"With a Name Like Snortland, She'd Better Be Good!"

Now That She's Gone:
Unraveling the Mystery of My Mother

Written and Performed by Ellen Snortland

Where: The Norwegian Seamen’s Church 317 East 52nd Street
(between 1st and 2nd avenue),
When: Wednesday, August 17th, 2005 at 7.30 p.m.
Admission: Free (but a donation to the United Nations Association is appreciated)

Ellen Snortland is the author of "Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls.” She is also a weekly columnist with the Pasadena Weekly and a contributor to Ms. Magazine. She is in New York as a representative in a UN conference on the subject on women and we asked her if it were possible to present her highly praised ‘one-woman-show’ at The Norwegian Seamen’s Church. We are happy to inform you that we are lucky enough to get her to come over to do this for us!

Ms. Snortland has specialized women’s issues, including the movement to achieve gender balance in institutions, women in history, reducing violence against women, as well as childhood and adult sexual harassment problems being exposed in society. Snortland co founded the first all women theater company in the nation, Theater of Process, which was featured in an early issue of Ms. magazine.

"Now That She's Gone," explores Snortland's wacky and torturous relationship with her Norwegian-American mother, now deceased. Not even remotely a mother bashing piece, "Now That She's Gone" has been described as a Lily Tomlin/Garrison Keilor/Eve Ensler hybrid, passionate, poignant and funny in turns.

Dont miss this opportunity to experience this exciting author up close and in an intimate setting! Admission is free!