CEBU, Philippines - Last year, over 1150 communities hosted V-Day benefits around the world raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. These highly successful events raised over $6 million through performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues. Hot on the heels of their success, Cebu has joined this global movement as part of the V-Day.
A benefit production of The Vagina Monologues at Onstage! Ayala Center Cebu Cinema 1 come Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 7:00 PM, will be presented on behalf of the V-Day 2008 Campaign.
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 campaigns, annual benefit performances of “The Vagina Monologues” are produced to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities.
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 docu 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, and Love Your Tree. In June 2006, V-Day launched a two-week festival of theater, spoken word, performance and community events called UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC to make New York City the safest place on earth for 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.
The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 119 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 nine years, the V-Day movement has raised over $50 million.
What is “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 Eve 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.
The Vagina Monologues is supported by Dramatist Play Service, Inc. Tickets are priced at P1000 (Sponsor), P750 (VIP), P500 (Prime), P300 (Secondary), P200 (General). All tickets have reserved seats. Tickets are available at the following outlets: AYALA CENTER CEBU CINEMA TICKET BOOTH (415-8489), COFFEE DREAM SM – 2ND FLOOR NEAR VECO; GIFTS UNLIMITED – AYALA CENTER CEBU 2ND LEVEL ACROSS GLOBELINES – 231-5587