PROGRAM

Beneficiaries

This year, V-Day Seoul is donating all proceeds to The Korea Women’s Hotline. Korean Women's Hot Line, as a women's rights activist group, is protecting women's rights from all kinds of violence and advancing women's social position. They are pursuing the feminist perspectives to make society better and also trying to help women who are vulnerable from violence and discrimination. More information about the Korea Women’s Hot Line can be found at www.hotline.or.kr


For more information about V‑Day, the global movement to stop violence against women and girls, please visit the V‑Day web site at www.vday.org. If you would like to keep in touch with V‑Day and stay informed about events, actions, and opportunities for participation, sign up for V-Mail, the movement's online newsletter. You can sign up for V-Mail by visiting the V-Day web site at www.vday.org/vmail.

A Very Special Thanks to:

Jyoung-Ah Kim, Courtnee Crystal, Michel Lamblin, Yukyung Kim-Cho, Andrea Lee, So Jung (Maria) Rim, Seo Yumin, Justin Kang, Juhee Kim, Pancake House (www.pancakehouse.org), and everyone who has made this production possible.



V-Day Seoul 2007 presents a benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s

The Vagina Monologues

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Introduction..................... Jyoung-Ah Kim, Andrea Lee, Katherine Robbins
Hair............................. Sun Young Won
Wear and Say..................... Karla Lesh, Shauna Thompson, Laurie Raymond
The Flood........................ Meryl Bazaman
The Vagina Workshop.............. Jin-Hyung Park
Vagina Happy Fact................ Laurie Raymond
Because He Liked to Look At It... Katherine Robbins
I Was 12. My Mother Slapped Me.. Seh Eun Oh, Yukyung Kim-Cho, Jin Sun Seo, Jin-Hyung Park
Not-So-Happy Fact................ Shauna Thompson
Say It, For the Comfort Women.... Andrea Lee
My Angry Vagina.................. Ama Birch

**INTERMISSION**

My Vagina Was My Village.................... Yukyung Kim-Cho
The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could....... Jyoung-Ah Kim
Smell....................................... Andrea Lee and So Jung (Maria) Rim
My Short Skirt.............................. Juhyun Song
Reclaiming Cunt............................. Angela Lytle
A six-year-old girl was asked….............. Seh Eun Oh and Yukyung Kim-Cho
The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy... Laura Miller
I Was There In the Room .................... Sun Young Won
2007 Spotlight Monologue.................... Jin Sun Seo




2007 Corporate Sponsors

V-Day is grateful to the following sponsors who generously support our efforts to end violence against women and girls.

V-Day receives hundreds of requests a year from companies and corporations that want to sponsor V-Day. Corporate sponsors are vetted by the level of contribution they can make to support our efforts to end violence against women and girls around the world;
The level at which they can support local events; A demonstrated commitment to women and girls and to our mission to end violence against women and girls.


BARNEYS NEW YORK
Bloomberg
Dramatists Play Service
Eileen Fisher
Glamour magazine
LUNA Bar
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
Vosges Haut Chocolat
Vagina Warriors

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V- Day Spotlight 2007: Women in Conflict Zones

In 2007 the V-Day Spotlight addresses Women in Conflict Zones because war exponentially increases the crimes of violence against women and girls. In equal measure the strength and resilience of women in rebuilding their communities and leading governments to peaceful solutions needs to be celebrated.

For women, not just during war but for decades to come, armed conflict means escalated military, sexual, and domestic violence, lack of security as a displaced person or refugee, and vulnerability to sex traffickers and coerced prostitution even by the peacekeepers themselves. Given the 21st century's escalating armed conflicts, impunity for wartime sexual violence cannot be tolerated. As patterns of wartime rape and sexual violence continue today in places such as Sudan, Congo, and Iraq, it is paramount to expose and condemn these crimes through international media coverage and public outcry and efforts in our communities themselves.

For more information on Women in Conflict Zones, please visit www.vday.org


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Statistics about Violence

If the world was a global village of 1000 people:

Half the population, 500, would be women. There would have been 510 women, but 10 were either never born through gender selective abortion, or died in infancy from neglect.

In a number of the village’s various communities, girls are considered to be of lesser value than boys. Traditions and masculine inheritance rights reinforce this discrimination against women.

The women of the village are increasingly at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Three women in the village already have the disease, education about it is patchy and the use of contraception to prevent its spread is limited.

167 women in the village have been beaten or coerced into sex and every woman has a one in three chance of being abused in this way. Women of the village risk being killed by their family members, in fact 70% of all murdered women would have been killed by their male partners.

Only 60 women in the village have ever disclosed the violence they were subjected to and a further 70 of them have only spoken out when interviewed for a survey.

100 of the women have been the victims of rape or attempted rape and every woman faces a high risk of this violation, especially if the village is plunged into war. Across the village, violence against women goes unreported, under-investigated and unchecked.

Korean Sexual Violence Stats Rape Report Rate: 2.2% (Korean Institute of Criminal Justice Policy, 1990)Report Rate of Rape and Sexual Assaults: 6.1% (Korean Institute of Criminal Justice Policy, 1998)Reported Rape Stats:2001: 6911 2002: 9435 2003: 103652004: 11105 2005: 11727
(From The Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office)
Women's Organizations are saying that South Korea is one of the top 5 rape countries and records one of the lowest rape report rates. Rape was increased by 13% in 2005 compared to 2003. Sexual Violence against children under age 13 makes up 19.9% of sexual violence cases.

For website in Korean: http://vdaykorea.blogspot.com

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V-Day SEOUL is proud to present
A Production of Eve Ensler’s
The Vagina Monologues

“Probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade…”
-The New York Times

When: MARCH 3-4, 2007 AT 2:00pm
Venue: Bbang in Hongdae
Tickets: Pre-sale: 10,000won At the door: 15,000

To request tickets contact vdayseoul@gmail.com and
leave your name and number of tickets to be picked at the door on the day of the performance before 2:00pm. You’ll receive a confirmation number.
All Proceeds will go to The Korean Women’s Hotline

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What is The Vagina Monologue?

Celebrated as the bible for a new generation of women, The Vagina Monologues has been performed in cities all across America and around the world. It has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement--V-Day--to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again.

Based on interviews with over 200 women about their memories and experiences of sexuality, The Vagina Monologues gives voice to women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again. It is witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise. "At first women were reluctant to talk," Ensler writes. "They were a little shy. But once they got going, you couldn't stop them."

The Vagina Monologues has now been translated into over 24 different languages. A list of translations and foriegn publishers follows.

Location

Live Club BBang in
Hongdae exit 8
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What is the Worldwide Campaign?

The V-Day Worldwide Campaign is a catalyst for mobilizing communities to heighten awareness to stop violence against women and girls. Local V-Day organizers around the world use both art and activism to shift traditional attitudes towards women and violence.Through benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues that take place between Valentine’s Day (February 14) and International Women’s Day (March 8), a V-Day event provides a way for diverse, local women, activists and actors to collaborate and express universal ideas and emotions regarding violence against women in their own unique way, tailored to their individual experiences and their specific audiences. The proceeds from these events are donated directly to local organizations in the community that are working to stop this violence.

In 2006, more than 2700 V-Day events in 1150 communities and colleges took place in the U.S. and around the world. To date, V-Day has raised over $40 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, funded over 5000 community-based anti-violence programs, reopened shelters, and funded safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.
The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. http://www.vday.org/.