Come join a group of local Jasper women perform Eve Ensler's, The Vagina Monologues. Open your mind and your heart to women's stories from all over the world.
The benefactors for these performances include The Yellowhead Emergency Shelter and the DRC Women of Congo. Please educate yourself by reading the facts below, which have been pulled from the V-Day website links and articles. For further information, please click here.
The Spotlight Campaign 2010
Stop Raping our Greatest Resource: Power to Women in the DRC
is a new global campaign to call attention to the wide-scale atrocities committed against women and girls in Eastern DRC and demand an end to the impunity with which these crimes are committed.
By joining this campaign, you will be supporting Congolese women and men who are demanding an end to rape. You will be supporting local efforts to demand justice and accountability. You will be supporting survivors of sexual violence to heal and rebuild their lives and communities. And you will join others around the globe to demand that women and girls in DRC are safe.
The Campaign is being initiated by V-Day and UNICEF, representing UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict.
Since 1996, sexual violence against women and girls in the Eastern DRC has been used as a weapon of war to torture, humiliate and destroy not only women and girls, but entire families and whole communities. Since the conflict began, hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped. Advocates from the region have told stories of unthinkable atrocities that are taking place, including cannibalism, chopping off body parts, rape with tools and weapons, and sexual assault of minors as young as 10 months and elders as old as 87 years. Many members of the female population within the region have endured sexual slavery, kidnapping, unlawful detention, recruitment of young girls into armed forces, and forced prostitution.
In May 2007, UNICEF hosted Eve’s visit to Panzi Hospital in Bukavu and the HEAL Africa Hospital in Goma. The violence perpetrated against women there, and scale of damage that Eve saw firsthand was so horrific that V-Day decided to initiate a two to five year public education and action campaign on the DRC, mobilizing UNICEF as a partner in the effort. Shortly after, in August 2007, V-Day and UNICEF (in partnership with UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict,) launched Stop Raping our Greatest Resource: Power to Women of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a global campaign.
Show Listings
HINTON
April 28, 2010
7:00 pm Show Start Time
Royal Canadian Legion (Hinton)
Tickets available at Value King Drug and The Old Grind
or call 780-852-4359
JASPER
April 29, 2010
6:00 pm Silent Auction Opens
6:30 pm Dessert & Coffee
7:00 pm Show Start Time
Jasper Activity Centre, Multi Purpose Hall
Tickets available at the Jasper Adult Learning Council
or at the door
Cast Photo 1
Back left to right: Keslin, Arista, Jeanette, Erin, Megan, Diana
Front left to right: Twila, Devon, Edna, Kristie
Cast Photo 2
Top: Kim
Back Row left to right: Sandra, Diana, Jeanette, Barb
Middle left to right: Meghan, Sonia, Keslin, Erin
Front Row left to right: Nancy, Marni, Edna, Megan
