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Author Archive for Sharon Bridgforth
CONGRATULATIONS TO STAMP LAB FOR WINNING THE ARTSPARK COMPETITION IN THEATRE FOR THEIR PERFORMANCE OF HUSH (Austin, TX 8/2008)
The ArtSpark Festival is sponsored by the HBMG Foundation.Woo-Hoo!
Stamp Lab is: Florinda Bryant, Cheryl Coward, Ana-Maurine Lara and k. terumi shorb. Stamp Lab Affiliated Artists for ‘Hush’ are: Ashleigh N. Stone, Stacie Engeling, Dino Foxx, Sean Medley, David Ohlerking, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Melissa Recalde, David Whitbeck and Jason Wilkinson.
Here is the Stamp Lab HUSH Crew with their winning $7,000 check: Ashleigh Stone, Melissa Recalde, Wura Ogunji, Ana Lara, Cheryl Coward, Sean Medley, Wesley Bryant, Florinda Bryant (not pictured:kt shorb, Dino Foxx, Stacie Engeling)
For more inforamtion go to: stamplab.org
I’m just back from a fabulous few days of Inspiration/hard work and fun working with the Naked Stages Series in Minneapolis, MN curated by the one and only Laurie Carlos assisted by Molly Van Avery.
May Lee Yang, Beverly Cottman, Juma B Essie and Byrd Shuler have been working with Naked Stages since January 2008. They are each creating a new work which will show in October 2008 at Intermedia Arts. I was invited in to do a workshop intensive/and I was able to be present for a non-public showing that they did for each other and their directors. THEY ARE OFF DA CHAIN!!
I ate WELL!! Felt Loved and beautifully cared for. And I got to ride in da car with my big sista Laurie. Kim Thompson drove us around town in her fly vehicle.
And I got to hang out with phenomenal actor Sonja Parks (former root wy’mn company member)
Bless him on his Journey..
Bernie Mac died at age 50
Check out these photos by Sabelo Narasimhan from the delta dandi staged reading
that Freedom Train Productions produced 8/6 & 8/7 2008…
I am extremely Grateful to the cast: *Maisha Azadi, Courtney D. Ellis, *Denise Lock, and Andre St Clair Thompson/to the Freedom Train family/to the community that supported - nurtured - and showed up for us!! I learned so much - about how to move the Work forward/about Joy and community….THANK YOU EVERYBODY!! Next up on da Train: Harrison David Rivers & Aurin Squire’s…For info go to: freedomtrainproductions.org
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
P.S. Did you see all those supastars in the audience?
P.S.S. Austin, TX was representn in da house ya’ll.
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!!
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