War.  Violence.  Women.  Girls.  Envisioning a world when violence will end.  FWN's Filipina Women Against Violence continues its work - helping Filipina women in abusive relationships "break the silence" and seek help, raise money and awareness in the community to help stop violence against Filipina women and girls. These three plays vividly remind us of the women and girls caught in the ravages of war.

Fundraiser to benefit Filipina Women Against Violence, Bindlestiff Studio, Pamana Theatre Project (additional ticket purchase)

FWN Theatre Host: 

Bettina Santos Yap, Marketing Consultant, Sun Microsystems

E1. Women of Today - musical performance by Faith Rivera, a pop songwriter, session singer,  artist and a 2003 Daytime Emmy award winner for Outstanding Original Song featured on NBC's "Passions." Her music can be heard on tv & film with her five artist releases and as a session singer working with such artists as Sheila E., Luther Vandross, & Jon Secada. 

E2.  A special presentation from The Vagina Monologues
My Vagina Was My Village

The atrocities of the rape camps in Bosnia.  The tragedy of rape by expelling these “ruined” women from their communities.  The monologue is distinctly split into two voices - that of present and past - dramatizing the struggle between the two selves.

Intro by Lourdes Santos Tancinco Esq.

Perfomed by Giovannie Pico and Edna Rodis.

E3.  Dead Woman Home

Suspended between two worlds, DEAD WOMAN HOME tells the true story of a Filipina UN aide lost in the August, 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad. As her loved ones reel with the tragic news, this timely and inspiring multi-media solo play ricochets between New York and Baghdad capturing a brief and violent time of change during the ongoing conflict in Iraq.

DEAD WOMAN HOME premiered at the 2004 Mae West Fest (Seattle) and went on to sold out runs at the Midtown International Theatre Festival (NYC) and the National Theatre Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (Manila). Pamana Theatre Project has recently performed at the Theatre4Play Festival which was hosted alongside the 2005 Theater Communications Group National Conference in Seattle.

Written and performed by May Nazareno, The Pamana Theatre Project

Directed by Teresa Thuman

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