The Vagina Monologues
For the third year in a row, Saint Mary’s University will present a benefit production of “The Vagina Monologues” at McNally Theatre Auditorium on Friday, February 10th and Saturday, February 11th, 2006 at 7:00pm.
In the past two years, the Saint Mary’s University’s production of “The Vagina Monologues” has raised nearly $4000 for Bryony House, a Halifax women’s shelter. This year, the goal is to exceed a donation of $2000.
This benefit production is sponsored by the SMU Women’s Centre, and is made possible by the work of numerous volunteers who work tirelessly to end violence against women. The women involved are not your traditional actresses – most have never acted before, or if they have, it was in a previous performance of The Vagina Monologues. These are women who want to end the violence that women experience every day – to give voice to the stories of other women as honestly and accurately as they can.
There are two beneficiaries of the 2006 production. Halifax’s Bryony House is the main beneficiary for this year’s event. Bryony House provides housing, safety and comfort to over 450 women each year, and answers over 4500 distress calls. What these women have in common is that they are suffering the effects of an abusive intimate relationship. The presence of violence against women in our own Halifax community is undeniable – Bryony House is a necessary and crucial service.
10% of our funds will be going to the “Justice to Comfort Women” campaign. Between 1932-1945, during the Asia/Pacific wars, thousands of women were either coerced, lied to, or abducted and sold into “comfort stations” for the Japanese army. Here, the ‘comfort women’ were raped by the men for weeks on end, sometimes upwards of fifty times per day. Now in their eighties and nineties, these women have protested for years for a simple acknowledgement and apology from the Japanese government. Many of them have died; the Japanese government continues to maintain that it did not happen.
Tickets for the 2006 production of “The Vagina Monologues” will be available Feb 7th and 8th in the Loyola Colonnade, and at the door. They are $5 for students/seniors/unwaged, and $10 for all else.
For further information about the event, please email jennifer.crawford@smu.ca, or phone 496-8722.
In the past two years, the Saint Mary’s University’s production of “The Vagina Monologues” has raised nearly $4000 for Bryony House, a Halifax women’s shelter. This year, the goal is to exceed a donation of $2000.
This benefit production is sponsored by the SMU Women’s Centre, and is made possible by the work of numerous volunteers who work tirelessly to end violence against women. The women involved are not your traditional actresses – most have never acted before, or if they have, it was in a previous performance of The Vagina Monologues. These are women who want to end the violence that women experience every day – to give voice to the stories of other women as honestly and accurately as they can.
There are two beneficiaries of the 2006 production. Halifax’s Bryony House is the main beneficiary for this year’s event. Bryony House provides housing, safety and comfort to over 450 women each year, and answers over 4500 distress calls. What these women have in common is that they are suffering the effects of an abusive intimate relationship. The presence of violence against women in our own Halifax community is undeniable – Bryony House is a necessary and crucial service.
10% of our funds will be going to the “Justice to Comfort Women” campaign. Between 1932-1945, during the Asia/Pacific wars, thousands of women were either coerced, lied to, or abducted and sold into “comfort stations” for the Japanese army. Here, the ‘comfort women’ were raped by the men for weeks on end, sometimes upwards of fifty times per day. Now in their eighties and nineties, these women have protested for years for a simple acknowledgement and apology from the Japanese government. Many of them have died; the Japanese government continues to maintain that it did not happen.
Tickets for the 2006 production of “The Vagina Monologues” will be available Feb 7th and 8th in the Loyola Colonnade, and at the door. They are $5 for students/seniors/unwaged, and $10 for all else.
For further information about the event, please email jennifer.crawford@smu.ca, or phone 496-8722.
posted by SMU Women's Centre @ 5:05 a.m.
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