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20:00 | A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer |
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V-Day Moscow 2014 presents a benefit reading of "A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls". Join us as we rise, release, and dance to demand justice for women and girl survivors of violence. 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". V-Day Moscow 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. "A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls" is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle and commissioned by V-Day for the first V-Day: "Until the Violence Stops" festival, which took place June 2006 in New York City. 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. The volume features such authors and topics as: Edward Albee on S&M; Maya Angelou on women's work; Michael Cunningham on self-mutilation; Dave Eggers on a Sudanese abduction; Edwidge Danticat on a border crossing; Carol Gilligan on a daughter witnessing her mother being hit; Susan Miller on raising a son as a single mother; Sharon Olds on a bra; Patricia Bosworth on her own physically abusive relationship; Jane Fonda on reclaiming our Mojo; and many more. 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. The book includes information on how to organize V-Day events and readings of the book. "A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer" is a call to the world to demand an end to violence against women. To learn more about V-Day Moscow, call 8 (967) 195-5211 or e-mail the organization at vdaymoscow@gmail.com. To learn more about V-Day and its campaigns visit vday.org.
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