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V-Day Cranbrook 2012 joins global effort to stop violence against women/girls
Tanya Laing-Gahr and Susan Hanson, along with the Friends of the Cranbrook Women’s Centre are presenting V-Day Cranbrook 2012, with a production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. Running March 30 and 31 at Key City Theatre, the shows are raising funds for the Cranbrook Women’s Resource Centre.
Pre-show fun and fundraising activities by the Friends of the Cranbrook Women’s Resource Centre start at 7 p.m., with the show running at 8 p.m.
The goal is to raise awareness to stop violence against women and girls and funds for our beneficiary – Cranbrook Women’s Resource Centre, explained producer Susan Hanson.
About V-Day V-Day (www.vday.org): it is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works. In 2011, over 5,800 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $85 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 13,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt, and Iraq. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine’s “100 Best Charities,” in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine’s Top 10 Charities, and in 2010 was named as one of the Top-Rated organizations on Great Nonprofits.
What is a V-Day Campaign?
A V-Day Campaign is a catalyst for mobilizing women and men to heighten awareness about violence against women and girls. By creating this global community, V-Day strives to empower women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the violence that affects one in three women in the
Join us as we raise funds and awareness to end violence against women and girls.
Admission is $25 and tickets available at the Key City Theatre Box Office.
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