The international V-DAY 2009 campaign is on in Jamaica. Between March 18 and April 3, V-DAY KINGSTON 2009 a team of talented and committed women and men will be donating their time and talent to the V-DAY Kingston offering spearheaded by organizer/director fabian thomas.

V-DAY KINGSTON 2009 will include four events: A soft Launch that will feature a PowerPoint teach-in/discussion on the situation of women in the Congo; a reading of Eve Ensler’s prison piece, based on the writings of incarcerated women called Any One of Us: Words from Prison; a staged reading/performance of items from A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer and a performance of The Vagina Monologues.

Any One of Us: Words from Prison, A Memory, A Monologue, A rant & a Prayer and The Vagina Monologues will all staged as fundraisers for three organizations that focus on the mitigation of violence against women and girls.

Last year over 4000 V-Day benefits took place around the world raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. Since 1998, V-Day and these highly successful events have raised over $60 million for local beneficiaries working to end violence against women and girls. Hot on the heels of their success, Kingston has joined this global movement as part of the V-Day 2009 College Campaign.

This is the third year that thomas will be presenting V-DAY Kingston as part of the international V-DAY campaign.

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.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, and screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. 2009 V-Day events have the option to introduce a new V-Day theatrical event, Any One Of Us: Words From Prison, which reveals the connection between women in prison and the violence that often brings them there.

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