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General Admission $35
VIP $250
Sponsorships opportunities are available.
Please contact Nikki Noto at nikkinoto@vdayatlanta.org for more information.
More information on the Turning Pain Into Power Tour at www.vday.org
Rave Reviews for Swimming Upstream Bringing V-Day Atlanta to New Orleans...
V to the 10th a Huge Success! Bringing New Orleans Back to Atlanta...
Featuring Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washington, Jasmine Guy, and Shirley Knight
Directed by Kenny Leon
Swimming Upstream was incubated and coordinated through the Ashé Cultural Arts Center and VDay with Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues. This special engagement in Atlanta was directed by Kenny Leon. The opening night gala on November 6, 2008 raised funds to benefit V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, Ashé Cultural Center of New Orleans and True Colors Theatre Company. A portion of proceeds will also benefited the Feminist Women's Health Center.
Variety Magazine raves over Swimming Upstream
Experience New Orleans before, during and after our nation’s worst natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina, through the stories of women who lived to tell about it. An affirmation of their own strength through the raw, lyrical, soulful stories of how they lived through the flood with grace, rage, and great resiliency punctuated by a flair for story telling, humor and music that comes from being New Orleanian.
V-Day Atlanta Returns from the V-Day Event of the Decade
The Road to New Orleans Skirt! Magazine interviewed some of our favorite V-Day Atlanta activists at Charis Books & More as a part of their "Quest for Feminism" project. Click on the image above to watch the interview. Visit www.skirt.com to read more about V-Day '08 and The Quest for Feminism
ABOUT V-DAY
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.
The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 81 countries from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In its first year of incorporation (2001), V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities." In ten years, the V-Day movement has raised over $50 million.
ABOUT V-DAY ATLANTA
V-Day Atlanta has produced many successful creative events, raising thousands of dollars for local beneficiaries and V-Day Worldwide.
V-Day Atlanta presented the Atlanta premiere of A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer on September 26, 2007 at Opera. The performance included readings by Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Kenny Leon, Emily Saliers, Melissa Carter, Jenn Hobby, Jaquitta Williams, George McKerrow, and many other distinguished performers. Over $40,000 was raised for beneficiaries including The V-Day Safe House in Haiti, Men Stopping Violence, and Charis Circle.
The Vagina Monologues were performed on April 5, 2007 at The Tabernacle and included performances by Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Pearl Cleage, Sara Blakely, and many other women of influence, and honored special guest, Mayor Shirley Franklin. The production raised over $52,000, benefiting Mayor Franklin's Dear John Campaign, Charis Circle, Men Stopping Violence, and the V-Day Safe House in Haiti.
