UNC Asheville’s Feminist Collective student group will host its fifth annual performance of the award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues” February 23-24. Curtain is 7 p.m. on Friday and 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. Tickets are $8 general admission and $5 for local students. Refreshments and memorabilia will be available for purchase. All proceeds will benefit Our Voice, an organization that advocates for the compassionate and fair treatment of sexually assaulted persons, and Helpmate, Buncombe County's primary provider of crisis services to victims of domestic violence and their children.

UNC Asheville’s production, featuring a cast of students, is staged in cooperation with the V-Day 2007 College Campaign. This annual campaign allows communities to produce the show royalty-free to raise money for groups working to stop violence against women.

Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" gives voice to a chorus of poignant, brave, highly original and thoroughly human stories. Based on interviews with a diverse group of women -- from a Long Island antique dealer to a Bosnian refugee -- the play explores the humor, pain and wisdom of women's bodies.

This Obie Award-winning play has been called "a bona fide phenomenon" by the New York Times and "a work of art and a piece of cultural history" by Variety.

For more information or to reserve tickets, call student organizer Lauren Pickel at 336/978-3290 or email vday2007@gmail.com.