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Kirkland Project artist-in-residence Sharon Bridgforth and her daughter, Sonja Perryman, will perform "word orchestrations/for two," a staged reading featuring jazz/conjuring/word rhythms/blues/prayers on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center at Hamilton College. The event is free and open to the public. 

Bridgforth is the author of the bull-jean stories, performance stories published by RedBone Press.  the bull-jean stories received the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for best book by a small press.  As a touring artist Bridgforth has presented her work nationally at the prestigious Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, The Theatre Offensive Out on The Edge Festival in Boston, LaPena in Berkeley, CA., The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and many other venues around the country. 

Bridgforth's script, "no mo blues," received a nomination for the Osborn Award (sponsored by the American Theatre Critic's Association) in 1997; she is an eligible participant in the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: Artists & Communities residency partner for the millennium; and she has been granted a N.E.A. commission to write a new work for Frontera @ Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX. Bridgforth is a N.E.A./T.C.G. playwright in residence at Frontera for 1999/2000. Her newest performance piece, titled con flama, received the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund Award in support of Frontera's premiere of con flama and the collaboration between Bridgforth (playwright), Laurie Carlos (director) and Lourdes Perez (composer).
Sonja Perryman is a student at New York University's Tisch School for Performing Arts drama department/Lee Strasberg Studio.  Perryman is the singer on Bridgforth's the bull-jean stories cd and was the featured singer at the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center's staged reading of Bridgforth's show, con flama, presented in 2001.

For more information, please call the Kirkland Project at 859-4288.
       

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