The Vagina Monologues comes to Rochester...again!

Planned Parenthood of the Rochester/Syracuse Region will be sponsoring V-Day Rochester 2008, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. This year marks the 10th anniversary of V-Day and the Rochester community will be marking this occasion with two benefit productions (see more details below). Ninety percent of funds raised from V-Day Rochester 2008 will benefit Rape Crisis Service in the Rochester area, while ten percent will benefit the 2008 V-Day Spotlight – Women of New Orleans and the Gulf South.

The Vagina Monologues
Date: Saturday, March 8, 2008
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Hochstein School of Music and Dance
Cost: $20 General Admission, $10 Students and Seniors - tickets will be available at the door and at Aaron’s Alley, Parkleigh, Mood Makers Books, local Planned Parenthood locations and online at www.pprsr.org.
Contact: vday@pprsr.org or 585-546-2771 x331

V-Day was born in 1998 as an outgrowth of Eve Ensler's Obie-Award winning play, The Vagina Monologues. As Eve performed the piece in small towns and large cities all around the world, she saw and heard first hand the destructive personal, social, political and economic consequences violence against women has for many nations.

Hundreds of women told her their stories of rape, incest, domestic battery and genital mutilation. It was clear that something widespread and dramatic needed to be done to stop the violence. A group of women in New York joined Eve and founded V-Day . . . a catalyst, a movement, a performance.

A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer
Date: Saturday, March 1, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: First Unitarian Church, Rochester
Cost: $10.00 – tickets available at the door
Contact: vday@pprsr.org or 585-546-2771 x331

Supplementary to The Vagina Monologues, V-Day Rochester 2008 will also be holding a benefit reading of: A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls. Co-sponsored by the First Unitarian Church or Rochester, this groundbreaking collection of diverse monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of violence at all levels.