RECENT THEATRE PRODUCTIONS...
ALMIGHTY VOICE AND HIS WIFE 2012 CANADIAN TOUR
Daniel's seminal play about the legendary 19th century Saskatchewan Cree, Almighty Voice, as both accidental martyr and icon, is remounted by Native Earth Performing Arts for a new Canadian tour: Toronto, ON, Yukon, Saskatoon, SK and Vancouver, B.C. Tour dates January 5 -February 4, 2012. Details www.nepa.ca
READ the insightful media interviews for Native Earth's 2010 production:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/arts/a-chance-to-finally-hear-moses-almighty-106596143.html
www.examiner.com/canada-culture-events-in-canada/interview-with-playwright-daniel-david-moses
AND....Daniel's views on writing for theatre in his profile in the current KINGSTON LIFE...
www.kingstonlife.ca/sitepages/?aid=2921&cn=Feature%202&an=FEATURE%202
EVENTS...
Playwright Reading - Nov.24, 2011: REGINA
The University of Regina Theatre Department is hosting a Playwright Reading with Daniel on Thursday, November 24 in the Shu-Box Theatre, Riddell Centre. 8:00p.m.- 10:00p.m. More info at 585-5562 or theatre@uregina.ca
ABORIGINAL AUTHORS FESTIVAL, BARRIE ON OCT. 25-26,2011
Daniel joined the Aboriginal Studies Reading at Georgian College on Oct. 26 in the Rowntree Theatre at 7:30PM. Other readers included Ian McCulloch, Paul Seesequasis, Cherie Dimaline and Sherry Lawson.
TREE READING EVENT- OTTAWA, NOV. 8, 2011
Fans of Daniel's in the Ottawa area had a wonderful opportunity to hear him reading as part of the Tree Reading Series. www.treereadingseries.ca
KINGSTON WRITERS FESTIVAL - SEPT. 22 - 25, 2011
Daniel led the readings and conversation with Ontario's former Lieutenant Governor, James K. Bartleman at NATIVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, a special event scheduled for youth Sept. 22 and on Sept. 25, Daniel participated with writers from South Africa and Canada in READINGS IN HONOUR OF J.M. COETZEE. This event was held at Queen's University. For more information about the Festival check www.kingstonwritersfest.ca
DANIEL JOINS KINGSTON'S POET LAUREATE - SEPT. 20, 2011
Daniel joined Eric Folsom, Kingston ON Poet Laureate in a reading event held at Memorial Hall, Kingston ON.
HEAR! HEAR! RIVER RANGE POEMS
Click over to Daniel's Poetry Bibilography page to hear two selections from the River Range Poems CD set to music.....quietly savour the moment...then consider purchasing the collection produced in collaboration with David DeLeary, composer and music director. Dedicated in memory of his father, twelve published poems bear the theme of his early memories and the Grand River that flows near his childhood home in Ohsweken, Ontario. www.exileeditions.com $17.95CDN
BLUE BRIDGE FESTIVAL ON MAIN, NEWMARKET, ON
The Blue Bridge Festival featured music, poety and song at several venues. Daniel was invited to share his poetry in cafe venues on Main Street, Newmarket, ON on June 4, 2011.
RECENT PUBLICATION RELEASES...
SOVEREIGN EROTICS INCLUDES DANIEL'S POEMS
Ballad of the Raft, The Ends of a Picnic, Gray's Sea Change, How to Make a Fish Sweat and Lament Under the Moon, poems in Sovereign Erotics, A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature, edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tantonetti. A collection of work by established writers and talented new voices, this anthology spams genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and essay) and themes (memory, history, sexuality, friendship, family, love and loss). The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, USA, 2011. 248pp. $26.95US.
Paper ISBN 978-0-8165-0242-4.
RAMPIKE'S 'SCIENTIFIC WONDERS' Issue Does Poetry
University of Windsor's literary magazine, RAMPIKE has published Daniel's poem Hawking's Canoe in their Scientific Wonders issue, volume 20, number 2.
EXILE LITERARY QUARTERLY CAPTURES DANIEL'S POETRY
Look up Exile Literary Quarterly, Volume 35, No.2 Fall 2011 for new published poems Once Upon an Evening Out Along Sixth Line, Buzz, Forked Song, Two Views of the Eclipse, The Orchard Song and A Frisson in Grange Park, pages 52-62. Available in fine book stores and magazine racks everywhere!
BOOK OF NATIVE CANADIAN FICTION AND DRAMA
Exile's second Pipeline Series features authors from recently released Exile Book of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama. Daniel has edited an exciting anthology of contemporary works by Native Canadian writers. It includes his King of the Raft and his play The Witch of Niagara, reworking the Maid of the Mist story. Check the publisher's website www.exilequarterly.com for online purchase.
PLAYWRIGHTS CANADA PRESS NEW RELEASE
ALMIGHTY VOICE AND HIS WIFE
Playwrights Canada Press released a beautiful new publication of Daniel's acclaimed play Almighty Voice and His Wife. Available online at www.playwrightscanada.com and at Theatrebooks.
$15.95 ISBN 978-0-88754-897-0
APPOINTMENTS & WORKS IN PROGRESS...
NEW SCRIPT IN DEVELOPMENT
CRAZY DAVE GOES TO TOWN
Daniel continues to develop the script adaptation originally commissioned by the Stratford Theatre Festival in 2006. They supported script development workshops of Crazy Dave Goes To Town, based on the stunning memoir by Ojibway writer, Basil Johnston.
EXILE, The Literary Quarterly has appointed Daniel David Moses as a Contributing Editor. Discover this exciting all-Canadian magazine at www.ExileQuarterly.com!
Journey of Peace Tree Planting and Dedication, The Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, ON, August 4, 2005, included Planting a Tree in August, a poem, inscribed on four granite markers at the feet of white pine saplings surrounding a bench to establish a peace garden, in memory of the people of Hiroshima and the students of residential schools, part of a long term collaboration with ElizaBeth Hill and Shelley Niro to explore the Iroquoian traditions of peace in the contemporary world.
A book of essays about the work of Daniel David Moses (Guernica Editions, TBA)
ONLINE BLOGS, MUSINGS AND CONNECTIONS...
Diaspora Dialogues festures Daniel...sparks a Globe and Mail blog:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/in-other-words/diaspora-dialogues-ii/article1663140/
Colleague & Fellow Poet/Playwright Vera Manuel
The late Indigenous writer, Vera Manuel, devoted her life to encouraging others to free themselves through the use of their personal voices.
BLOG http://veramanueltribute.blogspot.com
The PUBLIC THEATER'S NATIVE THEATER FESTIVAL (New York City)
BLOG http://www.thenativetheaterfestival.blogspot.com