UPDATE: The 25th Anniversary V-Day event was originally planned as an outdoor event, but it has been moved indoors to the City Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room.
The City of West Hollywood will commemorate the 25th anniversary of V-Day with an activist and survivor led gathering of special guest speakers. Local leaders, activists, survivors, artists and changemakers will unite in solidarity on February 26, 2023, from 2pm-4pm at West Hollywood Council Chambers located at 625 N. San Vicente Blvd . This is a call to action to demand freedom from gender-based violence.
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against ALL women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence), girls and the planet. The event will also mark the 10th Anniversary of V-Day’s One Billion Rising Campaign, a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime.
V-Day believes that when art and activism come together, they have the power to transform systems and change culture. Founded by V (formerly Eve Ensler), activist and author of the The Vagina Monologues, V-Day has inspired women all over the world and raised collective consciousness about how violence and gender intersect. V-Day is a movement and an example of how the power of art can be used as a liberating tool for transformational holistic education and social justice.
The Vagina Monologues and other works curated by V-Day have been performed across the world by local activists, survivors and artists, raising over $120 million dollars for grassroots anti-violence groups, rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, and safe houses, shattering taboos and changing the way activists make change in their communities.
The program will feature the launch of a Silent Witness Display, based upon the Silent Witness Initiative, it is a community-based display of silhouettes symbolizing people killed by domestic violence and intimate partner violence. Silent Witness Silhouettes and anti-violence messaging will be displayed at various locations in West Hollywood thru the month of March.
TO LEARN MORE:
www.vday.org
www.silentwitness.net
www.onebillionrising.org