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VDAY 2017 - The Vagina Monologues
V-Day Indianapolis 2017
Presents A Benefit Reading of
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Join Us as we LISTEN! ACT! and RISE! to Demand Revolutionary Change for Women and Girl Survivors of Violence
On February 9-11, 2017, V-Day Indianapolis will present a three-night only benefit reading of Eve Ensler's award winning play The Vagina Monologues at The Church Within in Fountain Square. Ten percent of the funds raised by benefit productions are collected by V-Day and distributed to on-the-ground groups working to end violence addressed in the Spotlight Campaign. In 2017 we are shining the Spotlight on Violence Against Women In the Workplace. The balance of the proceeds from local benefit productions 90% - goes to local groups in that community working to end violence against women and girls. This years proceeds will benefit Coburn Place Safe Haven (www.coburnplace.org).
What are The Vagina Monologues?
Hailed by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant" and by the Daily News as "intelligent" and "courageous," The Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off-Broadway by Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women's experiences. Ms. Ensler has performed the play to great acclaim throughout the world - from Zagreb to Santa Barbara, from London to Seattle, from Jerusalem to Oklahoma City. Villard Books/Random House first published The Vagina Monologues, which includes a foreword by Gloria Steinem, in February 1998. A special edition was released in hard cover and paperback in February 2008 in honor of V-Day's ten year anniversary.
The Vagina Monologues will be performed at The Church Within, 1125 Spruce Street. Tickets are $15 general admission; $10 for students/seniors and may be purchased via Brown Paper Tickets.
About One Billion Rising
One Billion Rising was the biggest mass action in human history. The campaign, launched on Valentine's Day 2012, began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. On 14 February 2013, people across the world came together to express their outrage, strike, dance, and RISE in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end at last to violence against women. Last year, on 14 February 2014, One Billion Rising for Justice focused on the issue of justice for all survivors of gender violence, and highlighted the impunity that lives at the intersection of poverty, racism, war, the plunder of the environment, capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy. Events took place in 200 countries, where women, men, and youth came together to Rise, Release, and Dance outside of court houses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship, homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often do not. The campaign was covered widely by media in all corners of world including The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and many more. Visit www.onebillionrising.org
About V-Day
V-Day 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. The V-Day movement has raised over $120 million; educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it; crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns; 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. V-Day has received numerous acknowledgements and awards and is, one of the Top-Rated organizations on both Charity Navigator and Guidestar. V-Day's most recent global campaign, ONE BILLION RISING, galvanized over one billion women and men on a global day of action towards ending violence against women and girls. vday.org
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 U.S and around the world.
V-Day Indianapolis is a local effort within the worldwide context of the 2017 V-Day Campaign.
THE 2017 V-DAY SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN
For 19 years, the V-Day movement has provided the support and tools which thousands of activists across the globe have used to host V-Day benefit events Eve Enslers play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works to shatter taboos, change consciousness, and raise awareness and funds for grassroots groups working to end violence against women and girls*.
The V-Day Spotlight Campaign places a focus on a particular group of women who are experiencing high levels of violence with the goal of raising awareness and funds, to put a worldwide media spotlight on this area, and to aide groups on the ground who are addressing it. In late 2001, V-Day launched a campaign called Afghanistan Is Everywhere through which V-Day 2002 Organizers from the Worldwide and College Campaigns were asked to provide information at their events about the plight of the women in Afghanistan who had no civil or human rights under the Taliban at that time. They were also encouraged to donate a percentage of their proceeds to Afghan women. The campaign, Afghanistan Is Everywhere, focused on Afghan women with the broader intention to unite women worldwide by pointing out the similarities between the experiences of the women of Afghanistan and those of women and girls in other areas of the world and raised over $250,000 for the women of Afghanistan, opening schools and orphanages and providing education and healthcare.
The success of that campaign evolved into what is now the annual V-Day Spotlight. Each year V-Day spotlights a particular group of women who are experiencing violence with the goal of raising awareness and funds to put a worldwide media spotlight on this area and to aide groups on the ground who are addressing it. Ten percent of the funds raised by benefit productions are collected by V-Day and distributed to on-the-ground groups working to end violence addressed in the Spotlight Campaign. (The balance of the proceeds from local benefit productions 90% - goes to local groups in that community working to end violence against women and girls.)
