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.
I just found out that an excerpt from con flama will be in Kathie Bergquist’s Windy City Queer Anthology!
To check out a lil about con flama CLICK HERE
Mo soonsoon…meanwhile
YAYYYEEE!
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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For more about the Finding Voic e Facilitation Method CLICK HERE
For more about the Austin Project CLICK HERE
An excerpt from my new performance/novel – Ring/Shout
is in Life, Love & Lust, published by Lesbian Memoirs, 2010.
Also featured in this book are: Anondra “Kat” Williams, Claudia Moss, Laurinda D. Brown,Claudia Moss, Pamela Sneed, Renée Bess, Ta’Shia Asanti, Tawanna P. Sullivan & Teryn, and many more.
For more information or to purchase go to: Lesbian Memoirs
WATCH A CLIP FROM RING/SHOUT:
(This is not the excerpt that is printed in the book above)
This clip is from an excerpt of Ring/Shout
Featuring: Florinda Bryant/Performer
Sharon Bridgforth/Conductor
with the audience as Chorus (Amen Corner Griot Gossipers):
plus audience/dancers: Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Matt Richardson, Stephanie Lang and Amanda Johnston.
Presented by The John L. Warfield Center For African and African American Studies, Performing Blackness Series. University of Texas Austin
Sat, February 20, 2010 8:00 PM.
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 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
(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
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
