STARKVILLE, Miss.--For the third consecutive year, Mississippi State faculty, staff and students will perform a well-known dramatic production about violence against women.
The Tuesday [March 23] presentation of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" and "A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, A Prayer" is sponsored by the university's Richard Holmes Cultural Diversity Center.
While admission to the 7 p.m. program in Lee Hall's Bettersworth Auditorium is free, donations will be accepted for the Rape Crisis Center in Columbus.
Directed by junior biological sciences/pre-veterinary medicine major Merideth Van Wick and senior psychology major Melanie Walsh, the cast will perform "Monologues" as part of the annual "V-Day: Until the Violence Stops" observance. Both students are from Pearl.
Student Counseling Services, along with the SPECTRUM and NOW campus organizations, are V-Day co-sponsors.
Founded in the late 1990s by Ensler, an American playwright and activist, V-Day is an international movement working to end violence against women and girls by raising funds and increasing public awareness.
For more about the program, contact Shaz Akram at 662-325-2033 or sakram@saffairs.msstate.edu
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