Tompkins County Workers’ Center Visioning Contest
The theme of the Living Wage Visioning Contest held in 2015 is the Tompkins County Living Wage and the impact being paid a Living Wage would have on a worker’s life. We ask contestants to envision how their lives and their family’s lives would change if their pay was increased to a Living Wage ($15.11/hour) and to translate this vision into an original creative work of prose, art, music, dance or video. A booklet compilation of all the entries can be found here.
Below are all the individual entries:
- “My World Is Very Small†by Leslie Prunty (1st Prize)
- “Princess Eloise and the Magical Living Wage†by April Krueger and Iain Michael (2nd Prize)
- “Living Wage and Reclaiming My Humanity†by Stephanie Harris (3rd Prize–2 way tie)
- “Pride†by Tal Mintz (3rd Prize–2 way tie)
- “$12,000†by Bailey Olmstead
- “a eulogy for momma†by John Gunn
- “Here Nor There†by Travis Howard
- “If I Made a Living Wage†by Elliott DeLine
- “Life with Living Wage†by John Hutchinson
- “Living Wage†by Shonntay Butler
- “Occitan Sonnet to a Dying Wage†by Caleb William Haines
- “Thank You†by Spiral Cracks (Remanu Steele, Briel Driscoll, and Rosette Epstein): (Video)
- “The 15 Dollar Dream†by Chris Georgardoudakis
- “Trippsart†by Richard Brock, Sarah Korman, and Corry Wiggle
- “Upgrade†by Jason Kinsey
- “When Living Wage is Part of the Dream†by Heather Townsend
- “Reflections On Labor and the Divine†by Lilith Xseraph