Old school activism at it’s finest! PA has put forward a letter writing campaign and he is driving around metro Atlanta displaying his sign/and his passion for Democracy.
The sign says:
The young and the old will save the boomers! Obama 08. Yes they can. Yes they will.
I am 83 set me free!
Nov. 4th
PA sent my daughter and I copies of some of the letters he mailed. Here are a few excerpts:
“…my race is Homosapien (Human), my ethnicity is Afro-American Indian and my nationality is American! I was born October 1, 1925 in Taft, Muskogee, Oklahoma on a Creek Indian Feedman Tract (160 Acres) along the Arkansas River. By the way I am a World War 11 Veteran, a College Graduate, who fought for something I am still Longing for!!”
“…It has taken me 83+ years to discover that Democracy in American does not work!! In principle it is the most beautiful set of precepts known to us!! But, sad to say they are not practised, and the whole world knows it!! What also is not generally known is that many of said precepts were borrowed from the Native Americans already living here!! As my years are waning and our Democratic Presidential candidate needs all the help he can get, I must try to do what I can and have my say!…”
Thats my PA. Ellwyn Keith Perryman. Father/grandfather/family elder/leader/thinker/always ahead of his times…..Always proud/always
showing us the way….telling it like it I T is!
Right on PA
ROCK YOUR VOTE
loudly!
Tonya Engel has given us permission to use one of her pieces for the
promotional image for the delta dandi premiere.
WAIT TILL YOU SEE IT YA’LL!! (I’ll be posting the promo poster soon)….
Meanwhile
Sonja, Daniel and I visited Tonya’s studio in Brooklyn. She is having an opening tomorrow….
Check her out tonyaengel.com
allgo and The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin
PRESENTED A Staged Reading of delta dandi
Written/Conducted by Sharon Bridgforth
Jen Margulies - Dramaturg
Featuring: Florinda Bryant, Monique Cortez, Andrea Edgerson, Karla Legaspy, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Leah Sellers
Sunday October 19, 3PM Win. 2.180
We had a packed house/great conversation with the audience after/and delightful goodies at the reception afterwards. Photo Credit: Cheryl Coward.
For more information and to find out about the upcoming 1/9 & 1/10 PREMIERE of delta dandi click HERE
I’ll be facilitating a workshop for Austin Script Works…
Dramatis Personae Workshop
TRANSGRESSING FORM
A workshop facilitated by Sharon Bridgforth
Saturday, October 18, 2008
10AM - 12:30PM
State Theatre
719 Congress Ave.
ASW $15 / General $25
INFO/RESERVATIONS:
512.454.9727; christi AT scriptworks DOT org
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allgo (Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization) and The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin
PRESENT
A Staged Reading of *delta dandi
Written/Conducted by Sharon Bridgforth
Jen Margulies - Dramaturg
Featuring: Florinda Bryant, Monique Cortez, Andrea Edgerson, Karla Legaspy, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Leah Sellers
Sunday October 19, 3PM Win. 2.180
University of Texas, Austin Theatre Building (21st & San Jacinto)
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/win.html
(donations accepted at the door)
*Women & Their Work will present the delta dandi premiere at the Long Center 1/9 & 1/10 2009 with support from allgo (Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization) and The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin
Featuring: Helga Davis, Baraka de Soleil, Florinda Bryant & Sonja Perryman, Monique Cortez, Andrea Edgerson, Karla Legaspy, Leigh Gaymon-Jones, Azure D. Osborne-Lee and Leah Sellers. Conducted by Sharon Bridgforth
*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 
This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
I can’t believe we finished our Work already….These wy’mn are AMAZING!!
Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of the Claremont Colleges
presented TWO consecutive evenings of
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 presented a staged reading of *delta dandi
for more on that click HERE
AUDITIONS: For Performance Mentorship Opportunity
Noon to 3PM | October 11, 2008
AUSTIN, TX | Location TBA
Contact sharon AT sharonbridgforth dot com for more information or to schedule an audition.
CASTING FOR SHARON BRIDGFORTH’S NEWEST WORK delta dandi.
NEEDED: Three singers, three dancers, two actors.
Bridgforth is looking for Austin based emerging artists who are available/interested in working as a mentee (no pay) to perform in a Staged Reading of delta dandi (10/19) and to work in supporting roles with the delta dandi premiere cast.
Must be available to work:
10/12 2PM - 6PM
10/13, 10/14, 10/15, 10/17 6:30PM - 9PM
10/18. 2PM-6PM
10/19Noon - 5:30
AND
(times TBA): 12/28 - 1/10
The delta dandi Staged Reading is sponsored by allgo (Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization) and The Center for African and African American Studies University of Texas Austin.
*Women & Their Work will present the delta dandi premiere at the Long Center 1/9 & 1/10 2009 Featuring: Helga Davis, Baraka de Soleil, Florinda Bryant & Sonja Perryman. Conducted by Sharon Bridgforth. DETAILS SOON COME
Written by Sharon Bridgforth, *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
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…
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