(Shared by Marsha Lopez Calderon - OBR Guatemala coordinator) Learning more about urban gardens for our Un Billón de Pie #2021 activities. Thanks to Fundación Calmecac, with whom we work for Women to have a Breath through our Mother Earth, who gives us Food: gives us Life. #GivingLifeTraveTheWhere. Thank you to, my dear, Adela de Torrebiarte (Sacred be your Memory), long time OBR Guatemala activist, for leaving us this legacy. ...
One Billion Rising is a global campaign against violence of women and girls. Rise to defeat the pandemic, protect Humanity and Mother Earth. The Voice of Domestic Workers (VODW), UK invite you to One Billion Rising: Rising Gardens - an online event on 14th February (Sunday) from 2.30 - 4.00 PM (UK Time). Join V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) Founder of One Billion Rising (OBR),OBR Global Director Monique Wilson and OBR organisers and advocates across the UK for an afternoon of sharing, presentation, artistry and celebration . This event is hosted by Marissa Begonia, Director and Founding member of The Voice of...
By: Aminatou Saher (OBR Cameroon Coordinator) Last January 23rd OBR Cameroon organised an event on *Self care &Rising gardens* in Douala with around 50 participants ( in cameroon we do not have the right to gather more than 50 people due to covid 19). The experts spoke about external violence (abuse, violence caused by a third party) and internal (stress, cancer). in partnership with the Humanity at heart international, the participants learned women's cancers, stress and its harmful effects on our health, the exploitation of women related to the land ...
KERRY WASHINGTON AND EDWIDGE DANTICAT JOIN AJA MONET ON VOICES "THE LISTENING TOUR" ON INSTAGRAM LIVE VOICES begins with listening. In the lead up to the artistic piece, Aja Monet has hosted The Virtual Listening Tour on VOICES' Instagram Live. It's an expansive series, featuring conversations, performances, and offerings that will encourage and inspire Black women from all across the African diaspora to submit their stories, poems, and art to VOICES and demonstrate how those in solidarity can engage with the project. Tune in at instagram.com/visforvoices. TOMORROW, 22 January at 7pm EST, VOICES welcomes Haitian writer, Edwidge Danticat, for a live conversation...
India Rises with Gardens of HOPE, JOY, PEACE and SOLIDARITY ...
OBR Myanmar successfully launched their 2021 One Billion Rising Gardens campaign last January 14th, with special guest V (formerly known as Eve Ensler/ Founder and Artistic Director of One Billion Rising), Monique Wilson (One Billion Rising Global Director), Kamla Bhasin (One Billion Rising South Asia Regional coordinator) and young local feminist advocate Nandar. The launch was hosted and moderated by OBR Myanmar Coordinator Eunice Law, and hosted by Myanmar Institute of Theology (Gender Studies Department). Myanmar has done spectacular Youth Rising for many years, and this year promises to be even more exciting. Their 2021 Rising plans include a dance performance...
Un Billón de Pie México/One Billion Rising: #TheMochis are #RaisingTheVibration #CultivatingNoViolence #RaisingGardens ☝🏻 Thank you Erika Acosta for embracing this year's theme and edible gardens...
Join survivors, artists, activists, and youth in towns, cities, schools worldwide as together we RISE through Action, Art, Connection, Imagination, and Love. For two decades, V-Day activists have unleashed vast grassroots, anti-violence work on college campuses and in communities – visionary work that has been survivor-led and focused, all the while revealing the power of art and activism to change culture and systems. We have accomplished so much. Now we must do more. We are a movement that has always met the moment. The moment is NOW. WELCOME TO V-SEASON 2021 VOICES CAMPAIGN: Voices is a new interdisciplinary performance arts project and campaign grounded...
OBR Myanmar, led by OBR Myanmar Coordinator Eunice Naw, will be launching their One Billion Rising 2021 campaign on January 14th - with the global call of RISING GARDENS as their main theme. The online zoom launch will include live participation and messages from guests V (formerly knows as Eve Ensler/ founder of One Billion Rising), Monique Wilson (OBR Global Director), Kamla Bhasin (OBR South Asia Regional Director) and a sharing by Nandar -a feminist advocate from Myanmar. OBR Myanmar 2021 activities will also be shared during the launch - an artistic T-shirt campaign, OBR cycling event to an organic farm which...