they create a true and profound portrait of how violence
against women affects every one of us.
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About V-Day
V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls that
raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder
Eve Ensler’s award winning play The
Vagina Monologues and other artistic
works. 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. To
date, the V-Day movement has raised over $70 million and educated millions
about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted
international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program
in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 11,000 community-based
anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti,
Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. V-Day was named one of Worth magazine's
"100 Best Charities" in 2001 and Marie Claire’s “Top Ten Charities”
in 2006. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. http://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.
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About
Filipina Women’s Network (FWN) FWN
is the non-profit association for women of Philippine ancestry in the United
States. FWN strives to enhance public perceptions of Filipina women's
capacities to lead, change biases against Filipina women's leadership abilities
and build the Filipina community's
pipeline of qualified leaders, to increase the odds that some will rise to the
President position in all sectors. Info: www.ffwn.org.
What is
Save-A-Filipina Campaign? Filipinas Against Violence: Save A
Filipina is FWN's anti-domestic violence campaign to raise awareness through
theatre, popular culture and education about the high incidence of violence in
Filipino homes and intimate partner relationships. Engaging the Filipino
and Asian communities through the V-Day shows and hearing the women's stories
in "hits home" and helps the Asian community understand the broader
connections of Asian values such as respect for women, dignity, family,
equality and justice to social and economic issues and to class and
religion. More information, email Marily Mondejar at marily@ffwn.org
or go www.ffwn.org.