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
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
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
I am off to work on blood pudding at the Weston Playhouse Artist Retreat!
What an honor and a privilege this is!! I have packed my suitcase full of research materials (and snacks)…gonn whistle while I work till 5/2….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
I will be a new Multicultural Faculty Member in DePaul University’s Theatre School next year!!!
This is a one to two year position held by an artist to help the Theatre School manifest it’s diversity mission.
The amazing Coya Paz was in the position for the last two years. Stepping into all the excellent work that Coya has done is a Blessing/the staff and faculty are incredible/the students are off da chain/I get to work closely with Dexter Zollicoffer/and lawd I do LOVE Chicago…..I’m very proud and excited bout this.
More details soon.
Chi-Town here I come….
