THEATRE + COMEDY

Creative Women Unite(CWU), The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC), and Women Healing & Empowering Women (WHEW) present V-Day Houston Creative Women Unite The Vagina Monologues 2011, Saturday, February 26 at 7pm at The Houston Museum of African American Culture, 4807 Caroline.

V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of playwright and founder Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works. In 2010, over 5,400 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $75 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it. In twelve years, the V-Day movement has reached over 300 million people.

The Vagina Monologues, hailed by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant" and by the Daily News as "intelligent" and "courageous, was first performed off-Broadway by Eve Ensler and dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s experiences.

V-Day Creative Women Unite The Vagina Monologues 2011 is a multilingual performance with monologues being performed in English, Spanish, and French. Funds from the performance will benefit Women Healing and Empowering Women (WHEW) and the V-Day Spotlight Campaign Women and Girls of Haiti.

The mission of The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) is to collect, conserve, explore, interpret, and exhibit the material and intellectual culture of Africans and African Americans in Houston, the state of Texas, the southwest and the African Diaspora for current and future generations. The stories and exhibitions that HMAAC will bring to Texas are about the indisputable fact that while the African American experience is a unique one, it informs and includes not only people of color, but people of all colors and has been impacted by numerous races, genders and ethnicities.

Women Healing & Empowering Women (WHEW) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to address interconnected challenges that women face such as former incarceration, homelessness, and domestic violence by starting local and going global.

Creative Women Unite(CWU) is an inter-generational, multiethnic open collective of female activists ni Houston working together to create opportunities that promote and support a female consciousness movement.

Through collective action, CWU nurtures a positive vision for the future by introducing the local community to different women's issues, perspectives and creative visions through various educational outlets and artistic mediums.