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Convocation: Artist Gathering in Austin, TX

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Sharon Bridgforth
on May 26, 2009
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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.

Workshops Austin, L.A. & S.F.

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Sharon Bridgforth
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ALL WORKSHOPS ARE FULL/THANK YOU!!!!
Finding Voice
Workshops Facilitated by Sharon Bridgforth
For Emerging Artists
In 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
 
LOS ANGELES:  Saturday June 20 (This Workshop Is Full)
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’m A New Dramatists Member!

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Sharon Bridgforth
on May 9, 2009
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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!!

S’Kin Deep at Dixon Place

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Sharon Bridgforth
on May 1, 2009
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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
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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.
SKin DEEP
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.

Laurie Carlos & The Austin Project

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Sharon Bridgforth
on April 16, 2009
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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

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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

Black Lavender Experience

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Sharon Bridgforth
on March 26, 2009
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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
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Sippn On Ink

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Sharon Bridgforth
on March 4, 2009
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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.

Robbie McCauley Performed In Austin!

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Sharon Bridgforth
on February 24, 2009
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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

delta dandi Viewing Parties in Austin

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Sharon Bridgforth
on February 11, 2009
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A dialogue and showing of the DVD from the premiere performance of delta dandi
with Writer/Conductor/Producer Sharon Bridgforth
Snacks Provided | Donations Accepted

Wednesday March 11, 2009 6:30PM
ISESE Gallery / Warfield Center
John Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, UT Austin.
Jester (21st and Speedway, Austin, TX)

Saturday March 14, 2PM
allgo (A Statewide Queer People of Color Organization)
701 Tillery Street
Austin, TX 78702

Thanks to Q Ragsdale for filming the premiere!

Four Women of Color Receive Tenure

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Sharon Bridgforth
on February 10, 2009
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Congratulations to the big four: John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies Faculty/Women of Color who were promoted to Associate Professors with tenure!
Dr. Juliet Hooker, Government
Dr. Deborah Paredez, Theatre and Dance
Dr. Shirley Thompson, American Studies
Dr. Jennifer Wilks, English
These photos are from a Celebration in their honor February 6, 2009 at the ISESE Gallery/Warfield Center.

These exemplary scholars embody the highest standards of academic excellence that characterize the work of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

The Warfield Center is working with Art and Art History to hire an
Assistant Professor of African Diasporic Art.

Assistant Professor. Art of the African Diaspora. Candidate will join
African-Americanist, Africanist, Chicano/a specialist, and Latin
Americanist in 22-member art history division with notable strength in
modern art and large MA and PhD programs. Candidate will bridge
departmental interests linguistically, regionally, and theoretically.
Candidate should have a Ph.D. and demonstrated excellence in research
and in teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Salary
commensurate with experience. Start September 1, 2009. Responsibilities
include undergraduate and graduate teaching (typically two courses a
semester), scholarly research, student advising, and professional
service. Large MA and PhD programs.

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