When: Friday, February 5
Where: Urban Zen Center at Stephan Weiss Studio 711 Greenwich St. at Charles St.
What time: 7:30 p.m.
Event Information: For more information visit www.VDay.org

Best-selling V-Day, Jennifer and Peter Buffett, PEN member Eve Ensler, Cynthia Nixon, Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, and David Stone

Including V-Board members Rosario Dawson, Beth Dozoretz, Donna Karan, Katherine McFate, Pat Mitchell, Cari Ross, Susan Celia Swan, and Kerry Washington invite you to a Benefit Reading of Eve Ensler's newest work, I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World.

Readings will be performed by teen girls, including Samantha Mozes and girls from V-girls pilot sites in New York City, the Harvey Milk School at the Hetrick Martin Institute, the Young Women's Leadership School, and the Lower East SIde Girls Club.

Tickets range from $100 to $5,000 on sale at www.vday.org/nycevent. Tickets from $1,000 to $5,000 will include an intimate cocktail reception immediately after the reading. For any queries, contact Golzar at (212) 924-1229 or events@vday.org. All proceeds will benefit V-Day's work with women and girls worldwide. V-Day dreams of a world where women and girls thrive, rather than merely survive.

Eve Ensler is a PEN member, playwright, performer, activist, and the author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, translated into over 45 languages and performed in over 130 countries, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nomination, Best Entertainment.) Her experience performing THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES inspired her to create V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Ms. Ensler's performance in THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES can be seen in the HBO original documentary of the play (2002).

Ms. Ensler has devoted her life to stopping violence, envisioning a planet in which women and girls will be free to thrive, rather than merely survive. THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES is based on Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace the piece celebrates women’s' sexuality and strength.

Today, V-Day is a global movement that supports anti-violence organizations throughout the world, helping them to continue and expand their core work on the ground, while drawing public attention to the larger fight to stop worldwide violence (including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual slavery) against women and girls. V-Day exists for no other reason than to stop violence against women. In ten years, the V-Day movement has raised over $70 million. V-Day was named one of Worth magazine's "100 Best Charities" in 2001 and Marie Claire’s "Top Ten Charities" in 2006.