Micia Mosely and Friends at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
July 2, 2010 by Nursha
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Join Micia Mosely and some of her favorite performers as they celebrate the summer season and give you a sneak peak into Micia’s newest project. Featuring musical and movement performances by Fedel (Hip-Hop/Soul), Ganessa James (Folk/Rock/Soul), and Wendell Cooper (Spoken Word/ Hip-Hop)! This Nursha Project production is not to be missed!! For ticket information, click here .
EVENT DETAILS
A Hot Mess!
June 27, 2010 by Nursha
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Join the A.O. Movement Collective at Second Floor on Clinton for their Hot Mess Hype Party Fundraiser and get the opportunity to be featured in their upcoming work! Not convinced yet? FREE Wine and cheese plus treats from dance/chef extraordinaire, Larissa Sheldon, will be served all night. Come eat, drink, and dance dirty all night long!
EVENT DETAILS:
Monday June 28th, 2010; 6-10pm
Second Floor at Clinton (Above Berrumundi) 
67 Clinton Street (between Rivington and Stanton)
Lower East Side, New York City
TICKETS:
Hundred Club Members get in FREE
$5 for Sarah Lawrence Alums
$5 per person for groups of 5+
$10 General Admission
Attendees will witness the launch of A.O.M.C’s new show card, in addition to the new ultra-limited-edition of A.O.M.C Glam line. Come early enough (before 8pm) and learn a short segment from “90 Ways to Wake” from Drowning , the SLFdstrcTV dance. Footage of club-goers dancing to this piece will be shot and will be part of the Movement Collective’s Joyce Soho show in July!
The Fundraising portion of the evening will feature a silent auction with opportunities to bid on art, goods, and services. Grab a limited edition raffle pin and win a VIP Package to A.O.M.C.’s Joyce Soho Show!
Dress a hot mess, and we’ll see you at the party!
Newsletter
June 15, 2010 by Nursha
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Nursha Project Newsletter Archives 2010
- September 2010: CAYA and HHTF ( PDF )
- August 2010 ( PDF )
- May Dance Collaborations 2010 ( PDF )
- May 2010 ( PDF )
- March 2010 ( PDF )
- January 2010 ( PDF )
Nursha Project Newsletter Archives 2009
Founder
May 28, 2010 by Nursha
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The Founder
Shalonda Ingram
Shalonda Ingram, founder of Nursha Project™ is a strategist, producer, and social entrepreneur committed to transforming the planet via pro-activism and to sociopolitical change via community empowerment and civic, youth, and arts engagement. She also founded Born Brown: All Rights Reserved®, a social enterprise agency that promotes understanding and collaboration among people of color with various origins by countering oppressive media with messaging that evokes self-acceptance and self-love and United States of Consciousness™, a consortium of responsible business to business consumers united by their interest to leverage purchasing power.
In 2005, Shalonda partook in the manifestation of the Bay Area Black United Fund document, “Microloan and Worker Cooperative: A Strategy for Youth Enterprise Development,” which explored microfinance lending for youth entrepreneurs. Shalonda has participated in several college and university panel discussions including Hip Hop and Religion organized by the Department of Performance Studies at New York University and sponsored by Peace Out East, Laney College’s panel on Women of Color and Ethnic Studies, and Providence College’s panel on Human Behavior in Social Systems.
Recently, she moderated the Young Women’s Health and Leadership Summit at the University of California, San Francisco and contributed to a discussion on “Strategizing Social Marketing” in community-based health research at the Black and Latino Student CaucusThird Annual Minority Health Advocacy Conference at the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. In addition to serving as the Producer at Dance Theater Workshop, Shalonda sits on various arts funding councils including the City of Oakland’s Funding Advisory Board and the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrant Program.
In 2009, she was nominated for The Corporation for National & Community Service Eli Segal Award and the New York Innovative Theater Award for the Nursha Project production, Where My Girls At?. Shalonda is continually exploring ways through which she can fulfill her commitment to creative exchange and sustainability in light of infinite possibility.
Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor Performs in 12th Annual National Queer Arts Festival: June 3rd and 20th
May 13, 2009 by Nursha
Filed under Community Events & News, Nursha Project News
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.
Volcano’s Birthright{s} Premieres May 1st, @ The Tank, NY
April 27, 2009 by Nursha
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VOLCANO’S BIRTHRIGHT{S} PREMIERES MAY 1st at The Tank , 3rd floor theater
354 West 45th St. btw 8th and 9th Aves.
Nursha Project is proud to partner with Yvonne and Maija to bring to stage Volcan’s Birthright{s}.
