I’m reading at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance in their BAAD!Ass Women Festival 3/12/10 at 8PM. For more CLICK HERE
9pm Saturday Feb. 27, 2010
CONJURE: Calling up the Spirit of Struggle, Resistance, & Liberation
Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St., Austin, Tejas: 512-416-8885
We invite you to a forum for progressive artist/activists:
a series of experiments in jazz music, spoken word, and dance.
This session will feature:
award-winning author/activist sharon bridgforth,
Chicana performance artist/cultural worker Virginia Grise,
dance/body movement by
Pinay artist/activist Czarina Aggabao Thelen,
& black improvisational music by the 3Collective.
$5 dollar suggested donation.
Rooted in the tradition of improvisation, revolution, and blues, Conjure is a sovereign site for artistic/exploratory/spiritual collaboration, expression, and rejuvenation. Each jam session will highlight the “Afrological improvised music” of the 3Collective along with a featured spoken word performer, dancer, and filmmaker inspired by the jazz aesthetic.
Co-sponsored by the UT Austin Community Engagement Center, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.
a salmon rojo production.
I am in Austin working with the Austin Project (tAP).
tAP is presenting me as part of the Performing Blackness Series.
Florinda Bryant and I will present a staged reading of my work-in-progress currently titled: ring shout
Sat, February 20, 2010 8:00 PM (Free)
University of Texas at Austin WIN 2.180
For more CLICK HERE
Check out our tAP 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
I am really proud to say that I’m reading at the New York LGBT Community Center
Friday, February 5, 2010. Reception 6PM. The Reading starts at 6:30PM.
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
This video is from a series of interviews that I did with Pa/my daughter’s father’s father. Born Ellwyn Keith Perryman, October 1, 1925 in Taft, Muskogee, Oklahoma on a Creek Indian Freedman Tract (160 Acres) along the Arkansas River.
Pa says, “I’d like the President to let the military know that they can’t do the stupid things that they’ve been doing…stand fast for all his citizens and the gay people are his citizens…”
On FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Jomama Jones will release her long-awaited CD, LONE STAR and celebrate with a CD-Release Party and Concert at JOE’S PUB IN NYC!!
To get your tickets AND to download a song that I wrote the lyrics for CLICK HERE!
Jomama Jones is legendary. Born in Hardtimes Mississippi City, USA, Jones took the top of the charts two decades ago with hits like “Ghetto (In My Mind)” and “Afromatic.” Her solo career led her across oceans and into the hearts of dreamers, dancers, lovers and the socially engaged. Tonight, celebrate Jones’s stellar return to the stage as well as the release of her comeback CD, Lone Star. Jomama Jones will be joined by musical director Bobby Halvorson and her Sweet Peaches – vocalists Grisha Coleman, Helga Davis and Sonja Perryman.
Stay tuned for more about Jomama Jones Here
Links Hall in partnership with the National Performance Network presents
A Workshop Production of blood pudding
Written and Directed by Sharon Bridgforth
Fri & Sat December 18-19, 2009 | 8pm
Post show opening night reception following
Friday performanceTickets online $12.50 general / $8.00 students. Tickets at the door $15 general / $10 students
Links Hall | 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207 | Chicago, IL
For tickets or more information visit Click Here or call 773.281.0824
blood pudding
Written & Directed by Sharon Bridgforth
Featuring: K. Bradford, Misty DeBerry, Jano Layne, Erica Mott, Ni’Ja Whitson and Nyx.blood pudding is ritual jazz theatre celebrating the history of Black people in New Orleans. Set in times then and now, blood pudding explores a landscape of magic made of spirit and blood. Memory. Prayer. Dreams. The piece is choreographed. Text is sung. A sense of the living, dead and unborn co-existing is communicated through many narrators layering languages and polyrhythmic telling. The stage is a living altar, honoring Indigenous people, Blackness and revolutions made of Love.
ALSO JOIN US FOR
Excerpts of new short works by artists who participated in the Walk With Me Mentorship Program facilitated by Sharon Bridgforth:Links Hall in partnership with the National Performance Network Community Fund presents: K. Bradford, Jano Layne, Erica Mott, Ni’Ja Whitson and Nyx
Sunday, December 20, 7pm Tickets online $5 / $8 at the door
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207 | Chicago, IL 60657
For more information visit Links Hall or call 773.281.0824
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!
