Micia Sports her “Educator” Hat as She Heads to Hampshire and Hollins

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 workshops 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.

Cultivate Radical Acceptance : Viewpoint

Created by Shannyn Vicente and Shalonda Ingram, Viewpoint explores a shared desire to live into the truth of loving through and across the lines of fear, anger, and mistrust. A commitment to move through the ever-evolving painful realities of the social constructs that binds, traps, and perpetuates Dis.Ease in the mind. To learn more, click here.

Queer Art Impact

Stay tuned as Mat Heggem, Brooklyn-based Artistic Director and Curator of Bushed/Gay Wars, and Nursha Project Founder, Shalonda Ingram, launch their newest initiative, Queer Art Impact.

What is Queer Art Impact?

Queer Art Impact (QAI) explores the conversation between politics, art and action. The New York City-based initiative is intended to bring together individuals and organizations who self-identify their body of work as queer. By supporting artists whose works challenge the hetero-normative, QAI seeks to embrace queerness and create opportunities for all artists – living in the political and social fringe – to move to the center.

QAI is about action and re-action. It’s the motivation to do something and to speak out. This action/reaction takes the form of art, politic gesture, youth engagement, community movement, education, and business training with/by/for queers.

QAI features performances, cabarets, parties, panel discussions and networking events that occur throughout the year, culminating in an annual spring festival where QAI commissioned works are premiered. Subsequent discourse catapults the community into a Summer of Inspired Pride — S.I.P. – a Rooftop WrrkQ P(art)y on the regs!

We accept applications on an ongoing basis, and are especially looking for those who want to build on-going communications with their fellow queers. Upon receipt and approval of materials, the artist will be included on our website, provided access to www.wrrkq.com (coming soon), and may be curated and/or commissioned for QAI events throughout the year.

QAI welcomes partnerships and shared programming proposals from educators, community organizers, and other arts entities.

What is WrrkQ?

WrrkQ is about sharing resources, creating opportunities, developing collaborative relationships, keeping communications open, and providing a physical & virtual space to meet individuals who share the same motivation for their queer agendas.  But, it’s also about the business side too — having your needs met and understanding the systems that need to be in place to make the wrrkq happen.

WrrkQ includes a monthly gathering hosted by a QAI artist and a quarterly newsletter on relevant artist resources for the queer community. Stay tuned for more information about www.wrrkq.com.

Upcoming Events
QAI will be presenting Come As You Are, NYC.
Save the dates – September 27 – October 3, 2010
Connect with QAI on Facebook and keep your social streams as open as you
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Queer-Art-Impact/129147190461382?ref=ts

Twitter hastag #wrrkq and follow @queerai

Viewpoint

The Design:

Created by Shannyn Vicente and Shalonda Ingram, Viewpoint explores a shared desire to live into the truth of loving through and across the lines of fear, anger, and mistrust. A commitment to move through the ever-evolving painful realities of the social constructs that binds, traps, and perpetuates Dis.Ease in the mind.

The Experience:

The Viewpoint experience enables us to walk towards love through a practice of becoming unattached to the outcomes of all relationships while learning to lean into the discomfort of the internal and external forces of fear.

The Tools:

Viewpoint encourages folks to experientially explore themselves breaking loose from the blockades of theirs and others’ minds. Allow Viewpoint to support YOUR expression of self through dialogues, workshops, trainings, and gear.

VIEWPOINT: Developing compassion for just how hard it is to trust yourself and others to be real!

Nursha Project Launches New Partnership

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…

Where My Girls At?

“Where My Girls At?” is a “thoughtful, provocative, and insanely funny” one woman show written and performed by the “multi-talented” Micia Mosely. Portraying five drastically different characters representing the diversity of Black lesbian experiences, Micia challenges the notion that there is only one way to be Black or queer in the 21st century. A phenomenal one hour performance steeped in improv and audience participation, Where My Girls At? has thrilled audiences across the country from San Francisco, Detroit and New York to Amherst, Chapel Hill and Honolulu. A New York Innovative Theater Award Nominee, the show, while hilarious, continues to tackle difficult issues including inter and intra-group racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Written & Performed by Micia Mosely

Directed by Tamilla Woodard

Produced by Shalonda Ingram

A Nursha Project Production

To view D.C. Theatre Scene’s article on Micia’s most recent performance of Where My Girls At? at the 2010 D.C. Hip Hop Theater Festival, click here.

Born Brown: All Rights Reserved

Born Brown: All Rights Reserved® is a social enterprise agency that promotes understanding and collaboration among people of color with various origins.  Throughout the world, indigenous people and people of color outside of their ancestral homelands are exposed to visual and auditory imagery that pierces the subconscious, creates internalized oppression & racism while furthering their experience of discord in the global society.

Bb:ARR® aspires to liberate activists, educators, youth and elders by countering oppressive media with messaging that evokes self-acceptance and self-love. Ultimately, Bb:ARR® exists as a catalyst for education, solidarity, and the exercise of Universal Human Rights.

Learn more about Bb:ARR® via www.bornbrown.org

Purchase definition: Aya de Leon

definition: Aya de Leon looks at the process of Bay area spoken word artist Aya de Leon, whose work is at all times political and certainly fresh.  Whether dissecting images of women in hip hop, or exposing the constructs of gender and beauty, Aya de Leon makes you think, makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you listen. To learn more about the phenom’s work, check out the docu-bio, which explores the writer/poet/activist’s artistic process, and the lives she touches as she moves through the world.

* definition: Aya de Leon is Directed by Jennifer Ongiri

Produced by Marla Renee Leech and Shalonda Ingram.

 

Trailer of definition: Aya de Leon

The full-length documentary can be purchased and/or viewed at the following sites. Click on the links below for more information:

Frameline

Amazon

Founder

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.

Nursha Project™ at the Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival (Santa Monica, CA)

Saturday March 28 (Loretta Divine & James Pickens are hosting!) 8pm

Highways Performance SPACE
1651 18th Street
Santa Monica, California 90404
For tickets: http://www.lawtf.com/ or www.highwaysperformance.org

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