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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)
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.
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!!
The very first public reading of my new theatre piece delta dandi
is a part of Freedom Train Productions! Fire! New Play Festival
I am soooo proud/and excited…
Wednesdays and Thursdays in August, 7pm
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
All performances are free, open to the public
+ Artists Q&As after each performance!
Fire! New Play Festival 2008 showcases new political theatre featuring Black Queer protagonists. The work collectively covers a spectrum of human struggle and culture.
Sharon Bridgforth’s delta dandi is about a Black blues/Conjure woman musician traveling with a jazz band in the 1940’s at the height of the birth of modern jazz. Harrison David Rivers’ intelligent + humorous new work explores color perception and privilege. And Aurin Squire bravely presents a personal drama of overcoming sex addiction inside a sex-phobic U.S. society and within a sex-positive queer community.
AUGUST 6-7, 2008 @ 7PM:
delta dandi*
by Sharon Bridgforth
Music heals.
Featuring: *Maisha Azadi, Courtney D. Ellis, *Denise Lock, Andre St Clair Thompson
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
AUGUST 13-14, 2008 @ 7PM:
when last we flew
by Harrison David Rivers
How Black can you be when surrounded by White people?
Director: Colette Robert
Featuring: Michael Booth, Shydel James*, Hunter Gillmore*, Karen Paulemon, E. Dale Smith, and Lucinda Johnson*
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
AUGUST 20-21, 2008 @ 7PM:
Submerged from All Sides…
by Aurin Squire
Laughter + sex = fun (theatre).
Featuring: Michael Booth, Sarena Kennedy, Fatima Quander*, and Sara Towber*
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
This festival is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, In (BAC).
*delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work in partnership with the Center on Halsted and the National Performance Network. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: npnweb.org.
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Bridgforth will be facilitating workshops for Freedom Train Productions 1:30PM - 5PM on August 9 & 6PM - 10PM on August 19, 2008. Workshops are free. There is limited space. Beginning, emerging, and established playwrights welcome. To sign up or to receive more information contact: openworkshop AT freedomtrainproductions DOT org
Freedom Train Productions stages new political theatre that challenges audiences to see character struggle from new perspectives — Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT) protagonists. For more information, please visit freedomtrainproductions.org.
Two snaps in a circle and shimmyshake/they donn done this thang…
I have the distinct honor to participate in a talk with playwright Lenelle Moise
immediately following this Sunday’s (July 13, 2008) 7PM showing of
Expatriate at Culture Project
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This Sunday’s Talk Back QUEER BLACK PROTAGONISTS is presented by
Culture Project and Freedom Train Productions
SAVE THE DATE: On Sunday, July 13th, The Train co-hosts
a talk back at Culture Project featuring
Resident Playwright Sharon Bridgforth and
Culture Project’s Lenelle Moise, playwright of Expatriate.
Sharon and Lenelle’s work both majestically employ jazz aesthetics
and center their plays around powerful and complex Black queer women characters
rarely seen on stage.
This amazing playwright discussion will follow
the 7pm performance of Lenelle’s powerful new play.
For tickets and more information CLICK HERE
Andre Lancaster of Freedom Train Productions is Coordinator, New York Outreach for StoryCorps.
Andre hooked myself and fellow Freedom Train Artist-In-Residence Aurin Squire up with the
Story Corps Griot Initiative
It was a BLAST! We interviewed each other for a total of an hour.
Check out these 3 minute (more or less) clips:
Sharon Interviews Aurin
LISTEN
Aurin Interviews Sharon
LISTEN
Our conversation was recorded on a CD which they gave to us, and is preserved at the Library of Congress and will be housed as part of the Griot Initiative.
Find a Story booth near you/and tell it on…StoryCorps
Please check us out/and help spread the word about the
Fire! New Play Festival 2008
Wednesdays and Thursdays @ 7PM in August!
8/6, 8/7, 8/13, 8/14, 8/20, and 8/21
@ South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
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