RECENT THEATRE PRODUCTIONS...
ALMIGHTY VOICE AND HIS WIFE CANADIAN TOUR
Daniel's seminal play about the legendary 19th century Saskatchewan Cree, Almighty Voice, as both accidental martyr and icon is being remounted this season by Native Earth Performing Arts for a Canadian tour (Halifax, Peterborough, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winipeg, Brandon...). Details soon at www.nativeearth.ca
Read a review of Native Earth's 2009 Toronto production:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20090402.walmighty02/ BNStory/Entertainment/Theatre
EVENTS...
POETRY PROCESSCO AND PASTA - GRANO'S JULY 22, 2010
Diaspora Dialogues knows how to truly celebrate summer! Daniel was their featured poet at Grano Restaurant including a multicourse dinner, a glass of prosecco and take home a copy of Sixteen Jesuses. The intimate evening was punctuated by poetry readings and moderated discussion by Moira MacDougall, Poetry Editor for Literary Review of Canada. Grano 2035 Yonge St. Toronto.
TORONTO SMALL PRESS FAIR READINGS - JUNE 18, 2010
Daniel read from his recent poems for the pre-Fair reading event at Victory Café, 581 Markham St. Toronto ON. For info on Toronto Small Press Book Fair held June 19th at The Great Hall, go online to: www.torontosmallpressbookfair.org .
POETS SPELL ART - APRIL 21/10
The Art Gallery of Ontario celebrated International Poetry Month with readings by Daniel David Moses,Toronto's poet laureate Dionne Brand, George Elliott, Lynne Crosbie and Souvankham Thamavongsa, inspired by artworks from the AGO's collection in the Walker Court.
TORONTO VOICES READING - APRIL 18/10
Daniel was one of the featured readers for Toronto Voices at Nunu's Ethiopian Fusion, 1178 Queen St. West near Northcote Ave., Toronto.
FIRST VOICES, FIRST TEXTS COLLOQUIUM - MARCH 2010
Daniel presented the Keynote Address, focused through his experience of almost two decades and three editions of co-editing An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, Oxford University Press, to the First Voices, First Texts Colloquium which was held at the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, March 26- 28, 2010 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.
RIVER RANGE POEMS CD LAUNCHED JAN 2010
Daniel launched his self-produced CD poetry collection in collaboration with David DeLeary, composer and music director, at Native Earth Performing Arts' Weesageechak Begins To Dance Festival on Jan. 27/10. Dedicated in memory of his father, eleven poems bear the theme of his early memories and the Grand River that flows near his childhood home in Ohsweken, Ontario. Copies are available at Native Earth (www.nativeearth.ca) or at Exile Publications. $15CDN (plus S&H).
FEATURED CANLIT POET!
Just announced, Daniel has been selected by Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review for their 'Featured CanLit Poet' profile - visit the CanLit website at
www.canlit.ca/canlitpoets.php
DANIEL TOURS NORTHERN MANITOBA!
Daniel joined University College of the North on a tour of northern Manitoba including Thompson, The Pas and Norway House, designed to encourage students in their pursuit of English Literature ...and it appears that he succeeded in and had some fun doing it!
PLANET INDIGENUS 2009 @ HARBOURFRONT CENTRE
AUGUST 2009 TORONTO
Daniel introduced the artists at three special events for the Planet IndigenUs Festival:
'He Reo Aroha', a Maori musical by Tawata Productions at the Studio Theatre,
An interview with one of Canada's leading Aboriginal writers, Gregory Scofield at Lakeside Terrace,
Falen Johnson's play Salt Baby at its' staged reading
Daniel was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Festival co-sponsored by Harbourfront Centre and Brantford's Woodland Indian Centre.
RECENT PUBLICATION RELEASES...
WE ARE HERE TODAY EXCERPTS AAZHOODENA
Two Flood Stories from Aazhoodena, an excerpt from the play, a work in progress, co-written with David McLaren, with the excerpt's translation, Zwei Flut-Geschichten aus Aazhoodena, pages 126-129, in We Are Here Today/Heute Sind Wir Heir, a collection of contemporary aboriginal literature(s) from Canada, edited by Hartmut Lutz and students of Griefswald University, vdl:Verlag, M.u.H. von der Linden GbR, Wesel, 2009.
MY GRANDFATHER'S FACE, A RADIO PLAY PUBLISHED
BROADVIEW PRESS NEW RELEASE 2010
Across Cultures/Across Borders: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures, edited by Paul DePasquale, Renate Eigenbrod and Emma LaRocque includes Daniel's radio play, My Grandfather's Face (pages 127-138) among critical essays, interviews and other writings by twenty-five established and emerging scholars and creative writers across Turtle Island. Broadview Press 2010. Available online www.broadviewpress.com
ISBN 9781551117263/1551117266 $39.95CDN&US
CZECH CD Cekani na Jojota- NEW BOTAFOGO RELEASE
Daniel's poems and lyrics are featured in 6 of 15 cuts. Bolero o pozaru, Destova, Golf Song, Crystal Beach Boy, Zahrada and Samanuv zpev, songs in Czech based on original works in English, on the album Cekani na Jojota by Botafogo, Vydalo Tympanum, Czech Republic, 2009.
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
'RIVER RANGE' POEM PUBLISHED
Now published: Daniel's poem Des Bleues sur Grand River , a translation of Some Grand River Blues by Manuel Van Thienen, has been included in Bacchanales Number 42, Anthologie de la poesie ameridienne, Maison de la poesie Rhone-Alpes, Saint-Martin-d’Heres, France, September 2008. This poem is included in his River Range CD scheduled for release later this year.
KYOTOPOLIS, the play NOW IN PRINT!!
Kyotopolis, a gently satiric fantasia about the ways we communicate and the future of Native identity in the Global Village was written in 1993. This futuristic play received a workshop production by the University of Toronto Graduate Centre that year, directed by Colin Taylor. Exile Editions released Kyotopolis in Fall 2009.
$19.95CDN ISBN 978-1-55096-116-4 www.ExileEditions.com
APPOINTMENTS & WORKS IN PROGRESS...
NEW SCRIPT IN DEVELOPMENT
CRAZY DAVE GOES TO TOWN
Daniel continues to develop the script adaptationcommissioned 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.
Aazhoodena:THE PLACE OF THE HEART READING
Aazhoodena:The Place of the Heart, a co-creation of Daniel David Moses and David McLaren, inspired by the Dudley George incident, had a workshop reading sponsored by Native Earth Performing Arts. May 2008, Palmerston Library Theatre, Toronto. This new creation received funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and continues to be developed by the writers.
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...
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