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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
Bahamas Artist Movement V-Day Joins Global Effort To Stop Violence Against Women And Girls
V-Day Nassau, Bahamas 2013 Presents a benefit production of ‘THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES’
Join us as we raise funds for The Bahamas Crisis Centre and awareness to end violence against women and children
Friday,
April 19th, 2013 at 8pm, V-Day - Nassau Bahamas will present a
one-night only benefit reading of Eve Ensler’s award-winning lauded play
The Vagina Monologues. Women and men of The Bahamas will volunteer
their time and talent to fundraise for The Bahamas Crisis Centre.
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. Bahamas Artist Movement, (BAM), has joined this global
movement as part of the V-Day 2013 Nassau Bahamas Campaign.
This
is the first time in the history of this movement that The Bahamas will
participate. BAM’s Artistic Director & V-Day Coordinator, Rowena
Poitier, is leading the way;
“This production is truly a part of a
lager movement that is happening in The Bahamas. Over fifty women &
men (V-Men & V-Women) have volunteered their time and talents to
make this event happen. These volunteers are taking a stand against
violence and honoring the mothers, daughters, lovers and nurturers of
our world. The proceeds will go The Bahamas Crisis Centre so that they
can continue to provide necessary and vital services to The Bahamas. The
Vagina Monologues is in keeping with BAM’s vision of providing
performing and showcase opportunities, using works that encourage
exploration and critique of social issues that engage audiences in an
exchange of ideas and open discussion.”
What are The Vagina Monologues?
Hailed
by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant" and by the Daily News
as "intelligent" and "courageous," The Vagina Monologues, which was
first performed off-Broadway by Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery,
humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s
experiences. Ms. Ensler has performed the play to great acclaim
throughout the world - from Zagreb to Santa Barbara, from London to
Seattle, from Jerusalem to Oklahoma City. Villard Books/Random House
first published The Vagina Monologues, which includes a foreword by
Gloria Steinem, in February 1998. A special edition was released in hard
cover and paperback in February 2008 in honor of V-Day’s ten year
anniversary.
What is V-Day?
V-Day is a global activist
movement to end 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 sex slavery.
Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers
and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina
Monologues, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, Any One Of Us:
Words From Prison, screenings of V-Day's documentary Until The Violence
Stops, and the PBS documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You,
Spotlight Teach-Ins and V-Men workshops, to raise awareness and funds
for anti-violence groups within their own communities. In 2012, over
5,800 V-Day benefit events took place produced 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
Juarez, 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;
Love Your Tree; the June 2006 two-week festival of theater, spoken word,
performance and community events UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC ; the
2008, V-Day 10-year anniversary events V TO THE TENTH at the New Orleans
Arena and Louisiana Superdome; the Stop Raping Our Greatest Resource:
Power To The Women and Girls of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Campaign; the V-Girls Campaign, and the V-Men Campaign.
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. V-Day was instrumental in the founding of
Karama, a program working in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria,
Jordan, Syria and Lebanon that works to build upon and strengthen
efforts to end violence against women by bringing together local women's
organizations and other civil society groups in collaboration, analysis
and advocacy at national, regional and international levels.
The
V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 140
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 2001, V-Day was named
one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities," in 2006 one of Marie
Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities, and in 2010 was named as one of the
Top-Rated organizations on GreatNonprofits. In eleven years, the V-Day
movement has raised over $85 million.
The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. .
To
learn more about V-Day call (242) 428-8399 or email the organization at
bam.dreams@gmail.com. To learn more about V-Day and its campaigns visit
www.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.
BAM, V-Day Nassau, Bahamas is a local effort within the worldwide context of the 2013 V-Day Campaign.
Who we are volunteering for!
The
Crisis Centre is a non-profit, ideologically independent organization
primarily pledged to respond to the needs of all victims of sexual,
physical and psychological abuse. The Centre also advocates for
legislative and societal protection of survivors and raises public
consciousness through education and information.
What Services Are Offered?
• Initial intake
• Crisis counseling
• Individual therapy
• Marital therapy
• Family therapy
• Group therapy
• 24-hour Hotline
• Rape survivor advocacy • Court Advocacy
What Issues Are Addressed?
̈ Domestic violence including physical and emotional abuse ̈ Child sexual abuse
̈ Child physical abuse
̈ Child emotional abuse
̈ Incest
̈ Rape
̈ Relationship problems
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