2019 V-Day San José State University
V-Day @ SJSU Presents...
A Benefit Production of the Award Winning Play, “The Vagina Monologues”
The award-winning play is based on V-Day Founder Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace the piece celerates women's sexuality and strength, while combating violence against women.
All sales (tickets, chocolates, t-shirts, buttons) will be donated!
- 45% to AACI Asian Women's Home
- 45% to YWCA Rape Crisis Center
- 10% to Global Vday Movement
Shows
- Thursday February 14th, 2019
- Friday February 15th, 2019
- Saturday February 16th, 2019
Doors open: 6:30pm | Show: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
@ Student Union Theatre
Presale
Student Tickets - $5
General Tickets - $10
Door
Student Tickets - $10
General Tickets - $15
Questions or concerns contact sjsuvday@gmail.com
Content Warning: The Vagina Monologues does contain content referencing sexual assault,
violcne against women, and trans individuals, sexually explicit material, and some
swearing.
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What are The Vagina Monologues?
The New York Times called The Vagina Monologues, “probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade." The play - first performed Off-Broadway and in locations around the world by Ms. Ensler - dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement in women’s experiences. V–Day grew out of the play which exploded onto the scene in 1998, breaking taboos about women’s sexuality and shattering silence around violence done to women and girls.
What is V-Day?
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler¹s award winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works. The V-Day movement has raised over $100 million; educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it; crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns; reopened shelters; and funded over 13,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and Iraq. V-Day has received numerous acknowledgements and awards and is, one of the Top-Rated organizations on both Charity Navigator and Guidestar. V-Day has launched another movement - ONE BILLION RISING, a global campaign that has galvanized over one billion women and men on a global day of action towards ending violence against women and girls.
V-Day’s work is grounded in 4 core beliefs:
- Art has the power to transform thinking and inspire people to act.
- Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
- Local women best know what their communities need and can become unstoppable leaders.
- One must look at the intersection of race, class, and gender to understand violence against women.
