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V-Day returns to PCC to stop violence against women
Photos and story by James Hill
The Vagina Monologues are coming back to Portland Community College.
PCC Sylvania Women’s Resource Center is sponsoring the eighth V-Day, a benefit production of the Eve Ensler play, “The Vagina Monologues.” There are three shows – 8 p.m. on Feb. 8 and 9, and 2 p.m. on Feb. 10, in the Performing Arts Center at the Sylvania Campus, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave. The performances help to raise funds for the college’s social justice theater group, Illumination Project, and the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. General admission is $15 and $12 for students.
The goal of V-Day is to raise awareness and to stop violence against women and girls, with a special focus this year on the women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. V-Day is a global movement to end domestic violence and raises funds as well as awareness through benefit productions of “The Vagina Monologues.” This is the 10-year anniversary of this movement, featuring new events like, “V-Day’s a Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer: Writings on Violence Against Women and Girls,” and the showing of the documentary, “Until The Violence Stops.”
In 2007, more than 3,000 V-Day events took place in the U.S. and around the world. To date, the V-Day movement has raised more than $50 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it. It has funded more than 5,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.
For more information about this PCC event, call (503) 977-8101, or visit www.vday.org.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »