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February 2006
Vagina Monologues on the Altar to
Celebrate
50 Years of Women at Harvard Divinity School
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., February 7, 2006—Twenty women of the Harvard Divinity
School community—students, faculty, and staff—will present Eve
Ensler's Vagina Monologues in the Andover Hall chapel to raise money for a local women's
shelter this Valentine's week. The three shows coincide with the 50th anniversary of women being admitted to Harvard Divinity
School. This is the only student-organized event celebrating this milestone.
The Divinity School hopes to raise $4,000 for
Casa Myrna Vazquez, a Boston-based organization co-founded by
former HDS student Liz Rice Smith, MDiv '74, and dedicated to ending domestic violence in the lives of women and children.
A representative from the shelter will speak at each of the three performances.
The Vagina Monologues will be performed February 14, 16, and 18 at
7:30 pm in the chapel in Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Tickets are available at the Harvard University Box Office
or the HDS Bookstore for $10, general admission, or $8 with a Harvard ID. The box office is located at 1350
Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.
Sarah Peck, director of the Monologues and HDS student, says her
one-year involvement in planning the performance has been
"an opportunity to not only expose the violence done to women every day across the world, but to creatively explore and challenge the presuppositions all of us hold about the value of female
bodies."
Though Eve Ensler performed her piece as a one-woman show, the cast of
the Divinity School performances includes women ranging in age from their early
20s to their mid-50s who come from all over the United States and from Puerto Rico and Pakistan. The Harvard Divinity School cast also receives support from a
number of offices at Harvard Divinity School, including the
Women's Studies in Religion Program, the Office of Student Life, the student government association, and the Office of Ministry Studies.
In addition to proceeds from ticket sales, money for the shelter will be
generated from sale of T-shirts proclaiming "God Loves Vaginas" and chocolate
"Vagina Suckers." For more information on the global movement behind The Vagina
Monologues, please visit V-Day:
Until the Violence Stops.
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