Written and performed by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene and directed by Maija Garcia, Volcano’s Birthright{s} is a one-woman, multi-media theatrical production that fuses poetry, choreography, film and music.
In an intimate setting, this Nigerian dyke poet and daughter of immigrants illuminates her experience of love and heartache, art and activism, culture and roots. Fly spits raw poetry and unleashes uncensored monologue at once seething with rage, deeply humorous and intensely loving…Volcano’s Birthright{s} is bleeding with humanity…In the face of genocide and war, this work asks of itself and the world: are poems enough?
Sat, 05/02/2009 – 7:30pm
Sun, 05/03/2009 – 7:00pm
Sat, 05/09/2009 – 7:30pm
Sun, 05/10/09 – 7:00pm
Admission: $10, (yes- that’s right, only $10, Because we want you all to be there!)
Purchase Tickets
Online : https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/62898
Volcano’s Birthright{s} who’s who…
Poet, Playwright & Performance Artist, Lenelle Moïse describes Fly’s verse as “free, fierce, insightful, romantic, chatty, hilarious, confidential and confident. Her imagery is explosive and precise. In performance, she roars like a renegade, seductively stomps, suspends a moment of searching and always, always inspires. She is flight in progress, a dyke to watch out for, as striking as a butterfly.” Fly is a Nigerian dyke performance activist, poet, dancer, essayist, playwright and actress who was born with a mouth full of dynamite and sugarcane. Fly uses her poetry to chisel a verbal sculpture of her soul for listeners while addressing issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, war, imperialism, love, self esteem and family. Fly has self-published three collections of poetry, toured nationally and performed in over 25 u.s. cities.
Harlem-based movement artist, Maija Garcia is making waves as director of OrganicMagnetics, a transformative theater collaborative binding creativity and sustainability.
Associate choreographer of FELA! A New Musical, premiering on Broadway in 2009, Maija has toured internationally, performing with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company since 2004. Making her directorial debut with Volcano’s Birthright{s}, a multi-media/one-woman play, Garcia’s choreographic works have been staged all over New York City, in La Habana Cuba, San Francisco/Los Angeles CA, and Ann Arbor MI. Maija Garcia teaches classes and facilitates workshops worldwide, sharing a contemporary movement style inspired by afro-latin rhythms, and infused with yoga, martial arts and theater dynamics. http://www.peridance.com/wsdetail.cfm?wsid=281
A sustainable development graduate of California Institute of Integral Studies, Garcia’s work transforms inspiration into activism; building bridges across borders through artistic collaboration.
Organic Magnetics , producer
Organic Magnetics is a living arts collaborative binding creativity and sustainability. OM generates tranformative theater- integrating movement, sound, storytelling, visual and interactive art forms. Our creative process involves collaboration across artistic mediums, working to dissolve borders by building bridges. Live performances and workshops are offered internationally; Engaging social, environmental and cultural dialogue as we create urban folklore for the future. OrganicMagnetics.com up soon!
Nursha Project , production management
Janet Wong , video work
Jessica Paz , sound design
Justin Carty , text animation
Levi Stolove , photography
Joan Racho-Jansen , lighting design
Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya , costume design
And other underground collaborators in the mix…
For More Information, go to:
http://www.thetanknyc.org/theater
If You cannot view image at the top of this page, go to:
www.organicmagnetics.com/volcano.html
Where My Girls At performs at Downtown Urban Theater Festival and SoloArts Festival, NY
April 27, 2009 by Nursha
Filed under Nursha Project Events, Nursha Project News
Its springtime in New York City and Nursha Project feature artist Micia Mosely continues to bring her nationally touring one-woman show “Where’s My Girls At?” to New York City audiences with performances in the Downtown Urban Theater Festival and theTerraNova Collective’s SoloArtsFestival.
Saturday, May 09: 8:30PM @ HERE Arts Center (Downtown Urban Theater Festival)*
145 Sixth Avenue (between Spring and Broome, enter on Dominick)
*Double feature
The below performances are part of the SoloArts Festival
Friday, May 15: 9PM @ Daryl Roth 2 (DR2) Theater 
Saturday, May 16: 4PM @ Daryl Roth 2 (DR2) Theater
Saturday, May 16: 9PM @ Daryl Roth 2 (DR2) Theater
Tuesday, May 19: 9PM @ Daryl Roth 2 (DR2) Theater
Thursday, May 21: 9PM @ Daryl Roth 2 (DR2) Theater
Where My Girls At?”
