For booking and information contact me HERE.
Below you’ll see that as I am developing my new project, River See, I am doing a number of Experiments (smaller more exploratory events) and WORKSHOP PRODUCTIONS (larger casts/more production values) that are open to the public.
River See premiere (2014) and tour details will sooncome. Meanwhile, info about River See is HERE.
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I am proud to say that I will be in Residence in The University of Iowa’s MFA Program in Playwriting Spring 2014. Details sooncome! YAYYYEE!
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RIVER SEE PREMIERE
Produced by Links Hall in Chicago
2014! DETAILS SOONCOME.
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River See National Performance Network Performance Residency
The Theater Offensive (Boston), National Performance Network Performance Residency
November 10- 16, 2014. Open to the public.
Sharon Bridgforth – Conductor. Sonja Parks – See.
Performers TBA.
Details sooncome.
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River See Experiment
The Theater Offensive in Boston September 28 & 29, 2013.
Sharon Bridgforth – Conductor. Performers TBA.
Open to the public. Details sooncome.
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River See National Performance Network Performance Residency
Commissioning Partner Living Arts of Tulsa Presents:
NPN PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY September 13 – 22
(Performances on 9/20 – 9/21 2013)
WOOOHOOO!!! Details sooncome!
More about Living Arts HERE.
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River See Workshop/Experiment
NPN Commissioning Partner Living Arts of Tulsa
August 24, 2013
I will Conduct a River See Workshop/Experiment
Details sooncome!
More about Living Arts HERE.
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Facilitation
Myself and Adelina Anthony will be facilitating workshops for Teatro Q-POC
June 28-July 27th 2013!
It’s part of A Special 10-Day Residency in San Francisco
Study the Craft of Writing or Acting for the Stage
More information coming soon!
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River See Meeting
With NPN Commissioning Partner Living Arts of Tulsa
June 1, 2013
I will meet the community/talk about the project
Details sooncome!
More about Living Arts HERE.
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River See Experiment
Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami)
May 24 – May 29, 2013
Sharon Bridgforth – Conductor. Performers TBA.
Open to the public. Details sooncome.
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Campus Visit
Thanks to Megan Monaghan Rivas and Tlaloc Rivas
I’ll be in residence at University of Iowa 4/22 – 4/25, 2013.
More HERE.
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River See Workshop Production
Pillbsbury House Theatre (MLPS)
With Support From The MAP Fund
April 13 – April 21, 2013
Sharon Bridgforth – Conductor. Sonja Parks – See.
Virginia Grise – Witness.
Featuring: Mankwe Ndosi, Aimee Bryant, Kenna Cottman, Truth Maze and Leah Nelson.
Designers = Eyenga Bokamba (environment), Mike Wangen (lights), Clare Brauch (costumes)
Open to the public.
Details HERE.
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Conference
I am the featured artist for the 2013 Black Lavender Experience at Brown University, Rites and Reason Theater!
All events are free, open to the public and take place at:
Churchhill House
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space
155 Angell Street, Providence, RI.
For more contact: 401.863-3558 Africana_Studies AT brown dot edu
Thursday April 4, 4PM-5PM
Conversations in Africana Theatre:Dynamic Innovators
This series also featured: Adrienne Kennedy, Laurie Carlos, Ntozake Shange and Robbie McCauley.
Friday April 5, 7PM dyke/warrior-prayers: redux
Written by Sharon Bridgforth
Directed by Constance Crawford
Music Director Clarice LaVerne Thompson
Additional performances 4/12 7PM and 4/13 2PM
Saturday April 6, 7PM
River See Experiment #16
Written & Conducted by Sharon Bridgforth
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Campus Visit
I am proud to say that thanks to Djola Branner, Dean of Interdisciplinary Arts, Associate Professor of Theatre and Priscilla Page, Lecturer: Dramaturgy at UMass Amherst in Theater – I am in Residence at HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE 3/2/13-3/7/13!
