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Chad Goller-Sojourner is a Seattle based writer, solo performer, and recipient of a distinguished 2008 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship. In 2007, he was selected to participate in the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas: Creation Project, which was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). In July 2008, his highly anticipated solo show, Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy, debuted at Seattle’s Brownbox African-American Theatre. Chad’s work has received overwhelming support from various arts communities and organizations including: Richard Hugo House, Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Artist Trust, The Bent Writing Institute, Seattle Poetry Slam, King County: 4Culture and the National Performance Network.
Additional works include publishing a chapbook entitled Born One Thousand Years Too Early: Fat, Dark-Skinned, Gay and Adopted by White Folks A Fragmentary Journey Towards Alignment which has been described as poignant, chilling and prophetic. Chad also served as the creator, artistic director and executive producer for People of Color Against Aids Network’s: Standing In The Gap ─ And Speaking Their Names ─ Black Gay Poets Honor Their Ancestors ─ A Spoken Word Requiem. Currently Chad is working a coming of age memoir based on his life.
CHAD GOLLER-SOJOURNER
Writer Solo Performer
3703 South Edmunds Street - #30 - Seattle - WA 98118
www.goller-sojourner.com
www.sitting-in-circles.com
c_goller@hotmail.com
EDUCATION:
6/03-6/08 BENT WRITING INSTITUTE, Seattle, Washington
Studies in poetry, memoir writing and spoken word performance
6/06 PAT GRANEY COMPANY, Seattle, Washington
“Words Can’t Describe,” Scott Tuner-Schofield writing and performance workshop
9/04 MICHELLE TEA & JUSTIN CHIN WORKSHOP, Seattle, Washington
Spoken word and performance workshop
10/03 IVAN COYOTE & SINI ANDERSON WORKSHOP, Seattle Washington
Spoken word and performance workshop
7/93-6/94 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York
Graduate Studies in Higher Education/Urban Education
9/89-6/93 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Bellingham, Washington
Double Major: African-American Studies and Public Policy/Bachelor of Arts
ARTISTIC/PRODUCTIONS:
Sitting In Circles With Rich White Girls: Memoirs Of A Bulimic Black Boy solo performance, Creator and Performer (Rainier Valley Cultural Center, Seattle, July 2008)
Standing In The Gap -- And Speaking Their Names -- Black Gay Poets Honor Their Ancestors -- A Spoken Word Requiem Creator, Performer, Executive Producer and Artistic Director, POCCAN People Of Color Against Aids Network (Richard Hugo House, Seattle, November, 2006)
Born One Thousand Years Too Early: Fat, Dark-Skinned, Gay and Adopted by White Folks A Fragmentary Journey Towards Alignment. An Evening of Selected Original: Narrative Prose, Poems, Psalms and Manifestos, Writer, Performer and Executive Producer (Richard Hugo House, Seattle, April 2005)
The Refreshing: POCCAN (People Of Color Against Aids Network) Presents Writings By Gay Black Men, Creator, Performer (Richard Hugo House, Seattle, February 2004)
LEADERSHIP:
Bent Writing Institute, Board Development Committee, Member, 2005-present
Seattle Stop Buju Banton, Chief Organizer, September 2006
GRANTS/AWARDS:
2008 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship
2008 Artist Trust GAP (Grants for Artists Projects) Recipient
2008 4-Culture King County, Grant Recipient
2008 Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Grant Recipient
2007 Seattle Poet Populist Nominee
2007 Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas Creation Project Recipient
PUBLICATIONS:
Anthologies:
Vox Populi, Seattle Poetry Festival-Eleventh Hour Production, Seattle, WA 2007
Benthology I, Bent Writing Institute, Seattle WA 2005
Benthology, Bent Writing Institute, Seattle, WA 2004
Chapbooks:
Born One Thousand Years Too Early: Fat, Dark-Skinned, Gay and Adopted by White Folk. A Fragmentary Journey Towards Alignment, self published, December 2006.
Magazines, Newspapers & Online Literary Publications:
“Who Passed Prop 8?” Seattlest, November 2008
“Black Gay vs. Gay Black,” COLORNW, December 2007
“On Any Given Sunday,” Free Voices eZine of the People, November 2006
“Black Gay vs. Gay Black,” The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, September 2006
“The Power, Price and Pain of Boy Pussy: A Manifesto,” Free Voices eZine of the People, June 2005
“Goin Home,” Free Voices eZine of the People, June 2005
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE: (Partial List)
Bent Mentor Showcase, Seattle WA, October 2003
Gender Bent Gender Odyssey Conference, Seattle WA, September 2004
Bent Mentor Showcase, Seattle WA, September 200
Seattle Gay Pride Kick-Off, Seattle WA, June 2005
Queerfest, Seattle WA, June 2005
Seattle Poetry Slam, Seattle WA, September 2005-Present
Human Rights Awareness Festival, Mount Vernon WA, March 2005
Bent Mentor Showcase, Seattle WA, October 2005
Seattle University-Gay Voices, Seattle WA, April 2006
Pacific NW PFLAG Regional Conference, Portland OR, April 2006
“Words Can’t Describe,” Seattle WA, May 2006
Feature Performer Seattle Spit, Seattle WA, September 2006
QLAW: GLBT Bar Association of Washington Gala, Seattle, WA, September 2006
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, Seattle University, Seattle WA, January, 2007
Transgender Awareness Week, University of Washington, Seattle WA, September 2007
Seattle Poetry Slam Feature Poet, Seattle WA, May 2007
Voices Rising LGBTQ of Color Literary Arts Festival, Seattle WA, July 2007
Seattle Poet Populist Read-Off, Seattle WA, July 2007
Seattle Black Pride, Seattle WA, July 2007Bent Mentor Showcase, Seattle WA, November, 2007
CD Forum Food As Art, Seattle, WA April 2008
CD Forum Creation Project Showcase, Seattle WA, May 2008
Voices Rising LGBTQ of Color Showcase, Seattle WA, June 2008
National Performance Network Annual Conference, Seattle WA, December 2008
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