V‑DAY (Boston) JOINS ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE CAMPAIGN

V-Day (Boston) 2014

Presents A Benefit Production of

ANY ONE OF US: WORDS FROM PRISON

Join Us as we RISE, RELEASE, and DANCE to Demand Justice for Women and Girl Survivors of Violence

On April 25^th and 26^th, 2014 at 7 and 9 pm (two showings both nights) and April 27^th at 3 pm V‑Day Boston will present a benefit production of V-Day’s Any One Of Us: Words From Prison at Out Of The Blue Art Gallery.

Last year over 5,800 V-Day benefits were held around the world raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. These highly successful events raised over $5 million through performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, 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 and the PBS documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You. Boston has joined this global movement as part of the V‑Day 2014 College/Community Campaign.

This special benefit performance is presented this year as part of V-Day’s campaign ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE, a global call for women survivors of violence and those who love them to gather safely in places where they are entitled to justice – courthouses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship, homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often do not – and release their stories through art, dance, marches, ritual, song, spoken word, sit ins, and testimonies.

Any One Of Us: Words From Prison is a groundbreaking collection of monologues written by over 50 incarcerated or formerly incarcerated women in the United States and commissioned by V-Day. The piece reveals the connection between women in prison and the violence that often brings them there with honesty and sincerity. Any One of Us: Words From Prison premiered at V-Day’s two- week festival of theatre, art and spoken word entitled UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS:NYC which took place in June of 2006. The play was later performed in Miami Florida and nationwide V-Day UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS festivals in Northeast Ohio, Kentucky, and Rhode Island. V-Day Boston will join thousands of V-Day organizers throughout the word in 2014 in producing Any One Of Us: Words From Prison as a 2014 V-Day Campaign event.

About One Billion Rising

One Billion Rising was the biggest mass action in human history.  The campaign began as a call to action based on the staggering UN statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. On 14 February 2013, people across the world came together to strike, dance, and RISE in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end at last to violence against women. Over 10,000 events took place on the ground and the campaign took over media and social media worldwide for 48 hours, trending in 7 countries – 4x in the US alone.  The wildly successful grassroots campaign was covered widely by media in all corners of world including The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and many more. www.onebillionrising.org.

About V-Day
V-Day is a global activist 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. The V-Day movement has raised over $100 million; educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it; crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns; reopened shelters; and funded over 13,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt, and Iraq. V-Day has received numerous acknowledgements and awards and is, one of the Top-Rated organizations on both Charity Navigator and Guidestar.  V-Day’s most recent global campaign, ONE BILLION RISING, galvanized over one billion women and men on a global day of action towards ending violence against women and girls.  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 Boston is a local effort within the worldwide context of the 2014 V-Day Campaign.

To learn more about V‑Day and its campaigns visit www.vday.org.

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