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
I am recipient of the 2010 Esteem Award!
The ceremony will be held on
Thursday July 1, 2010
at Sidetrack on 3349 N. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL.
from 6p-8p, FREE admission.
2010 honorees are:
Keith Green, Vernita Gray, E. Patrick Johnson, Sharon Bridgforth, Vital Bridges, The MOCHA Center, Equality IL, Equality Forum, Jermiko, No H8 Campaign, VoxUnion.com KenLikeBarbie.com, Outhiphop.com, WASSUpNATL, Otis Mack, B.BLYSS Productions, the Chicago Reader, Gay Life Baltimore, SWERV Magazine, PINK, Renee McGee, the Southern Comfort Conference, and Renae Ogletree.
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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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 proud to say that I am recipient of the 2010 Esteem Award!!
Founded by Philip Esteem Fleming in May of 2007, The Esteem Awards honors local (Chicago) and national organizations and individuals for their continued efforts in supporting the African-American and LGBT community in the areas of entertainment, media, civil rights, business and art.
For more CLICK HERE
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones has been nominated for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Award for
Acting in a Lead Role in delta dandi!! YOU GO GURL!!
For more about Omi: CLICK HERE.
For more about delta dandi: CLICK HERE.
For more about the award: CLICK HERE.
