V-Day Filipina Women's Network 2009 Washington DC
A Filipino community event to STOP Violence Against Filipina Women and Girls in collaboration with the
V-Day Worldwide Campaign
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TAMA NA! STOP!
Filipinas Speak Out Against Violence
Make Washington DC a safe place for
Filipina women and girls.
Since 2004, the Filipina Women’s Network (FWN) has collaborated with
V-DAY (a global movement to stop violence against women and girls),
empowering and celebrating women and their sexuality with a festival of
theatre, comedy, and the spoken word highlighted by the all-Filipina benefit performances in San Francisco, New York and now in Washington, DC.
The all-Filipina cast includes community leaders, actors, students, business women, professionals, activists and homemakers.
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V-Day Filipina Women's Network
is proud to present
Eve Ensler's
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
(All Filipina Women Cast Presented in Taglish)
and
A Benefit Reading of
A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT,
AND A PRAYER:
Writings To Stop Violence Against
Women and Girls
(All Filipino Men Cast Presented in English)_________________________________
Change the Story of Women!
Join us as we raise awareness to end violence against Filipina women and girls
7:30 PM, Saturday, April 11, 2009
(one performance only)
doors open at 7:00pm
Terrace Theater
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW Washington DC 20566Tickets: $88, $68, $38
FWN Members $78, $58, $28
10% discount of group purchase of 20 tickets or more
www.FilipinaWomensNetwork.org/Events
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About the V-Day FWN 2009 Shows:
What
are “The Vagina Monologues”?
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
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A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer:
Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls
is a groundbreaking collection of
monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights,
edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle.
"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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PRODUCERS
Gloria T. Caoile
Bambi Lorica
DIRECTORS
Nina Nguyen Lagac
Ken Marquis
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Elena Buensalido MangahasMarily Mondejar
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2009 INTERNATIONAL V-DAY SPONSORS
Dramatists Play Service
GLAMOUR
LUNA
OPEN SQUARE Foundation
Shawn & Shane
Vosges Haut Chocolat
W Hotels
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BENEFICIARIES
o V-Day Spotlight 2009:
Stop Raping Our Greatest Resource, Power To The Women And
Girls Of The Democratic Republic Of Congo Campaign
o FWN's Filipinas Against Violenceo API Domestic Violence Resource ProjectThe ONLY Asian domestic violence organization in the D.C. metropolitan area that serves Filipina domestic violence survivors. They have the capacity to serve survivors in Tagalog and Cebuano.
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www.FilipinaWomensNetwork.Org
415.278.9410
