V-Day Annual Report 2014 - One Billion Rising for Justice | Page 20
V-DAY COLLEGE & COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN
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During V-Season we witnessed
this escalation manifest in
1,320 locations, with activists
from 55 countries and all 50
states staging V-Day theatrical
productions and V-Girls and
V-Men workshops in their communities. Our data shows that
64 colleges joined for the first
time this year.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
• Our first ever performance of The Vagina Monologues in Saudi Arabia!
• Moscow’s first ever V-Day event, a production of A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer.
• Knoxville, TN presenting The Good Body.
• The Vagina Monologues in “Congo Town” Monrovia, Liberia.
• The Vagina Monologues Spanish production in Portland, OR.
• The Vagina Monologues at a local seminary in Richmond, IN.
• Tahlequah, OK producing Emotional Creature, The Vagina Monologues, and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant
and A Prayer.
• Iranian activist Mehrdad Garthe-Khameneh Doo producing The Vagina Monologues for the second year in
Tehran in clandestine performances in both private homes and institutions working with survivors of violence.
• The Vagina Monologues at Travis Air Force Base.
• The Peace Corps doing a production of The Vagina Monologues in Nazca, Peru.
• In Birmingham, AL, organizers producing Any One Of Us: Words From Prison at a YWCA Family Violence Center.
• In South Omaha, NB, a production of The Vagina Monologues in Spanish.
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