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Convocation
A Gathering of Interdisciplinary Artists Sharing Resources/Building Community Austin, Texas
June 12 - 14
The Artist Convocation will be held in the Winship Building on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The Winship Building is located just west of San Jacinto at 23rd Street.
The cost for attending all or part of the convocation is $12
Payment can be made by cash or check during registration or at the Convocation site.
The Artist Convocation is an opportunity for Austin based artists of all experience levels to come together to build community as they develop professionally through a series of workshops, panels, art making and networking sessions. The workshops are centered around specific disciplines and are facilitated by Austin-based artists. Some discipline based workshops offer sessions for the new and emerging artist while some are directed towards the more experienced practitioner. In addition to the discipline based workshops the Convocation brings together panels of arts professionals to discuss issues that affect artists’ careers.
The Artist Convocation is sponsored by (A/TRC) in partnership with Sharon Bridgforth; the Department of Theater and Dance; the Center for African and African American Studies, and the hard working artists of this community who are willing to give of their time and expertise. For more information call: 512-236-0644 Schedule/Registration and more at: A/TRC.
ALL WORKSHOPS ARE FULL/THANK YOU!!!!Finding Voice
Workshops Facilitated by Sharon BridgforthFor Emerging ArtistsIn AUSTIN, L.A. & S.F.ALL WORKSHOPS:
Siding scale: $40 - $75
Sign up for one/or more.Space is limited. To register contact: sharon AT sharonbridgforth dot com
WORKSHOP DATES, TIMES & CITIES:
AUSTIN: Tuesday June 9 ( This Workshop Is Full)
6PM - Coffee and Conversation. Topic: Living As An Artist
6:30PM (sharp) - 10PM Workshop
6PM - Coffee and Conversation. Topic: Living As An Artist
6:30PM (sharp) - 10PM Workshop
LOS ANGELES: Saturday June 20 (This Workshop Is Full)
3PM - 7PM
3PM - 7PM
San Francisco : Thursday June 25 (This Workshop Is Full)
(in the Mission District/near bus & bart)
6PM - 10PM
These workshops are for artists of all backgrounds and aesthetics who are interested in using art as vehicle for social justice. With The Finding Voice Method social justice work begins with rigorous examination and working of the personal as political. Participants will walk through a process of uncovering and articulating the personal: identity-culture-memory-family herstories-aspirations. Writing, witnessing, deep listening, movement and theatre exercises will be our work. Together we will work to unlock blocks and discover new ways to approach making and completing work/ using openness and vulnerability as tools for creative process and building community.
I just got the big juicy news that I’m a New Dramatists! Class of 2016!
My fellow classmates are: Qui Nguyen, Michael Golamco, Sally Oswald, Richard Maxwell, Andrea Thome.For more about New Dramatists CLICK HERE
This is a Dream come True….LIFE IS GREAT YA’LL!!
I’m elated to say I’m in dis show ya’ll….
Fridays & Saturdays, May 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 & 23* @ 7:30pm
Tickets: $20 (general), $15 (student/senior)
At Dixon Place (NYC)
*Special S’kin Deep Event!
- Reception with artists at 6:30pm +talk back after show =$30
S’Kin DEEP is a soulful dance refracting notions of heritage, beauty, tribal energy and ancestral memories. Baraka de Soleil / D UNDERBELLY’s newest project summons up indigenous physical & ambient sensations from Africa, Australia & the Americas, as SK’in DEEP interweaves a powerful landscape of spirited loose-limbed bodies energized by jazz theater pioneer Sharon Bridgforth’s poetic text & innovative percussionist Jmy Lopez’s otherworldly rhythms.
