We’re having par’tays!
Austin Project Alumni are gathering to celebrate the release of our book!
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic:
Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project…
Published by University of Texas Press.
PLEASE JOIN US
Saturday 9/18 6PM at
Resistencia Bookstore
1801 South 1st Street
Austin, TX 78704
AND
Sunday 9/19 3PM
BookWoman Bookstore
5501 N. Lamar #A-105
Austin, TX 78751
Book parties are in the works for
San Francisco, New York, Chicago…
For more CLICK HERE.
To purchase the book CLICK HERE.
Cover Art by Tonya Engel.
I am the 2010 2011 Visiting Multicultural Faculty Member for DePaul University’s Theatre School!!!
Along with teaching a course for the BFA Actors….
I’m teaching a course open cross campus (non-Theatre majors encouraged):
Theatre School Course #424-10
Seminar TuTh 2:40PM – 4:30PM
Finding Voice: Sharing Our Stories/Expanding Our Lives
Bridgforth will use the primary principles of the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic* as tools for building community through the art of storytelling. Within the context of the personal as political, Bridgforth will walk participants through a process of giving voice to their identities-culture-memory-family histories-dreams to articulate and examine the socio-political realities of their lives. There will be a culminating sharing at the end of the course.
I will be directing a student production of blood pudding. The show will play 10/26/10 – 10/31/10 (off campus). For more about blood pudding CLICK HERE.
I’ll be hosting a lunch time series of informal gatherings in the lobby of the Theatre School. Guest artists, movies and special topics will be featured. Food will be served. Free and open to the public.
I’ll be curating and facilitating a Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic Institute for DePaul’s Theatre School at Links Hall Jan – June, 2011. We will soon send a call for submission to participate (it will be free and open to the public). We’ll be bringing guest artists in and we’ll have a series of events that will be open to the public.
Lots more details soonsoon…feel free to contact me or sign up for my elist (to the right on this page) meanwhile.
Our SummerStage shows went really well!
Thank you to all who came out to support!!
Check us out on Broadway.com HERE
and on 8/1/10 Sunday Arts
This clip is from our 7/24/10 SummerStage show in Springfield Park, Queens.
blood pudding
Written by Sharon Bridgforth.
Directed & Choreographed by Baraka de Soleil!.
Helga Davis – Composer
Featuring: Ted Cruz, Helga Davis, Baraka de Soleil, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Monica McIntyre, Pam Patrick, and Francine Sheffield. With Negaysha Walcott.
For more about blood pudding CLICK HERE.
For more about SummerStage CLICK HERE
These photos are from blood pudding rehearsals…
blood pudding is in NYC’S SummerStage Festival!!!
Written by Sharon Bridgforth.
Directed & Choreographed by Baraka de Soleil!.
Helga Davis – Composer
Featuring: Ted Cruz, Helga Davis, Baraka de Soleil, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Monica McIntyre, Pam Patrick, and Francine Sheffield. With Negaysha Walcott.
For more CLICK HERE
OUR BOOK IS HERE!
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic
Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project
Edited by Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Dr. Lisa L. Moore, and Sharon Bridgforth
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!
My Finding Voice Facilitation Manual is published in this book
For information/or to purchase: CLICK HERE
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Experiments In A Jazz Aesthetic
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For more about the Finding Voic e Facilitation Method CLICK HERE
For more about the Austin Project CLICK HERE
Check out DIGGING UP THE DIRT by Cherríe Moraga
Directed by Cherríe Moraga and Adelina Anthony
Starring: Adelina Anthony, Virginia Grise, Cheryl Umaña, Anthony Rodrigo Castillo,
Brenda Banda, D’Lo, & Melissa Hidalgo
at Breath of Fire Theatre in Santa Ana, CA.
The show runs July 30th-August 29th, 2010I am thrilled to say that on 8/21/10 I’ll be Moderating a talk after the show!
These is my people yo! WHAT A BLESSING/to be a Witness!
For more info CLICK HERE.
blood pudding
blood pudding is a interdisciplinary theatre piece that celebrates the history of Black people in New Orleans. Through blood memories of a gurl born in Congo Square, blood pudding explores a landscape of magic made of Ancestral Love. In this polyrhythmic telling the blues is sacred. Narrators are holy. Indigenous people are honored. The drum shapes reality. This is ritual/jazz theatre.
blood pudding will be in NYC’S SummerStage Festival!!!
Written by Sharon Bridgforth.
Directed & Choreographed by Baraka de Soleil!.
Helga Davis – Composer
Featuring: Ted Cruz, Helga Davis, Baraka de Soleil, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Monica McIntyre, Pam Patrick, and Francine Sheffield. With Negaysha Walcott.
For more CLICK HERE
I am so happy that I was present opening weekend for Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South!
It was an amazing experience. True artistry. Critically important. Deserving of a long long life/and much acclaim. See it if you can! For more CLICK HERE
Check out Omi Osun Joni L. Jones interviewing E. Patrick Johnson opening weekend of Sweet Tea!
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
Written and Performed by E. Patrick Johnson
Directed by Daniel Alexander Jones
Produced by Jane M. Saks, Ellen Stone Belic Institute For The Study of Women & Gender In The Arts And Media, and About Face Theatre.
The show runs May 7-29, 2010
Viaduct Theatre, 3111 N. Western Ave
For more: CLICK HERE
blood pudding will be at part of New York SummerStage Festival this year!!
Written by Sharon Bridgforth.
Directed & Choreographed by Baraka de Soleil!.
Helga Davis – Composer
Featuring: Helga Davis, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Monica McIntyre, Francine Sheffield and Baraka de Soleil. With Negaysha Walcott.
Come see blood pudding:
Springfield Park, Queens
Friday, July 23 – Saturday, July 24
8:00 – 10:00p.m.
AND
Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan
Friday, August 6 – Saturday, August 7
8:00 – 10:00 p.m
I just finished re-writes of the blood pudding script at the Weston Playhouse Artist Retreat…for more about blood pudding CLICK HERE
This year is the 25th Anniversary season of SummerStage. There will be twenty free performance dates and six unique Theater Productions from June 11 – August 27, 2010.
For more CLICK HERE
Q Ragsdale received a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Award from NPN, The South Dallas Cultural Center and DiverseWorks to adapt the bull-jean stories.
Q’s the bull jean stories will be a multi-media performance that includes interviews with multi-generational bull-jeans. It will incorporate both a live performance and an online televised performance, giving it a life beyond its two performance venues.
The work will premiere at the South Dallas Cultural Center 10/15 – 10/17 2010.
The DiverseWorks show TBA.
I am thrilled!!!!
Details soon come…
Check out the bull-jean stories book and CD.. at RedBone Press CLICK HERE
