Celebrate 10 years of V-Day on April 11 ““ 12, 2008 with V-Day’s mega two-day anniversary celebration in New Orleans at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome.

For two days, thousands of women and men will harness their collective energy to mobilize V-Day, the worldwide movement to end violence against women and girls into the next decade. On both Friday April 11 and Saturday April 12 folks can gather at SUPERLOVE , a place to heal, gather, protest, celebrate and activate to change the story of women! There will be story telling, great art, mural making, spoken word poetry, singers, dancers, rituals and marches.

Saturday night, April 12th audiences can witness V TO THE TENTH takes place This once in a lifetime event will feature international performances of The Vagina Monologues, musical guests, V-Day activists from across the globe including Kenya, Afghanistan, Iraq, The Philippines, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Europe , men standing up for women and much more. The show will include notable guests such as Salma Hayek, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Hudson, Glenn Close, Julia Stiles, Ali Larter, Sally Field, Marisa Tomei, Calpernia Addams, Rosario Dawson, Kerry Washington, and musicians Common, Eve, and Charmaine Neville.The evening will open minds and hearts and raise much needed attention and funds for groups working to end violence against women and girls around the world, and in New Orleans and the Gulf South.

Additionally V-Day is working with service providers, first-responders, artists, educators, activists and local V-Day organizers in New Orleans and helped convene these activists and grassroots groups under the umbrella “Katrina Warriors Network.” Together they will be creating local events in the New Orleans and Gulf South area for the two weeks leading up to V-Day’s 10 year anniversary celebration, V TO THE TENTH.

As described on the V-Day site, V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues.

Since 1998, thousands of V-Day events have taken place all over the world, Shenzhen, China to Stockholm, Sweden from Canberra, Australia to Lagos, Nigeria. In 2007 alone, more than 3000 V-Day events took place around the world and in all 50 of the United States. 2008 will be V-Day’s biggest year to date as we come together to celebrate the last ten years of ending violence against women and girls and go forward into the next ten years.

To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $50 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 5000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.

For ways to get involved and/or to get tickets to the New Orleans celebration visit http://v10.vday.org/