chhhile it was a scandala…
Sappho’s Return hosted a gathering for me at The Pasadena Jazz Institute on 9/27/08….
Rockn da houze was… Melissa Hidalgo, Angela M. Salgado, Karla Legaspy, Laura Placencia Virginia Grise Porschia Baker, Dorothy Randall Gray, e. pharaoh otu and Natasha Dyer
lawd/I’m still giggling…
Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of the Claremont Colleges
invites you to join us for TWO consecutive evenings as
The delta dandi Master Class Presents:
WOMEN UNWOUND
Friday, October 3rd, 7:00 p.m.
Balch Auditorium, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
FEATURING: Melissa Hidalgo, Angela M. Salgado, Mariam Tejeda, Karla Legaspy, Patricia Nguyen, Mallory Scarritt, Danielle Monique Diggins, Shruti Purkayostha, Rebecca Ann Karpovsky, Lorraine LaPrade, Arielle Julia Brown, Sheila Barnes-Northrop, Laura Placencia
AND
Saturday, October 4th, 7:00 p.m.
Broad Performance Space, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
FEATURING: Raedorah, Elise Edwards, Laurie Callaway, LaTrice Dixon, Michele Hatchette, Julia Pashall, Quirina Mithcell, Jessica W. Cathcart, Sarah Jelinsky, Porschia Baker, Dorothy Randall Gray, Adelina Solis, Emily G. Webber
Each evening the class will present a staged reading of Sharon Bridgforth’s new piece, *delta dandi. http://sharonbridgforth.com
FREE. Each event will have a Talk Back & reception.
*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
New WORLD Theater presents the premiere of sash & trim
Written by Djola Branner and Directed by Laurie Carlos
Wednesday thru Friday, September 24-26th.
Curtain Theater, UMass, Amherst, MA
New World also presented a special reading by Laurie Carlos of The Pork Chop Wars on September 15
I know they turned it out…I wish I coulda been there….
John McCain actually asked to “suspend” Friday’s much anticipated debate with Barack Obama so that he could posture on the financial crisis. Go to MoveOn.org if you’d like to sign a petition to make sure the debate happens as planned…
jes when i was trying to stop cussn…
AUDITIONS
Noon to 3PM | October 11, 2008
AUSTIN, TX | Location TBA
Contact: sharon AT sharonbridgforth DOT com for more information or to schedule an audition.
Sharon Bridgforth will hold auditions for her newest work, *delta dandi.
Needed: Two Black women, One Black gender queer male….
Spoken word artists, dancers, musicians, actors, poets, singers, closet singers, jazz lovers welcome. Activists, queer people encouraged.
Must be available to work in Austin Texas:
10/12 – 10/19; 12/18-12/22; 12/27-12/29; 1/3 – 1/9
delta dandi is a weave of monologues, chants, choral tellings, blood memory and song delta dandi asks “How does collective grief and trauma inform the African American experience?” delta dandi invokes the Transmigration of a Spirit’s journey as she walks towards Transformation and Love….
*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
Our very own Beloved Walter Kitundu is a
2008 MacArthur Fellow!
Walter is Truly a genius
this award is amazing/Inspiring/absolutely deserved/Blessed news!
I met Walter some years ago when Daniel Alexander Jones bought him to Austin to work as a collaborator with Zell Miller, 111. Daniel and Walter later began a collaborating on The Book of Daniel in 2005 – sponsered by The Center for African and African American Studies, UT Austin & Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization…
Walter I am so proud and happy to know you mann/Rock on brotha!!
I am having a blast out here in Cali!
At the Claremont Colleges I’ve done talks/hung out and
been fed by the women of UBUNTU/I’ve soaked in plenty of sunshine
and my delta dandi Master Class is just a Dream!
My class is going to present their work
Friday, October 3rd, 7:00 p.m.
Balch Auditorium, Scripps
Reception following performance.
My class will present a staged reading of my piece in-progress delta dandi
Saturday, October 4th, 7:00 p.m.
Broad Performance Space, Pitzer
The primary sponsor of the delta dandi Master Class
is Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of the Claremont Colleges.
Information: (909) 607-3250
I am back from an amazing time in Chicago at the Black Women Playwrights’ Group Conference:
Whisper. Laugh. Shout. Tell The Story
1st National Meeting for Women of Color Writing Drama
Mundelein Center for the Arts, Loyola University, Chicago Illinois
September 4-7, 2008
I was Blessed to be on a panel created by the illustrious Dr. Sandra Richards titled Your Play and the American Canon along with P.J. Gibson
Chile/it was Coloured gurl Heaven! I met many of the heavy hitters in American theatre/got to hang with some of my old dear friends/and made new friends…I hope to make this conference an annual treat…Special shout out and thanks to President and Founder Karen L.B. Evans!
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