{"id":5695,"date":"2011-03-27T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2011-03-27T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T20:05:03","slug":"apsu-womens-and-gender-studies-program-to-celebrate-10-years-of-producing-enslers-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/03\/27\/apsu-womens-and-gender-studies-program-to-celebrate-10-years-of-producing-enslers-play\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies Program to celebrate 10 years of producing Ensler&#8217;s play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47306\" title=\"Austin Peay State University\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/apsu-logo-200x123.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University\" width=\"200\" height=\"123\" \/>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Austin Peay State University Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program will celebrate 10 years of producing Eve Ensler\u2019s award-winning play, \u201cThe Vagina Monologues\u201d next week.<\/p>\n<p>The show, also sponsored by the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at APSU and the V-Day national effort, will be performed at 7:00pm, March 30th and 31st in Clement Auditorium. Tickets are $5.00 each.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This year, students in the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies course \u2013 which studies the social and political issues the play raises about women\u2019s lives and their place in local, national and international contexts \u2013 will perform in the show March 30th.<\/p>\n<p>APSU alumnae and faculty will be featured in the March 31st performance.<\/p>\n<p>In the last decade, more than 400 APSU students have performed in the show, raising more than $15,000 for several Clarksville offices \u2013 Legal Aid of Middle Tennessee, Sexual Assault Center, Safehouse and Magdalene Inc. in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Money raised this year will help establish an APSU student scholarship in the Women\u2019s Center to create and promote campus programs to end violence against women and girls, which is the V-Day mission.<\/p>\n<p>V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls by fundraising and awareness through benefit productions of playwright and founder Eve Ensler\u2019s play, \u201cThe Vagina Monologues,\u201d and other artistic works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an honor and pleasure of the Austin Peay Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance to have been part of this charity for the last decade, and we hope to be part of it for another decade, or until the violence stops,\u201d said Dr. Jill Eichhorn, associate professor in the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about V-Day, go online to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/\" >www.vday.org<\/a>. To learn more about the performances at APSU, notify Eichhorn by telephone at 931-221-6314 or by e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:eichhornje@apsu.edu\">eichhornje@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; The Austin Peay State University Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program will celebrate 10 years of producing Eve Ensler\u2019s award-winning play, \u201cThe Vagina Monologues\u201d next week. The show, also sponsored by the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at APSU and the V-Day national effort, will be performed at 7:00pm, March 30th and 31st in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,4680,6145,4402,7121,262,7123,682,7124,684,7125,4950,686,687,7122,688],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-1tR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}