Student Group Joins Global Effort to Stop Violence Against Women & Girls posted 1/26/10
Feminist Empowerment Movement hosts benefit production of The Vagina Monologues

ADRIAN, Mich. - The Adrian College Feminist Empowerment Movement invites the community to raise funds and awareness to end violence against women and girls at V-Day Adrian College 2010, a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.”

The event, which will take place on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 4 & 5 in the Adrian Room, will raise funds for the Catherine Cobb Domestic Violence Shelter and SAFER.

There will be a silent art auction, V-Day merchandise, and information about each of the beneficiaries. They will also be accepting non-perishable food or clothing items as donations to the local beneficiary, the Catherine Cobb Domestic Violence Shelter.

Doors open at 7:00 P.M. and the shows begin at 7:30 P.M. Admission is $5 for general admission and $3 with College I.D. or food/clothing donation.

The national beneficiary, SAFER (Students Active for Ending Rape) is an innovative volunteer collective made up of experienced organizers devoted to helping students to win concrete, institutional improvements in the sexual assault policies at their colleges and universities. SAFER provides training and resources to students across the country.

V-Day is a global 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 2009, over 4200 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 $70 million and has educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it. It has also crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 11,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.

V-Day was named 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.

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 U.S and around the world. 

The Adrian Room is located on the Adrian College campus off of S. Madison St. More information may be obtained by contacting Emma Donelson at 269-330-9058 or via e-mail at edonelson@adrian.edu . For more information about the global movement of V-Day, visit their official web site at http://www.vday.org.