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Sharon Bridgforth is reading in NYC on December 16th

Book release party 12/16/10 in New York City
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic
Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project
6PM – 8PM at New Dramatists
424 West 44th Street,
New York, New York 10036
Readers include:
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Monique Cortez, Carole Metellus, Angela Kariotis, Jaclyn Pryor, Ana Maurine Lara.
Please RSVP by calling 212-757-6960.
This event is free. Books will be available for sale.

In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin Project (tAP), which meets annually in order to provide a space for women of color and their allies to build relationships based on trust, creativity, and commitment to social justice by working together to write and perform work in the jazz aesthetic.

Inspired by this experience, this book is both an anthology of new writing and a sourcebook for those who would like to use creative writing and performance to energize their artistic, scholarly, and activist practices. Theoretical and historical essays by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones describe and define the African American tradition of art-making known as the jazz aesthetic, and explain how her own work in this tradition inspired her to start tAP.