"The Vagina Monologues" is first time in Mongolia

V‑DAY Ulaanbaatar/Young Women for Change

JOINS GLOBAL EFFORT

TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

V-Day Ulaanbaatar/Young Women for Change 2011

Presents a Benefit Production of

THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES

Join us as we raise funds and

awareness to end violence against women and girls

On March, 2011, V‑Day Ulaanbaatar/Young Women for Change will present a three night only benefit reading of Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues.

The Vagina Monologues Mongolian show Thurs-24March (10,000 w/student ID 5000) 

The Vagina Monologues Mongolian show Fri-25March (10,000T) 

Vagina Monologues English Show Sat-26March (10,000T)

 Last year over 5400 V-Day benefits were held around the world in 130 countries, raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. These highly successful events raised over $4 million through performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, readings from V-Day’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer and Any One Of Us: Words From Prison and screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops.

Young Women for Change has joined this global movement as part of the V‑Day 2011 Community Campaign.

It is a pleasure to inform that Young Women for Change was granted an official right to present The Vagina Monologues to raise funds in Mongolia to contribute to end of violence against women and girls and become a part of 2011 Global V Day campaign. In addition, 90% of income from this event will be donated to the shelter of National Center against Violence, and as a part of V Day’s Global cause, the remaining 10 % will be donated to women in Haiti who suffered from the earthquake.

We are pleased to inform you that we are delighted to work with Ms. Sharon Goldhawk (Canada) as a producer, Ms. Altantuya as a director of the play and young talented female volunteer actresses not only from Mongolia, but also from the United States, Canada and Australia.

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.

Global entertainment idols such as Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Hudson, Salma Hayek, Cate Blanchett, Whoopi Goldberg, Jane Fonda, Calista Flockhart, Winona Ryder, Alanis Morissette, Rosario Dawson, Kerry Washington and Faith Hill have taken a part in The Vagina Monologues to stand up against violence against women and girls and the number of celebrities supporting the cause have been increasing each year. 

What is V‑Day?

V-Day is a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sex slavery.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, Any One Of Us: Words From Prison and screenings of V-Day's documentary Until The Violence Stops, and the PBS documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You, to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. In 2010, over 5400 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.

Performance is just the beginning. V-Day stages large-scale benefits and produces innovative gatherings, films and campaigns to educate and change social attitudes towards violence against women including the documentary Until The Violence Stops; community briefings on the missing and murdered women of Juбrez, Mexico; the December 2003 V-Day delegation trip to Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan; the Afghan Women's Summit; the March 2004 delegation to India; the Stop Rape Contest; the Indian Country Project; Love Your Tree; the June 2006 two-week festival of theater, spoken word, performance and community events UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC ; the 2008, V-Day 10-year anniversary events V TO THE TENTH at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome, the Stop Raping Our Greatest Resource: Power To The Women and Girls of the Democratic Republic of Congo Campaign; the V-Girls Campaign and the V-Men Campaign which launched in 2010.

In Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, V-Day commits ongoing support to build movements and anti-violence networks. Working with local organizations, V-Day provided hard-won funding that helped open the first shelters for women in Egypt and Iraq; sponsored annual workshops and three national campaigns in Afghanistan; convened the "Confronting Violence" conference of South Asian women leaders; and donated satellite-phones to Afghan women to keep lines of communication open and action plans moving forward. V-Day was instrumental in the founding of Karama, a program working in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon that works to build upon and strengthen efforts to end violence against women by bringing together local women's organizations and other civil society groups in collaboration, analysis and advocacy at national, regional and international levels.

The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 140 countries from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities," in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities, and in 2010 was named as one of the Top-Rated organizations on GreatNonprofits. In twelve years, the V-Day movement has raised over $75 million and reached over 300 million people.

The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.

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 Ulaanbaatar/Young Women for Change is a local effort within the worldwide context of the 2011 V-Day Campaign.

To learn more about V‑Day UB/YWC, call 9901-9993, 9900-1296, 9910-3331 or e-mail us at youngwomenforchange@gmail.com or visit www.vday.org.