Author: V-Day

23 Apr

Posted at 12:55h in Dear Everything, V-Day

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 23, 2026 Contact: Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis | media(at)vday.org DEAR EVERYTHING MUSICAL INSPIRES CLIMATE ACTIVISTS WITH EARTH DAY PERFORMANCE AT BAM FEATURING JANE FONDA, LOCAL YOUTH CHOIRS One-Night-Only Performance of the Folk-Pop Musical from Tony Award Winners V (Formerly Eve Ensler) and Diane Paulus Mobilizes Support for Climate Action With Local Grants NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 22: Terence Archie, Luke Ferrari, Brittany Campbell, Breanna Yde, Benny Elledge, Crystal Hall, Michael Williams, Paravi, Javier Muñoz and Pearl Sun and cast perform onstage during DEAR EVERYTHING: A musical uprising for the Earth featuring Jane Fonda at BAM on Earth Day,...

25 Mar

Posted at 11:51h in Dear Everything, Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

U.S. Activists: RISE Against Ice at NO KINGS this Saturday, March 28 This Saturday, millions of Americans will gather to reject the regime's brutality at home and abroad at over 3000 No Kings rallies across the country. State Violence Is Gender-Based Violence. As One Billion Rising in the United States, we are called to confront the specific systems that enact gender-based violence, from the terror inflicted by ICE, to the ongoing silencing of survivors like those harmed by Epstein. We are witnessing how patriarchy, white supremacy, and state violence intersect with impunity. In 2026, we Rise to break that silence, to expose the...

07 Mar

Posted at 13:35h in V-Day

Around the World, We RISE International Women’s Day 2026 The World Is Rising for Our Bodies, Our Earth, Our Future. As we move into 8 March – International Women's Day, communities across the globe are continuing to rise. Throughout February, powerful One Billion Rising gatherings took place from the Philippines, India, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom to Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal and Afghanistan, and across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Pacific. Activists, artists, survivors, youth leaders, workers, indigenous women and grassroots organizers came together in public squares, schools, villages, theaters and community centers – dancing, speaking out, creating art,...

03 Mar

Posted at 16:10h in V-Day

[caption id="attachment_22818" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: Matthew Peyton for Getty Images[/caption] We are devastated by the killing of our beloved friend, Iraqi feminist leader Yanar Mohammed, co-founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), who was shot outside her home in Baghdad on Monday. In 2003, she founded the first women’s shelter in Iraq to protect women from trafficking, honor killings, and systemic abuse becoming the target of death threats over her activism. With Yanar’s assassination, we have lost a courageous and visionary leader. Her killing is a painful reminder of the grave dangers faced by women human rights defenders around the...

26 Feb

Posted at 16:57h in Dear Everything, V-Day

Dear Everything is a riveting musical uprising about the climate crisis and collective action, driven by galvanizing and emotional pop and folk music that speaks to the dialectic of our times—adults focused on surviving the now, and youth with a fierce eye on the future. At every performance, the production partners with a local youth choir and a Dear Everything Youth Council, working in relationship with the community and centering young people at the heart of the work; in this reflection, choreographer Christiana Hunte shares what it meant to create and move alongside them. My name is Christiana Hunte and it...

20 Feb

Posted at 10:55h in City of Joy, Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

TOGETHER, WE RISE 2026 RISINGS ARE HAPPENING NOW THROUGH EARTH DAY/22 APRIL As we write, activists in over 70 countries are rising, with 1000+ events already happening or scheduled. Risings will continue unfolding across the globe from now through International Women's Month/Day (March/8 March) and Earth Month/Day (April/22 April). Using art and education, listening and solidarity, dialogue and reflection, ritual and storytelling, we rise to create new realities. We rise so people can return to their bodies, their sexualities, their creativity, and their full humanity. Imagine. Dream. Create. RISE for our Bodies, our Earth, our Future. We RISE to dismantle patriarchy by understanding its roots...

30 Dec

Posted at 12:55h in City of Joy, Newsletter, V-Day

A Blessing, a Center of Rebirth and Love: City of Joy Celebrates 28th Graduation Ceremony Photo: Carlos Schuler On 19 December 2025, the City of Joy celebrated the graduation of its 28th class, bringing the total number of women whose pain has been transformed into power to 2,407. On this day, 85 women reintegrated into their communities — a powerful milestone in our ongoing work to support Congolese women survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. In her address, Christine Schuler Deschryver, co-founder and director of the City of Joy and V-Day Congo, spoke about the war in eastern DRC, underscoring the continued advance of...

22 Dec

Posted at 11:46h in City of Joy, Dear Everything, Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day, Voices

Your support over the years has meant the world to us. As 2025 draws to a close, we are filled with gratitude for the survivors, artists, and activists who have made V-Day into a singular, ever-evolving global activist movement to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, and the Earth. In 2025, V-Day continued to boldly shatter norms and create spaces for grassroots dialogue through art and activism: ONE BILLION RISING activists have been mobilizing worldwide our 2026 campaign - RISE FOR OUR BODIES, OUR EARTH, OUR FUTURE - to transform the architectures of violence: economic and political, class and race, cultural and religious...

19 Dec

Posted at 17:08h in V-Day

The film powerfully captures a real story that ignited a movement and helped redefine the conversation around justice, women’s rights and reproductive rights in Argentina. BELÉN won the RTVE-Otra Mirada Award for Fonzi, the Silver Seashell for Best Supporting Performance for Pláate at the 2025 San Sebastián International Film Festival and has advanced to the next round of voting for the 98th Academy Awards international feature film category. (Source: Forbes)...