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This Mother’s Day, Give the Gift of V-Day

05/09/2006
This Mother's Day, give your mother a unique and heartfelt gift while supporting V-Day's efforts to end violence against women and girls around the world.

Just in time for Mother's Day, V-Day is offering a special ALL ACCESS PASS to Until The Violence Stops: NYC, V-Day's two-week festival of theater, spoken word, performance and community events, featuring performances by Kathy Bates, Jane Fonda, Marsha Gay Harden, Salma Hayek, Rosie O'Donnell, Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washington and many more. V-Day also offers a wide range of giving options that benefit programs that are working to address the most critical issues facing women around the world, from Afghanistan to Kenya.

Mother's Day is Sunday, May 14th, give her the gift of V-Day!

Give Your Mother an All Access Pass to UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC!
Join V-Day for our premiere festival Until The Violence Stops: NYC. V-Day is offering All Access Passes, granting access to V-Day's four major Marquee events taking place June 12-27.

Until The Violence Stops: NYC is a festival of theater, spoken word, performance and community events created to bring the issue of violence against women and girls front and center in the culture and the community.

Featured performers include Kathy Bates, Jane Fonda, Marcia Gay Harden, LisaGay Hamilton, Suheir Hammad, Salma Hayek, Rosie O'Donnell, Phylicia Rashad, Marian Seldes, Marlo Thomas, Kerry Washington and more.

Authors contributing original works written exclusively for the festival include Edward Albee, Tariq Ali, Maya Angelou, Edwidge Danticat, Anna Deavere Smith, Ariel Dorfman, Michael Eric Dyson, Dave Eggers, Nicholas Kristof, Azar Nafisi, Kathy Najimy, Paula Vogel, Alice Walker, Nobel prize winner Jody Williams, Howard Zinn, and more.

UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC will issue a call to action to all New Yorkers, and to the world: Demand an end to violence against women and girls and become an active participant in ending it. To read more about the festival, visit: http://www.vday.org/contents/vday/press/release/0604131

All Access Passes are $40 or $150 and provide access to the following:

Monday, June 12th
Necessary Targets
By Eve Ensler
Studio 54
A once-in-a-lifetime reading of Necessary Targets, a groundbreaking play about women and war, the violence of dark memories, and the enduring resilience of the human spirit. With Academy Award winners Kathy Bates, Jane Fonda and Marcia Gay Harden, Shiva Rose, Tony Award winner Marian Seldes, Kerry Washington, and more.

Monday, June 19th
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer:
Writers on Violence Against Women and Girls
Hammerstein Ballroom
World renowned writers including Edward Albee, Tariq Ali, Maya Angelou, Michael Cunningham, Ariel Dorfman, Michael Eric Dyson, Dave Eggers, Nicholas Kristof, Anna Deavere Smith, Alice Walker, Howard Zinn and more, come together to address the issue of violence against women, contributing original pieces and bringing their particular vision, talent and take on the issue. Performances by Kate Clinton, Rosario Dawson, LisaGay Hamilton, Charlotte Martin, Cynthia Nixon, Isabella Rossellini, Marlo Thomas, Marisa Tomei, and more.

Wednesday, June 21st
Any One Of Us: Words from Prison
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
Presented by V-Day, the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union, this event will bring forth raw voices of fierceness and honesty written by women from prisons across the nation, moving forward toward healing, understanding, and change, ultimately impacting laws and the treatment of incarcerated women. Performances by Kimberle Crenshaw, Salma Hayek, Mindy McCready, Rosie O'Donnell, Phylicia Rashad, Kemba Smith, Marisa Tomei, Kerry Washington, and more.

Sunday, June 25th
It's Hard Out Here For A Girl:
Brooklyn Represented in Language and Sound
Brooklyn Museum
Today's hottest spoken word poets, comediennes, musicians, and dancers will come together to speak out, act out, and bring the community together to create a safe haven for women and girls. Performances by Suheir Hammad, Georgia Me, and Maysoon Ziyad. DJ Reborn will spin.

To purchase an All Access Pass please call +1 212-921-9070.

If Your Are Not In NYC, Help Women Around the World, Give Your Mother A V-Day eCard!

Your gift, in honor of your Mother, will be put to work through V-Day's program partners who are working on-the-ground to address the most critical issues facing women around the world. Gifts range from $25 - $500 and are tailored to benefit young women at the V-Day Safe House in Kenya, women in Juarez, Mexico, Iraq and Afghanistan. We will send a card letting your Mother know of your gift. To read more about the individual gifts, visit http://www.vday.org/giving