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
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
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For more about the Finding Voic e Facilitation Method CLICK HERE
For more about the Austin Project CLICK HERE
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
blood pudding will be at part of New York SummerStage Festival this year!!
Written by Sharon Bridgforth.
Directed & Choreographed by Baraka de Soleil!.
Helga Davis – Composer
Featuring: Helga Davis, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Monica McIntyre, Francine Sheffield and Baraka de Soleil. With Negaysha Walcott.
Come see blood pudding:
Springfield Park, Queens
Friday, July 23 – Saturday, July 24
8:00 – 10:00p.m.
AND
Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan
Friday, August 6 – Saturday, August 7
8:00 – 10:00 p.m
I just finished re-writes of the blood pudding script at the Weston Playhouse Artist Retreat…for more about blood pudding CLICK HERE
This year is the 25th Anniversary season of SummerStage. There will be twenty free performance dates and six unique Theater Productions from June 11 – August 27, 2010.
For more CLICK HERE
Q Ragsdale received a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Award from NPN, The South Dallas Cultural Center and DiverseWorks to adapt the bull-jean stories.
Q’s the bull jean stories will be a multi-media performance that includes interviews with multi-generational bull-jeans. It will incorporate both a live performance and an online televised performance, giving it a life beyond its two performance venues.
The work will premiere at the South Dallas Cultural Center 10/15 – 10/17 2010.
The DiverseWorks show TBA.
I am thrilled!!!!
Details soon come…
Check out the bull-jean stories book and CD.. at RedBone Press CLICK HERE
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
