This year , for V ’ s ( formerly Eve Ensler ) birthday on 25 May , V-Day created an ARTIST SOLIDARITY FUND to give support for individual artists who are courageously rising with their plays , poems , paintings , novels , music in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic , fascism , oppression and occupation and violence in places like Palestine and Myanmar where they are most needed . We need their voices now more than ever . We need their energy , inspiration , vision and magic . And they need our support more than ever so that we have ways of making meaning out of the chaos and struggle that defines these days .