V-Talk! AGENDA

Now you know, that you CAN'T miss this out!!! :)

What When Where

V-Talk! The Vagina Monologues workshop. On the 5th October 2013; 11am-5pm. Duffy’s Bar, 8 Pocklingtons Walk, LE1 6BU, Leicester.

Workshop is based on “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler. We will talk about the play – although you don’t need to read it before – we will read the fragments together! There will be a couple of activities which will show us how the image of women is shown and seen publicly. We will discuss whether we are happy with these images.

AGENDA – V-Talk! The Vagina Monologues workshop

TIME	ACTIVITY
11:00-11:20	COFFEE, welcome, general information, overview, breaking the ice.
11:20-11:45	Introduction to “The Vagina Monologues” and V-Day.
11:45-12:15	Reading + Discussion.
12:15-12:45	“If it talked what would it say?” – Group exercise.
12:45-13:15	LUNCH* – special V-Menu.
13:15-13:30	Introduction to market research.
13:30-14:30	Market research activity.
14:30-14:45	COFFEE BREAK
14:45-15:45	Image of femininity in our society - Group activity + Discussion.
15:45-16:00	COFFEE BREAK
16:00-16:30	V-Day Leicester – what WE can do.
16:30-17:00	Summary & Feedback.

*Although the workshop is free of charge lunch is not included. Tea, coffee and home baked cakes (vegan and gluten free options available!) will be provided for free. We highly recommend the delicious lunch served by Duffy’s Bar (remember that you have to pay for it). The special V-Menu will be available at Duffy’s Bar on the day – you can’t miss this offer guarantee!!! :)

Vagina goes public!

If you missed the V-interview which was on BBC Radio Leicester on Saturday the 28th of September, or if you want to listen to this again, you can access this here (from 1hr 08mins 26sec).

Enjoy :)

V-Talk! on BBC Radio Leicester

Only 9 days to go! Are you so excited as I am?

Just to let you know that I'm going to be on BBC Radio Leicester this Saturday (28/09/13) morning, 10:10am, to talk a little bit about the workshop, the V-Day movement and The Vagina Monologues.

Please see what Jo Twist, a poet and activist from Leicester, said: ‘I met Magdalena when she was part of a workshop at last year’s Everybody's Reading festival, one that I helped run with Magnus Gestsson, that looked at how the mass media can be used as an inspiration for art and poetry. Since then I have been involved in Magdalena’s ongoing creative work and I’m … impressed. I’m sure that ‘V-Talk!’ will have a bigger impact than our workshop … it will be more inspiring …. It will create change.’

The V-Day activists from the USA are also keep their fingers crossed for us!

Remember that YOU ARE a core of this event and only TOGETHER we are able to make a difference. Many, many thanks for being part of this!

If you haven't sent your booking form yet please do this as quickly as possible to secure your place! For the booking form please contact me on malena.korytkowska@gmail.com The agenda with all details will be available at the beginning of next week.

Press Release

What When Where How to book a free place

V-Talk! The Vagina Monologues workshop. Part of global V-Day movement during this year’s Everybody’s Reading festival. On the 5th October 2013; 11am-5pm. Duffy’s Bar, 8 Pocklingtons Walk, LE1 6BU, Leicester. malena.korytkowska@gmail.com mobile: 07576531511

V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls. It’s inspired by “The Vagina Monologues”, a play by Eve Ensler.

"V-Talk! The Vagina Monologues workshop" is based on this play and it is a prelude to bring the V-Day movement to Leicester.  The workshop is a space for women only. Participants are going to be reading selections from the play and then discussing them. We are going to conduct a couple of activities which explore how images of women are shown and seen publicly. And then we are going to talk about how these representations of us make us feel.

This workshop WILL start to make a difference!

Magdalena Korytkowska, organizer of the workshop, said:  “This play, as well as the V-Day movement which it inspired, helped me to discover exactly what being a woman means. I am not only proud now that I am a woman but what is more I enjoy being one. I would like to share this pride with other women who are ready to question the roles that society has placed them in.”

Jo Twist, a poet and activist from Leicester, said: ‘I met Magdalena when she was part of a workshop at last year’s festival, one that I helped run with Magnus Gestsson, that looked at how the mass media can be used as an inspiration for art and poetry. Since then I have been involved in Magdalena’s ongoing creative work and I’m … impressed. I’m sure that ‘V-Talk!’ will have a bigger impact than our workshop … it will be more inspiring …. It will create change.’