Go See Words of Choice and Support Women’s Access to Abortion
If you want to do good for women and see some good theater at the same time, here are some events you won’t want to miss this weekend!
Words of Choice, dynamic pro-choice theater company from New York, is bringing attention to choice this weekend where it is needed most: in the nation’s Capitol.
On Friday, April 23 at 7 pm, Words of Choice will appear in DC in partnership with the amazing DC Abortion Fund for an event that will raise funds to help women pay for abortions. The performance will be in DC at the Lankford Auditorium, 1200 U St., NW, in the True Reformer Building. A brief discussion follows the 70-minute performance.
The DC Abortion Fund (DCAF) is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that makes grants and no-interest loans to DC women who cannot afford an abortion. “We hope to make choice a reality because we believe that a woman’s right to health care should not depend on her wallet,” it writes.
Tickets are $20 and $40. See www.wordsofchoice.org for ticket purchasing information.
Or go to DCAF on Network for Good.
On Sunday, April 25 at 4:30 pm, Words of Choice will be performing at the First Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival in Silver Spring MD. The performance at Montgomery College (Silver Spring/Takoma), Health Sciences Auditorium 122, (7977 Georgia Ave. across from the Performing Arts Center) is free and open to the public.
A discussion will follow with Jill Morrison, reproductive rights specialist at the National Women’s Law Center, Claire Moses, editorial director of Feminist Studies and professor of women’s studies at the University of Maryland, and moderated by Regina Oldak, former chair of the Montgomery County Commission on Women, a Board member of Planned Parenthood Metro Washington, and counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Planned Parenthood Metro Washington will be on hand with literature and information.
Words of Choice is making sure that reproductive freedom is heard and seen at this Human Rights Art Festival, which includes over 150 artists and arts activities. “It’s an honor to be bringing reproductive justice topics to this weekend festival celebrating human rights and the arts that speak to them,” said Cindy Cooper, creator of Words of Choice.
Words of Choice ˆsmart, funny, endangeredˆ will feature Crista Marie Jackson, Carl H. Jaynes and Claudia Schneider, under the direction of Francesca Mantani Arkus. This cast traveled to Colorado and Kansas in 2008, and performed there with Dr. George Tiller before he was murdered. These performances are dedicated to Dr. Tiller.
See the Words of Choice promotional trailer on YouTube and learn more about it at its blog.
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.