Emerson Salon – Capitol Hill Seattle

Emerson Salon loves to support and contribute back to our community and as a part of this effort, one of our stylists (D’Arcy Harrison) will be performing in a charity benefit staged reading of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler.

As some of you know, D’Arcy started off as a “theatre brat” before starting her hair career and welcomes the opportunity to apply her talent for a great cause! In addition to performing, Emerson Salon is donating 2 haircuts (with D’Arcy) and a product package for the silent auction.

This event will benefit two charities:

• Children of the Night, ” a privately funded non profit organization established in 1979 for the rescue of children from child prostitution.” (www.childrenofthenight.org).
• Refugee Women’s Alliance “a nonprofit, multi-ethnic organization that promotes inclusion, independence, personal leadership and strong communities by providing refugee and immigrant women and families with culturally and linguistically appropriate services. ReWA advocates for social justice, public policy changes, and equal access to services while respecting cultural values and the right to self determination.”(www.rewa.org)

While creating the Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler took many interviews with women about how they felt about their private anatomy and their individual experiences regarding the topic. She then turned the interviews into monologues that became a huge hit Off Broadway when she performed them in a one woman show. Now, the play is performed all over the world to help support women’s causes and nonprofits.

This is part of a national event called V-day and will be held Feb 14th and 20th at 7pm at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in West Seattle. The address is 4408 Delridge Way SW. For tickets go to: www.brownpapertickets.com. More info here.

I look forward to seeing you there!!!!

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