This hilarious comedy let’s the audience decide which Black Lesbian will fill the last slot on a reality t.v. show for Black women. Audiences will laugh, sing and learn how to be successful in “the club” all in one show. Nationally acclaimed educator and performer, Micia Mosely stars in this fun-filled one woman show.
For tickets please visit one of the links below.
Downtown Urban Theater Festival:
TerraNova Collective’s: SoloArts Festival:
http://www.telecharge.com/BehindTheCurtain.aspx?prodid=7386
To learn more about these festivals please click on the below festival logos
Downtown Urban Theater Festival: 
Venue:
145 6th Ave
NY, NY 10013
The entrance is on Dominick Street
which is South of Spring Street
on the West side of 6th Ave across from the small park
All shows will begin at 8:30PM at HERE Arts Center located on 145 6th Ave. (between Spring & Broome, enter on Dominick)
*
Special Double Feature.
Venue:
DR2 Theatre
103 East 15th Street (At 20 Union Square East)
New York NY 10003
Tickets:
Nursha Project And hippysauce Host Monthly Celebrations
April 25, 2009 by Nursha
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Nursha Project™ and hippysauce continue hosting a series of monthly celebrations promoting sustainable community building. The collective prescence welcomes you back May 7th..
Nursha Project TM and hippysauce invite members of the world community to gather 6-11 p.m. May 7th, in the heart of West Oakland for an experience of live music, theatrical performance, dance and more. MANIFESTATION: celebrating life, creativity and love, is the theme of the first offering from their latest collaboration aidingANDabetting , a performance series set to occur on the first Thursday of each month at theSAUCE, a new venue space in West Oakland.
aidingANDabetting_May2009
” aidingANDabetting is our expression of sustainable community building,” said Nursha Project co- founder Shalonda Ingram. “We are conscious of the wealth in each being on the planet and are committed to gathering in celebration of our collective presence, talents and innovations.”
A&A for May 2009 :The evening line-up includes SUNRU with the call, Aima The Dreama , DJ Divinity, Abai, T-Bird Luv & Evan Fraser, WOME (weapons of Mass Expression-Dance Music Theater), Genie and P.E.A.C.E.
This month also features a special screening of “Pass Me The Map”
Filmaker: Spenser Wilkinson will be present
Doors open at 6 p.m.; performances start promptly at 7 p.m. Complimentary hor d’ourves and a cash bar will be offered. Tickets are $15.00 in advance, and $20 at the door. Purchase tickets on line at http://www.hippysauce.com and here
This event is 21 and up only.
Nursha Project TM is committed to establishing, producing/presenting Artist, Events & Projects that are rooted in sociopolitical offerings. This is achieved through the incubation of ideas, strategic planning, collaborative project design and product development.
hippysauce is committed to experiencing, promoting, and documenting the revolutionary spirit of the 21stCentury BOHEMIAN. Located in West Oakland, hippysauce is an integral supporter of a vibrant arts, music and social activist community. To learn more, visit www.hippysauce.com .
About Us
October 11, 2008 by Nursha
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(nur’sha)
- NOUN –inclination for activity and/or change
- VERB –strategize, design, produce
Mission:Vision
Nursha Project™ establishes, produces, and presents Artists and Projects that elucidate sociopolitical activism through the incubation of sustainable ideas, strategic planning, collaborative project design, and product development. We achieve this through the exploration of metaphysics by aligning stakeholders with artists, audiences, and communities.
History
Culturally, artists are iconized and commodified in a way that omits the humanness of the creative process and the inherent holistic investments that produce outcomes. Upon exploring these ideas, Nursha Project founder Shalonda Ingram in collaboration with drea brown, determined the need for a model that supports artist self-exploration and the importance of delineating art making from business development. In so doing, the artists and the projects that are created reflect personal narratives that are otherwise lost or compromised. Since its inception in 2003, Nursha Project has been dedicated to the 4 C’s, Content, Context, Collaboration, and Communities, and we hold the awareness that art making and art sharing are therapeutic modalities for both the artists and audiences. Our service offerings, which include technical and administrative production, artist handling, and strategic partnership development, have expanded in direct proportion to the range of Artists’ needs. This expansion has enhanced the capacity of all engaged parties while catapulting our presence and nurturing a collective consciousness.