MOSAIC; Five College Multicultural Theatre Committee Presents:
A staged reading of blood pudding
Written/Directed by Sharon Bridgforth
Featuring: Djola Branner, Micaela Diaz-Sanchez, Bettina Judd, Nyx Ziehut, Jorrell Watkins, and Maya Chakraeati.
Hampshire College
Main Theatre, Emily Dickinson Hall.
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013. 8PM. Free.
More about blood pudding HERE.
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River See Workshop Production
#15. Links Hall in Collaboration with University of Chicago Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, The Theatre School at DePaul University and The Ellen Stone Bellic Institute For The Study of Women And Gender In The Arts And Media Columbia College Chicago
Sharon Bridgforth – Writer/Conductor
Emily Morse – Dramaturge
Sonja Parks – See
Nia Witherspoon – Singer/Witness
Shu Shubat – Singing Bowls
Featuring: Iya Fatola Osun Adesanya-Kerr, Marie Casimir, Senyo Ador, Brian K. Thrower, Eden Sabala, Nadia Chana, LaTonya Brown, Elizabeth Davenport, Viktor Le, Nani Ramaknshnan.
Epic Arts (Choir): Robert Walker, Trina Chaney, Corey McDonald, Velvet Gunn.
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater Company Members: Kathleen Purcell Turner, Joshua L. Ishmon, Adriene Patrice Barber, Artistic Director Kevin Iega Jeff.
Stage Manager: Megan Bero.
@ UoC Rockefeller Chapel
Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago
5850 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL
3/1/13 @ 7:30pm
Open to the public
(Post-performance reception)
Rehearsals for this workshop will happen 2/25-3/1. Rehearsals are open.
For more information CONTACT Sharon HERE.
More about the 3/1 public sharing HERE.
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River See Experiment
#14. Black Studies Suite
University Of Texas at Austin @ Anna Hiss Gym
February 23, 2013 4PM. Free
Sharon Bridgforth – Conductor
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones – Witness
Performers include: Florinda Bryant, Nia Witherspoon, Lyndon Gill, Ni’Ja Whitson, Seyi Adebanjo, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Charles Anderson, Dotun Ayobade, Matt Richardson, Chery Tshepo, M’Bewe Ninoska Escobar and DeAnna Howard. Stage Manager: Natalie Goodnow.
Open to the public.
For more contact Sharon HERE.
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Thanks to Dr. M. C. Downs, Marco O. Iniguez-Alba and a host of others – I’ll be reading at Texas A&M Kingsville 6PM on 2/15/13 in SAM FORE HALL BLUES ROOM.
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Facilitating
Soulful Planning for 2013 and Beyond
A Masterclass with Sharon Bridgforth for Social Justice Leaders
When: February 12 & 13, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (both days commitment required)
Where: IDEX offices, 333 Valencia Street, Suite 250, San Francisco, CA 94103
How to Apply: Application Deadline: Jan 27, 2013, 5 p.m. PST
(Limited to 10 participants)
Contact: Vini Bhansali at vini AT idex dot org
for an application and information.
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Campus Visit
I am proud to say that I will be a guest in Cherrie Moraga’s Playwrighting Class at Standford 2/7/13.
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Campus Visit
I will be with presenting at University of Michigan
2/4-2/5, 2013 thanks to Holly Hughes,
Professor Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Theatre and Drama, Women’s Studies; Director, BFA in Interarts Performance.
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I will conduct a (closed) workshop for Roots and River Productions in NYC 2/3/13.
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Thanks to Jane Saks and The Ellen Stone Belic Institute For The Study Of Women & Gender In The Arts And Media
Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and I will be featured at
Fifty Shades of the Blues: Song, Soul, and Sexuality @
OUT at CHicago History Museum
January 31, 2013
Cocktails, appetizers, and live blues
5:30–7:30 p.m.
Program
7:30–9:00 p.m.
Cost: $15, $10 members and students.
Katherine Davis and her trio will sing blues favorites!
Details HERE.
