Daniel Clarkson Fisher is a Toronto-based writer and educator whose most recent work is the Chinese Jamaican Oral History Project (CJOHP.org), a digital storytelling initiative inspired by his partner Stephanie Lyn and her family. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media from Ryerson University, and is currently a contract lecturer in that program.Bookshop: @danielclarksonfisher
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Interested in Purchasing Books Discussed Here? Find Deals on My Bookshop Affiliate Page, Which Supports Both Independent Bookstores and My Work
Bookshop, the “online bookstore with a mission to financially support independent bookstores and give back to the book community,” has finally launched. To mark this momentous occasion, I’ve joined their affiliate program. You can find my page (with a curated … Continue reading
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Tagged affiliate program, Bookshop, Coronavirus, Daniel Clarkson Fisher, Hummingbird Digital Media, Kobo, Libro.fm, Sam Adams, Slate
A Solidarity Statement in Support of Wet’suwet’en Jurisdiction and Governance from Ryerson University’s MFA Documentary Media Students and Faculty
Over the last several months, the Unist’ot’en Camp in Northern British Columbia has been very much at the center of the news here in Canada. As Alleen Brown and Amber Bracken describe it in a recent (and excellent) piece for … Continue reading
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Tagged #WetsuwetenSolidarity, #WetsuwetenStong, Alleen Brown, Amber Bracken, British Columbia, Canada, Coastal GasLink, Freda Huson, MFA in Documentary Media, Montreal, Ontario, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ryerson University, Saskatchewan, TC Energy, The Guardian, The Intercept, Toronto, TransCanada, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Unist'ot'en Camp, Vancouver, Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs, Wet’suwet’en Nation
Notes on September 11: An Oral History (2002) by Dean E. Murphy
Ahead of reading Garrett M. Graff’s newly-released The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (2019), I decided to take a look at another oral history of the tragedy — one I’d not read before: then New … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony R. Whitaker, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, CNN, David E. Frank, Dean E. Murphy, Ernest Armstead, Garrett M. Graff, George W. Bush, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, literary oral history, Michael Hingson, New York Times, oral history as journalism, Rudy Giuliani, September 11: An Oral History, Spike Lee, Studs Terkel, Svetlana Alexievich, Teresa Veliz, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Wallace Terry, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
My Post about the Chinese Jamaican Oral History Project for the Oral History Review Blog
I am incredibly honored and excited to be able to share the news that I have written a blog post about my M.F.A. thesis, the Chinese Jamaican Oral History Project, at the invitation of the Oral History Review — “the … Continue reading
Notes on Notes from the Field (2019) by Anna Deavere Smith
I started blogging about oral history as a mode within the documentary arts not just to “teach” about this kind of work, but also to educate myself; though I’m already actively working in this mode, there’s still a lot that … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchor Books, Anna Deavere Smith, documentary theatre, Eve Ensler, Fires in the Mirror, Hal Holbrook, HBO, Jade Budowski, John Lewis, Moisés Kaufman, Notes from the Field, On the Road: A Search for American Character, Oral History, Robin Soans, school-to-prison pipeline, Spalding Gray, Talking to Terrorists, Taos Proctor, Tectonic Theater Project, The Anna Deavere Smith Pipeline Project, The Laramie Project, The Vagina Monologues, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, verbatim theatre, Verne Gay
On the Passing of Branko Lustig
Last week, Branko Lustig, the double-Academy Award-winning producer of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000), passed away. A Holocaust survivor, he was also a driving force behind the awe-inspiring USC Shoah Foundation, whose mission is “to … Continue reading
My Introduction of Michael Moore’s Sicko (2007) for the Centre for Free Expression’s Film Series at Ryerson University
On March 10th — just before things in Toronto began to shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — I introduced and led a post-screening discussion of Michael Moore’s hit 2007 documentary Sicko at Ryerson University as part of … Continue reading →