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.
Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones gives 6 rules for allies (cross race/gender/sexuality/nationality/religion etc) in her keynote speech given 2/19/10 at a luncheon sponsored by Abriendo Brecha Vll Conference and The Seventeenth Annual Emerging Scholarship In Women’s and Gender Studies Conference UT Austin.
My favorite is: Don’t ask us to be patient.
To download the transcript CLICK HERE.
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….
(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
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
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
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
