Poets and Playwrights presents Like Jazz A Reading by Poet and Playwright Sharon Bridgforth

Event Date

Friday, February 5 2010 : 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Location

The Center

Description

Friday, February 5, 2010
Reception 6PM, Program 6:30PM, $10
Poets and Playwrights presents Like Jazz A Reading by Poet and Playwright Sharon Bridgforth

Lambda Literary Award winning author and playwright Sharon Bridgforth will present a reading of her work: covering topics such as jazz, blues, prayer poems and performance stories.

Bridgforth’s work has fostered the study of Black lesbian performance literature in academic settings. Her work has been taught in universities across the country including Northwestern University, University of California at Berkely, University of Texas at Austin, and Princeton University.

Bio
New Dramatists member, Sharon Bridgforth is a two-time Alpert Award Nominee and recipient of the 2008 Alpert/Hedgebrook Residency Prize. She is Fall 2009 Artist In-Residence in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Bridgforth is listed in the Campus Pride 2009 “HOT LIST” — Top 25 Favorite LGBT Artists, Speakers, Lecturers, Music Acts, Comedians, Activists & Much More. Her work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts Commissioning Program; The National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Playwright in Residence Program; National Performance Network Commissioning Fund; the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media; and the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund Award. Bridgforth is the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning, the bull-jean stories and love conjure/blues, a performance/novel. Both books are published by RedBone Press. She is an affiliate of The Austin Project, sponsored by The John L. Warfield Center For African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin (CAAAS). Bridgforth’s Finding Voice Facilitation Manuel will be published in, Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project, edited by Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Director, CAAAS, Associate Professor, Department of Theater and Dance U.T. Austin; Dr. Lisa L. Moore, Associate Professor, English and Women’s and Gender Studies, U.T. Austin; and Bridgforth (Summer, 2010 by University of Texas Press). For more go to: sharonbridgforth.com.