Micia Sports her “Educator” Hat as She Heads to Hampshire and Hollins
August 19, 2010 by Nursha
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As the summer slowly comes to an end and co-eds return to school, Micia heads to college!
In connection to her work through the Lecture Bureau, Micia will be performing an excerpt of her one-woman show, Where My Girls At?* and facilitating identity-based wo
rkshops for college students!
*Written and Performed by Micia Mosely
Directed by Tamilla Woodard
Produced by Shalonda Ingram
A Nursha Project Production
EVENT DETAILS
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
Sunday, September 5th, 2010 at 2pm
Amherst, Massachusetts
FREE
For more information, click here.
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY
Monday, September 6th, 2010 at 7pm
Frances Niederer Auditorium
Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Roanoke, Virginia
Tickets: $5
For more information, click here.
Micia Mosely in a BLISS(ful) Place
August 11, 2010 by Nursha
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BLISS Weekend announces events, performers, and artists, and this year, NPA Micia Mosely will be performing at the Oasis for Women of Color!
BLISS Weekend Details
September 30th-October 3rd, 2010
Palm Springs, California
Join Micia Mosely, NP Collaborator Mona Webb, and a lineup of other talented artists at the Artist Showcase.
BLISS Artist Showcase
Friday, October 1st, 2010
7-8:30pm
Hotel Zoso
Palm Springs
To purchase tickets or learn more, click here.
Events
August 5, 2010 by Nursha
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The Events Archive Page documents Nursha Project Productions that have just been missed. Check out descriptions and images from recent events:
Micia Mosely & Friends is a series of performances intended to provide audience members a sneak peek into Micia’s newest project, Get Into It! Micia Mosely & Friends is a fund-raising initiative to help with the cultivation and development of the show. If you would like to donate to this project, or other Nursha Project initiatives, you’re welcomed to via:
Credit Card, click here.
Make Checks Payable to Nursha Project and mail to:
Nursha Project (East)
748 Putnam Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11221
MEMO: “Get Into It!” (or the Nursha Project Production of your choosing)
Cash may also be donated during the Micia Mosely & Friends performances.
Micia Mosely&Friends At Nuyorican Poets Cafe; July 18, 2010
Images by: S. Torho
Artists
August 3, 2010 by Nursha
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milDRED
Notable Quotes
“A lean, sinuous woman, milDRED Gerestant is a charismatic performer, brimming with raw talent, high energy and a gentle, winning charm. Using a blend of poetry, dance, music and monologue, she explores the fragile, fluid definitions of sexual identity and cultural stereotypes…Gerestant is a trickster. Watching her channel her characters produces a strange sensation. As her costumes change, we witness transformation by degree, an experience that not only challenges our assumptions but also teases us with an uneasy feeling of dislocation. Just as we settle into one character, Gerestant pulls a quick change and sends us looking for another label.”
- Mark Muro, Anchorage Daily News
“From Flip Wilson as Geraldine to Martin Lawrence as Sheneneh, men have made tons of money as drag performers. Now it’s the women’s turn, and one of the world’s leading character actors is Haitian-American milDRED Gerestant, the artist formerly known as DRED.”
- Port of Harlem Magazine
“At “Divercity,” … the Haitian-American star actress DRED Love created a remarkable gender collage in motion… out of a trunkload of hairpieces, costumes, props, and sexy, dead-on body language . With muscles and curves… goatee, and a surprise between her shapely legs, she danced a manifesto of freedom and self-respect.”
- Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Village Voice
“milDRED Gerestant’s own act is a gender-bending roller coaster ride alternating between man and woman, outrageous and serious, ironic and sincere. It also preaches the message of self-love as if Eddie Murphy were to perform Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues… milDRED Gerestant uses sexuality as a departure point to preach the message of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity. While a lot of her act uses hilarity to demonstrate that femininity and masculinity are not set in stone, she hopes that once her audiences realize the multiplicity of beings in themselves, the various shades of man and woman that is in all of us, regardless of sex, then we are more apt to realize and accept all the myriad differences of those around us.”
- The Korean Herald
Awards and Recognitions
2009 OUTMusic’s Spirit Award
GO Magazine’s “100 Women We Love“
Two-time Recipient of The Field’s Artward Bound Artist in Residency
Projects
August 3, 2010 by Nursha
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“Children of the Last Days”
Written and Performed by Thandiwe Thomas deShazor
Directed by Norman Gee
Produced by Shalonda Ingram
A Nursha Project Production
Notable Quotes
“Afro Solo won’t be ‘Last Days’ for gifted performer!”
-Kevin Thomas, examiner.com
Links to Full-Length Articles
“Where My Girls At?”
Written and Performed by Micia Mosely
Directed by Tamilla Woodard
Produced by Shalonda Ingram
A Nursha Project Production
Notable Quotes
“Where My Girls At?, written and performed by the talented Micia Mosely, is a laugh-out-loud comedy that pushes the envelope in too many ways to describe…Where My Girls At? is a great night out and a shining example of what a talented and flexible mind can do when given the freedom.”
-New York Amsterdam News
“Where My Girls At? was a rich multi-layered experience that provided a dissertation into being black and lesbian including having the audience rate by applause which of the “contestants” was the most black, which was the most “womanly” and which was the most “lesbian”. I didn’t stop laughing during this whirlwind performance by an extremely talented artist. As a matter of fact it wasn’t until I sat down to write this review that I noticed the “medicine” of this show was so cleverly hidden in the candy.”
