{"id":10763,"date":"2014-02-12T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=10763"},"modified":"2014-02-11T16:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T21:12:26","slug":"chester-countians-invited-to-join-dance-flash-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=10763","title":{"rendered":"Chester Countians invited to join dance flash mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Agencies join forces for annual event on Friday to protest gender violence<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10764\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-11-at-3.34.47-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10764\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10764 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Organizers hope to surpass the numbers and spectacle that the 2013 awareness event generated.\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-11-at-3.34.47-PM.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organizers hope to surpass the numbers and spectacle that the 2013 awareness event generated.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An annual organized flash mob dance on Feb. 14 aims to protest gender violence and promote empowerment, organizers said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls, the Domestic Violence Center, the Crime Victims Center of Chester County, Confidance, and Turks Head Yoga\u00a0will combine forces once again to be part of the global movement, \u201cOne Billion Rising for Justice,\u201d a call to end gender-based violence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The campaign builds on the energy and momentum created on Feb. 14, 2013, when one billion activists in 207 countries and territories came together to rise, strike, and dance, in the biggest mass action in human history, to demand an end to violence against women and girls.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Two performances of the \u201cBreak the Chain\u201d dance will be performed \u2013 learn the steps at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3weUkQ8uIVM \">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3weUkQ8uIVM\u00a0<\/a>&#8211;\u00a0and the public is invited to participate through dance or as supportive spectators.<!--more--><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first will happen on West Chester University\u2019s campus at 12:15 p.m., in the lobby of the \u00a0Sykes Student Union. \u00a0The second will begin at 6:30 p.m. as lanterns will light up the night as dancers make their way up High Street in a procession to the historic courthouse steps. \u00a0The culminating five-minute performance at 7 p.m. will occur outside the Chester County Courthouse, 10 N. High St., \u00a0West Chester.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Organizers stress that this is not an event exclusive to women; men and kids of all ages and abilities are welcome.\u00a0No previous dance experience is necessary. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onebillionrisng.org\/events\/west-chester-rises\/\">http:\/\/www.onebillionrisng.org\/events\/west-chester-rises\/<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChesterCountyRises?ref=hl\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChesterCountyRises?ref=hl<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies join forces for annual event on Friday to protest gender violence\u00a0 An annual organized flash mob dance on Feb. 14 aims to protest gender violence and promote empowerment, organizers said. \u00a0The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls, the Domestic Violence Center, the Crime Victims Center of Chester County, Confidance, and Turks Head Yoga\u00a0will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,450],"tags":[4005,2327,1673,1607],"class_list":["post-10763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-events-2","tag-one-billion-rising-for-justice","tag-the-chester-county-fund-for-women-and-girls","tag-the-crime-victims-center-of-chester-county","tag-the-domestic-violence-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}