WVU Gender Equality Movement (GEM) and the School of Theater and Dance; with a cast from WVU and the local community will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues to raise funds for the Rape and Domestic Violence Information Center (RDVIC).
The group will present a three night offering at the Creative Arts Center, Antoinette Falbo Theatre on Friday, February 17 at 7:30pm; Saturday, February 18 at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, February, 19 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $9 and are being sold at the WVU Box Office at the Mountainlair or the Creative Arts Center. Tickets will be available on the evening of the show.
There will be V Day campaign buttons and chocolates for sale and donations will be accepted at each performance.
V-Day (www.vday.org) is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works. In 2011, 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. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $85 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters and funded over 13,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. 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 Great Nonprofits.