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#13. River See Workshop/Experiment
Produced by The Theater Offensive
3PM – 4PM on Saturday January 26th and Sunday January 27th, 2013
United South End Settlements/Harriet Tubman House
566 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA.
(Boston’s South End, at the corner of Columbus and Mass Ave)
Sharon Bridgforth – Conductor.
Djola Branner – See.
Nia Witherspoon – Singer.
Robbie McCauley – Witness.
Singer – Nia Witherspoon
Performers: Zohar Fuller, Christina Twicken, Camille Owens, Nancy McGee, Wendy Kinal, Camille Owens, Antonieta Gimeno, Lise Brody, Kaamila Mohamed.
More about River See HERE.
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Conference
I’m soooo happy that I’ll be attending the National Performance Network Annual Meeting in Philadelphia 12/13-12/17 2012!!
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Campus Visit
Dr. Jill Dolan is bringing me to PRINCETON! 12/12/2012! Details sooncome.
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I will be on Queering the Stage and the Page with Thao P. Nguyen, Kin Folkz and more tba/hosted by Aimee Suzara on 12/9/12. You can catch the archive of the show: HERE.
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River See Experiment
Links Hall in Collaboration with South side Community Art Center and The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Featuring: Sharon Bridgforth – Conductor. Sonja Parks – See. Deeply Rooted Dance Company. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones. Additional Performers TBA.
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones – Witness
Post show talk Facilitator: Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
@ South Side Community Art Center
3831 South Michigan Avenue. Chicago, IL.
12/5/12 & 12/6/12 7PM
Open to the public. RSVP HERE.
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Conference
I am Blessed to say that I will be on a panel Chaired by
E. Patrick Johnson, with Ramon Rivera-Servera, Marlon Bailey, Charles Nero and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones at
the 2012 ASA Conference in PUERTO RICO!!
November 16, 2012 4-5:45PM. Details HERE.
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Campus visit
I will be a guest in Dr. Robin Bernstein’s class at HARVARD on 11/12/2012!
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River See Workshop
Pillsbury House Theatre (MLPS)
Sharon Bridgforth – Conductor. Sonja Parks – See. Mankwe Ndosi & Aimee Bryant – Singers. With: Mire Regulus, Molly Van Avery and Rebecca Frost
November 7, 2012 3PM.
Invited Audience.
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I am proud to say that I will be reading at:
MANGOS WITH CHILI
BELOVED: A Requiem for Our Dead
because we refuse to forget you
Performance ♥ Community Altar Building ♥ Celebration of Life and Legacy
Saturday, November 3, 2012
The Living Room Project
1919 Market St. Oakland
8pm
$10-$20 sliding scale * wheelchair and chemically accessible * no one turned away for lack of funds
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River See Workshop
Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami)
October 5 & October 6, 2012
Closed Sharing.
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River See Embodied Conversation
The Theater Offensive (Boston)
Evening Dinner/Demo and Dialogue
9/17/12 Closed Sharing.
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River See Workshop
New Dramatists (NYC)
9/15/12
Closed Sharing.
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River See Workshop
Links Hall with Columbia College Dance Center
@ The Dance Center of Columbia College
1306 South Michigan Avenue, Studio 202
Chicago, IL
Closed sharing 9/4/12 & 9/6/12.
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July 26 – July 29, 2012:
I’m a proud to say that I will be returning to work with NAKED STAGES at Pillsbury House in MLPS. Naked Stages is a program for emerging artists under the direction of Laurie Carlos. More about Naked Stages HERE.
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Thanks to Kimberly Dark/I’ll be teaching at Cal State’s Summer Arts Program
(Monterey Bay) July 2012. You don’t have to be a student to apply. More HERE.
I am reading on program with Kimberly Dark July 18. The reading is open to the public. More
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I will be presenting at::Bodies in Space:: Conference
May 11th and 12th of 2012, the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative and the Center for Literature and the Environment at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Keynote address will be given by: Dr. Jennifer Brody. HERE.
