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An evening of ten monologues, songs, performance pieces and original sketches in memory of the September 11 terrorist attacks, titled “10 for 9/11,” will contribute all its proceeds to help the oldest women’s-rights group in Afghanistan.
“We wanted to represent another voice — not necessarily dissenting, but one more thoughtful, balancing its patriotism with hard questioning, while still being respectful of the tremendous loss of life in both the US and Afghanistan,” says Andrew Nienaber, Rude Guerrilla Theater Company member and co-organizer of the performance. “The evening, as it has turned out, has a very broad range of emotions and viewpoints, all relevant to the tragedy, and all contributing to a whole that covers the events, the ensuing war and our individual reactions to them, very nicely.”
The proceeds will be donated to the non-profit Afghan Women’s Mission, an organization dedicated to working with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. AWM’s main goal is supporting programs run by RAWA, a group of women who have been struggling against fundamentalism, for freedom, democracy, women’s rights and human rights since 1979. AWM was founded in January 2000 and raises funds and awareness about the situation in Afghanistan, specifically concerning Afghan refugees. Their programs include Malalai Hospital, schools for women and girls as well as some boys, emergency refugee aid, orphanages, and RAWA’s awareness-raising activities.
The engagement runs at The Empire Theater, 200 N. Broadway in Santa Ana, for FOUR NIGHTS ONLY, September 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2002. Performances Wednesday and Thursday, September 11 and 12, begin at 8:00 p.m. Performances on Friday and Saturday, September 13 and 14, begin at 10:15 p.m. Ticket prices are $10 general admission
More information about the plight of Afghan refugees is available on the RAWA website, http://www.rawa.org.
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