This podcast series documents the adventures/creative work/crazy friends and fun On da Road with touring artist Sharon Bridgforth. "I've been creating ongoing long term relationships with artists/communities and organizations around the country since 1993. My aim with this series is to share some of my creative process/collaborative conversations/and brilliant peeps as I wind round the country On da Road." For more go to: http://sharonbridgforth.com
This clip is of Sharon Bridgforth reading at The Austin Project's 11/12/10 Experiments In A Jazz Aesthetic Book Par’tay at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco. ; The book is published by University of Texas Press, and is Edited by Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Dr. Lisa Lynn Moore and Sharon Bridgforth. More about the book at: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/jonexe.html
This clip is from: The Theatre School at DePaul University production of blood pudding Written & Directed by Sharon Bridgforth Featuring: McKenzie Chinn, Celeste M. Cooper, Alex Hardaway, Cory Kahane, Ariel Rubin and Jamila Turner. Assistant Director: Robert Dieringer Choreographer: Ni’Ja Whitson Composers: Alex Hardaway & Jamila Turner. Vocal Consultant: Mankwe Ndosi Stage Manager: Jean E. Compton. Assistant Stage Manager: Benjamin Ross. Designers: Constance Lee, Tierra Novy, and Kaitlyn Myer...
This clip is from ;blood pudding NYC SummerStage show, Springfield Park, Queens. 7/24/10. For more go to: http://sharonbridgforth.com. 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.
Leigh Gaymon-Jones, Program Specialist at Urban Roots (Austin, TX) give tips on sustainable living/and information about the sustainable agriculture work Urban Roots does with youth. For more go to: http://www.youthlaunch.org
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. The work will premiere at the South Dallas Cultural Center 10/15 – 10/17 2010. The DiverseWorks show will be in their 2011 season.. 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 perform...
I had the opportunity to interview my publisher/the one and only Lisa C. Moore! Lisa is the founder and editor of RedBone Press, which publishes work celebrating the culture of black lesbians and gay men and promoting understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream. http://redbonepress.com Lisa is also one of the founders of Fire & Ink Writers Festival for GLBT People of African Descent. http://fireandink.org
Chicana playwright Virginia Grise is winner of the Yale Playwriting Prize, and is currently a Jerome Fellow at The Playwrights Center in MLPS. Check out more about Virginia at: http://www.panzamonologues.com
tAP member/Actress/Poet/Two time Slam Champion Ebony Stewart has a new book titled, The Many Faces Of She & a new CD titled, The Chrysalis. I was able to interview Ebony on 2/24/10, while hanging in Austin. For more on Ebony go to: http://ebpoetry.com. Meanwhile check out this clip of my homegurl....
This video is from a series of interviews that I (Sharon Bridgforth) 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, “The President has got to stand firm, but he's going to need a lot of help. We need to get all the young people that were helpful in getting the President in that position. You’ve got to now go back and help him. Lets have an amendmen...
11/20 & 11/21 2009 I had a blast Conducting the audience at Northwestern University in reading delta dandi with me. The performance was part of the solo/black/woman series presented by the departments of Performance Studies and Theatre, and funded in part with a grant from Mellon Foundation. I learned a LOT about what I need to do to move the piece forward. I am proud to have been the Fall 2009 Artist-In-Residence at Northwestern's Performance Studies! 2010 came in off da chain ya'll!
