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TURNING PAIN TO POWER: AT THE GRAND LAKE THEATER

An Evening of Revolutionary Film, Talk, Drumming And Dance To End Violence Against Women with Eve Ensler, Christine Schuler-Deschryver, Aimee Allison, Afia Walking Tree & Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 6 PM – 9:30 PM
Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, California

$5 Tickets. Limited FREE tickets available. Purchase tix + info at
https://turningpaintopower.eventbrite.com/ASL Interpreted. (Deaf Community)

City of Joy, directed by first-time director Madeleine Gavin, follows the first class of women at a revolutionary leadership center in eastern Congo called City of Joy, from which the film derives its title, and weaves their journey as burgeoning leaders with that of the center's founders (a devout Congolese doctor Dr. Denis Mukwege (2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner), women's rights activist Christine Schuler-Deschryver (Director of City of Joy and V-Day Congo) and radical feminist Eve Ensler (author of The Vagina Monologues and Founder of V-Day/One Billion Rising) - three individuals who imagined a place where women who have suffered horrific rape and abuse can heal and become powerful voices of change for their country.

A story about the profound resilience of the human spirit, CITY OF JOYwitnesses Congolese women's fierce will to reclaim hope, even when so much of what was meaningful to them has been stripped away.

Immediately following the screening, audience members will be invited to a Q&A session with City of Joy Co-Founders Christine and Eve and She The People Founder Aimee Allison.

Reflecting Bay Area Rising's intersection of art, spirituality, and activism, the event will feature local dance, and music, including a drum procession led by Afia Walking Tree and performances by the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company.