UNIVERSITY OF UTAH WOMEN'S WEEK 2005 | FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 4
*Tickets for the March 1 benefit performance cost $25. The March 2 and 3 performances are free, but require tickets. Tickets for all performances are available at ArtTix outlets or by calling 801-355-ARTS (2787).
Other than the March 1 benefit performance of "Nickel & Dimed," all U of U Women's Week events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 801-581-7569.
TICKET LOCATIONS
University of Utah
Kingsbury Hall ~ 1395 East President's Circle, 801-581-7100
Olpin Union Main Desk ~ 200 S. Central Campus Drive, 801-581-5888
Salt Lake City
Abravanel Hall ~ 123 West South Temple, 801-355-2787, 888-451-2787
Capitol Theatre ~ 50 West 200 South, 801-355-2787, 888-451-2787
Rose Wagner Center ~ 138 West Broadway, 801-355-2787, 888-451-2787
Salt Lake Acting Company ~ 168 West 500 North, 801-363-7522
Park City
Eccles Center for the Performing Arts ~ 1750 Kearns Blvd, 435-655-3114
Logan
Ellen Eccles Theatre ~ 43 South Main, 435-750-0300
Utah Festival Opera Company ~ 59 South 100 West, 800-262-0074Home | WW 2005 | WW 2004 | WW 2003 | WW 2002
Disclaimer
Performances of "Nickel & Dimed
March 1
Benefit Performance of "Nickel & Dimed"
Proceeds to the U of U Women's Resource Center
5 PM Reception
7 PM Performance
9 PM Discussion with Barbara Ehrenreich
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $25*
March 2 & 3
FREE performances of "Nickel & Dimed"
7 PM, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
(Although free, tickets are required for this event.)*
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round for poverty-level wages. In 1998, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. The result, Nickel and Dimed, a play by Joan Holden, reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety and surprising generosity ~ a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Since its 2001 release, Nickel and Dimed has hit the New York Times best seller list, launched a thousand conversations, and inspired scores of readers to mail their own stories to Ms. Ehrenreich.
In early 1998 Barbara Ehrenreich, arguably our sharpest and most original social critic, posed the following questions to an editor at Harper's Magazine: How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled? And how, in particular, were the 12 million women about to be booted into the labor market by welfare reform going to make it on $6 or $7 an hour? Millions of Americans work full-time, year around, for poverty-level wages; in 1998, Ehrenreich joined them. What ensued is an unprecedented and illuminating work of immersion journalism, captured in its provocative entirety in NICKEL AND DIMED: On (Not) Getting By in America which became a New York Times bestseller. To answer her own questions, Ehrenreich left her Home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted the highest-paying jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-Home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels, discovering quickly that no job is truly 'unskilled,' that even the lowliest occupations take an enormous mental and physical toll, and that one job is not enough - not, that is, if you intend to live indoors. "With all the real life assets I've built up in middle age - bank account, IRA, health insurance, multi room Home - waiting indulgently in the background, there was no way I was going to 'experience poverty' or find out how it 'really feels' to be a long-term woe-wage worker," Ehrenreich cautions. "My aim here was much more straightforward and objective - just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day." What she discovered was that, in fact, she could not. Ehrenreich's hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of the working world brilliantly limns low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety and surprising generosity. A rare view of "prosperity" from the bottom puts a human face to the lives sustaining our economy.
For more information, call 801-581-7569
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