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.
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….
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…”
On FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Jomama Jones will release her long-awaited CD, LONE STAR and celebrate with a CD-Release Party and Concert at JOE’S PUB IN NYC!!
To get your tickets AND to download a song that I wrote the lyrics for CLICK HERE!
Jomama Jones is legendary. Born in Hardtimes Mississippi City, USA, Jones took the top of the charts two decades ago with hits like “Ghetto (In My Mind)” and “Afromatic.” Her solo career led her across oceans and into the hearts of dreamers, dancers, lovers and the socially engaged. Tonight, celebrate Jones’s stellar return to the stage as well as the release of her comeback CD, Lone Star. Jomama Jones will be joined by musical director Bobby Halvorson and her Sweet Peaches – vocalists Grisha Coleman, Helga Davis and Sonja Perryman.
Stay tuned for more about Jomama Jones Here
MY PA: Born Ellwyn Keith Perryman, October 1, 1925 in Taft, Muskogee, Oklahoma on a Creek Indian Feedman Tract (160 Acres) along the Arkansas River….Pa says….”By the way I am a World War 11 Veteran, a College Graduate, who fought for something I am still Longing for!!
To check out my Youtube Channel CHECK HERE.
Artist/Scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones interviews Artist/Scholar E. Patrick Johnson. E. Patrick is author of Sweet Tea Black Gay Men of the South.
The Theatrical Presentation of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, Written and Performance by E. Patrick Johnson Directed by Daniel Alexander Jones
PREMIERES
May 7 – 30, 2010. Viaduct Theatre
3111 N. Western Avenue. Chicago, IL
Produced by Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media and About Face Theatre. Tickets required, for more information: 312-369-8829 Stay tuned at Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media.
Thanks to JW at Mandrake Society Radio we have a podcast you can listen to for the Freedom Train Productions panel, “Canaries in a Mine: Black Queer Protagonists Save The World (and You Too!) presented at FIRE & INK 2009 The panel included: myself, Aurin Squire, Thomas Allen Harris, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Ph.D. and Andre Lancaster.
To listen Mandrake Society Radio: CLICK HERE
I am proud to announce members of the Walk With Me Mentorship Program at Links Hall.
K. Bradford
Jano Layne
Erica Mott
Ni’Ja Whitson
Nyx
I will mentor these emerging artists through a rigorous facilitation process that will culminate events featuring new works by them and by me. Performances will be at Links Hall:
12/18/09 & 12/19/09 8PM the group will perform my work.
On 12/20/09 7PM they will perform their work.
Post show opening night reception following Friday performance. Tickets $15 / $10 students
For More CLICK HERE
My residency is part of a Links Hall – NPN Community Fund and Performance Residency Programs.
delta dandi Staged Reading at Fire & Ink
Black Queer Artists Festival/In Austin Texas
10/8 – 10/11, 2009 Austin, Texas!!!
Written by Sharon Bridgforth
Directed by Baraka de Soleil,
Featuring: Djola Branner, Baraka de Soleil,
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lenelle Moïse, and Matt Richardson
ALSO PERFORMING ON SATURDAY:
E. Patrick Johnson’s Pouring Tea, and An Evening with Jomama Jones)
AustinVentures Studio Theatre 8PM
Ballet Austin Butler Dance Education Center
501 W. 3rd St.
Austin, TX 78701
Free for conference registrants. $10 for students. $15 general public.
Tickets now available for sale CLICK HERE
For more click below:
As her number one fan/I am happy to say that Jomama Jones is fixnta drop her long awaited Album Lone Star!!
The release Par’tay/Concert will be in NYC 2/9/09.
Watch a clip of Jomama Jones and the Sweet Peaches at:
danielalexanderjones.comCatch my on da road podcast/interview with Jomama at:
on da road podcast series
Also featured on da road with me are: Maiana Minahal, Natasha Marin, Rajasvini Bhansali, Shay Youngblood, the S’Kin Deep crew, and others….
