Head on over to Market Square in Newburyport Thursday night for a Valentine’s Day flash mob.

Promptly at 5 p.m., the flash mob will break out in tandem with countless thousands of others across the world, set to the song “Break the Chain.”

Organized by the international movement V-Day and The Dance Place in the Tannery in Newburyport, the “One Billion Rising” event aims to raise awareness of violence against women.

The name derives from the statistic that about 1 in 3 women in the world — or 1 billion — will be beaten or raped in her lifetime