Invitation to join an awesome group of Filipino advocates who are committed to ending violence against Filipina women and girls!

Call for theatre performers, assistant directors and production volunteers for the following three shows in New York:
Usaping Puki (Tagalog version of The Vagina Monologues) - Tagalog speaking Filipina women only (calling Filipina movie stars!)
The Vagina Monologues - Filipina women only (few spots available)
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer (MMRP) - a new show premiering in New York (a first!). Filipina women and Men of Philippine ancestry invited to audition.
 
Calling FWN's 100 Most Influential Filipinas in the U.S. to get involved!

A V-Day FWN audition is not an audition in the traditional sense.  Rather, it is a gathering of everyone interested in being involved, a place to identify roles for everyone, whether on or off the stage.

 
Audition:  Feb 23 (Saturday, 3-5pm)
Rutgers University - Newark
Bradley Hall, 110 Warren St, Room 207, Newark, NJ 07102
Click for directions - http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/maps/

Click to access the audition application.  Scripts will be emailed to you after we receive your application.  Please do not show up without an appointment.

Auditions will be conducted by Christina Baal and Theresa Tantay Wilson, Directors for both shows.  Christina and Theresa were selected for the prestigious FWN's 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S.
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Questions?  Call 415.278.9410 or reply to this email.

Join FWN's Filipinas Against Violence!
 
Filipinas Against Violence is Filipina Women's Network's (FWN) anti-violence education and outreach campaign in collaboration with V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls.

These productions are the heart of V-Day FWN.  The use of theatre and pop culture help raise awareness about the many forms of violence against women and girls.  New York shows will be held at the Philippine Center New York.

The Vagina Monologues - April 18, Friday
Usaping Puki (Tagalog version) - April 19, Saturday
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer (NEW play!) - Filipino women and men - Saturday, April 19
Until the Violence Stops - powerful film about the story of V-Day
 
Silence Kills
We raise awareness about intimate partner violence in the Filipino community. Violence against women takes shape in a multitude of forms including domestic violence, stalking, rape, sexual assault, the trafficking of women and children, date rape, verbal abuse, harassment, and hate crimes. V-Day FWN is an urgent campaign to prevent and help eliminate intimate partner violence against Filipina women and girls. Violence does not discriminate regardless of class, ability, age, education, immigration status, sexual orientation, and religion.

Proceeds from this community event will benefit V-Day's 2008 Spotlight - Katrina Warriors (the women of New Orleans and the Gulf South), Filipinas Against Violence, the Comfort Women Survivors in the Philippines  and fund FWN outreach activities to Filipina women and girls who are in abusive situations or are witnesses to violence at home, in school, or in their workplace so they can develop the courage to break their silence and seek help.

We raise money for awareness workshops about the cultural issues around intimate partner violence, publish the V-Diaries (our anti-violence resource guide) and leverage the power of theatre through the V-Day shows (performed in both Tagalog and English) in reaching out to the Filipino community.

The campaign is 100% volunteer-driven and we need your support. The V-Day FWN shows have an all-Filipina/o cast. However, you don't have to be of Filipino ancestry to join the technical production crew and steering committee and participate in the many activities behind-the-scenes.

Maraming salamat po. We look forward to your participation! Together we can all help END violence against Filipina women and girls.
 
V-Day FWN New York
Directors
Christina Baal and Theresa Tantay Wilson
Marily Mondejar, Executive Producer

About V-Day

V-Day is a global 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.

In 2007, more than 3000 V-Day events took place in the U.S. and around the world.  To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $45 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 5000 community-based anti-violence programs as well as safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.  http://www.vday.org/

V To The 10
2008 Spotlight - Katrina Warriors
A Celebration of V-Day's Tenth Anniversary
NEW ORLEANS Arena
April 12, 2008

Join us!
On April 12, 2008 at New Orleans Arena, V-Day will celebrate ten years of ending violence against women and girls and will launch the next ten to heal and empower women worldwide.

Toni Childs, Ellen DeGeneres, Eve, Jane Fonda, Salma Hayek, Joss Stone, Marisa Tomei and Kerry Washington have already signed on!
V To The 10th will showcase the work of the women of New Orleans-Katrina Warriors-and their efforts to bring the community back from post-Katrina violence, economic hardship, racism, and insufficient healthcare, childcare, and education. V-Day will donate funds raised by the performance and by our annual Spotlight Campaign to local women's groups, to ensure the event has lasting impact on the ground.  The disbursement of funds will be directed by the needs of women in New Orleans to be utilized for sustainable, long term projects that will have maximum impact and growth for women in business.

This event will open minds and hearts and raise much needed attention and funds for groups working to end violence against women and girls in New Orleans, and around the world.

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