Daniel Clarkson Fisher is a Toronto-based oral historian 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.- Follow Daniel Clarkson Fisher on WordPress.com
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Tag Archives: HBO
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
Posted in Book Notes
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
Why PBS, and Viewers Like You, Must Continue Saving POV and Independent Lens
[NOTE: This piece was first published on September 8, 2015, at Medium. It was subsequently named a “Must-Read” by MediaShift, and shared on social media by Los Angeles Times TV columnist Robert Lloyd, San Francisco Chronicle theater critic Ellin Stein, Gideon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
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