HoneyPot at The Nuyorican

I am extremely proud to say that I’ll be reading with fellow contributors to the Los Angeles Review
at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC on March 29, 2010 7PM – 9PM. $10.
I’ll be reading a HoneyPot & dem story
which was printed in Issue #6 of the

Los Angeles Review.

bull-jean at Temple University

Thanks to Dr. Joyce A. Joyce,
the Women’s Studies Program, English Department and the Queer Student Union at Temple University
I’ll be reading from the bull-jean stories
Tuesday March 16th at 3:30
Women’s Studies Lounge | 821 Anderson Hall
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

I’m Reading At BAAD

I’m reading at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance in their BAAD!Ass Women Festival 3/12/10 at 8PM. For more CLICK HERE

I’m Reading At Resistencia In Austin

9pm Saturday Feb. 27, 2010
CONJURE: Calling up the Spirit of Struggle, Resistance, & Liberation
Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St., Austin, Tejas: 512-416-8885

We invite you to a forum for progressive artist/activists:
a series of experiments in jazz music, spoken word, and dance.

This session will feature:
award-winning author/activist sharon bridgforth,
Chicana performance artist/cultural worker Virginia Grise,
dance/body movement by
Pinay artist/activist Czarina Aggabao Thelen,
& black improvisational music by the 3Collective.

$5 dollar suggested donation.
Rooted in the tradition of improvisation, revolution, and blues, Conjure is a sovereign site for artistic/exploratory/spiritual collaboration, expression, and rejuvenation. Each jam session will highlight the “Afrological improvised music” of the 3Collective along with a featured spoken word performer, dancer, and filmmaker inspired by the jazz aesthetic.
Co-sponsored by the UT Austin Community Engagement Center, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.

a salmon rojo production.

I’m Reading In Austin

I am in Austin working with the Austin Project (tAP).
tAP is presenting me as part of the Performing Blackness Series.
Florinda Bryant and I will present a staged reading of my work-in-progress currently titled: ring shout
Sat, February 20, 2010 8:00 PM (Free)
University of Texas at Austin WIN 2.180
For more CLICK HERE

Check out our tAP book
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic
Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project
Edited by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lisa L. Moore, and Sharon Bridgforth
is now available for purchase!!!

For information/or to purchase: CLICK HERE

For more about the Austin Project CLICK HERE

Jomama Rocked Joe’s Pub

lawd2day Jomama, dem Sweet Peaches, Bobby and the band ROCKED JOE’S PUB BAYBAY!!
I screamed/I cried/I laughed/I had many emotions. The Concert was an absolute Blessed experience!

Purchase Jomama’s Lone Star CD HERE
Read a review of the CD HERE

Jomama’s Fan Club President Sugah Sweet – had to take a vacation him/she got so worked up at da Concert….

I’m Reading At The LGBT Center

I am really proud to say that I’m reading at the New York LGBT Community Center
Friday, February 5, 2010. Reception 6PM. The Reading starts at 6:30PM.
For more CLICK HERE

Our Book Is Here!

(Artwork by Tonya Engel)

I am proud to announce that our book
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic
Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project
Edited by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lisa L. Moore, and Sharon Bridgforth
is now available for purchase!!!

For information/or to purchase: CLICK HERE

For more about the Austin Project CLICK HERE

Pa To President Obama: On The Gay Issue

This video is from a series of interviews that I did with Pa/my daughter’s father’s father. Born Ellwyn Keith Perryman, October 1, 1925 in Taft, Muskogee, Oklahoma on a Creek Indian Freedman Tract (160 Acres) along the Arkansas River.

Pa says, “I’d like the President to let the military know that they can’t do the stupid things that they’ve been doing…stand fast for all his citizens and the gay people are his citizens…”

blood pudding at Links Hall

Links Hall in partnership with the National Performance Network presents

A Workshop Production of blood pudding
Written and Directed by Sharon Bridgforth
Fri & Sat December 18-19, 2009 | 8pm
Post show opening night reception following
Friday performanceTickets online $12.50 general / $8.00 students. Tickets at the door $15 general / $10 students
Links Hall | 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207 | Chicago, IL
For tickets or more information visit Click Here or call 773.281.0824
blood pudding
Written & Directed by Sharon Bridgforth
Featuring: K. Bradford, Misty DeBerry, Jano Layne, Erica Mott, Ni’Ja Whitson and Nyx.

blood pudding is ritual jazz theatre celebrating the history of Black people in New Orleans. Set in times then and now, blood pudding explores a landscape of magic made of spirit and blood. Memory. Prayer. Dreams. The piece is choreographed. Text is sung. A sense of the living, dead and unborn co-existing is communicated through many narrators layering languages and polyrhythmic telling. The stage is a living altar, honoring Indigenous people, Blackness and revolutions made of Love.

ALSO JOIN US FOR
Excerpts of new short works by artists who participated in the Walk With Me Mentorship Program facilitated by Sharon Bridgforth:

Links Hall in partnership with the National Performance Network Community Fund presents: K. Bradford, Jano Layne, Erica Mott, Ni’Ja Whitson and Nyx

Sunday, December 20, 7pm Tickets online $5 / $8 at the door
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207 | Chicago, IL 60657
For more information visit Links Hall or call 773.281.0824