Until The Violence Stops Festival 

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Make Halifax the Safest Place on Earth for Women and Girls

From June 1 to 14 2009, the V-Day Halifax Community Campaign will bring you the inaugural festival, “Until the Violence Stops: Halifax (HRM).” This is the first time the festival has taken place outside of the United States and we feel honored that Halifax has been considered for such an event.

The festival is a call to arms, a celebration, and a rally to bring the various communities of Halifax Regional Municipality together with entertainment, education and empowerment.

What is V‑Day?
V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, and screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. 2009 V-Day events have the option to introduce a new V-Day theatrical event, Any One Of Us: Words From Prison, which reveals the connection between women in prison and the violence that often brings them there. This new event will bring forth raw voices of fierceness and honesty written by women from prisons across the nation and performed by local women. In 2008, over 4000 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the Canada, U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.

Official site www.vday.org