The Vagina Monologues @ UCR!

Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 8:00pm

Sunday, March 4, 2007, 5:00pm

Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 8:00pm

Location: University Lecture Hall

Tickets prices $12/pre-sale & $15/door
Fine Arts Ticket Office, 951.827.4331 (Visa/MC)
Parking $5 in Lot 1

Beneficiaries onclude the Riverside Area Rape Crisis Center and MODEMU, a grassroots organization in the Dominican Republic that supports women and children with HIV and AIDS.

Presented by The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance
Email vmonologues_ucr@yahoo.com for more info

V-Day UCR is supported by Women's Resource Center,
Women's Studies, LGBT Resource Center

The V-day UC Riverside Campaign has raised over $20,000 in five years for local organizations dedicated to ending violence against women!

What is V-day?

V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a palpable energy, a fierce 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 worldwide violence against women and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sexual slavery. V-Day provides funding to create and nurture innovative programs to stop the violence.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of "The Vagina Monologues" to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. V-Day itself stages large-scale benefits and promotes innovative gatherings and programs (The Afghan Women's Summit, The Stop Rape Contest, Indian Country Project, and more) to change social attitudes towards violence against women. In 2002, more than 800 V-Day benefit events were presented by local volunteer activists around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.

The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national, and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities" in 2001. In its first five years, the V-Day movement has raised over $14 million, with over $7 million raised in 2002 alone.

The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.

(Excerpted from the V-Day website. To find out more information on the world-wide movement to stop violence against women and girls, please visit www.vday.org)