Who Yo People Is
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Who Yo People Is
Hosted by Sharon Bridgforth, this series features intimate conversations with artists whose work and artistic practices are rooted in serving our communities through healing/creative/Spiritual and cultural traditions - centered in Love.
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Bonus Track - Florinda Bryant
Florinda is an interdisciplinary artist, activist and educator that I’ve been art-family with since 1998. Here she talks about tending not only to her...
Episode 36 - Mankwe Ndosi
Influenced by nature, the earth, Spirit and early experiences with Douglas R. Ewart and Laurie Carlos. Mankwe says she found herself in Fred Anderson’...
Episode 35 - Renita Martin
In this conversation Renita speaks about being from Terry Mississippi/feeling the Angels, Ancestors, animal Life and Trees playing “all up in my head....
Episode 34 - Aimee K. Bryant
Aimee speaks of being from Detroit, raised southerners that migrated there. A founding company member of Congo Square Theatre Company in Chicago, Aime...
Episode 33 - Sonja Parks
Sonja Parks has stayed true to her spirit by staying free, curious and expansively true to who she is professionally and in Life. After being an outsi...
Episode 32 - Stacey Karen Robinson
Stacey Karen Robinson shares that her work is “about the emotional and Spirit-Life of Black FOLX.” She speaks about walking with the Ancestors - being...
Episode 31 - End of Season 2/Honoring Diane Rodriguez
Today we honor anthologized writer, regional theatre director, and Off-Broadway Obie Award winning performer Diane Rodriguez. Diane transitioned April...
Episode 30 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs
An academic guided by intellectual practices inspired by Black liberation and Love, Alexis is a 2020-21 National Humanities Center Fellow. She says sh...
Episode 29 - Sangodare
Sangodare speaks of learning how to sermonize, study, have critical analysis, deep thinking about sacred texts/and how to have integrity as a spiritua...
Episode 28 - Amara Tabor-Smith
Amara speaks of having family members who were Seers/that didn't talk about it - and how she learned to navigate her own Seeing. She names that we are...
Episode 27 - gina Breedlove
gina talks about the grief work that she currently does as being rooted in her people's histories of keening and wailing/as a way to move grief...grie...
Episode 26 - Ron Ragin
Ron shares some of his Journey growing up in Perry, Georgia being from story telling historians who primed him to be a critical thinker with things li...
Episode 25 - Rebecca Mwase
Rebecca speaks about: coming from deep connection to Spirit; growing up African in rural Arkansas; navigating belonging; finding fortitude through lit...
Episode 24 - Stephanie McKee
Stephanie speaks about: being from singers and medicine people; growing through self-doubt imposed by the public school system; creating life-long fr...
Episode 23 - E. Patrick Johnson
I am proud to share my conversation with one of the most Beloved artist/scholar/community members of our times - Dr. E. Patrick Johnson! Patrick talks...
Episode 22 - Nick Slie
I am proud to offer this conversation with my Soul Brotha, Nick Slie. Here, Nick shares some of his Cajun family history as he speaks of being Spiritu...
Episode 21 - Lisa C. Moore
In this conversation Lisa speaks of growing up in a Louisiana based family with a long history of music and education traditions. She shares her Journ...
Episode 20 - Alicia Bauman-Morales
Alicia Bauman-Morales is an Oakland born Boricua tomboi, a queer woman, a dancer/organizer/performer/trouble maker. During our conversation Alicia bri...
Episode 19 - Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
"Who Yo People Is" jingle sanga, episode editor, season 2 producer - my daughter - Sonja Perryman is Guest Host for this episode!! Sonja interviews my...
Diane Rodriguez
As a long time fan of Diane Rodriquez's work, grace, tenacity, generosity and passion driven service/I am thrilled to share our conversation. During o...
Episode 17 - Ananya Chatterjea
Ananya Chatterjea is Ananya Dance Theatre founder, artistic director, choreographer, dancer. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Choreography Fellow, 2012 McKnig...
Episode 16 - Alexis De Veaux
Alexis De Veaux, Ph.D, is one of a stellar list of American writers highlighted by LIT CITY, a public art initiative of banners bearing their names an...
Episode 15 - Daniel Alexander Jones, Pt. 2
A critically acclaimed, award winning artist, Daniel Alexander Jones is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow. In this interview Daniel speaks about: some of his m...
Episode 14 - Daniel Alexander Jones Pt. 1
Daniel Alexander Jones exemplifies the artist as energy worker. Daniel’s wildflower body of original work includes plays, performance pieces, recorded...
Season 2/BONUS TRACK
Hosted by Sharon Bridgforth, Who Yo People Is features conversations with artists whose Work and artistic practices are rooted in serving our communit...
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Hosted by Sharon Bridgforth, "Who Yo People Is" features conversations with artists whose Work and artistic practices are rooted in serving our commun...
Episode 10 With Marjani Forte-Saunders
In this conversation Marjani speaks about revolutionary Blackness; taping into the prayers that have been prayed for us; the alchemy of Black folks fi...
Virginia Grise and Misha Chowdhury
In this conversation Virginia Grise & Shayok Misha Chowdhury talk about longing, Love and the Moon…migration histories…shared lineages…real time colla...
Episode 08 - Ebony Noelle Golden
In this episode Ebony Noelle Golden speaks of being from People who fight for justice and practice Love as action . . . Love in the DNA, and Seeing at...
NiJa Whitson Episode
In this episode Ni'Ja talks about forgiveness, Love and healing…finding home on a cellular level…the functions of nomadism….and the work of exploring...
Episode 06 - D'Lo
In this episode, D’Lo and I are joined by Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones (my wife). The three of us talk about shining light on queer narratives and the w...
Episode 05 - Adelina Anthony
Originally from San Antonio, Tejas, Adelina is the eldest daughter of eight. She grounds her work in Indigenous tenets, especially the practice of sto...
Episode 04 - Samia Abou-Samra
Samia Abou-Samra creates music as Wailing - the cry, the longing prayer to inspire the deepest love. Samia os founder of Whale Wonder: a playspace tha...
Episode 03 - Gabrielle Civil
GABRIELLE CIVIL is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered fifty original performance art works around the...
Episode 02 - Maria Bauman-Morales
Maria Bauman-Morales is a NY-based “Bessie” award winning multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer. With her company, MBDance, Maria presents...
Episode 01 - Series Intro
In this episode, Sharon introduces the series and talks about how it came to be.
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