-D.C. Theatre Scene
Awards and Recognitions
2009 New York Innovative Theater Award Nominee for Best Solo Performance
Links to Full-Length Articles
Get Into It
August 2, 2010 by Nursha
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Join Nursha Project in launching our newest production, Get Into It! Written and produced in a talk-show format, Get Into It will delve into topics relating to health, wealth, and prosperity. The purpose of the the project is to document and share the experiences of transnational pop-culturalism in real-time through the kaleidoscope of arts, entertainment, social, political, historical, and environmental media. Community members will be encouraged to express current and ever changing experiences that reflect their hyper-local social experiences.
Based in New York City with satellite correspondents throughout the United States and eventually, Europe and Africa, Get Into It will engage underrepresented populations; tweens, independent artists, communities of color and their allies, as well as micro-enterprise developers who are taste-makers in their respective markets. Performance artists, health-care workers, community-organizers, 
technology widget users, social media fanatics, students, and educators will also be targeted.
Get Into It will be hosted by Nursha Project Artist Micia Mosely, Ph.D. Independent and mainstream artists of traction will also be highlighted in the capacity of band membership, correspondence and scripted skits.
To donate to Get Into It or other Nursha Project initiatives, you’re welcomed to via:
Credit Card, click here.
Checks can be made payable to Nursha Project and mailed to:
Nursha Project (East)
748 Putnam Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11221
MEMO: “Get Into It!” (or any NP Production of your choosing)
Also, cash donations my be made at any Nursha Project Event.
Stay tuned for more details!
Nursha Project Launches New Partnership
August 2, 2010 by Nursha
Filed under Nursha Project Events, Nursha World Featured Content
Coming soon….
Join Nursha Project as it partners with Mat Heggem on a new initiative, Queer Arts Impact. QAI will feature programs such as Come As You Are (New York), a series around queer sex, among other flavorful, eye-opening, jaw-dropping, colorful events.
Stay tuned for more details…
milDRED Goes to Penn State
August 2, 2010 by Nursha
Filed under Community Events & News, Nursha World Featured Content
NPA milDRED lectures and performs at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)!
October 12th and 13th, 2010
Penn State
University Park, Pennsylvania
On the evening of Tuesday October 12th, 2010, milDred performs at the HUB Auditorium (which is in the HUB-Robeson Center) at 7pm and on Wednesday October 13th, 2010, attends the rally at the Old Main Steps starting at 12pm.
Stay tuned for details at http://www.sa.psu.edu/lgbt/
A Night of Three Goddesses Returns
August 2, 2010 by Nursha
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Join three Goddesses, milDRED Gerestant, Sokhna Heathyre Mabin, and Tantra Zawadi as they present encores of their hit performance piece, “A Night of Three Goddesses” at various New York City venues.
EVENT DETAILS
September 16, 2010
Michael Geffner’s Spoken York Night!
Le Poisson Rouge in the West Village (downstairs gallery)
158 Bleecker Street, NYC
7PM Ticket:$10
Must be 21 years or older – Please bring ID
February 2011
“A Night of Three Goddesses” at La Mama Experimental Theater!
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club
74A East 4th Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
East Village, New York City 10003
Stay tuned for exact dates!
“A Night of Three Goddesses” is an evening featuring three solo woman shows filled with music, dance/movement, poetry, and more!: 1) “I Transcender: The Gender Expression of Haitian Gods and Goddesses” (c) 2010. Created by MilDred Gerestant, the artist formerly known as DRED. Choreographed by the fabulous and talented Sokhna Heathyre Mabin!!! ”I Transcender: The Gender Expression of Haitian Gods and Goddesses” is a mix of dance, poetry and music experiencing the spiritual dance expressions of the fabulous Haitian God/desses: sexy Danbala, cross dressing Baron Samedi and beautiful Erzulie. 2) Tantra Zawadi presents, “Soldier Blues” An exploration through words, the blues, and movement of the battlefield of the soul and heart. and 3) Sokhna Heathyre Mabin presents “Snapshots from the Underground Forest,” a choreocollage of how this sister deals with betrayal, abandonment, revelation, joy, birth, healing & maintenance to a higher level of being.
To watch an excerpt from the show, click on the video below:
Join Us For Another Installation of Micia Mosely & Friends
August 2, 2010 by Nursha
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If you missed last month’s edition of Micia Mosely & Friends at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, here is another opportunity to catch Micia Mosely and some of her favorite artists as they celebrate the summer and share a sneak peak into, and donation opportunity for Micia’s newest project. This installment of Micia Mosely & Friends features performances by Ganessa James (Folk/Rock/Soul), Jennifer Johns (Singer/Songwriter/Spoken Word), and Kid Lucky (Da Beath Rhymer). This Nursha Project Production is not to be missed!
EVENT DETAILS
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 East 3rd Street (Between Avenue B & C)
New York, New York
Doors open at 7p, followed by Open Mic and show at 7:30p
Tickets: $10; To purchase, click here.
Micia Mosely & Friends is a fund-raising initiative to help with the cultivation and development of Micia’s newest project, Get Into It. If you are interested in donating to this project, or other Nursha Project initiatives, you’re welcomed to via:
Credit Card, click here.
Make Checks Payable to Nursha Project and mail to:
Nursha Project (East)
748 Putnam Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11221
MEMO: “Get Into It!” (or the Nursha Project Production of your choosing)
Cash may also be donated during the Micia Mosely & Friends performances, or at any Nursha Project initiative.
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