NEWS & BLOG

25 May

Posted at 11:49h in City of Joy, Newsletter, V-Day

Watch V’s video sharing her birthday wish Today, 25 May, we celebrate the birthday of V (formerly Eve Ensler), visionary artist, activist, founder of V-Day and One Billion Rising, and co-founder of City of Joy. V inspires us each and every day to lead with our hearts, trust the power of our imaginations, and dare to believe transformation is possible. She is the thread that ties all of our work together - holding the larger vision, pushing us forward, and fiercely believing that together we can create a world free from violence. V’s Birthday Wish: Support Congolese Women, Support the Work of City...

20 May

Posted at 16:07h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

★ A Community Gathering to Process, Reflect, and Heal ★ Co-hosted by FEMINIST & V-Day 3.5 million files. 3,437 bound volumes. The evidence has always existed — and now, it's impossible to ignore. We're inviting our community to gather in person for an exclusive exhibition preview of The Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room — an immersive experience that brings the full weight of the documented timeline of sexual violence, abuse of power, and decades of complicity into one room. This is not just an art experience. It's a feminist act of witnessing. V-Day founder V (formerly Eve Ensler) will lead a...

29 Apr

Posted at 16:34h in Dear Everything, Newsletter, V-Day

Photos: Astrid Stawiarz & Valerie Terranova / Getty Images for V-Day Thank you to everyone who came out for Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth on Earth Day (April 22) featuring Crystal Monee Hall, YDE, Paravi, Luke Ferrari, Michael Williams, Brittany Campbell, Javier Muñoz, Terence Archie, Pearl Sun, and Benny Elledge - with the astounding Jane Fonda in the role of narrator - and the Earth choir composed of members of the Broadway for Arts Education Choir and the Brooklyn Music School Choir. With deep gratitude to Amy Cassello and the extraordinary team at BAM for your invitation—and for...

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...