CALENDAR

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There will be a workshop production of blood pudding
Featuring: Misty DeBerry, K. Bradford, Jano Layne, Erica Mott, Ni’Ja Whitson, and Nyx.
at Links Hall: 12/18/09 & 12/19/09 8PM.

On 12/20/09 7PM Erica Mott, Nyx, Jano Layne, K. Bradford and Ni’Ja Whitson will present excerpts of their own solo works – created during Walk With Me: a mentorship program that I facilitated during my residency at Links Hall.

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Fall 2009.
I am Fall 2009 Artist In-Residence at Northwestern University’s Department of Performance Studies.

While there I will do a performance of delta dandi which I worked on while at Hedgebrook Women Writers Colony this summer.
8PM Nov 20 & 21, 2009. Annie May Swift Studio. Free.
For more CLICK HERE.

Kia Jones, Maria Benson, Sage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard and Stacey Nwokeyi will be presenting excerpts of solo works created during class with me: Nov. 21 4PM. Annie May Swift Studio, Northwestern University. There will be a reception and talk back immediately following the performance. Free.

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Cheers to Erica Mott for her support and work in booking me as an artist working with Links Hall in Chicago. I will Mentor Emerging Artists (10/09 – 12/09) who will perform in a culminating events featuring new works by them and by me. The artists are:
K. Bradford
Jano Layne
Erica Mott
Ni’Ja Whitson
Nyx
12/18/09 & 12/19/09 8PM the group will perform my work.
On 12/20/09 7PM they will perform their work.
Post show opening night reception following Friday performance.

Tickets $15 / $10 students
For More CLICK HERE
My residency is part of a Links Hall – NPN Community Fund and Performance Residency Programs.

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Thanks to Dr. Jill Dolan and Dr. Stacy Wolf I will be a guest in Performance Studies classes at Princeton on 11/10/09.

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I am deeply honored to say that I’m an invited witness/participant to Staging God and Policy: conversations exploring Erik Ehn’s genocide performance cycle 11/8/09 at The Double Edge Theatre in MA. For more CLICK HERE

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11/5/09 I’ll be visiting K. Bradford’s Class at Columbia College.

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I’ll be visiting D. Denenge Akpem’s class at Columbia College 11/4/09.

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I am really Grateful to Francesca Royster
Director, African and Black Diaspora Studies
for producing this event:
love conjure/blues
Performance Lecture
Sharon Bridgforth
Thursday, October 29, 2009
6:30-8:30 pm
DePaul University Art Museum
2350 North Kenmore Avenue
For more CLICK HERE

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I’ll be facilitating a workshop for the BOI’S at C.C. Carter’s Pow Wow, Inc. 10/20/09.

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Black Queer Artists Festival/In Austin Texas

Fire & Ink Cotillion presents a staged reading of delta dandi
Written by Sharon Bridgforth
Directed by Baraka de Soleil,
Featuring: Djola Branner, Baraka de Soleil,
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lenelle Moïse, and Matt Richardson

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I’ll be facilitating a dialogue with the fabulous Lenelle Moïse after her: WOMB-WORDS, THIRSTING
September 16. 7:00pm.
Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 S. Michigan. FREE
Sponsored by: Ellen Stone Belic Institute For The Study of Women & Gender In The Arts and Media the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community in partnership with the Institute, and co-sponsored by African American Cultural Affairs, Critical Encounters: Fact and Faith and the English Department. For more CLICK HERE

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A 7 minute staged reading/excerpt from delta dandi will be presented at the New Dramatist New Playwright Welcome Directed by Helga Davis 9/14/09. Stayed tuned HERE

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I will be at Hedgebrook Writer’s Colony thanks to my 2008 Alpert/Hedgebrook Award
8/18/09 – 9/12/09

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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 of the Butch Voices Conference are raffling off copies of my book, the bull-jean stores and they have posted a pdf that you can download of my essay tittled, a wo’mn called sir. The conference will be 8/20 – 8/23, 2009 in Oakland. To download the essay/git yo raffle on/and to find out more about Butch Voices CLICK HERE

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Dr. Jill Dolan has invited me to be on her panel at ATHE Conference August 8 – 11, 2009 in NYC. Details soon come.