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I’ll be on program with a posse of Loved Ones including Carl Hancock Rux and Erik Ehn at Soul Central Love Melt: A benefit for Erik Ehn’s Soulographie Performance Cycle
Sunday, April 29 at 7:00PM
at (LaMama) La Galleria
6 East 1st Street
New York, NY 10003
(btw Bowery & 2nd Ave)
Details HERE.
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Dr. Vershawn Ashanti Young is teaching both the bull-jean stories and love conjure/blues. He is bringing me to University of Kentucky to do a presentation on 4/16/12. Details HERE.
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April 13,2012 3PM
I’m reading on program with M. Shelly Conner at UIC
In the 2012 One-on-One Reading Series
English Department seminar room (UH2028)
More HERE.
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I will be participating in the 2012 Black Lavender Experience at Brown University (4/4-4/8). Thank you Dr. Elmo Terry. I love this annual gathering/can’t wait! More HERE.
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I’ll be a Keynote speaker for the
Feminist Action Project Conference
8PM March 31, 2012
Utopia Theatre, School of Social Work,
University of Texas Austin
1925 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, TX, 78712
More HERE.
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I’m proud to say that I’m facilitating a workshop for Roots and River Productions on 3/23/12 in NYC.
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I’m reading:
March 20, 2012 7PM
Berman Museum 016
Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
Presented by S.U.N. & Multicultural Services
Details HERE.
(Thanks Patricia Schroeder!)
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I am proud to say that I am one of the playwrights participating in New Dramatists Nocturnal Commissions fundraiser
3/19/12 @ 6:30PM
New Dramatists, New York
Details HERE.
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Theatre Offensive here I come!! Myself and Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewife’s Alec Mapa be receiving the “Out On The Edge Award” at The Theater Offensive’s ClimACTS!2012 – Guilty Pleasures March 16, 2012 6:30PM.
More HERE.
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I will Conduct a short excerpt of my work-in-progress, “River See,” featuring Omi Osun Joni L. Jones at P.OW. W.O.W. Inc. @ Jeffrey Pub in Chicago on 3/13/12 7041 S Jeffery Blvd. Chicago, IL. Door Opens 7:30 pm. Show Starts 8:30 pm $5. More HERE.
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I am participating in One World, curated by Erik Ehn at Brown University.
March 1-4, 2012. Details HERE.
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Duriel Harris is bringing me in to read at a Salon at:
The McLean County Arts Center
601 N. East St., Bloomington, IL
2/18/12 Noon-5PM. LOTS of great artists on program!!
More HERE.
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I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be on MPAACT’s Winter Solo Jams Panel
February 8, 2012 @ 8PM. More HERE.
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Myself, Ramon Rivera-Servera from Northwestern, Mark Jeffery from SAIC are serving as responders for, Queer Community: A Performance Process
January 24th, at 6PM (FREE) in the Daley Building at 14 E. Jackson in the performance space (LL102). The event is Curated by Kimberlee Perez and Dustin Goltz, and is sponsored by The College of Communication, The LGBTQ Studies Minor, and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity.
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1/20/12 7PM
Rumble Arts Center 3413 W. North Ave. Chicago, IL http://rumblearts.com
I have the Blessing of being in conversation with Baraka de Soleil and Yessica Gamboa Guerrero at “Night of Insight: Re-Frame: Communing”.
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I’ll be on Francesca Royster’s Queer Performace: Space, Bodies, and Movement(s) panel at MLA Friday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 620, WSCC . More HERE.
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I am proudly serving as Resource Playwright for this year’s December New Dramatists Play Time Lab!!
The Playwrights are: Tanya Barfield, Marcus Gardley, Rob Handel, Dan LeFranc and Chiori Miyagawa. WOOHOO!! More at: HERE.
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11/18/11 I’ll be working with performers in Heidi Coleman’s class. Dr. Coleman is Director of University Theater, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Theater and Performance Studies @ University of Chicago.
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Windy City Queer will hit the stands November 2011.
