Writers: Have Your Work Displayed @ The Vagina Monologues!
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Posted by Web Team, January 25, 2007
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Attention all writers! For the V-Day/Vagina Festival during the performances of The Vagina Monologues, on February 16th and 17th, we are presenting a writing display along with an art exhibit, merchandise, raffles, and tabling from numerous local and national organizations. Submissions can range from your own Vagina Monologue, an essay, poetry, a testimonial—anything relating to vaginas, women, violence, and/or activism and ranging from humor, honesty, sexuality, sadness, and everything in between.
Submissions are completely open to the Simmons community—students, faculty, and staff, all genders, and both those involved in the production, and those who are not. Pieces can be submitted anonymously as well. Deadline for submissions is Sunday, February 11th
To submit pieces or for more information/questions, please contact Dana Bialer at bialer@simmons.edu.
Thanks!
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 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.
In 2007, thousands of V-Day benefits are anticipated around the world. V-Day’s 2007 theme “Reclaiming Peace” seeks to make a connection between the worldwide anti-violence work of thousands of V-Day activists with our collective desire for peace/an end to armed conflicts. V-Day activists, known as Vagina Warriors, are women and men who have often experienced violence personally or witnessed it within their communities and dedicated themselves toward ending such violence through effective, grassroots means. Often, their work takes place in conflict zones throughout the world, where they see how war exponentially increases violence against women and girls. V-Day 2007 productions around the world from Ethiopia to China; Indiana to India; Croatia to Finland will put forth this message of peace generating attention, newspaper articles, and raising funds to support their anti-violence work and dedication to peaceful means.
Visit V-Day for more information!
