Saturday March 28, 2009, 9pm Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St.
We invite you to a forum for progressive artist/activists: A series of experiments in jazz music, dance, spoken word, & cinema. This session will feature award-winning author & artist/activist sharon bridgforth.
Rooted in the tradition of improvisation, revolution, and blues, Conjure is a sovereign site for artistic/exploratory/spiritual collaboration, expression, and rejuvenation. Each jam session will highlight the “Afrological improvised music” of the 3 Jazz Collective along with a featured spoken word performer, dancer, and filmmaker inspired by the jazz aesthetic. Conjure will also feature an open mike for conscious/radical artists/activists/performers to improvise/collaborate with the sounds of the 3 Jazz Collective.
Throughout the series, we will celebrate/recognize/honor through artistic revelation/expression the resistance and revolutionary creativity of warrior women and men from John Coltrane and Joe Henderson to George Jackson, Assata Shakur, and local warriors such Ana Sisnett and raúlrsalinas.
“my work has been labeled; performance art, linked stories, poetry, experimental fiction, plays…i call it jazz. i write performance literature/work that is polyphonic in its design, rendering a vivified return of the art of storytelling to an African-American experience of art. the jazz of my work assumes that art and Life are not separate; that artists are responsible to community; that art is about innovation; that visual art, movement, music, dramatic interpretation, poetic voice, ritual, Prayer and the human Spirit must be presented simultaneously to make a story come alive; that working within a polyrhythmic storytelling form/as jazz-is a traditional African-American practice; that the purpose of this art is to serve the revolution of Spirit; that the reader/audience is a responsible witness-participant in the process of the work’s coming alive”… sharon bridgforth
a salmonrojo production.
3 Jazz collective: Joao Costa Vargas – bass
Phillipe Vieux – baritone, tenor, & soprano saxophones
Kevin Witt – drums
www.myspace.com/3jazzcollective