Archive for July, 2008
Well ya’ll
I thought I was writing a Sacred Concert/a big ole sonic Celebration of African-American culture and whatnot…but that is not what wanted to be written…below is what I currently know about my new piece delta dandi….come to the staged reading if you are in NYC 8/6 & 8/7…My publisher, Lisa C. Moore ( RedBone Press is going to facilitate the 8/6 talk back. For more on that go to: freedomtrainproductions.org
delta dandi is a Conjure. A weave of monologues, chants, choral tellings, blood memory and song delta dandi asks “How does collective grief and trauma inform the African American experience?” delta dandi invokes the Transmigration of a Spirit’s journey as she walks towards Transformation and Love….
i don’t know how to die so i just go along. carry all these things. all these things. till once in the black/blue of day i jump. i jump where the waters meet. i jump. cold cold cut me. i jump. pray/carry me to the ocean. please. maybe i find my mama there. i jump. go under. come up. go under. come up. jump. jump. jump. can’t float down. the water won’t take me. again again again i jumping till look see. there right there a woman tall tall naked and shining in the water stand smile smiling down at me in the water. i run out. run stand under giant tree with weeping arms. look through bending branches. still still. no breathing. can’t move. can’t turn head. can’t close eyes. no look away. the woman tall tall naked and shining in the water stand. stop laughing. stare. stare. stare. stare telling me something
i don’t know what……. delta dandi Copyright (c) 2008 Sharon Bridgforth
Lady Red McGlotten of Inwood took me for a walk today
Her sweet kisses helped me go back to writing….well I ain’t writing/but I’m thinking about it.
We can purchase the book now…
Sweet Tea
Black Gay Men of the South
Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in writings about the South, Sweet Tea collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the southern United States.
This work will also live as a theatre piece. I saw an excerpt of it…watch out na…it’s amazing…
The Panza Monologues
Plaza de la Raza
3540 North Mission Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
August 2, 2008 @ 7PM
Free Admission
YO! THESE MY MU#@!PEOPLE!!!
POWER 2 DA PANZA!!
The very first public reading of my new theatre piece delta dandi
is a part of Freedom Train Productions! Fire! New Play Festival
I am soooo proud/and excited…
Wednesdays and Thursdays in August, 7pm
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
All performances are free, open to the public
+ Artists Q&As after each performance!
Fire! New Play Festival 2008 showcases new political theatre featuring Black Queer protagonists. The work collectively covers a spectrum of human struggle and culture.
Sharon Bridgforth’s delta dandi is about a Black blues/Conjure woman musician traveling with a jazz band in the 1940’s at the height of the birth of modern jazz. Harrison David Rivers’ intelligent + humorous new work explores color perception and privilege. And Aurin Squire bravely presents a personal drama of overcoming sex addiction inside a sex-phobic U.S. society and within a sex-positive queer community.
AUGUST 6-7, 2008 @ 7PM:
delta dandi*
by Sharon Bridgforth
Music heals.
Featuring: *Maisha Azadi, Courtney D. Ellis, *Denise Lock, Andre St Clair Thompson
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
AUGUST 13-14, 2008 @ 7PM:
when last we flew
by Harrison David Rivers
How Black can you be when surrounded by White people?
Director: Colette Robert
Featuring: Michael Booth, Shydel James*, Hunter Gillmore*, Karen Paulemon, E. Dale Smith, and Lucinda Johnson*
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
AUGUST 20-21, 2008 @ 7PM:
Submerged from All Sides…
by Aurin Squire
Laughter + sex = fun (theatre).
Featuring: Michael Booth, Sarena Kennedy, Fatima Quander*, and Sara Towber*
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
This festival is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, In (BAC).
*delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work in partnership with the Center on Halsted and the National Performance Network. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: npnweb.org.
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Bridgforth will be facilitating workshops for Freedom Train Productions 1:30PM - 5PM on August 9 & 6PM - 10PM on August 19, 2008. Workshops are free. There is limited space. Beginning, emerging, and established playwrights welcome. To sign up or to receive more information contact: openworkshop AT freedomtrainproductions DOT org
Freedom Train Productions stages new political theatre that challenges audiences to see character struggle from new perspectives — Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT) protagonists. For more information, please visit freedomtrainproductions.org.
Two snaps in a circle and shimmyshake/they donn done this thang…
I have the distinct honor to participate in a talk with playwright Lenelle Moise
immediately following this Sunday’s (July 13, 2008) 7PM showing of
Expatriate at Culture Project
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This Sunday’s Talk Back QUEER BLACK PROTAGONISTS is presented by
Culture Project and Freedom Train Productions
SAVE THE DATE: On Sunday, July 13th, The Train co-hosts
a talk back at Culture Project featuring
Resident Playwright Sharon Bridgforth and
Culture Project’s Lenelle Moise, playwright of Expatriate.
Sharon and Lenelle’s work both majestically employ jazz aesthetics
and center their plays around powerful and complex Black queer women characters
rarely seen on stage.
This amazing playwright discussion will follow
the 7pm performance of Lenelle’s powerful new play.
For tickets and more information CLICK HERE
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