ENTERTAINMENT AND POLITICS TO COME TOGETHER AT NYC'S HISTORIC APOLLO THEATER WITH

ROSARIO DAWSON, EVE ENSLER, JANE FONDA, JEHMU GREENE, RHA GODDESS & WE GOT ISSUES, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, SUSAN SARANDON, REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY, GLORIA STEINEM, JULIA STILES, MARIE WILSON & SINGERS VANESSA CARLTON AND TONI CHILDS

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NEW YORK -- (August 18, 2004) V-Day's "V is For Vote" and Rock the Vote's "Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote," in conjunction with The White House Project's "Vote, Run, Lead" and Omega Institute, announce THE event of the election season: "Vaginas Vote, Chicks Rock." On the evening of September 13th, actors, singers, dancers, thinkers and leaders will all come together at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem for a night of entertainment hand political empowerment.

Confirmed to date: Vanessa Carlton, Toni Childs, Rosario Dawson, Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Rha Goddess & WE GOT ISSUES, Jehmu Greene, Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sarandon (pending availability), Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Gloria Steinem, Julia Stiles, Marie Wilson, and many more. WE GOT ISSUES has been commissioned by V Day for the event and will feature young women speaking out through a performance-based dialogue on feminine power, politics, and civic transformation. The Executive Producers are V Day Founder/Playwright Eve Ensler and V-Counsel Member/Actor Jane Fonda.

"Vaginas Vote, Chicks Rock" takes place less than 2 months before the presidential election and organizers are using the power of arts and activism to motivate and inspire all women-especially young women-to raise their voices and get out the vote to end violence against women and girls.

Unmarried women are the LARGEST group of people not participating in our democracy. Sixteen million unmarried women are unregistered; more than 22 million didn1t vote in 2000.

This event is the ultimate gathering of organizers who can communicate to this target block of women non-voters. Each year, V-Day rallies millions of women towards ending violence against women; Rock The Vote registers millions to vote; Omega educates millions at its conferences - including the September 11-13 Women and Power conference; and The White House Project's "Vote, Run, Lead" inspires and trains future women leaders.

"There are thousands of V-Day activists standing up to end violence against women. The time has come to take that vagina power to the polls" said Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day and playwright of The Vagina Monologues and The Good Body. "Join us on the 13th for an evening of inspiration, imagination and amazing performances. Value your vagina -- Vote!"

"Young women have the power to decide this election, but only if they register to vote and participate in the political process by voting on Election Day, Nov. 2nd," said Jehmu Greene, president of Rock the Vote, "Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote is proud to be a partner of such a powerful event, which is designed to energize young women and inspire them to seize their role in the political system."

"With 65% of women making up the majority of undecided voters, this event is a rallying call to activists nationwide that we must do everything we can to ensure that all women make their voices heard in Election 2004 and beyond," said Marie Wilson, president of The White House Project.

Tickets are $15, $25 and $40 and can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com, by phone (212) 307-7171 & (800) 755-4000, and at the Apollo box office, 253 West 125TH Street, NYC.

The event will close the Omega and V-Day "Women and Power: Our Time To Lead" conference which takes place Friday, September 11- Monday, September 13 at NYC's Sheraton New York Hotel. The conference is a unique gathering for women who want to redefine power and lead from core female values. In addition to Eve Ensler, other leaders will include Jane Fonda, Academy Award winning actor, social activist; Gloria Steinem, activist, author, founder of Ms. Foundation for Women; Julia Stiles, actor; Pat Mitchell, president of PBS and its first female chief executive, former president of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television; Carole Black, president and CEO of Lifetime Entertainment and many more. For more information and tickets to the conference, go to www.eomega.org

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V-Day "V Is For Vote:" V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Activist/Performer/V Day Founder Eve Ensler1s award-winning play, "The Vagina Monologues." "V Is For Vote" is a grassroots voting campaign created with and by thousands of local V-Day activists and individuals in the U.S. V-Day activists will mobilize register and get out the vote efforts anchored around their V-Day 2004 events and activities. V-Day will mobilize its activism into political power through "V Is For Vote" as V-Day supporters "Vote to End Violence." For more information, visit http://www.vday.org/vote . V-Day is a non partisan, 501 (c)(3) organization and we do not align ourselves with any particular political party or candidates.

Rock the Vote and Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote: Founded in 1990 by members of the recording industry, Rock the Vote is a non-partisan, non profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and empowering young people to change their world. Over the past decade, Rock the Vote has called on young people to recognize their role in creating significant political and social change. In addition to registering over three million new young voters, last year Rock the Vote created "Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote," an initiative to provide young women with an exciting way to speak up and join the discussion about the future of our country and to learn about important issues in the presidential election. This program is committed to registering young women to vote and empowering them to speak up and take a stand on the issues = that matter most. Get involved at http://www.rockthevote.com/crcv .

Vote, Run, Lead: Vote, Run, Lead is a national nonpartisan initiative to ignite and mobilize the power of women's votes and women's voices. Vote, Run, Lead is recruiting more than 25,000 women across the country to get-out-the-vote and training and mobilizing 1,000 women to become political leaders. This multi-year initiative
will continue beyond the election in an effort to develop powerful future women leaders across the country. http://www.voterunlead.org . The White House Project is a national, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to advancing women in all spheres.

OMEGA: Omega is the nations largest holistic education provider and is highly regarded for its pioneering work in holistic health, meditation, yoga, transformational psychology, bodywork, spirituality, world music, and art. It offers workshops, retreats, and wellness vacations at its 160-acre Rhinebeck, New York campus, as well as at Omega at The Crossings in Austin, Texas, and at sites in the Caribbean and Costa Rica. Omega fulfills its mission to provide learning environments that awaken the best in the human spirit through its broad-based curriculum and
unique community spirit. http://www.eomega.org. Omega is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

We Got Issues: The We Got Issues! performance piece is a tapestry of written and recorded rants from hundreds of the 22 million young women who did not vote in the 2000 elections and the many more who did. The Next Wave of Women and Power/1+1+1=3 (NWWP) founder, Rha Goddess, and artistic director, Lenora Pace, led a group of 18
politically passionate young women writers, performers, and designers to create a multimedia production that speaks to the hearts, minds and concerns of the generation that is at the frontlines of the U.S. battles at home and abroad. The project was created by The Next Wave of Women and Power/1+1+1=3, a national 501(c)3 organization based in New York, NY.