Fashion Empowering Women Foundation will be hosting an event to help raise funds and awareness to end violence against women and girls. The event also benefits Our Place DC, a non-profit organization that provides services and advocacy to help women rebuild their lives after a period of incarceration, and the DC Fashion Foundation, a non-profit organization created by the Greater Washington Fashion Chamber of Commerce to support the local fashion community.
V-Day brings the issue of violence against women and girls front and center in the culture and the community. In order to understand the grave importance of this cause, one must know that violence is an issue that plagues all women and men in every part of the world. To better show the depth and scope of violence against women, V-Day has compiled a list of statistics and resources that evidence the impact that violence against women has on the individual, and the community. V-day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sex slavery. In 1994, a play called The Vagina Monologues, written by playwright Eve Ensler, broke ground, offering to the world a piece of art like nothing it had seen before. Based on dozens of interviews Ensler conducted with women, the play addressed women’s sexuality and the social stigma surrounding rape and abuse, creating a new conversation about and with women. The Vagina Monologues ran Off-Broadway for five years in New York and then toured the United States. After every performance, Ensler found women waiting to share their own stories of survival, leading her to see that The Vagina Monologues could be more than moving work of art on violence; she divined that the performances could be a mechanism for moving people to act to end violence.Entertainment will be provided by Grammy Nominated Washington D.C. native, Carolyn Malachi. Please check out her interview clip below from the 53rd Grammy's on CBS.
When: Friday April 29th & Saturday April 30th
Where: Montgomery College Performing Arts Center (map)
Time: 7:00 - 11:00 pm
Tix: $25 Students | $35 General Admission
Please try to come out to not only support a great benefit, but to enjoy yourself and if nothing else walk away more informed and empowered about a great cause.
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