Students to Perform “The Vagina Monologues” in Support of Stop Violence Against Women
On Friday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m., Carleton students will present their annual performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues.” The production, part of the nationwide V-Day movement to stop violence against women, will take place in the Skinner Memorial Chapel. Tickets can be purchased at the door and in advance in the Sayles-Hill campus center; admission is a sliding scale fee of $5-20. All proceeds benefit the HOPE Center in Faribault, Minn., and the V-Day 2009 Spotlight Campaign on the Congo. The public is invited to attend this always-popular performance.
On Friday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m., Carleton students will present their annual performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues.” The production, part of the nationwide V-Day movement to stop violence against women, will take place in the Skinner Memorial Chapel. Tickets can be purchased at the door and in advance in the Sayles-Hill campus center; admission is a sliding scale fee of $5-20. All proceeds benefit the HOPE Center in Faribault, Minn., and the V-Day 2009 Spotlight Campaign on the Congo. The public is invited to attend this always-popular performance.
Ensler founded V-Day on Feb. 14, 1998 at the first benefit performance of her play, “The Vagina Monologues,” which was originally written as a one-woman show based on interviews she conducted with over 200 women. Since 1998, V-Day activists have raised over $50 million for local anti-violence groups; Carleton alone has raised more than $7000 for the HOPE Center in Faribault. Says one student involved in this year’s production, “It is really important that girls and women learn not to be ashamed of themselves and their bodies, and even more important that they realize they have every right to get angry or stand up for themselves when they are not being treated as they deserve. And it is our responsibility to try and create a world where this is possible.”
Ten percent of the funds raised through Carleton’s 2009 V-Day production will go to the Spotlight Campaign on the Congo, combating the widespread physical and sexual violence against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More information about violence against Congolese women and girls is available at http://newsite.vday.org/.
The remaining proceeds will be donated to the HOPE Center. The HOPE Center delivers advocacy and crisis intervention services to victims of domestic abuse, child abuse and sexual assault through healing outreach, prevention and education. HOPE Center was formed in 1994 by merging the Rice County Sexual Assault Program, Battered Women’s Program and the Northfield Helpline. More information is available about HOPE Center at http://www.hopecentermn.org/index.html.
For more information or to pre-order tickets contact Juliet Dana at danaj@carleton.edu. For information about disability accommodations in the Carleton College Skinner Memorial Chapel, please call (507) 222-4347.