Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor Performs in 12th Annual National Queer Arts Festival: June 3rd and 20th

Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor will be appearing as a special guest of Philip Haung at the 2009 NQAF at the Garage All Stars on June 3rd, and performing stand up at the Black and Tan Fantasy Festival June 20th. Queer Cultural Center Presents: NQAF 2009.  This steady on the ready Nursha Project is doing big things and making noise.  With new publicity photos taken by Bethanie Hines get ready to see a whole lot of Thandiwe.

June 3rd; 8PM
The Garage All Stars Part 1
@ The Garage
$10-$20
Buy Tickets on-line:
www.brownpapertickets.com

June 20th, 7PM
@Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory
$12-$20
Buy Tickets on-line:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66741

QCC stages an annual month-long multidisciplinary National Queer Arts Festival which highlights significant Bay Area Queer arts events and provides services to emerging culturally-specific and gender-specific queer arts groups.  A program that to date has commissioned more than 60 San Franscisco-based artists to create new work.  Since 1988, QCC has organized this annual festival.  These festivals have presented more than 400 different evnets feeturing over 2000 Queer artists.  The 2008 Festival attracted more than 65,000 people.

Red Summer: Author, Host, Poet, Vocalist & Educator

RED SUMMER is a Jane-of-all-trades. With her background in Musical Theater, interdisciplinary Art, Song-Writing, Spoken word Poetry, Film Production and both secondary and Post Secondary Education, Red Summer is a force to be reckoned with. Most recently, Red has been traveling the United States on a promotional book tour for her collection of poetry entitled First Person. She has also made time to try her hand at slam poetry and has taken home several first place titles. To learn more about Red Summer visit www.twofingerspress.com

Dawn Robinson: Dancer & Choreographer

DAWN ROBINSON is originally from Dallas, Texas where she studied at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She holds a BFA from the University of Utah in Modern Dance. In 1996 she moved to San Francisco and had the pleasure of performing with Della Davidson Dance, Dance Repertory San Francisco, Liss Fain Dance, Company Chaddick and the hip hop dance company SoulForce. Since moving to New York in 2003 she has performed with Nia Love’s Blacksmith’s Daughter and is currently in her 3rd year with Nicholas Leichter Dance. Dawn has taught and choreographed for dance programs in Texas, California, Utah and North Carolina. For the last 3 years she has been developing solo work and has been presented in New York at Dance New Amsterdam, WOW Café Theater and New York City Center.  To learn more about Dawn visit www.nldnyc.org

THANDIWE THOMAS DeSHAZOR: Writer, Actor, Vocalist & Host

THANDIWE THOMAS DeSHAZOR is a writer, actor and vocalist originally from Detroit. He is a member of The Pan Theater Improv Troupe and teaches improv workshops to youth around Oakland. He premiered his one-man show, Children of the Last Days, in June as a part an artist-in-residence program at The Garage on Howard Street in San Francisco. In December 2008, under the management of the Nursha Project™, premiered his one person show, “Children of the Last Days” at the Oakland Noodle Factory.

Micia Mosely: Actor & Playwright

Micia Mosely: Actor & Playwright

Micia Mosely has been an entertainer her whole life.  She fuses a unique blend of hipness, humor, political astuteness, and versatility in all of her performances.

Micia’s desire to surpass the boundaries of the ordinary led to her create “Sistahfriends: A Black Lesbian Puppet Experience” and to co-found Nappy Grooves, an all-Black drag king troupe.

During the past 10 years, she has displayed her perfect comedic timing through stand up and as an emcee for numerous events throughout the nation.

In May of 2006, Micia joined forces with Nursha Project^TM and debuted her one-woman show, “Where My Girls At?: A Comedic Look at Black Lesbians .”

She is currently touring her show nationally, performing stand up comedy, acting with Winceyco Entertainment group and traveling comedic-speaker with The Lecture Bureau.