SHARPP Events
March
V-Day, UNH “The Vagina Monologues” 2013
The Vagina Monologues at UNH
Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2, MUB Strafford Room, 7:00pm
The Vagina Monologues will be performed by students at University of New Hampshire. Each year a new student director takes on the task of planning the production of this event on campus with the support of SHARPP. Please join us for this event which is sure to captivate both women and men.
There will be light refreshments and a bake sale at the event. Please contact Maggie Wells, Outreach Coordinator, (maggie.wells@unh.edu) for more information.
Tickets are $5 for students & $8 for non-students. Tickets may be purchased at the UNH MUB ticket office. Presented by the University of New Hampshire Sexual Harassment & Rape Prevention Program. Co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program and Delta Xi Phi Multicultural Sorority. Proceeds benefit SHARPP and Women of Nations.
Where it all began
Hailed by The New York Times as “funny” and “poignant” and by the Daily News as “intelligent” and “courageous,” Eve Ensler’s, Vagina Monologues, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s experiences.
The award-winning play is 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 world 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. Once a year, in February, March, and April, Eve allows groupsaround the world to produce a performance of the play and use the proceeds for local programs that work to end violence against women and girls.
V-Day is born
On Valentines Day, 1998, Eve, with a group of women in New York City, established V-Day. Set up as a 501(c)(3) and originally staffed by volunteers, the organization's seed money came from a star-studded, sold out benefit performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, a show that raised $250,000 in a single evening. V-Day's mission is simple. It demands that violence against women and girls must end.
Today, V-Day is a global activist movement to end 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 sex slavery.
One Billion Rising
In conjunction with the 15th anniversary, V-Day launched its most ambitious campaign to date - ONE BILLION RISING. The concept of the campaign is simple. If you take into account the statistic that 1 out of 3 women will experience violence in her lifetime, you are left with the staggering statistic that over 1 billion women on this planet will be impacted by violence. On V-Day's 15th Anniversary, 2.14.13, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to this violence. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders.
Clothesline T-shirt Making
Tuesday, March 5, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
MUB 203
The Clothesline Project is a national awareness initiative that was started by a group of women in the 1990s who wanted to give survivors and their friends and family members a voice about their abuse. SHARPP hosts the Traveling Clothesline Project, bringing it to different halls across campus for display. All members of the UNH community are invited to attend a t-shirt making workshop. No registration required. SHARPP provides all materials.
Jessica Valenti is coming to UNH!
SHARPP Film Series, The Purity Myth
Monday, March 25, MUB Theater I - Room 311, 7PM
Tuesday, March 26, MUB Theater II - Room 312, 7PM
In this video adaptation of her bestselling book, pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti trains her sights on “the virginity movement” — an unholy alliance of evangelical Christians, right-wing politicians, and conservative policy intellectuals who have been exploiting irrational fears about women’s sexuality to roll back women’s rights. Learn more here...
MUB Leadership Series:
'Full Frontal Feminism' with author, Jessica Valenti
Wednesday, March 27, 7PM – MUB Strafford Room
Enter Full Frontal Feminism.
Covering a range of topics, including pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, education, and relationships, noted author and founder of the blog "Feministing.com", Jessica Valenti provides young women a primer on why feminism matters.
Full Frontal Feminism is sending out a message to readers:
Yeah, you’re feminists, and that’s actually pretty frigging cool.
This event is free.
Learn more about Jessica Valenti here...
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
The month of April has been designated Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in the United States. The goal of SAAM is to raise public awareness about sexual violence and to educate communities and individuals on how to prevent sexual violence. UNH honors SAAM every April with an anti-violence walk and the White Ribbon Campaign. Raising awareness about sexual assault at UNH is not just a women's issue. It is a community issue.
The White Ribbon Campaign
Men, take the pledge to end violence against women!
SHARPP’s goal is to have as many men as possible in the UNH community make the pledge, and wear a white ribbon pin or bracelet during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Please click on this link for details of the campaign.
Taking a Community Stance! Stepping out to speak out against violence. Rally & Walk!
Thursday, April 11, 12:30
The Great Lawn
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, SHARPP cordially invites the UNH Community to SHARPP’s 3rd Annual Taking a Community Stance: Stepping Out to Speak Out Against Violence. Rain location in the MUB Strafford Room.
SHARPP Film Series, The Line
Thursday, April 18, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
MUB Theater 1
Told through a “sex-positive” lens, The Line is a 24 minute documentary about a young woman – the filmmaker – who is raped, but her story isn’t cut and dry. Not a “perfect victim,” the filmmaker confronts her attacker, recording the conversation with a hidden camera.
Learn more here...
SHARPP Film Series, The Invisible War
Tuesday, April 23, 6:00 PM
MUB Theater 1
From Oscar® & Emmy® nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick comes The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Learn more here...
