Red dresses will be displayed at various places in Santa Clarita to depict six local women who have lost their lives due to domestic violence.
The City of Santa Clarita, along with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station and the Domestic Violence Center of Santa Clarita Valley, have joined the Zonta Club of Santa Clarita in a unique campaign aimed toward bringing awareness to the domestic violence victims in the community.
The “Zonta says NO to Violence Against Women” campaign will display six red dresses throughout the City from Wednesday, November 25, 2015 to Wednesday, December 11, 2015.
The six red dresses depict six local women who have lost their lives due to domestic violence. All of the dresses will be displayed outside, vulnerable to wind and weather. Those elements will animate the dresses, revitalizing the life that is missing. The color of the dresses are meant to symbolize love and spilled blood, an inescapable reminder of the intimacy of domestic abuse.
The red dresses can be viewed at the following locations and times:
City Hall – Wednesday, November 25, at 23920 Valencia Boulevard
Westfield Valencia Town Center – Friday, November 27, at 24201 Valencia Boulevard
Grace Baptist Church – Saturday, November 28, at 22833 Copper Hill Drive
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Church – Sunday, November 29, at 22508 Copper Hill Drive
Santa Clarita Valley Court House – Monday, November 30, at 23747 Valencia Boulevard
Saugus High School – Tuesday, December 1, at 21900 Centurion Way
College of the Canyons – Wednesday, December 2, at 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road
Old Town Newhall Library – Thursday, December 3, at 24500 Main Street
Main Street – Friday, December 4
Central Park – Saturday, December 5, at 21750 Bouquet Canyon Road
Real Life Church – Sunday, December 6, at 23841 Newhall Ranch Road
Veterans Historical Plaza – Monday, December 7, at 24275 Walnut Street
Canyon Country Community Center – Monday, December 8, at 18792 Flying Tiger Drive
Big Lots shopping center – Tuesday, December 9, at 19331 Soledad Canyon Road
West Ranch High School – Wednesday, December 10, at 26255 Valencia Boulevard
Savia – Wednesday, December 11, at 23780 Newhall Avenue
“Law enforcement is just a small part of the effort against domestic violence,” said Captain Roosevelt Johnson. “The red dress campaign helps with the bigger part of the strategy – educating and promoting awareness about the realities of the issues in our community.”
The Zonta Club of Santa Clarita is a member of Zonta International, a worldwide service organization of professional women, recognized by the United Nations with consultative status. The clubs support a broad range of services that have the potential to make a global impact and can be sustained through local efforts. The Santa Clarita Valley club was founded 36 years ago and has more than 70 members.
The “Zonta says NO to Violence Against Women” campaign is supported by the DIVERT team as an educational outreach to the Santa Clarita community about domestic violence. For more information about DIVERT, please visit divert.santa-clarita.com.
For more information about the red dress campaign, please contact Linda Davies, Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Center of SCV at (661) 259-8175 or ldavies@dvc-scv.org.
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23 Comments
Does anyone know what red stands for in the old days?
Death?
blood, love, danger
#TheRedDressProject #WeDontWantSeven
should add at least one baby dress too
She was tiny but she still counts.
I agree
I very much agree!
Red Red Red
Are the 6 victims named anywhere..?
I can think of two
I also know 2…
I’d like to believe they’re both one of the 6 being represented…
I know of one and if her name is displayed I would like a photo so I can frame it ?
Names should be displayed
This is what we saw by the library today! Richard James Engeseth
The six should be named. They should never be forgotten.
Erinn Genack
Jaroslava Mendez
Powerful imagery.
Robert Gatica-red dresses also represent heart conditions in females, symptoms differ from men!!
This is a brilliant idea and I am planning on going to one of the viewings. Maybe one day we will become aware of the now accepted violence done by insurance companies, sometimes its subtle (stressing out over this contrived open enrollment” nonsense to begging in the phone for permissions and authorizations) to the more aggressive (refusing to pay for drugs or procedures that ate evidence based) where people die.
Karen Gonzalez
I’d like to know the names please.