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An excerpt of The love conjure/blues Text Installation Film that I did with Krissy Mahan will be featured at:
Black-OUT! : an evening of Blackness, Queerness & Fabulosity(snap!)
12 artists 2 shows Mon, JULY 27TH two shows (7:30 & 10pm) NYC
curated & hosted by award-winning performance artist/choreographer Baraka de Soleil
For more click HERE

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I will be facilitating a Finding Voice workshop for emerging artists in

Austin, TX June 9.  6PM – 10PM

Los Angeles, June 20, 3PM – 7PM

San Francisco, June 25, 6PM – 10PM
For details contact: sharon AT sharonbridgforth dot com

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I will be a panelist at
Convocation
A Gathering of Interdisciplinary Artists Sharing Resources/Building Community
Austin, Texas June 12 – 14
For more go to the: Convocation site

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I will be in Choreographer/Theatre Artist Baraka de Soleil’s newly commissioned Work titled S’Kin DEEP in NYC:
May 8 & 9, 15 & 16, 22 & 23 2009 at Dixon Place
Details soon come.

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I am Anchor Artist for The Austin Project. Our annual public closing events are coming up:

Sunda, April 26th 2PM, FREE
The Off Center | 2211 Hidalgo St. | Austin Tx 78702
The Austin Project
Jam Sessions Performance/Poetry/Movement
with: Lidia Marte, Elvia Mendoza, Samiya Bashir, Stephanie Lang, Senalka McDonald, Matt Richardson, Jacqueline Smith, Czarina Thelen
Producer: Joni L. Jones/Omi Osun Olomo
Anchor Artist: Sharon Bridgforth
Director: Florinda Bryant

Saturday, April 18, 8PM, Free
Winship buidling, Room 2.180
300 E. 23rd Street, Austin, TX
The Performing Blackness Series Presents:
Washed Written and Performed by Laurie Carlos
With an opening presentation by The Austin Project/Featuring:
Lidia Marte, Elvia Mendoza, Samiya Bashir, Stephanie Lang,
Senalka McDonald, Matt Richardson, Jacqueline Smith and Czarina Thelen

For more contact: The John Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin 512.471-1784

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I will be doing a Finding Voice Creative Writing Workshop
as part of the The Barbara Jordan Statue Unveiling, UT Austin
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1-3 pm
Sinclair Suite, Texas Union
University of Texas, Austin

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April 14 I’ll be a guest in Kristen Hogan’s Class at UT Austin

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On Saturday, April 4th at 1:30 there will be a staged reading of con flama directed by the legendary Robbie McCauley (for more about con flama see my scripts page) during The Black Lavender Experience, Theatre and Conversations Sparked by the Work of Queer Playwrights of Color, at Rites and Reason Theatre April 2nd thru April 5th, 2009. For more stay tuned at Rites and Reason Theatre

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Conjure: Calling up the Spirit of Struggle, Resistance, & Liberation
A forum for progressive artist/activists: A series of experiments in jazz music, dance, spoken word, & cinema
Resistencia Bookstore in Austin, TX
I’ll be on program/vibing with the Afrological improvised music” of the 3 Jazz Collective
3/28/09 9PM Donations Accepted
Resistencia Bookstore casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St.,
Austin, Tejas 512-416-8885

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The Center on Halsted is bringing me to Chi-Town the week of 3/23/09…
Monday, March 23, 7-9pm. FREE
Move On Mondays at Links Hall , 3435 N. Sheffield Ave
A discussion focusing on breaking form, making a living as an artist, and using art as a tool for change. To register contact Erica Mott at 773.281.0824

Tuesday March 24 7:30PM. $5
POW WOW, Inc. at Jeffrey Pub
I be featured at C.C. Carter’s POW WOW, Inc.

Wednesday March 25 7PM $5.
I’ll read from delta dandi at The Center On Halsted
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Tom Ballentine, Director of Community and Cultural Programs at 773-472-6469 X245.

I will also have the Blessing of being on program with the Illustrious E. Patrick Johnson at the Chicago History Museum….
Thursday, March 26
SPEAKING OUT DOWNSOUTH
5:30 p.m. Cocktail Hour | 6:30 p.m. Program | 8:00 p.m. After-party
Experience stories of African American gays and lesbians from the South with E. Patrick Johnson and Sharon Bridgforth who will highlight the historical and cultural connections between Chicago and the South through discussion and performance. FOR DETAILS CLICK HERE

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delta dandi Viewing Parties:
A dialogue and showing of the DVD from the premiere performance of delta dandi
with Writer/Conductor/Producer Sharon Bridgforth
Snacks Provided | Donations Accepted

Saturday March 14, 2PM
allgo (A Statewide Queer People of Color Organization)
701 Tillery Street
Austin, TX 78702

Wednesday March 11, 2009 6:30PM
ISESE Gallery / Warfield Center
John Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, UT Austin.
Jester (21st and Speedway, Austin, TX)

Thanks to Q Ragsdale for filming the premiere!

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March 4, 2009 8PM EST
I will be Live on Sippn On Ink
The Colored Chronicles blog radio show. Hosted by Anondra “Kat” Williams.

