V-Day Annual Report 2014 - One Billion Rising for Justice | Page 20

V-DAY COLLEGE & COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN 20 During V-Season we witnessed this escalation manifest in 1,320 locations, with activists from 55 countries and all 50 states staging V-Day theatrical productions and V-Girls and V-Men workshops in their communities. Our data shows that 64 colleges joined for the first time this year. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE • Our first ever performance of The Vagina Monologues in Saudi Arabia! • Moscow’s first ever V-Day event, a production of A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer. • Knoxville, TN presenting The Good Body. • The Vagina Monologues in “Congo Town” Monrovia, Liberia. • The Vagina Monologues Spanish production in Portland, OR. • The Vagina Monologues at a local seminary in Richmond, IN. • Tahlequah, OK producing Emotional Creature, The Vagina Monologues, and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer. • Iranian activist Mehrdad Garthe-Khameneh Doo producing The Vagina Monologues for the second year in Tehran in clandestine performances in both private homes and institutions working with survivors of violence. • The Vagina Monologues at Travis Air Force Base. • The Peace Corps doing a production of The Vagina Monologues in Nazca, Peru. • In Birmingham, AL, organizers producing Any One Of Us: Words From Prison at a YWCA Family Violence Center. • In South Omaha, NB, a production of The Vagina Monologues in Spanish. 21