Contact: Sharon Martini 876-275-0832, organizer/director/performer info@sharonmartini.com http://sharonmartini.com/TheVaginaMonologues-2011.htm

For the second time, Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, joins the GLOBAL EFFORT TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

The Ladies Who Dare! Presents a benefit production of The Vagina Monologues, as part of the V-Day Community Campaign to create awareness of abuse against women and girls, in addition to raising funds for education, training, advocacy programs against the same.

7 PM, Saturday, May 26, 2012 - Frenchman’s Reef Restaurant & Bar, Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth - 876-965-3049

Help to Change The Story Of Women and children! Join Us As We Raise Funds And Awareness To End Violence Against Women And Girls

The 2012 cast features “Ladies Who Dare” from the Treasure Beach community and greater Jamaica, including, Sharon Martini, Dr. Glenda Simms, former Executive Director of the Bureau of Women's Affairs, and Marie Sparkes, Director of Pure Potential (a privately-operated Jamaican Therapy company dealing with abuse on individual, group and organizational levels. Pure Potential is currently involved in national programs of sexual abuse healing (for adults and children) across the island.)

What you may ask is "The Vagina Monologues?" Hailed by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant," the dramatic performance was first performed off-Broadway and dives into the mystery, humour, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women's experiences.

An award-winning play based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace the piece celebrates women's sexuality and strength. Through this play and the liberation of this one word, countless women throughout the word have taken control of their bodies and their lives. For more than twelve years, The Vagina Monologues has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public. "The Vagina Monologues, 2011, Treasure Beach" is part of the VDay Community Campaign.

What is the Community Campaign? The Community Campaign strives to empower women, (every day community women,) to find their collective voices and demand an end to the epidemic levels of violence and abuse in their communities around the world. Groups around the world present productions of "The Vagina Monologues" to raise money and awareness to stop violence against women and girls. The proceeds from these events are donated to organizations in the community that are working to stop sexual, physical, verbal and emotional violence.

What is a V-Day Campaign? A V-Day Campaign s a catalyst for mobilizing women and men to heighten awareness about violence against women an girls. By creating this global community, V-Day strives to assist women in becoming empowered women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the violence that affects one in three women in the U.S. and around the world.

The Vagina Monologues provides a forum "To help us all remember the inherent, life-bearing, life-giving, omnipotent, power of Woman; that without She there cannot be, You, He, She, nor We."

V-Day Spotlight Campaign: Each year V-Day Spotlights a particular group of women who are experiencing violence with the goal of raising awareness and funds to put a worldwide media spotlight on this area and to raise funds to aide groups who are addressing it. The 2012 V-Day Spotlight is "The Women and Girls of Haiti."

The Spotlight will highlight the high levels of violence against women and girls in Haiti, and will focus on the increased rates of sexual violence since the devastating earthquake that took place in January 2010. All funds raised through the Spotlight Campaign will be used to support a revolutionary national program in Haiti lead by a coalition of women activists - including longtime V-Day activist Elvire Eugene - that will address sexual violence through art, advocacy, safe shelter, and legal services.

Come on down, over, across, to Jamaica's unique south coast and catch Treasure Beach's second benefit production of Eve Ensler's Award-winning, play, "The Vagina Monologues."

2012 beneficiaries are Saint Elizabeth Women and Pure Potential.

Requested donation: Ja$500. For tickets and additional information, call Sharon Martini 876-275-0832, or email: info@sharonmartini.com
http://sharonmartini.com/TheVaginaMonologues-2011.htm

To learn more about V-Day - The global movement to end violence against women and girls, visit the VDay official website http://vday.org.

The Ladies Who Dare!
Founded by Sharon Martini, “The Ladies Who Dare!” TheARTer for Healing provide a forum for individual and community healing and social justice through creative self-expression in all art forms.

Violence is violence, whether it be against man or beast. This selective nonsense should stop. CONDEMN ALL VIOLENCE that is what you should do. Women have been liberated a long time, and not only liberated but let loose. This Vagina business has no place on this wholesome, family site! Ladies are a dying breed.
Needed: Virtuous women.

Bravo, ladies! Can't be there, but wish you a terrific turnout and ongoing attention to the problem of violence against women and girls, and what needs to be done to create a world that is safe for all.

Concerned Male, either you are posting as a bit of an instigator to get people upset so you can start a verbal battle or you are not as well versed in the origins of violence as you might become if you saw this production. An important thing to understand is violence is often copied behavior. If a boy sees violence against his mother and she does not protest, he learns this is acceptable behavior. He is then more likely to commit violence against others including not only women but other males and animals. The objective of this play is to show that violence often starts and home and is learned. The cycle needs to be broken. No one would disagree that violence is okay, whether it be against women, men, children or animals.

Horrors! The webmaster of this site permits the word "v^%$#@" to be sprinkled around like salt in this thread?!

Is it because a play with that word in it ran on Broadway, and because that play was, as mentioned above: "Hailed by the [sacrosanct - my insertion] The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant," the dramatic performance was first performed off-Broadway and dives into the mystery, humour, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women's experiences."

What is this world coming to? Has the webmaster fallen asleep on the job, allowing that word to escape his usually vigilant eye? (Just having a little fun here, folks.) :-) And I trust, in light that V word's acceptability, that there is nothing i this post to offend those with delicate sensibilities.

The elephant in the room is the sexual abuse of male children by some adult women and the emotional and sometimes physical abuse of adult males by some adult females.

Not forgeting the abuses commited by some males on females, the focus of the Monologues. Also the abuse of males by some males.

Keep the discussion going, some of our old patterns are no longer wanted.

The irony of the situation is this: women talk about equality, but yet want special privileges because they are women. They abuse men but can only talk about violence and abuse from a woman's perspective, never acknowledging that it is a two way street. There is an inherent dishonesty in their position.

I totally agree with spooky dude.I am a woman from TB yes I know that it is said that Jamaican men are abusive and also cheaters,but at the same time so are the women. It is also said that 30% of the children born in Jamaica has not gotten there right fathers which can also be abusive in some way because they expect the guys to support the kids that are not there's. I have 2 brothers that went through that,my mom had to run one of women with her child from our house (jackets) if you will. My little area there a lot of the kids born in the last 30 years did not get there right fathers.So I think women also are very abusive to men mentally,phisically and emotionally the bible say we should do unto others as we would want them to do onto us.so please don't curse me out it's just the facts,one love.