I’ll be reading at the following book parties:
Women & Children First Bookstore, Chicago
Thursday, November 3, 2011 7:00 p.m
P.O.W. W.O.W., Inc.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:00 p.m.,
Jeffrey Pub,
7041 S. Jeffrey Blvd., Chicago
Friday, March 2, 2012
6:00 p.m.
Windy City Queer AWP Reading & Reception
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash
Windy City Queer
LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast
Edited by Kathie Bergquist
The University of Wisconsin Press
LGBTQ writing from Chicago featuring poetry, memoir, fiction, and essays by Edmund White, Achy Obejas, Sharon Bridgforth, Brian Bouldrey, E. Patrick Johnson, Carol Anshaw, David Trinidad, Mark Zubro, Kay Barrett, Coya Paz, C. C. Carter and many others!
More HERE.
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I am one of the presenters at Penn State’s, “Celebrating African American Literature: Race, Sexual Identity, and African American Literature.” Setp. 30 – Oct. 1, 2011. See the full list of presenters and more info HERE.
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I will be a Keynote Speaker at Butch Voices in Oakland, August 18 – 21, 2011.
More HERE.
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I will be at ATHE in Chicago participating on:
Queer Performance, Transnationalism, and Re-Memory in the Flesh with Francesca Royster, Laila Farah, Misty DeBerry, and Kimberlee Perez.
August 13, 2011 11:30 am – 1:00 pm.
And
The Jazz Aesthetic: The Next Moment for Black Theatre for panel with Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
August 12, 2011 from 5:15pm – 6:45pm.
I’ll be giving a keynote speaker 5:15PM 8/10/11
LGBTQ ATHE pre-conference gathering: A Queerer Time, A Queerer Place: Memory, Archives, Testimony, History. Details HERE.
More about ATHE HERE.
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I will be facilitating creative process with Naked Stages at Pillsbury House in MLPS July 28-Aug 2, 2011. Naked Stages is a development program for emerging artists under the direction of Laurie Carlos. More www.pillsburyhousetheatre.org/PillsburyHouseTheatre/NakedStages/tabid/2253/Default.aspx HERE.
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I will be presenting June 20-24 Evanston IL
Black Feminist Performance Summer Institute
Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University.
Details HERE.
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I’ll be participating in C. C. Carter’s Butch Bois Chronicles
Friday, June 3rd 6PM
Mexican Museum of Fine Art, Chicago, IL
Produced by POW-WOW and Chicago Foundation for Women Lesbian Leadership Council.
More HERE.
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I will be doing a short reading at:
dandelions in the concrete: a night of healing art and creative interventions
DePaul University, SAC pit (Schmidt Academic Center at 2320 N. Kenmore Ave)
Building Communities, Ending Violence invites you to a night for collective healing and transformation through storytelling, art, music, performances, poetry & an open mic.
Free and open to the public. Dinner will be served.
Friday, May 13th, 2011
5-7 p.m. — Enjoy art-making station! View awesome art displays by local artists! Free and fun photobooth! Sliding-scale massage! Aromatherapy! Information tables!
7-10 p. m. — Open mic and performances featuring Sharon Bridgforth, Aleya Crable, Misty DeBerry, Jessica Havens, Laila Farah, among other community members, performers, poets and artists!
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I will be doing a reading at Oberlin College
8pm at Afrikan Heritage House on Thursday May 5th.
Details sooncome.
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I’ll be on panel with K Bradford and friends at the community dialogue and screening of K’s film White Out: the Outing of Whiteness 5/2 7PM-8PM at Columbia College – Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan, 1st Floor.
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.
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I am the 2010 2012 Visiting Multicultural Faculty Member for The Theatre School at DePaul University (TTS).
I am the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic Institute (2011 – 2012), produced by The Theatre School at DePaul and Links Hall. Details HERE.
In addition to teaching at TTS DePaul, Winter quarter, 2012, I had the honor of teaching a Solo Performance Course at the University of Chicago, Theatre and Performance Studies. More HERE.
