RESCHEDULED Benefit Presentation of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES as part of VDAY-Peekskill!

Join Us as we RISE, RELEASE, and DANCE to Demand Justice for Women and Girl Survivors of Violence!

EMBARK|Peekskill Community Collaboration Series 
VDay-Peekskill event with a benefit presentation of 
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler and co-directed by Sol Miranda and Katie Schmidt-Feder on February 14 & 15 at 8 pm at EMBARK@EMC located on the first floor of 925 South St, Peekskill, NY.  
Tickets: $20 via Paypal / at the Door: $25.  

Beginning with LIVE MUSIC by Mary Jo Frederich (Fri. the 14th) and Janine Wallour & Friends (Sat, Feb. 15th) at 7:40 pm, the event features a powerful cast of professional actresses and community members as well as local musicians and singers united to raise awareness to stop violence against women and girls locally and globally.  Also, check out the jewelry & art by Toni Quest on Feb. 14th and Free Trade handbags & accesories by Tammy Hannon on Feb. 15th.  
Wine, other beverages & finger foods will be served for a donation.

Proceeds will benefit Victims Assistance Services, a component of WestCOP, Inc.  For more information, contact Sol or Katie at embarkpeekskill@gmail.com or 
914-671-7772.

Last year over 5,800 V-Day benefits were held around the world raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. These highly successful events raised over $5 million through performance of The Vagina Monologues, readings from V-Day’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer and Any One Of Us: Words From Prison and screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops and the PBS documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You. EMBARK|Peekskill has joined this global movement as part of the VDay 2014 Peekskill Campaign.

This special benefit performance is presented this year as part of V-Day’s campaign ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE, a global call for women survivors of violence and those who love them to gather safely in places where they are entitled to justice – courthouses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship, homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often do not – and release their stories through art, dance, marches, ritual, song, spoken word, sit ins, and testimonies.

What are The Vagina Monologues?
Hailed by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant" and by the Daily News as "intelligent" and "courageous," The Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off-Broadway by Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s experiences.  Ms. Ensler has performed the play to great acclaim throughout the world - from Zagreb to Santa Barbara, from London to Seattle, from Jerusalem to Oklahoma City.  Villard Books/Random House first published The Vagina Monologues, which includes a foreword by Gloria Steinem, in February 1998.  A special edition was released in hard cover and paperback in February 2008 in honor of V-Day’s ten year anniversary.