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(Wolfville,
NS) - On
February 14, the Acadia Women’s Centre of Acadia University will
present its first ever production of Eve Ensler’s
The Vagina Monologues.
The show is a benefit performance featuring Acadia students, faculty
members, and administration including Acadia University president,
Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb.
The benefit performance will be in support of
V-Day, a non-profit corporation that distributes funds to
grassroots, national, and international organizations and programs
that work to stop violence against women and girls. Through V-Day
campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual
benefit performances of The
Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for
anti-violence groups within their own communities. The proceeds
from the Acadia performance will be donated to Chrysalis House in
Kentville.
The Vagina
Monologues is being performed
Monday, February 14 at 9:00 p.m. in the MacKeen Room of the
Students’ Union Building, Acadia University. Tickets are $10 ($7
for students) and can be purchased at the Box of Delights Bookstore
in Wolfville and in the Beveridge Arts Centre and at the door.
For additional information contact Jessica Bens
at
072633b@acadiau.ca or Jessica Hansen at
072104h@acadiau.ca.
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