V‑Day Filipina Women's Network
joins global effort
to stop violence against women and girls
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V-Day Asians Against Violence
during Asian Heritage Month in May
presents a ONE-Night only performance of
with an All Asian Pacific American Cast
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TAMA NA! STOP!
Asian American Women
Speak Out Against Violence
Make San Francisco a safe place for
Asian Pacific American women and girls.
Since 2004, FWN has collaborated with V-DAY,
empowering and celebrating women and their sexuality
with a festival of theatre, comedy, and the spoken word, highlighted by the all-Asian women benefit performances in
San Francisco, New York and Washington, DC.
The all-Asian women cast includes community leaders, actors, students, business women, professionals, activists and homemakers.
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FWN's souvenir program (Playbill) for the show is the V-Diaries, an anti-violence resource guide. The magazine highlights the cast and crew bios, the Vagina Warriors, and articles/resources on domestic violence, human trafficking, stalking and stories written by or about domestic violence and human trafficking survivors
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Change the Story of Women!
Join us as we raise awareness to end violence against Asian women and girls
7:30 PM, Friday, May 25, 2012
doors open at 7:00pm
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue, Francisco 94102
TICKETS (available starting April 1)
$28 - $100 (VIP seating)
10% discount of group purchase of 10 tickets or more
$10 off for FWN members, seniors and students
www.cityboxoffice.com or 415.392.4400
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What are “The Vagina Monologues”?
Award-winning play based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace the piece celebrates women's sexuality and strength. Through this play and the liberation of this one word, countless women throughout the world have taken control of their bodies and their lives. For more than twelve years, The Vagina Monologues has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public.
Hailed by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant" and by the Daily News as "intelligent" and "courageous," The Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off-Broadway by Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s experiences.
Ms. Ensler has performed the play to great acclaim throughout the world - from Zagreb to Santa Barbara, from London to Seattle, from Manila to Oklahoma City.
[“The Vagina Monologues” is] a work which is inescapably universal for women, and manages to be feminist without being man-hating, entertaining without being trite, and political without being earnest.
—The London Telegraph
"In the current era, it takes some brain racking to think of anyone else doing anything quite like Ensler. She's a countercultural consciousness raiser, an emmpowering figure, a truth-teller." —Chicago Tribune
“Eve Ensler wants to save the world...and don't even think of getting in her way."
-New York Times Magazine
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DIRECTORS
Ken Marquis
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Elena Buensalido Mangahas
Marily Mondejar
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BENEFICIARIES
V-Day Spotlight 2012: Women and Girls of Haiti
FWN's Anti-Violence Campaign
My Sister's House
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Tickets? www.cityboxoffice.com or 415.392.4400