D UNDERBELLY exists as an ever-fluid underground network of artists of color celebrating its tenth year of developing performative experiences for theatre, dance, site-specific and alternative spaces. Founded by award-winning choreographer, performance artist & curator, Baraka de Soleil, this network has premiered a dynamic range of projects including: Tagg’n, N This Hous, First Dark Drama, Koool-aid Luv Odyssey, Egress and has been in residence at: Brooklyn Arts Exchange; Dixon Place; Ontological Hysteric Theatre; Tribeca Performing Arts Center; & Queens Museum of Art. Currently based in Brooklyn, Ny, D UNDERBELLY’S continuum spans a multidiscipline range of artists - from spoken word performers to musical artists - who are very engaged in the act of inter-disciplined exploration in order to develop investigative practices & processes that allow for communal exchange and enlightening discovery. The name references ‘the underbelly of a slave ship’; excavating the energy that surfaces from our cultural experiences.
BARAKA DE SOLEIL has been involved in the experimental movement, music and performance art scene, throughout the country and internationally, for the past 15 years. His artistry reflects moving images excavated from the multilayered traditions of the African diaspora, immersed in an urban contemporary reality; actively crafting from ancestral memories, post-modern aesthetics and cultural legacies He currently curates the multi-disciplined series, Studies N Black, and freelances as a teaching artist throughout the country. For his choreographic work on Sango: Lord of Thunder, Baraka was awarded the prestigious Katherine Dunham choreography/AUDELCO for excellence in Black Theatre at the 34th annual VIV ceremony.
Made possible with generous support from The Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Austin Project
Jam Sessions Performance/Poetry/Movement
Took place April 26, 2009 at the Off Center
with: Lidia Marte, Elvia Mendoza, Samiya Bashir, Stephanie Lang, Senalka McDonald, Matt Richardson, Jacqueline Smith, Czarina Thelen
Producer: Joni L. Jones/Omi Osun Olomo
Anchor Artist: Sharon Bridgforth
Director: Florinda Bryant
JAM INDEED THEY DID!!! What a time! Thanks to Ana Lara for the photos
These photos are from The Performing Blackness Series Presentation of:
Washed Written and Performed by Laurie Carlos
With an opening presentation by The Austin Project/Featuring:
Lidia Marte, Elvia Mendoza, Samiya Bashir, Stephanie Lang,
Senalka McDonald, Matt Richardson, Jacqueline Smith and Czarina Thelen
Saturday, April 18, 2009 8PM
These events are sponsored by The John Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin
A staged reading of con flama was directed by the legendary Robbie McCauley (for more about con flama see my scripts page) during The Black Lavender Experience, at Rites and Reason Theatre April 2nd thru April 5th, 2009. It was an AMAZING EXPERIENCE!!!
I plan to attend every Black Lavender Experience/always! Below is what went on this year. Stay tuned for future BLX at: Rites and Reason
To read an article in EDGE Chicago written by Joseph Erbentraut CLICK HERE
I had the great priveldge of doing a workshop with
Move On Mondays at Links Hall
Monday, March 23, 7-9pm
I was Blessed once again to be a Featured Artist at Pow Wow, Inc.
Tuesday March 24 7:30PM POW WOW, Inc. at Jeffrey Pub.
To check out more about Pow Wow CLICK HERE
C.C. Carter is Executive Director of Young Chicago Authors.
I did a workshop and was featured with them on March 24, 2009.
These young artists are AMAZING! For more about this wonderful organization CLICK HERE
Check out the Young Chicago Authors:
Wednesday March 25 7PM $5.
I read from delta dandi at The Center On Halsted
I had the Blessing of being on program with the Illustrious E. Patrick Johnson at the Chicago History Museum….
Thursday, March 26
SPEAKING OUT DOWNSOUTH
The focus was experience stories of African American gays and lesbians from the South and the historical and cultural connections between Chicago and the South.
To see future Speaking Out Downsouth events: CLICK HERE
I’ma be on Sippn On Ink: The Colored Chronicles blog radio tonight 3/4/09 at 8PM EST. The host is Kat Williams ….check us out.
You can also download the podcast from iTunes.
Legendary Theatre Artist Robbie McCauley performed a workshop presentation of Sugar at UT Austin, Thanks to the Department of Theatre and Dance and The John Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, UT Austin.
For more about Robbie http://www.emerson.edu/admission/graduate/academics/Robbie-McCauley.cfm”> CLICK HERE
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