Our friends at Berkeley Rep have made select performances available at 20% off for V-Day activists. Through July 7 use the code VDAY online by clicking here or call the box office at 510-647-2949 to save!
Your 20% savings are off full-price tickets. Discount available on these performances:
Friday, June 29 (8pm)
Saturday, June 30 8pm)
Sunday, July 1 (7pm)
Tuesday, July 3 (8pm)
Thursday, July 5 (8pm)
Friday, July 6 (8pm)
Saturday, July 7 (8pm)
Sorry, this offer isn’t retroactive and can’t be combined with other offers.
The incredible V-Girls Action Team tell us what V-Girls is all about and why YOU should join the V-Girls Revolution!
The video features interviews with V-Girls Mbali Khumalo, Coco Kimelman, Callie Kittredge, Molly Houlahan, Chloe Massman, Busisiwe Mkhumbuzi, Rociel Pena, Audri Roybal, and Mai Shbeta, footage from workshop the productions of Emotional Creature in Johannesburg and Paris, the amazing V-Girls Refuser march in South Africa, as well as footage from our V-Girls Workshop in Brooklyn!
On June 18, a special performance of The Vagina Monologues took place on the Michigan Capitol Steps featuring Eve Ensler, Michigan Senators & Representatives, local activists, & actors. The event was part of an organized response to the June 14th banning of Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown from publicly speaking in the House. Rep. Brown was banned by House Speaker Jase Bolger & House Republicans for using the word “vagina” during a debate on a bill that puts new restrictions on abortion providers.
Dear Activists,
Like so many of you, all of us at V-Day remain outraged by the way that Rep. Lisa Brown was treated on the floor of the Michigan House because she simply uttered the word “vagina.” This insane treatment is not only an indication of the ongoing war on women’s bodies in the United States but a bleak reminder of the many ways in which women and girls continue to be undercut, violated and dismissed around the world.
Over 5,000 activists showed up at the Lansing Capitol steps on Monday to stand in solidarity with Rep. Brown and her colleagues as they performed The Vagina Monologues.
A movement to defend women’s rights is alive and thriving in this country and across the planet and we must make ourselves heard. That’s why we are supporting a petition on Democracy for America asking people around the world to demand that Speaker Bolger apologize for denying Rep. Brown her voice and disenfranchising 180,000 voters.
This is an important moment for women and men around the world. Women are banned, silenced and reprimanded every day for speaking their truths and demanding equal rights, and until we take a stand together as a global community and let the world know that we will not tolerate the subjugation of women, violence against women will continue.
So take a moment, sign the petition, and if you have not already please join us for ONE BILLION RISING, a new global initiative of V-Day calling on women survivors and the men and women who love them to strike, dance and rise on February 14, 2013.
On June 18, a special performance of The Vagina Monologues took place on the Michigan Capitol Steps featuring Eve Ensler, Michigan Senators & Representatives, local activists, & actors. The event was part of an organized response to the June 14th banning of Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown from publicly speaking in the House. Rep. Brown was banned by House Speaker Jase Bolger & House Republicans for using the word “vagina” during a debate on a bill that puts new restrictions on abortion providers.
Over 5,000 people arrived on the Michigan Capitol lawn to send a message to their elected representatives that banning ‘vagina’ will not be tolerated & will be remembered in November.
V-Day would like to send a special shout out to the amazing women in Michigan who made this event possible: Rep. Lisa Brown; Rep. Barb Byrum; Sen. Rebekah Warren; Sen. Democratic Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer; and Wa-Louisa Hubbard and Carla Milarch, and all of the other actors and legislators who performed THANK YOU!!
We just wanted to update you on the exciting event in Michigan. Eve is there at the Capitol with V-Day staff members Shael Norris and Laura Waleryszak for tonight’s performance of The Vagina Monologues on the Michigan Capitol Steps. The grounds open to the public at 5pm and thousands are there, performance is starting any minute.
Eve will be performing a new version of her monologue “Over It!” revised especially for this reading, and renowned performance artist Holly Hughes has just joined the cast of local actors, Senators and Representatives, so this is not to be missed!
If you are there, please post pictures to the Facebook page!
On June 14th, Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown was banned from publicly speaking in the House because she said the word “vagina” during a debate on a bill that puts new restrictions on abortion providers.
Brown, who voted against the legislation, told supporters of the bill, “I’m flattered you’re all so concerned about my vagina. But no means no.”
Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas, made the decision to prevent Brown from speaking. State Rep. Mike Callton supported the decision, stating that “What she said was offensive. It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company,” he said.
At V-Day we’ve seen the power of being able to say the word “vagina.” We’ve seen how it’s freed women from their shame and empowered them to become leaders in their communities.
“VAGINA. I say it because I believe that what we don’t say we don’t see, acknowledge, or remember. What we don’t say becomes a secret, and secrets often create shame and fear and myths.” Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
Let Rep. Jim Stamas know that banning vagina is not acceptable. Tell him why we HAVE to say the word, send YOUR vagina story to him at JimStamas@house.mi.gov
Let’s make sure his inbox is filled with vaginas today!!
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Our latest V-Men column, curated by V-Men Creative Advisor Mark Matousek, comes to us from Eric Danforth, a social worker, proud feminist, youth advocate, independent scholar, and pop culture enthusiast whom resides with his cat Biggie Smalls in New York City.
The Vision of a Man
My earliest concrete childhood memory involved my mother standing outside of my father’s car, begging him to allow me to return home. My parents had separated (and later divorced) before I was three years old andthem fighting had become as commonplace as the “Hulkamania” Hulk Hogan t-shirts that everybody in my rural Maine town seemed to be sporting.
On Sunday, June 24th, Rosario Dawson and Jane Fonda will join fellow V-Day Board members Carole Black, Jennifer Buffett, Beth Dozoretz, Mellody Hobson, Katherine McFate, Pat Mitchell, Amy Rao, Lisa Schejola Akin, Emily Scott Pottruck, and Susan Celia Swan for a special benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature, followed by Sunday supper at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza with members of the cast, Eve, and Director Jo Bonney.
Proceeds will benefit two of V-Day’s newest campaigns: V-Girls, a program providing girls worldwide with a platform for their activism; and ONE BILLION RISING, a campaign that will gather one billion women and men in a global action to end the violence against women culminating on 2-14-13.
From June 14 – July 15, Berkeley Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of Eve’s powerful new play Emotional Creature. Staged by Obie Award-winning director Jo Bonney and performed by a talented ensemble of young women, Emotional Creature is made up of original monologues–and irresistible songs–about and for girls. Placing their stories squarely center stage, it gives full expression to their secret voices and innermost thoughts, highlighting the diversity and commonality of the issues they face. Emotional Creature is a call, a reckoning, an education, an act of empowerment for girls, and an illumination for parents and for us all. And it’s receiving its world premiere here at Berkeley Rep!
Join us for this exciting day of theatre, food, friends, and activism. You can buy your ticket directly online at www.vday.org/ecbenefit2012
Emotional Creature will run from June 14 – July 15 at Berkeley Rep. Tickets start at $14.50 for attendees under 30, and $29.00 for those over 30. Tickets are available for all dates through the Berkeley Rep box office here >
Our friends at Berkeley Rep have made select performances available at 20% off for V-Day activists. Through July 7 use the code VDAY online by clicking here or call the box office at 510-647-2949 to save!
We just wanted to update you on the exciting event in Michigan. Eve is there at the Capitol with V-Day staff members Shael Norris and Laura Waleryszak for 
Eve will be performing a new version of her monologue “Over It!” revised especially for this reading, and renowned performance artist 
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