The 2012 tour of She Has a Name was a fringe theatre tour across Canada
of Andrew Kooman's She Has a Name, a play about human trafficking. The
tour was co-produced by Burnt Thicket Theatre and Raise Their Voice and
was directed by Stephen Waldschmidt. The five-person cast featured Carl
Kennedy, Evelyn Chew, Glenda Warkentin, Alysa van Haastert, and Sienna
Howell-Holden. Despite the fact that She Has a Name is set in Southeast
Asia, the producers deliberately cast mostly actors who were not of
Asian descent to avoid the impression that human trafficking happens
only in Asia. Panel discussions were held after the Saturday matinées
during the tour to raise awareness about human trafficking that takes
place in Canada and elsewhere. A Better World (ABW) partnered with Raise
Their Voice throughout the tour; while She Has a Name toured across
Canada to raise awareness about human trafficking, ABW raised money to
help women and children who had been trafficked in Thailand as part of
the country's prostitution industry. Critical ratings of the
performances that employed stars ranged between 3 and 5 stars out of
5.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_tour_of_She_Has_a_Name>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1900:
A Daoist monk discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts (sample
pictured), a cache of documents from the 5th to 11th centuries, in the
Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang_manuscripts>
1913:
More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the
Gettysburg Battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the largest
combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Gettysburg_reunion>
1944:
World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded
Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of
Cherbourg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Cherbourg>
1978:
The rainbow flag representing gay pride first flew in the San
Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBT_movement)>
2009:
Swedish authorities removed eight-year-old Domenic Johansson
from the custody of his parents on the grounds that he was not being
properly educated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenic_Johansson_custody_case>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
flense:
To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flense>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion.
The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are
carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in
the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of
speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if
public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted,
even if laws exist to protect them.
--George Orwell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell>