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Vday Alameda "Raise the Vibration" and "A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer" 2020
V-DAY ALAMEDA 2020 JOINS GLOBAL MOVEMENT
TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
V-Day ALAMEDA 2020 presents two plays:
a Benefit Reading of
'RAISE THE VIBRATION: I Know Who I Am: Vignette Performances By Women'
followed by a Benefit Reading of
'A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT AND A PRAYER: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls'
WITH
Rachel Bond
Natalie Cutler
Aya Hoja
Rita Alicia Marqués
Kate Tran-Lane
February 20, 2020
AT 8:00 PM
Venue: Katherine Park Center of the Arts
1242 Park Street, Alameda, CA 94501
Tickets available through: Brown Paper Tickets https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4485461
Proceeds Benefit the nonprofit organization Building Futures
RAISE THE VIBRATION: I Know Who I Am. Vignette Performances By Women showcases local San Francisco Bay area performers, actors, dancers, and activists as they celebrate our truths in a night of original vignette works. An intimate performance for an audience of only 10 people. World premiere of original
Works Including:
Something I Never Told Anyone About Me
by Rita Alicia Marqués
I Faked It. But I Didn't Make It
by Kate Tran-Lane
Laid Bare
by Natalie Cutler
A Dance to Girl Gang
by Aya Hoja
... and More.
A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT, AND A PRAYER: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle.
Each piece captures a spirit of being human in a series of recognizable situations, provoking empathy for those involved and heightening our awareness of why and how such things come to pass. - Theater Review New Zealand
V-Day is a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. Further information about V-Day can be found at:
www.vday.org
www.onebillionrising.org
facebook.com.vday
If you can't make the play, but would still like to be a sponsor to contribute $5 or more to Vday Alameda 2020s Benefit for Building Futures you can do so here: https://www.givedirect.org/campaigns/vday-alameda.php
Alternately, donate directly on the Building Futures website: https://bfwc.org/ -- If doing that, please send us a message VdayAlamedaTVM2020@gmail.com about your donation so the BF tech person can add your donation information to our numbers!
100% of proceeds will benefit the San Leandro Non Profit Building Futures for Women and Children.
Tickets are not refundable. Please do plan to arrive early as late seating is not likely possible because this performance has no intermission!
About Vday:
Welcome to V-Season 2020
V-Day, the global movement to end violence against all women and girls (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender based violence) has seen its work evolve over the past three years. The rise of misogynist, authoritarian regimes the world over - from the United States to the Philippines, India to Brazil - has recalibrated our work, further escalating the urgency with which we feel compelled to fight for gender, climate, economic and racial justice.
We are in the midst of a rising tide of right-wing nationalism, white supremacy, fascism, tyranny, hatred of and fear of immigrants, misogyny, femicide, homophobia, transphobia, corporate greed and climate destruction. We cannot beat these violators on their terms. We will never be that cruel, discompassionate, greedy, or murderous. We cannot let ourselves be changed by or sunk in their cynicism, hatred, divisions and destruction.
What we can do is remember we are the many and we can RAISE THE VIBRATION through Action, Art, Connection, Imagination and Love.
That is why we do theater, music, art, poetry, dance.
That is why we stand in the face of injustice and are just.
That is why call out the systems that create insane inequality and we give more.
That is why we open the borders of our heart when the state builds walls, detention centers and refugee camps.
That is why we reach out to include everyone in our circle of rising as the state creates further and further divisions between us.
That is why we devote ourselves to developing trust and solidarity, to joining our issues in solidarity, because this bond, once secure becomes our wings.
That is why we move our bodies so that the freedom and energy we shake loose becomes a new energy bringing in a new future.
That is why we see, cherish, nurture, respect and protect our Mother Earth as we are not separate from her. Her life is our life.
Together, we RISE to free all women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities) from sexual, physical, racial, economic, political, socio-cultural, ideological and climate crisis violence. We RISE to end rape, battery, incest, sexual harassment, female genital mutilation, sexual slavery and trafficking, child marriage, femicide, sexual, gender and reproductive oppression, violence towards LGBTQIA+ communities. We RISE to end capitalism, colonization, racism, imperialism, climate catastrophe and war.
Join us in 2020!
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LocationKatherine Park Center of the Arts (View)
1242 Park St, Ste B
Alameda, CA 94501
United States
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