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Black Lavender Experience

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Sharon Bridgforth
on March 26, 2009
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A staged reading of con flama was directed by the legendary Robbie McCauley (for more about con flama see my scripts page) during The Black Lavender Experience, at Rites and Reason Theatre April 2nd thru April 5th, 2009. It was an AMAZING EXPERIENCE!!!

I plan to attend every Black Lavender Experience/always! Below is what went on this year. Stay tuned for future BLX at: Rites and Reason
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I Love Chi-Town

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Sharon Bridgforth
on March 23, 2009
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To read an article in EDGE Chicago written by Joseph Erbentraut CLICK HERE

I had the great priveldge of doing a workshop with
Move On Mondays at Links Hall
Monday, March 23, 7-9pm

I was Blessed once again to be a Featured Artist at Pow Wow, Inc.
Tuesday March 24 7:30PM POW WOW, Inc. at Jeffrey Pub.
To check out more about Pow Wow CLICK HERE

C.C. Carter is Executive Director of Young Chicago Authors.
I did a workshop and was featured with them on March 24, 2009.
These young artists are AMAZING! For more about this wonderful organization CLICK HERE
Check out the Young Chicago Authors:

Wednesday March 25 7PM $5.
I read from delta dandi at The Center On Halsted

I had the Blessing of being on program with the Illustrious E. Patrick Johnson at the Chicago History Museum….
Thursday, March 26
SPEAKING OUT DOWNSOUTH

The focus was experience stories of African American gays and lesbians from the South and the historical and cultural connections between Chicago and the South.
To see future Speaking Out Downsouth events: CLICK HERE

We Did It!

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Sharon Bridgforth
on January 14, 2009
in Community, Family, Inspiration, Joy, Work, Workn and Writing
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We received prayers/shout outs/Energy from soooo many of you
and soooo many of you helped to spread the word about the delta dandi premiere/and soooo many of you came to the show that WE SOLD OUT BOTH NIGHTS!!
On behalf of the cast/crew and producers THANK YOU!!

For reviews/clips/photos/and more

CLICK HERE

We’ll be doing da dandi in Chicago on 3/18/09…more on that soon
Meanwhile
here are some pics from our cast par’tay

Limited Edition/delta dandi Script

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Sharon Bridgforth
on November 26, 2008
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FUNDRAISER

Be a dandi! Play a supporting role in the World Premiere of delta dandi by purchasing & gifting a Signed/Numbered Pre-publication Limited Run Edition delta dandi Script (The version the Austin, Texas World Premiere CAST is using). ONLY 100 COPIES AVAILABLE.

Thanks to Steven Fullwood Project Director of the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive, the delta dandi script (and all it’s drafts) will be housed at the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

TO ORDER and/or FIND OUT MORE CLICK HERE

PRESIDENT Obama

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Sharon Bridgforth
on November 4, 2008
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Our President!

Performances/Workshops in Austin

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Sharon Bridgforth
on October 11, 2008
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I’ll be facilitating a workshop for Austin Script Works…
Dramatis Personae Workshop
TRANSGRESSING FORM
A workshop facilitated by Sharon Bridgforth
Saturday, October 18, 2008
10AM - 12:30PM
State Theatre
719 Congress Ave.
ASW $15 / General $25
INFO/RESERVATIONS:
512.454.9727; christi AT scriptworks DOT org

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allgo (Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization) and The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin

PRESENT

A Staged Reading of *delta dandi
Written/Conducted by Sharon Bridgforth
Jen Margulies -  Dramaturg  
Featuring: Florinda Bryant, Monique Cortez, Andrea Edgerson, Karla Legaspy, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Leah Sellers  
Sunday October 19, 3PM Win. 2.180
University of Texas, Austin Theatre Building (21st & San Jacinto)
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/win.html
(donations accepted at the door)


*Women & Their Work will present the delta dandi premiere at the Long Center 1/9 & 1/10 2009 with support from allgo (Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization) and The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin
Featuring: Helga Davis, Baraka de Soleil, Florinda Bryant & Sonja Perryman, Monique Cortez, Andrea Edgerson, Karla Legaspy, Leigh Gaymon-Jones, Azure D. Osborne-Lee and Leah Sellers. Conducted by Sharon Bridgforth

*delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work, in partnership with 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 npn.jpg

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
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I’m Reading In NYC

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Sharon Bridgforth
on June 18, 2008
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I’m participating in the fundraiser for Freedom Train Productions
JUNE 19, 2008 @ 8PM
AFTER THE BALLOT: A Night of Theatre
Nightingale Lounge
213 Second Avenue
East Village, Manhattan
Plays that examines and reimagines the world after ballots have been cast — past, present, and future!
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