Making his return to the nation’s capital
Broadway’s Cornelius Jones Jr.
in his new solo-show/poetic memoir
SHADOWS & LIGHTS
“Cornelius Jones’s life is a profile in
courage.”
-Washington City Paper
“...highly reflective, purposeful, and raw
oral history..”
“...the creation of a new form of myth among
gay black men, a kind
of “Everyman” of the modern age and this
community."
"impressive is Jones’ ability to
transform that self-awareness into a frank,
funny, and revealing one-man show."
-Aaron Weiner, WashingtonCityPaper.com
"His minimalist writing, recalling in some ways e.e. cummings, carves out finely designed pictographs for
the mind to explore."
--Pandora Scooter, CEO Fushicho
Entertainment & Spoken Word Artist
“Jones' prose pops and percolates,
possessing an immediacy and energy so electric… you will be on the edge of your seat,
captured by the rapture of Jones' "a-to-the-men" testimonies on love
and lust, hurt and healing, sadness and celebration."
- James Earl Hardy,
author of the bestselling B-Boy Blues series
“Cornelius is simply masterful with the poetic word in Shadows
and Lights; he writes with a fire in his soul that burns in the rhythm
of his prose. He teaches us not only how to live, but how to love -
especially ourselves!”
- Lee Hayes, author of The Bad
Seed, Passion
Marks, and the forthcoming The First
Male
What: Shadows &
Lights
Who: Cornelius Jones Jr./SHADOWS &
LIGHTS presented by
XIX International AIDS Conference
Where: GLOBAL VILLAGE
MAINSTAGE – Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place NW, Washington, DC
20001
When: Tuesday July 24 @ 7:00PM
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
About Shadows & Lights
Broadway Actor Cornelius Jones Jr. brings together an intimate
program of spoken word, movement, and song. Crowd favorites such as: Pump,
Plié, Jump, Vulnerability, House Music and Still Swimming are performed to illustrate
socially charged topics rooted in love, hope, and solidarity. In this original
solo-performance Cornelius courageously shares how it is to live and survive
with HIV; as a gay man and as a performing artist. Paying homage to leaders who
have helped shaped him; and all the young men and women with dreams, who have
grown up gay, who have become positive, and who have not had the chance to
express their experiences, the performance aims to be beacon of hope in which
we accept our circumstances and move on to become better for ourselves and for
our community.
2010 Lorraine Hansberry Nia Award
Recipient
2009 Capital Fringe Festival
“Best of Fest” awarded
by DCTheaterscene.com
2008 Midtown International Theater
Festival Nominee:
Outstanding Performance in a Solo-Show
Cornelius Jones Jr.
Actor-Author-Playwright-Performance
Artist-Educator
Featured in Broadway’s The Lion King &
in the LOGO and Gilead sponsored PSA:
“I AM LIVING MY TRUTH”,
which aired on MTV's LOGO Network.
Artist Information:
About the XIX International AIDS
Conference
AIDS 2012 will bring together leading
scientists, public health experts, policy makers and the HIV-affected community
to translate recent momentous scientific advances into action that will address
means to end the epidemic within the current context of significant global
economic challenges.
The conference will have a positive impact on
the HIV and AIDS response globally, and in the United States and Washington,
D.C. in particular. The theme, Turning the Tide Together, captures the
uniqueness of the moment, with the AIDS epidemic reaching a defining point. By
acting decisively on recent scientific advances in HIV treatment and biomedical
prevention, the momentum for a cure and vaccine, and the continuing evidence of
the ability to scale up key interventions in the most-needed settings, we now
have the potential to change the course of HIV and AIDS. Turning the Tide Together captures the
current sense of hope and the renewed optimism that a change of course in the
HIV epidemic is possible. it also serves as an urgent call to action. It
acknowledges that seizing this potential and actually turning the tide on HIV
will require commitment and action on many levels: that each and every
stakeholder in the AIDS response must play their roles.
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