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Any One Of Us

What:

V-Day Humboldt 2012

Presents A Benefit Reading of

ANY ONE OF US: WORDS FROM PRISON

WITH

Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, Jamie Carroll, Gina Figueroa, Nicole Umayam, Savannah Edwards, Jennifer Bravo and Sistah Soul

Who: Humboldt

What: A V-Day Event: Any One Of Us: Words From Prison raising funds for North Coast Rape Crisis Team and The Prison University Project

Where: Native Forum, HSU

When: Feb 3rd and 4th 2012    

Admission: $10-15

Contact: Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, 530-448-9458

Goal: To raise awareness to stop violence against women and girls and funds for our beneficiaries – North Coast Rape Crisis Team and The Prison University Project

Sponsored by: A Reason to Listen Poetry Collective, Humboldt State University Sociology Club and Operation U-Turn.

Any One Of Us: Words From Prison is a groundbreaking collection of monologues written by over 50 incarcerated or formerly incarcerated women in the United States and commissioned by V-Day. The piece reveals the connection between women in prison and the violence that often brings them there with honesty and sincerity. Any One of Us: Words From Prison premiered at V-Day’s two- week festival of theatre, art and spoken word entitled UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS:NYC which took place in June of 2006. The play was later performed in Miami Florida and nationwide V-Day UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS festivals in Northeast Ohio, Kentucky, and Rhode Island. V-Day  Humboldt will join thousands of V-Day organizers throughout the word in 2012 in producing Any One Of Us: Words From Prison as a 2012 V-Day Campaign event.

About V-Day
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. 

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