Muhlenberg College Hosts a Week of V-Day Events
Muhlenberg College will host a series of student-run and charity-driven events for V-Day Week Writer and activist Eve Ensler began the V-Day campaign as a not-for-profit international movement to raise awareness about, and money for, anti-violence organizations.Friday, March 12, 2010 00:23 PM
To date, 70 Million dollars have gone to supporting and sustaining programs to help stop worldwide violence against women and girls.
Schedule of Events:
Film and Reception - Until the Violence Stops
Monday 3.15, Red Door at 8 p.m.
This 70 minute documentary is a celebration of women reclaiming their bodies and lives. International communities of Vagina Monologues performers offer hope that change is already happening. The film tells the story of how The Vagina Monologues grew into a grassroots movement called V-Day with women from Harlem to Ukiah, California; from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to the Philippines and Kenya.
Live Music in Seegers Union by Java Joe's
Thursday 3.18, 7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Enjoy student performers and a capella groups.
Performance – “A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer
Friday 3.19 – Sunday 3.21
Friday, 3.19 – Saturday, 3.20 at 6 p.m. and Sunday, 3.21 at 1p.m. and 6 p.m.
Seegers Union, Red Door Café
"A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer" is Eve Ensler's newest addition to the V-Day campaign, the worldwide movement to stop sexual violence. This play includes pieces submitted by both men and women surrounding their views about women, gender roles, and the effects of sexual violence.
Performance – “The Vagina Monologues”
Saturday 3.20 at 6 p.m., Sunday, 3.21 at 6 p.m.
Seegers Union, Red Door Café
Celebrated as the bible for a new generation of women, The Vagina Monologues has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of college campuses. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning masterpiece
gives voice to 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.
