BOLD 2008 was amazing. Click here to visit the BOLD in Seattle website to read more about the history of BOLD in Puget Sound! More that 500 people attended a performance of the play, Birth by Karen Brody, a screening of Orgasmic Birth, or a Red Tent event.
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Pregnant in Puget Sound is dedicated to providing educational resources and information around pregnancy and birth, including care options, for the childbearing women of the Puget Sound geographical region. Resources and information are provided through a variety of means online and at public events, especially via the arts.
In fall 2007, we completed our first exciting series of events! Please visit our BOLD in Seattle web site for information on that exciting awareness-raising project that took place in Puget Sound in August and September 2007. With the help of an amazing company of actors, we presented 10 performances of Birth throughout the Puget Sound area. In 2008, our production was more amazing than ever as our cast went off book, and we offered a fully staged production. Our final performance in Olympia brought out a crowd of 100 and was especially perfect with playwright Karen Brody in attendance!
Brody wrote Birth after interviewing 118 women across America about their birth stories. The play tells the story of eight of those women, representing the spectrum of experience among low-risk, educated, birthing women in the US and many other parts of the world today.
With our BOLD 2008 events, more than 1400 people have attended a performance of Birth or a Red Tent around Puget Sound--1500 considering the first year when PIPS director Lynn Hughes produced the first performance of Birth in the Seattle area while on staff at Seattle Midwifery School in 2006!
In 2008, PIPS co-sponsored a showing of Ricki Lake's The Business of Being Born and a screening of Orgasmic Birth with Seattle Midwifery School, and in September, sponsored screenings of Orgasmic Birth in Vashon Island and Olympia. Pregnant in Puget Sound continues to explore other opportunities to raise awareness of birth issues in our local and global culture. Stay tuned for updates on Pregnant in Puget Sound activities.
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