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

_______________________________ 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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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