V-Day, One Billion Rising and the CNAM “Humanities and Health” chair in partnership with Make.org, Aurore Association and Plateau Urbain present “Rencontres One Billion Rising – Les femmes sur le front du Covid : en première ligne face aux violences et à l’avant-garde des transformations” (One Billion Rising Meetings – Women on the frontlines of Covid: at the forefront of violence and of transformation), hosted by V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Cynthia Fleury. NOTE: This event will be entirely in French.
V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Andrew Harvey invite you to the greatest revolution of all, one that can birth a wholly new way of being and doing everything—and a new world for all sentient beings—the Revolution of the Mother.
Amid a global rise in domestic violence during the pandemic, we speak with the founder of V-Day, a day of action to fight violence against women. V, the award-winning playwright of “The Vagina Monologues,” formerly known as Eve Ensler, says organizers around the globe are finding ways to fight back. “I’m so moved to see our grassroots women movements around the world finding ways to rise in spite of people being locked in and shut in and in spite of COVID,” she says. We also speak with blues poet and organizer Aja Monet, V-Day’s artistic creative director, who says Black women are particularly at risk. “For every Black woman who reports rape, at least 15 Black women do not,” Monet says. “We can go down the list and see the impact that sexual violence and harm and abuse has had on Black women primarily, but on women across the world.”
Since its publication in the United States in 1998, The Vagina Monologues has triggered a real cultural phenomenon: rarely has a play been performed so many times, in so many different places, in front of such diverse audiences.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the play by the American playwright, Eve Ensler, and of its reissue this Wednesday in an augmented version, a look back at the dazzling success of this feminist and engaged story, translated into fifty languages and performed in 140 countries.
Join writers Arundhati Roy and V (formerly Eve Ensler) as they talk to writer Preti Taneja, reflecting on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism and on the role of creativity and alternative imaginations. They discuss everything from the impact of human separation during the pandemic on work and their creative lives, to what ‘normal’ will look like in the future – and whether we should avoid going back to it at all costs.
While a new edition of her cult play “Les Monologues du vagin” appears, the American playwright gives us an essential lesson in optimism and bravery.
While a new edition of her cult play “Les Monologues du vagin” appears, the American playwright gives us an essential lesson in optimism and bravery.
While a new edition of her cult play “Les Monologues du vagin” appears, the American playwright gives us an essential lesson in optimism and bravery.
Join V (Formerly Eve Ensler), Naomi Klein, Aja Monet, Barbara Ransby, and special guest Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a virtual event on Thursday, February 18th at 7:00 pm ET to help send Senator Nina Turner to Congress!
The multimedia events will feature songs and scenes from the shows in development; conversation about process, research, and collaboration; and more.
She was a rock’n’roll powerhouse who electrified audiences worldwide. As Tina Turner releases a guide to happiness, she talks to playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) about how she found the strength to overcome illness, abuse and tragedy.
The playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering – but this time she’s listening to, not telling, the stories.
Stars including Marisa Tomei, Billy Porter and Rosie O’Donnell dramatize the words of real-life nurses pushed to the brink by the pandemic.
This summer, V spent time conducting interviews, listening to the stories, and experiences of front line nurses.
Indigenous leader Célia Xakriabá and Vagina Monologues author V discuss the destruction of Brazil’s forests and why this is the century of the indigenous woman.
Stories and poems full of loss, longing and tenderness.
Feigning ignorance or a lack of complicity is no longer acceptable – we must all work together to counter endemic prejudice in America.
READ V’s prescient 2018 piece published by LeftWord Books in a book entitled Strongmen, collection of essays by four sparkling writers about four such monsters.
A century after the young Franz Kafka set out to hold his abusive, narcissistic father accountable in an extraordinary letter he never actually sent to the living perpetrator, playwright, activist, and V-Day founder Eve Ensler confronts her own monstrously abusive father, long after his death, in The Apology.
Just days after she delivered the talk, Eve Ensler’s newest TED talk “The Profound Power of An Authentic Apology” has been released, one of the first videos coming out of TEDWomen 2019.
Listen to Eve’s 2019 keynote plenary at Bioneers.
“I wrote The Apology because in all the years of working in this movement, in all the recent cases of #MeToo, perhaps in in 16,000 years of patriarchy, I had never heard a man make a public, thorough, authentic apology for sexual or physical abuse towards girls, boys or women.”
Prominent feminist and author of The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler talks to Newsclick about her new book, The Apology.
On October 18, Eve spoke at the Bioneers 30th conference in San Rafael, California. Click HERE and read a piece in Brain Pickings about Eve’s talk as well as the apology she wrote to Mother Earth.
Told with her signature brand of humor, Ensler’s journey through her uterine cancer diagnosis uncovers connections between her body and the earth, as well as the transformative and transcendent potential of illness itself.
A New Book, Now Out, Sparks Revolutionary Conversation in the Media, and Calls for Transformation
In the Body of the World selected as Top 10 New York Theater in 2018 to be Grateful For
Lotus Productions, V-Day, One Billion Rising & City of Joy are thrilled to celebrate our brother, our partner, our friend, Dr. Denis Mukwege and our sister-activist Nadia Murad, who today, both received the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
“On Oct. 2, I watched the President of the United States mock a woman who had recounted the trauma of being sexually assaulted in front of the world, on live television.”
“City of Joy: the powerful Netflix documentary where ‘everything’ is about love.” – The Guardian
“No recent hour of theater has had a greater impact worldwide.”
The writer of The Vagina Monologues, In the Body of the World, Fruit Trilogy, and more shares her full acceptance speech for the 2018 Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award.
Coming on the heels of her acclaimed play In the Body of the World, Eve Ensler is about to release her newest work, Fruit Trilogy.
Read what critics, bloggers, and Eve and Diane Paulus have to say about In the Body of the World.
Eve Ensler: Men Need to Join the Fight to End Violence Against Women
The Tony Award-winning author, performer and activist Eve Ensler, whose The Vagina Monologues is an international sensation, comes to MTC with a powerful new play based on her critically acclaimed memoir.
Manhattan Theatre Club will present the New York premiere of the American Repertory Theater production of In the Body of the World as part of its 2017-18 off-Broadway season.
Even with a misogynist predator-in-chief, we will not be silenced
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
The knee-jerk response to militarized women is dismissal and condemnation. Instead, the founder of V-Day argues, it is time to reexamine their stories and understand their wrath.
The predatory mindset of Donald Trump: An interview with Eve Ensler & Christine Schuler Deschryver
V-Day in TrumpLand: Exploring the Relevance of “The Vagina Monologues” in The Interval
Eve Ensler Has Been Fighting Trump For 30 Years & She’s Not About To Stop Now in Bustle
Lots of exciting things in the works! Stay tuned for information on future performances of In the Body of the World.