Project for Awesome - V-Day

Yep, this is part of John & Hank's project. I have directed 7 productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. Every year, at least one person from the cast and audience has told me that the play has changed his/her life. now that's awesome!

For more information on how this amazing 10-year-old campaign helps females, and how you can give or participate, go to http://www.vday.org/main.html
From the website:
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, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. In 2006, over 2700 V-Day benefit events took place by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.

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 documentary 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 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. Through the Karama progam based out of Cairo, V-Day works in-depth to build networks ending violence against women and girls in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 81 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 its first year of incorporation (2001), V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities." In eight years, the V-Day movement has raised over 30 million.

The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.

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[loudgirl84]

so glad someone made a video about V-Day. I try to go to the monologues every year and everyone should go if they can.

[Illuminatta]

I SO agree! :)

[FGAlxPx]

This rocks. You're awesome, Toni.

[Illuminatta]

Thanks...it takes one to know one, Alex! :)

[kevin7209]

Awesome!

XD

[firestar9S]

... summoned up all of her awesome and sang like a bird! She sang Stop in the Name of Love, and the crowd went wild! It seemed like her plan was working- she was an instant celebrity! But would her celebrity last, or were her 15 minutes of fame all over? During the third elimination...

[nerdfighter7]

She made it to Paula Randy and Simon, and they hated her. But even though she stunk at singing they put her through anyway, because they liked reading the magazines so much. When she got to the live show though and started to sing she...

[firestar9S]

made a difficult decision. The Yeti reasoned that if the press was after her because she was so elusive, she would simply have to make herself so accessible that they could get it out of their system.

She decided to be the next American Idol.

At the auditions...

[nerdfighter7]

decided she had to do something. "You can't said John the press will surely get you." So she stayed but after a few weeks she just couldn't take it anymore so she...

[Illuminatta]

went back into hiding. She was heartbroken by the humans' treatment, but was also deeply moved by the lengths to which the nerdfighters went to keep her safe. Once she was able to find a new hide-out, she...

[firestar9S]

built their own "paparobotzi" that went over the earth terminating the Yeti robots.

The Yeti started to worry about all the waste being created by the Yeti robots and the paparobotzi, so she ...

[Fringe111]

Oh lol I'll be starting them up soon, probably after the holdays