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Comment on Performance Party XXV Archive by Password on the Southside: “Gabe the Babe” « Blogs y Mas

Password on the Southside: “Gabe the Babe” « Blogs y Mas — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:54:43 +0000

[...] The whole of the night at Jump-Start can be seen on video. Michael Verdi video-taped the evening for internet streaming. He also parked the footage online. Check it out: http://jump-start.org/2010/01/10/performance-party-xxv-archive/ [...]

Comment on Performance Party XXV Archive by Performance Party 25: Intergalactic Adventure – Jump-Start

Performance Party 25: Intergalactic Adventure – Jump-Start — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:15:42 +0000

[...] Watch the Performance Party Video Archive This entry was written by dino, posted on December 4, 2009 at 2:21 pm, filed under news, [...]

Comment on Performance Party XXV Archive by shimi

shimi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:49:07 +0000

yay! An epic one for the history books!

Comment on Sterling Houston Biography 1945 – 2006 by Christine Barker Smythe

Christine Barker Smythe — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:51:20 +0000

i am so sorry to hear that Sterling died in 2006. I had the pleasure of working with him in the early 1980s in a Tennessee Williams play at Actor’s Theatre of San Antonio – In A Bar in a Tokyo Hotel. I remember he loaned me his sister’s hat for the production. He was very kind to a newbie on the stage. I am so pleased that he was able to accomplish so much in his short life.

Comment on Healing Arts by blogSAFOTO » Blog Archive » Public Library - Johnston Branch

blogSAFOTO » Blog Archive » Public Library - Johnston Branch — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:51:55 +0000

[...] Arts Program of the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs. Fotofronteras is part of The Healing Arts Project, a collaborative managed by Jump-Start Performance [...]

Comment on High Yello Rose by Danielle King

Danielle King — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:37:06 +0000

Hey all! The show was absolubtly fantastic and funny as all get-out!!! All the actors were in rare form, while maintaining their composure during hysterical this show!!
Sterling would be proud!!

Keep up the great work!
Danielle

Comment on Gertrude Baker Remembered by James Vander Velde

James Vander Velde — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:12 +0000

Whatsa Gert? A good fun-loving friend, a mentor, and a pleasant well-spoken woman. I am certain that Tony, Janice and Charley are ready with a coctail–cause it’s 5 o’clock somewhere and they are just waiting on you. God Bless.

Comment on Gertrude Baker Remembered by Antoinette V. Franklin

Antoinette V. Franklin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:15:57 +0000

I remember Gert as a no nonsense woman, but she was willing to help and give a part of herself to others. I attended Romero and Juliet in the park once and was intranced by her performance, I can still feel the chills going down my spine. She was the one who always spoke her mind at Debra (Fatimah) Medows parties and leave us breathless with laughter. I was grateful for her as a director in 2001. I had lost my mother the year before and couldn’t write. Through her direction and Sharon Brigeforth’s encouraging us to write I not only wrote but came back to me.
Thank-you Gert I will always treasure you.

Comment on Gertrude Baker Remembered by Mary Grace Rodriguez

Mary Grace Rodriguez — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:46:52 +0000

Circa 1998

Don’t know for sure if you were there that night
Lisa Mellinger had in tow the woman who brought the house down—
wish you were here to tell it.

How the music surged and she began singing
When everything stopped
not a breath wasted
all eyes turned and muscles released in rhythm
to R-E-S-P-E-C-T,
Aretha, the Divine
with a little help from

the Barkeep,
throwing his towel down in time with the beat;
A Stranger at the next table,
androgynous at best;
the Busboy
and Waiter who’d just brought bread
All became Herculean

and you, so alive
in the Liberty Bar—just the way I suppose
your friend, Drew, would have wanted it.

Comment on Gertrude Baker Remembered by Bonnie Reed

Bonnie Reed — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:15:13 +0000

Oh, my dear dear Gert, I will miss you. Gert and I became friends during our two productions of A….My Name is Alice. We continued to meet on a semi-regular basis at the same Mexican restaurant on the west side. I never knew which Gert I was going to greet, the happy, wildly excited Gert, the animated angry Gert, the dark and troubled Gert, or the soft caring, devoted Gert. Sometimes I got them all. It could be exhausting but I never missed the opportunity to be with her. She had such courage and once she got something in her head there was no shaking it loose or even tempering it. She was what she was. She thought what she thought and that was it. Take it or leave it. She could make me full out laugh better than anyone I know. The joy she got out of life, her friends, her work was all in her face. What a beautiful face.

When I would visit her at the nursing home it was still Gert, just a gentler one. I missed the edgy, frustrated, angry Gert. I fed on her energy, her strength, her determination. I often wished I had her power, the power that made others take notice, listen up and even fear her. She brought that same energy to her complete and total loyalty to those she loved. I will always cherish the fact that I was included among her many friends and the beneficiary of her great love. I am so sad.