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How
We All Got Here
The Eugene community has a chance to honor the experience of childbirth over Labor Day weekend. For three days, Eugene will participate in the worldwide Birth On Labor Day (BOLD) movement. Groups in more than 20 cities around the world, including New York, New Delhi, Malta, Maui and Austin, will perform Birth, an original play by Karen Brody. Brody spent months interviewing hundreds of women across the U.S. about their experience giving birth, and picked a few on whom to base the play. Brody says, "The seven women you meet in Birth are the most typical stories I heard across America." And Birth is not some fuzzy tale of What It Means To Be a Woman, that's for sure. Amber Hubbell, a Eugene cast member and volunteer, says, "It's a mix of entertaining, thoughtful, sad, inspiring and funny stories; a real look at birth. Birth itself is pretty raw at times." Still, director Kimberly Gifford-Wear says she thinks the play will "help make a positive difference in the world by giving voice to women's birth stories." Brody believes that "maternity care today isn't very mother-friendly" and hopes that the play can make a difference, like Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues has for a variety of sexual and sexual violence issues for women. All proceeds from the local production go to benefit the Lane County Birth Network (LCBN), an action based network advocating for the best practices in maternity care. Other Eugene cast members include Kara Spencer, Wendy Peterman, Amber Breiner, Shayna Rohwer, Kryn Freehling and Joey Carroll. Each performance will be followed by a talkback session featuring a local obstetrician, nurse-midwife, homebirth midwife, doula and mother. Other organizations sponsoring the event are Doulas Supporting Teens, The Oregon Midwifery Council and The Birth Companion Network. Birth. 8 pm Friday & Saturday, Sept. 1-2. 2 pm Sunday, Sept. 3. Lord Leebrick Theatre, $15. 465-1506 or www.lanecountybirthnetwork.org
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