9pm Saturday Feb. 27, 2010, Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St., Austin, Tejas

CONJURE: Calling up the Spirit of Struggle, Resistance, & Liberation. 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/activist sharon bridgforth, Chicana performance artist/cultural worker Virginia Grise, & dance/body movement by Czarina Aggabao Thelen

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 3Collective along with a featured spoken word performer, dancer, and filmmaker inspired by the jazz aesthetic.

“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”…sharonbridgforth