{"id":654,"date":"2009-10-12T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T19:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2010-07-09T18:15:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T23:15:02","slug":"fire-ink-cotillion-2009-the-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Fire &#038; Ink: Cotillion 2009 &#8211; The Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2009.fireandink.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fire &amp; Ink: Cotillion 2009<\/a> was a fantastic experience&#8211;a post about the whole weekend is coming in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to workshops and panels, F&amp;I participants were treated to a night of wonderful performances&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sharonbridgforth.com\/content\/bookscdsdvds\/theatre\/my-newest-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">delta dandi<\/a> is the latest performance\/theater production by <a href=\"http:\/\/sharonbridgforth.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Bridgforth<\/a>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbonepress.com\/books\/loveconjureblues\/\" target=\"_blank\">love\/conjure blues<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbonepress.com\/books\/bulljeanstories\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bull Jean Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"320\" height=\"255\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AfGbBYnlFQ\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>E. 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If it is, don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jomama Jones&#8230;and The Sweet Peaches<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danielalexanderjones.com\/content\/?page_id=59\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-664 aligncenter\" title=\"jomama\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jomama-199x300.jpg?resize=199%2C300\" alt=\"jomama\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGet yourself a taste&#8211;you won&#8217;t be sorry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire &amp; Ink: Cotillion 2009 was a fantastic experience&#8211;a post about the whole weekend is coming in the future. In addition to workshops and panels, F&amp;I participants were treated to a night of wonderful performances&#8230; delta dandi is the latest performance\/theater production by Sharon Bridgforth, author of love\/conjure blues and The Bull Jean Stories. &#8212;&#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMmJz-ay","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":505,"url":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=505","url_meta":{"origin":654,"position":0},"title":"Fire &#038; Ink: Cotillion &#8211; Request For Proposals","author":"","date":"December 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Fire & Ink: Cotillion, a black lgbt writers conference taking place Oct. 2009, has released a request for proposals. 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