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February 28 – March 2, 2009
Goddard College MFAIA Residency
Port Townsend, WA
Sharon Bridgforth presents “Like Jazz” on Saturday, February 28th and Tania Willard presents “Showing Stories — a visual arts approach to social justice messaging and narrative” on Tuesday, March 3rd. Presentations run from 7:30-9:30 pm in Building 204 at Fort Worden State Park. Events are free to the public and require reservations due to limited space. To reserve call: 360-344-4100.
goodard.
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February 17 I’ll be a guest in Dr. Lisa L. Moore’s Graduate class/UT Austin.

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February 1 I begin my annual work as Anchor Artist with the Austin Project (Sponsored by The John Warfield Center for African and African American Studies)
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January 9 & 10, 2009
delta dandi WORLD PREMIERE
*Women & Their Work in partnership with The National Performance Network presents the delta dandi world premiere at the Long Center 1/9 & 1/10 2009 in Austin, Texas. For details CLICK HERE

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I will facilitate a workshop at allgo
as part of the Women & Their Work/NPN Residency…
1/3 from 10am – 12:30pm
Transgressing Form
A workshop for emerging hip hop artists/dancers/poets/theatre artists that are interested in creating interdisciplinary works. For more information or to sign up please contact allgo 512.471-2001.

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I will be at the NPN Annual Meeting in Seattle 12/11/08 – 12/15/08.

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Bridgforth will speak at Purchase College
10/23.

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delta dandi
Staged Reading
will be presented as part of The Performing Blackness Series
The Center For African and African American Studies, UT Austin
and Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization-allgo
10/19/08 3PM, Win. 2.180

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Bridgforth will facilitate a workshop for Austin Script Works:
TRANSGRESSING FORM
A workshop taught by Sharon Bridgforth
Saturday, October 18, 2008
10AM – 12:30PM
ASW $15 / General $25
INFO/RESERVATIONS:
512.454.9727

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delta dandi Master Class at Scripps College
9/8/08 – 10/5/08
delta dandi master class will meet for one month beginning September 8, 2008.
Participants will work as cast, crew & mentees.
Public performances will be: October 3 & 4 at 7PM.
For more click HERE

The master class is available for 1/2 course credit as GWS 195, Internship in Feminist Activism.
Non student community members are welcome to participate without enrolling.
This course is sponsored by Intercollegiate Women’s Studies. For more information contact: Susan Castagnetto

More About The Master Class

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I’ll be on Dr. Sandra Richards panel titled: The American Canon
at the Black Women Playwrights’ Group
1st National Meeting for Women of Color Writing Drama
Mundelein Center for the Arts, Loyola University, Chicago Illinois
September 4-7, 2008 MORE INFO

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August 14 – August 18, 2008
I’ll be participating in the Naked Stages Series
in MN. curated by the one and only Laurie Carlos. Details soon come.

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Bridgforth will be facilitating workshops for Freedom Train Productions (in Brooklyn) 1:30PM – 5PM on August 9 & 6PM – 10PM on August 19, 2008. Workshops are free. There is limited space. Beginning, emerging, and established playwrights welcome. To sign up or to receive more information contact: openworkshop AT freedomtrainproductions DOT org

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of delta dandi will be featured 8/6 & 8/7 7PM during
Freedom Train Productions
Fire! New Play Festival 2008 8/6 – 8/21
@ South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
Featuring: Maisha Azade*, Courtney Ellis, Denise Lock*, and Andre St Clair Thompson
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
House opens at 630pm, performances begin at 7pm sharp!
All performances are free and open to the public!
Festival programming information

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QUEER BLACK PROTAGONISTS Talk Back is presented by
Culture Project and Freedom Train Productions
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 The Train co-hosts
a talk back at Culture Project featuring
Resident Playwright Sharon Bridgforth and
Culture Project’s Lenelle Moise, playwright of Expatriate.

This discussion will follow
the 7pm performance of Lenelle’s powerful new play: Expatriate
For tickets and more information CLICK HERE

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I am participating in
After The Ballot: A Night of Theatre
Nightingale Lounge
213 Second Avenue @ 13th Street
Benefiting Freedom Train Productions
Thursday, Juneteenth*, 6/19 @ 8pm
Tickets $15 Advance / $20 Door
TICKETS & MORE

THE LINE UP:
Sharon Bridgforth
Andre Lancaster
Derrick McPhatter
yvonne fly etaghene onakeme
Aurin Squire
Harrison Rivers

After The Ballot benefits Freedom Train Productions, a political theatre company that puts Black LGBT protagonists on stage. All proceeds will go toward staging Fire! New Play Festival 2008. READ MORE

