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Indigenous Identity in Diaspora Series Presents Sharon Bridgforth
Wednesday, 05/07/08 17:00 - 19:00
  • Indigenous Identity in Diaspora presents a public reading by Sharon Bridgforth, performance/novelist
  • Reception to follow
Don't miss this public reading by Sharon Bridgforth, the Lambda Award winning author of the bull-jean stories (RedBone Press), and love conjure/blues, a performance/novel published by RedBone Press. She is the Anchor Artist for The Austin Project which is sponsored by The Center For African And African American Studies, UT Austin. Her work delta dandi was the recipient of the National Performance Network Creation Fund Award. Bridgforth has broken ground in the creation and presentation of the performance/novel and in doing so has advanced the articulation of the Jazz aesthetic as it lives in theatre. Her work has fostered the study of Black lesbian performance literature in academic settings. Bridgforth developed method of facilitating creative writing called Finding Voice, encourages writers to use the page as a canvas; to use identity-culture-memory-family histories-dreams to articulate and examine the socio-political realities of their lives in a form that is part poetry, part oral history, part performance art; to work in community as they use art as a vehicle for social justice. Reception to follow.
Sponsoring group: Co-sponsored by MEChA & The Guiding Concilio del Centro Chicano, The Program in Creative Writing, The LGBT Community Resource Center, Department of Drama, Center for Studies in Race & Ethnicity, Native American Studies, Native American Cultural Center, Wo
Event location
Roble Gym, Room 33
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URL for Newsletter: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/femstudies/diaspora