Nashville's Southside Community Church was honored to be the site of Tony Award winning performer, Sarah Jones, "A Right to Care" health-themed show. The daughter of two physicians, Sarah Jones told a Nashville audience of about 170 persons that her multi-ethnic background coupled with her education at the United Nations School, inspired her myriad of characters from her current production. Commissioned by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Ms. Jones varied characters touched upon the many stories that make up our nation's health care crisis and dictate the need for health reform now. Ms. Jones told audience members that she hopes that her characters inspire discussion and anger-- this debate she mused brings the issues to hand that our legislators must address.

Sponsored by the Congressional Asian Pacific Caucus; Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus and presented by the Partnership for Quality Care and the SEIU, Tennesseans were treated to a free performance from a world-renowned progressive performer. Change that Works Tennessee worked for weeks, bringing together a special audience at the Nashville church-- a standing room only audience from all over the state. Team members from Tennessee were especially vested in the fight for health care reform, sighting racial disparity and affordability as issues they want addressed.

Check out Sarah Jones' SEIU Change that Works "Right to Care" tour as she takes her White House and now Nashville performance to Minneapolis next.

UPDATE: See below for the details of Sarah's show in St. Paul this Saturday.

The Associated Press calls her "astounding." People Magazine calls her "amazing." We call her one of the most important and engaging messengers ever to tackle the issue of health care disparities in America. And she's performing in Washington, DC on Thursday, July 9th and St. Paul, MN on July 11th.

Saturday's performance will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Senator Al Franken.

Date	City	Venue	Time
Thursday, 7.9.09	Washington, DC	Capitol Hill Visitors Center Orientation Theatre South	6:00PM
Saturday, 7.11.09	St. Paul, MN	Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center, 179 E Robie St.	1:00PM

Tony Award winner Sarah Jones will present A Right to Care - her one-woman show examining the causes and consequences of health care disparities from a uniquely first-person perspective.

Commissioned by the Kellogg Foundation with the goal of increasing awareness of ethnic and cultural health care disparities, the performance is hosted by the Partnership for Quality Care and the Congressional Tri-Caucus and is free and open to the public. Invited guests include members of Congress, leading health care providers and health equity advocates, as well as nurses, doctors and health care workers from area hospitals.

SEIU is here at the Sundance film festival with playwright, poet, actress and activist Sarah Jones, who is camped out in the Variety Lounge to discuss health care with filmmakers and celebrities.

On Friday, Jones sat down for a few minutes with hip-hop pioneer and philanthropist Russell Simmons to talk about fixing our broken health care system. Says Simmons, "We have to keep our voices at the same level, so we can make sure it gets done."

Watch here:

We'll be posting more videos from Sundance in the weeks ahead, so stay tuned.