The Vagina Monologues Playwright and V-Day Founder Eve Ensler Joins UN Human Rights Award-Winning Doctor in NYC, LA, SF, Atlanta and DC to Raise Awareness.
New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 15, 2009 -- To action aggressive abduction and anamorphosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that has afflicted hundreds of bags of women, V-Day, the all-around movement to end abandon adjoin women and girls, appear today a bout to accession burning new acquaintance of the DRC crisis. The five-city 'Turning Pain to Power Tour' will crop abode this February, authoritative stops in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Washington, DC.
Dr. Denis Mukwege, PANZI Hospital, DRC
African of the Year Award What we're seeing in the DRC is a war accepting allowable on the bodies of women that is acquainted and advised - it is the analytical abolition of the changeable citizenry of the Congo But afterwards three trips to the Congo in the endure eighteen months, I accept apparent the spirit and backbone of the Congolese women translated into a beginning movement which is axis affliction to power. Rape Victims' Words Help Jolt Congo Into Change Events on the bout will affection Dr. Denis Mukwege, architect of the DRC's PANZI Hospital in Bukavu, and playwright/V-Day architect Eve Ensler. Honored by the UN in December 2008 for his altruistic work, and champ of the "African of the Year Award," Mukwege joins Ensler, the founder/artistic administrator of V-Day, and the award-winning columnist of The Vagina Monologues, in advertisement femicide and the animal ache of women in the DRC, and relaying the belief of women survivors on the arena who are advancing calm and breaking the silence.
During accessible conversations with Ensler, Dr. Mukwege will call his adventures alleviative and assuming life-saving fistula anaplasty on bags of Congolese women and girls destroyed by abominable abduction and mutilation. Their conversations will aswell analyze the causes of the brutality, means to stop the advancing femicide, and Congo's growing movement of women leaders.
The bout is in abutment of V-Day's collective attack with UNICEF - STOP RAPING OUR GREATEST RESOURCE: POWER TO WOMEN AND GIRLS OF THE DRC - which is advertisement the adverse appulse of abduction on Congolese women's health, their families and their communities; calling for specific measures to end dispensation for perpetrators; economically and socially allotment women and girls to advance in the blockage of animal abandon and in the rebuilding of a country devastated by conflict; architecture and aperture the City of Joy in affiliation with PANZI Hospital and Dr. Mukwege, a centermost area survivors will be provided with abutment to alleviate and training to added advance their administration and activity skills.
"What we're seeing in the DRC is a war accepting allowable on the bodies of women that is acquainted and advised - it is the analytical abolition of the changeable citizenry of the Congo," said Ensler. "But afterwards three trips to the Congo in the endure eighteen months, I accept apparent the spirit and backbone of the Congolese women translated into a beginning movement which is axis affliction to power."
The 'Turning Pain to Power Tour' has been fabricated accessible by acceptable abutment from Open Square Foundation, which is putting a cardinal focus on catastrophe abandon adjoin women in the DRC.
'Turning Pain to Power Tour' featuring Dr. Denis Mukwege In Conversation with Eve Ensler - Itinerary is as follows:
Wednesday, February 11, 8PM - New York, NY
Dr. Denis Mukwege In Conversation with Eve Ensler, alien by Anne Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF
Location: 92nd Street Y - Kaufmann Concert Hall - Lexington at 92nd Street, NYC
Tickets: $27, on auction now
For tickets and added info, appointment
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DLC5WL10
Saturday, February 14, 8PM - Los Angeles, CA
V-Day USC Performance of "The Vagina Monologues" with appropriate bedfellow speakers Eve Ensler and Dr. Denis Mukwege
Location: USC Campus, Bovard Auditorium, 3601 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles
Tickets: $18 accepted admission, $12 acceptance - on auction now
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vday/Vagina_Monologues.html
(Student tickets have to be bought with an ID either from the Student Union Building 100, 9 a.m. - 5
p.m. Mon-Fri, or email: solters@usc.edu)
Wednesday, February 18, 6:30PM - Redwood City, CA
The World Affairs Council and Global Philanthropy Forum host Dr. Denis Mukwege interviewed by Eve Ensler
Location: Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City
Tickets: $25 Members and Non-Members, $15 Students - on auction now
http://www.itsyourworld.org/assnfe/ev.asp?ID=2418
Thursday, February 19, 8PM - San Francisco, CA
City Arts & Lectures "Art & Politics" appearance Dr. Denis Mukwege interviewed by Eve Ensler
Location: Herbst Theater, San Francisco
Tickets: $20, on auction now
For tickets and added info, appointment http://www.cityarts.net/n.mukwege.html
Monday, February 23, 8PM - Atlanta, GA
Dr. Denis Mukwege In Conversation with Eve Ensler, alien by Pat Mitchell, V-Day Board Member and President and CEO, the Paley Center for Media
Location: The Carter Center
Tickets: to be announced
Wednesday, February 25 - Washington, DC
Dr. Denis Mukwege In Conversation with Eve Ensler
Location: Howard University
Tickets: to be announced
Events are accountable to change
For added advice about the bout and V-Day's attack on Democratic Republic of Congo, appointment vday.org. To accept the latest bout information, assurance up for V-Mail at www.vday.org/vmail. To apprehend the contempo The New York Times article - "Rape Victims' Words Help Jolt Congo Into Change" October 19, 2008, appointment http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/world/africa/18congo.html?hp
About V-Day
V-Day is a all-around movement to end abandon adjoin women and girls that raises funds and acquaintance through account productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler's accolade acceptable play The Vagina Monologues and added aesthetic works. In 2008, over 4000 V-Day account contest took abode produced by advance activists in the U.S. and about the world, educating millions of humans about the absoluteness of abandon adjoin women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has aloft over $60 actor and accomplished millions about the affair of abandon adjoin women and the efforts to end it, crafted all-embracing educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama affairs in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and adjourned over 10,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. V-Day was called one of Worth magazine's "100 Best Charities" in 2001 and Marie Claire's "Top Ten Charities" in 2006. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. http://www.vday.org
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