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Fire & Ink Presents!
8 p.m. Thursday, June 12, 2008
Hilton Newark Gateway Hotel
1 Gateway Center, Newark, NJ
NEWARK ESSEX PRIDE Literary Event
Check out Artist Bios and more
THE LINE-UP:
* Sharon Bridgforth (the bull-jean stories, love conjure/blues)
* James Earl Hardy (A House Is Not a Home; new introduction to In the Life)
* Herukhuti (Conjuring Black Funk)
* Shelton Jackson (The Second Chapter: Acceptance)
* Lisa C. Moore (Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity, Does Your Mama Know?)
* Jonathan Plummer (Balancing Act)
* Kimberly Q (Orchids I & II)
* Kai Wright (Drifting Toward Love)

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Sharon Bridgforth
Presents: One For The Road
A Poetic Jam Session
May 12, 2008 7PM At
Resistencia Bookstore
Casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St. | Austin, TX 78704
512.416-8885
Love Offerings for Red Salmon Arts Accepted

Featuring: Lidia Marte, Samiya Bashir, Shia Shabazz
and an Open Mic Jam

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I’m reading Cherrie Moraga’s
Indigenous Identity in Diaspora 2008 Spring Quarter speaker and performance series
Wed May 7 @ 5pm
Roble Gym, Room 33, Stanford University
For more information click HERE

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The love conjure/blues Text Installation PERFORMANCE
Dr. Joni L. Jones/Omi Osun Olomo will perform as Narrator
Northwestern University
Black and Latino Queer Performance Festival
Coordinated by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera
Thursday, April 17, Friday, April 18 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 19, at 8:00 pm (THIS IS WHEN WE PERFORM)
Sunday, April 20, at 2:00 pm
Hal and Martha Hyer Wallis Theater
Northwestern University
Tickets for each show are $10 and available at the door or in advance by contacting the Theatre & Interpretation Center Box Office, 847-491-7282.

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Artist residency at Scripps College
Claremont, CA 4/7/08 – 4/14/08
My Activities include:
a community luncheon/talk 4/11:
Standing At The Cross Roads. Bridging Arts/Activism & Scholarship
Bridgforth will facilitate a dialogue between L.A. based artists that identity as activists and the Scripps community of students and professors that identify as scholar/artists and activists. The conversation will be grounded principles of the theatrical jazz aesthetic: art and life are not separate; art is a vechile for social change; art is a form of spiritual revolution; the magic of creation is invoked through the art of Being Present.
Scripps College
Produced by Susan Castagnetto

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An excerpt of
The love conjure/blues Text Installation will be presented at the
The Northern Plains Performance Festival.
Dr. Joni L. Jones/Omi Osun Olomo will perform as Narrator
as her Keynote Performance presentation at the
Immigrant Experience and the Geopolitics of Home Conference
March 28-29, 2008
St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud, Minnesota

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The love conjure/blues Text Installation PERFORMANCE
South Dallas Cultural Center
(I’ll be performing as the Narrator)
3400 S. Fitzhugh Avenue Dallas, TX 75210
sdccoca myspace
Friday & Saturday March 28, 29 8 pm $10
Reservations: 214/670-0315.

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allgo Is presenting me and Adelina Anthony in an evening of performance that we are calling:
Besos & Blues
Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:00 p.m.
The Historic Victory Grill
1104 East 11th St. Austin, TX 78702
$5 suggested donation
Contact: 512.472-2001

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allgo Presents ROOTED: Queer Codex Book/CD Release Party
Friday March 14, 2008 7PM
Resistencia Bookstore
1801-A South First St. Austin, TX 78704
Phone: (512) 416-8885
Featuring Sharon Bridgforth, Samiya Bashir, Cheryl Coward, Anel Flores, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, María Limón, Ana-Maurine Lara, Jennifer Margulies, Senalka McDonald, Wura Ogunji and Matt Richardson.

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I will be reading as part of the
UTSA Women’s History Month Program
March 11, 2008 2:00 p.m. HSS 3.02.24

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Thursday, March 6, 2008 7PM – 9PM
Hosted by Erika González, poet/activist and co-director of PODER
Resistencia Bookstore
1801-A South First St. Austin, TX 78704
Phone: (512) 416-8885 http://www.resistenciabooks.com
PODER (People Organized in Defense of the Earth and her Resources) presents Poesía Mujer: an evening of cantos celebrating International Women’s Day featuring poetas/activistas de Austin. The event will feature: Sharon Bridgforth, Susana Almanza, Janie Rangel, Carole Metellus, Carmen Llanes, Courtney Morris, Leticia Fonseca, Ishrat Kundawala, Chandra Washington, Andrea Melendez, & special guest Enrique Cabrera.