The 2017 Spotlight:
In 2017 we are shining the Spotlight on Violence Against Women In the Workplace.
Violence against women at work takes place every day, in every country, across socio-economic levels from laborers to company executives, to waitresses and teachers, at-home mothers, nurses, farmworkers, factory workers, actors, and domestic workers.** The additional layer of exploitation is that, in many cases, women facing workplace violence are vulnerable and impeded from speaking out or seeking justice for fear of losing their job. All of this is happening in the context of a global economic reality where it is increasingly difficult for women to even earn a livable wage.
This year, we are honoring the sacred and valuable work of women around the world, in all its forms, by demanding safe, violence-free workplaces. The money raised by the 2017 Spotlight Campaign will provide support to groups working to eradicate sexual and gender violence in places of work.
Violence Against Women in the Workplace is
Prevalent -
- In Bangladesh, over 60% of female garment workers have been intimidated or threatened with violence at work.
- Women who waitress in the U.S., who rely on tips to supplement their sub minimum wages, report rates of 90% having experienced sexual harassment on the job, and for many it is happening on a weekly basis.
- In an extensive Human Rights Watch publication, female migrant domestic workers worldwide reported across the board that they were victims of verbal, sexual physical abuse. Women such as the brave Indonesian migrant domestic worker, Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, who narrowly escaped death after her employer forcefully beat her on the job, are leading the movement for global reform of an industry that routinely incudes rape, physical violence, discrimination, humiliation and restricted rights and freedoms.
- In the US, more than 60 percent of 150 female farmworkers interviewed said they had experienced some form of sexual harassment, according to a study conducted by UC Santa Cruz.
- In Zambia, 81 percent of women have faced sexual harassment at work.
- This month in California, female janitors participated in a hunger strike to bring attention to sexual violence on the nightshift.- For trans workers the threat of violence and discrimination is amplified, researchers in the European Union found that over the course of just 12 months one in three trans participants felt discriminated against because of being trans when looking for a job (37 %) or while at work (27 %).
- An average of 80 women a day are sexually assaulted or raped while theyre on the clock.
Gendered
Workplace violence is not universal, it is targeted at women and at the highest rates in jobs traditionally seen as womens work; caretakers, nurses, domestic workers, etc. Nurses experience workplace crime at a rate 72 percent higher than medical technicians and at more than twice the rate of other medical fieldworkers. And in male dominated workplaces, women are more likely to face patriarchal mindsets and sexist barriers that protect perpetrators and silence women. This was exemplified in the very recent case of former Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, who was exposed for using sexual exploitation and fear tactics for years against multiple female employees. Women laborers in Honduras report forced pregnancy tests administered as a part of the hiring process, and women are routinely not-hired or fired if they become pregnant. Women with disabilities face multiple barriers to safe spaces of work, according to a global report that lists unemployment as a consequence of citing examples, where the abuser may harass or intimidate them in the workplace, harass other employees or prevent them from going to work at all as a mechanism of control, causing them to lose employment.
Deadly -
- Domestic workers in Hong Kong are fighting the illegal and deadly practice of forcing them to clean apartment windows, from the outside, on high-rise apartments. In 2016 alone, at least 5 maids have died in the process.
- In the US alone, 41 people in the sex industry were murdered in 2015; a third of them were transgender.
- Thirty-one percent of women who die at work in the United States are killed as a result of an assault or violent act.
- Throughout history, women in the textile industry have been forced to work under inhumane conditions, and have been killed en masse in preventable fires, from Triangle Shirtwaist to Tarzeen, and building collapses like the tragedy at Rana Plaza.
And it is Global
Violence Against Women in the Workplace can be found in every country, in every community.
*Women and girls is an inclusive term reflecting all those who were assigned and/or identify as female.
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LocationThe Church Within (View)
1125 Spruce Street
Indianapolis, IN 46203
United States
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| Minimum Age: 14 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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