Wednesday, February 22, 2012

CHARLIZE THERON ATTENDS V-DAY COCKTAIL EVENT




Charlize Theron attended the V-Day Cocktails and Conversation with Eve Ensler even yesterday in West Hollywood. 

Eve Ensler is a Tony Award winning playwright and performer of the Vagina Monologues.  Ensler formed V-Day to combat violence against women and girls. Read a brief synopsis of V-Day below.

Other notables attending the event were actresses Jessica Alba and Kerry Washington.  See photos below.














"Ms. Ensler's experience performing THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES inspired her to create V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. She has devoted her life to stopping violence, envisioning a planet in which women and girls will be free to thrive, rather than merely survive.

Today, V-Day is a global activist movement that supports anti-violence organizations throughout the world, helping them to continue and expand their core work on the ground, while drawing public attention to the larger fight to stop worldwide violence (including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), sex slavery) against women and girls. V-Day exists for no other reason than to stop violence against women. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities," in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities, and in 2010 was named as one of the Top-Rated organizations on GreatNonprofits. In twelve years, the V-Day movement has raised over $80 million.

V-Day stages large-scale benefits and produces innovative gatherings, films and campaigns to educate and change social attitudes towards violence against women including the documentary Until The Violence Stops..."

Read more about Esner and V-Day here.





Getty Images via @malenacasey

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