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
CHECK OUT OUR FACEBOOK FAN PAGE:
Experiments In A Jazz Aesthetic
For more about the Finding Voic e Facilitation Method CLICK HERE
For more about the Austin Project CLICK HERE
I am extremely proud to say that I’ll be reading with fellow contributors to the Los Angeles Review
at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC on March 29, 2010 7PM – 9PM. $10.
I’ll be reading a HoneyPot & dem story
which was printed in Issue #6 of the

Los Angeles Review.
I am thrilled to announce delta dandi’s cast for
a (non-public) showing 1/21/2010
at New Dramatists in NYC:
The Cast:
lawd ya’ll I am excited!
For more about delta dandi CLICK HERE
I am Blessed to say that I was able to participate in a weekend of readings of Erik Ehn’s genocide plays. Erik, Moira Brennan and the MAP Fund gathered a whole buncha amazing wonderful artists including: Ana Perea, Vinie Burrows, Laurie Carlos, Daniel Alexander Jones, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and Robbie McCauley to read/talk/eat/brainstorm-be in the room together. For More about Erik Ehn CLICK HERE
I’ll be reading the delta dandi script…doing a Jazz influenced experiment – conducting the audience in the telling
8 p.m. Friday, November 20, 2009
8 p.m. Saturday, November 21, 2009
Annie May Swift Studio. Northwestern University. Free. For more
CLICK HERE
ALSO…My Class will present new works:
Northwestern University’s Performance Studies Department Presents:
Maria Benson, Sage Morgan-Hubbard,
Kia Jones and Stacey Nwokeyi
Sharon Bridgforth’s Finding Voice- Developing The Artist’s Practice Master Class
Saturday, November 21st, 2009: 4pm Free.
Annie May Swift Hall
Studio: Room 103
**Performances will consist of excerpts of solo works-in-progress developed during class. With her Finding Voice Facilitation Method Bridgforth asked students to engage in a rigorous art practice using their personal stories/identities/family histories/and dreams as a way to explore and expand their artistic aesthetic and voice.
We proudly invite you to join us for a public sharing in celebration of their hard work and discoveries!
Thanks to the 2008 Alpert/Hedgebrook Residency Prize I am at Hedgebrook Womens Writers Colony till 9/12/09. I have never been to a writers retreat before/I’ve never been unplugged from email and phone before….I am Grateful for Divine Newness….and loads of writing and rest to come….
Congratulations to Rha Goddess who received the 2009 Alpert/Hedgebrook Residency Prize …and to all the Alpert winners.
I’ll holla back when I return. Blessings and Joy
Sharon
THE RE-RELEASE IS AVAILABLE!
By turns funny, passionate, angry and joyous, does your mama know? reflects the complexity of emotions that accompany a black lesbian’s coming out. These short stories, poems, interviews and essays—fiction and nonfiction—make up a powerful collection of original and new writing. Originally published in 1997, the 2009 revised edition of does your mama know? adds 17 new stories. For more go to: RedBone Press
I am sending a shout out to the Visionaries that are putting on the Butch Voices Conference
August 20 – 23, 2009 in Oakland, CA. HEEYYYYYY YA’LL ROCK!!
I will be at Hedgebrook Writer’s Colony so I won’t be able to be there…however I am honored to say that the organizers are raffling off copies of the bull-jean stores and they have posted a pdf that you can download of my essay tittled, a wo’mn called sir. To download the essay/git yo raffle on/and to find out more about Butch Voices CLICK HERE
Groundbreaking artist Cheryl Dunye is one of the supadupafly presenters at Butch Voices!