Director San Francisco

DELMANCE MOSES

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Oakland, CA 94602 **********@*****.***

Dynamic teacher of performing arts, digital music, video for violence prevention and health education.

Youth and community program developer, director, and staff and peer trainer with 28 years experience.

Developer of curriculum and original music and theater addressing violence, gender, and HIV/AIDS.

Experienced in classrooms, juvenile facilities, community agencies, churches, and activist campaigns.

Charismatic, empathetic, demanding, innovative, adaptable. Deeply committed to social justice.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN BRIEF

Program Youth Rights Media: Designed & led Multimedia for Empowerment programs with at-risk youth.

Development

International Festival of Arts & Ideas: Trained artists; established & led community programs.

Men Overcoming Violence: Developed & taught original Arts for Violence Prevention curriculum.

Chant Down Domestic Violence I-V: Established annual event for families, agencies, & performers.

Movement for Cultural Awareness: Directed 10-year national Theater for Empowerment program.

Youth Treatment & Education Center: Directed drama, taught creative writing to Youth in Recovery.

Education Popular Theater for Youth Development: Trained staff & youth leaders for 21 Bay Area agencies.

High, Elementary, & Middle Schools: Assembly performances, class sessions, peer leader training.

Teaching

CA Arts Council Artist in Residence: Taught Caribbean drumming & dance to adults & children.

Performing Arts Workshop: Taught digital & performing arts in schools & after-school programs.

Bay Area Popular Theater Project: On-site teaching of staff & youth in Arts for Youth Development.

Artistic and

Cultural Pink & Blue Arts for Violence Prevention: Workshops, performances, curriculum, music CD.

Direction

Eastern Caribbean Popular Theater Organization: Led international community theater exchanges.

Visionary Revolutionary Artist Award: Arts Council of Greater New Haven, 2006.

Awards

Outstanding Contribution Award, Performance Poetry: Dominica National Cultural Council, 2008.

National FAME Award, Best Stage Performer: Dominica Ministry of Culture, 1988.

Three books of poetry: now being republished as a single volume.

Publications

& Recordings Three recordings of original music: on themes of culture, environment, & challenges facing youth.

Ras Mo Moses is one of the most creative and caring performance artists and community healers I have ever

worked with. He understands the importance of laughter, love and connection in a person's struggle to live.

His sensitivity to the effects of trauma and violence on our children is critical to his ability to bring others to

explore a better world through the arts.

Alice Forrester, PhD, RDT, Executive Director, Clifford Beers Clinic

Past President of the National Association for Drama Therapy

Ras Mo is hip, current, and his message of non-violence and respect for women and culture is spot on.

He will help any group transition to the next level by helping people bring forth what is deep inside them,

merging those thoughts and feelings with technology for instant buy-in.

Sheridan Gold, teacher, County Community School, San Rafael CA.

SAMPLE ACHIEVEMENT

Challenge: In the San Francisco Juvenile Jail, young men who had been perpetrators of violence were

very resistant to learning, angry at authority, and uncomfortable in traditional classroom settings.

Action: I made my violence-prevention classes engaging and interactive. I created a new curriculum using

drama, role play, poetry and hip-hop. Students wrote poetry and songs reflecting what they had learned

about gender, domestic violence, and fatherhood, with examples from their own or observed experiences.

Result: Student resistance faded fast. Their original, songs and skits, performed for an all-school assembly,

showed improved sell-regard, discipline, and deeper understanding of the causes and effects of violence.

SAMPLE ACHIEVEMENT

Challenge: Large sectors of the community, especially marginalized groups, did not participate in the

big-budget International Festival of Arts & Ideas Festival, although 80% of performances at are free.

Action: I designed a new Arts Residency Program. I trained and placed visual and performing artists of

different ethnicities in inner-city youth centers, after-school programs, school music programs, foster care

programs, fatherhood programs, mental health clinics, an AIDS hospice, and retirement homes.

Result: Six months later, these program participants of diverse ages, abilities and backgrounds all

performed at the festival. For many this was their first stage experience. Hundreds of friends, peers,

relatives, and neighbors came to see the performances. Most were attending the festival for the first time.

SAMPLE ACHIEVEMENT

Challenge: Students-in-recovery at the Youth Treatment and Education Center school feared reading and

writing. Many lacked literacy skills and the ability to focus but were interested in music production.

Action: I acquired music sampling and sequencing equipment. I organized student teams to take turns

reading parts of equipment manuals while others followed their directions. With the opportunity to produce

their own work, they saw the value of the creative prose, poetry, and song writing classes I then taught.

Result: Students participated with enthusiasm in reading, comprehension, and application without labeling

the activities as such. They learned team work, technical skills, and the value of persistence. Writing,

producing, and then performing their own work in public greatly boosted personal and family self-esteem.

EMPLOYMENT CHRONOLOGY

Youth Organizing Director Youth Rights Media, New Haven, CT 2008-2010

Lead Teaching Artist Performing Arts Workshop, San Francisco, CA 2007-2008

Community Programs Coordinator International Festival Of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT 2004-2006

Program Director Youth Rights Media, New Haven, CT 2003-2004

Youth Program Director Men Overcoming Violence, San Francisco, CA 1998-2003

Teacher, Youth Treatment & Education Center, San Francisco CA 2000-2003

Caribbean Music Instructor, Music Department, University of CA at Berkeley 1999-2002

Artist In Residence, California Arts Council/La Pe a Cultural Center, Berkeley CA 1998-2001

Teacher, Robeson Riviera Academy/PAW/ Juvenile Justice Department, San Francisco CA 1999-2000

Lead Trainer, Popular Theater for Youth Development Program, San Francisco Bay Area, CA 1996-1998

Facilitator, Organizational Development Consultant, Boston, MA 1994-1996

Youth Build, Occupational Health and Safety Program of University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts Violence

Prevention, Community Church of Boston, Spontaneous Celebrations, Center for Community Responsive Care, Chelsea/

Dudley Neighborhood Association, Boston Women of Color Resource Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Animator Trainer, Eastern Caribbean Popular Theater Organization 1989-1993

Program Coordinator, Movement for Cultural Awareness, Dominica 1989-1993

SELECTED SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND EVENTS

Writer/Performer/Producer Testify - Real Stories Real People, New Haven 2009

Facilitator / Trainer Connecticut AIDS Education & Training Center 2004-2005

Musical Director Wandering Home International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven 2003

Director All-Youth Performance Festival MOVE, San Francisco 2002

Video Producer / Director Excelsior Boys and Girls Club, San Francisco 1999-2000

Music Program Director Career in Arts Apprenticeship Program, Urban Arts Inst., Oakland summer 1999

Facilitator Southern Exposure s Grito de la Mission, San Francisco summers 1997, 1999

Facilitator Regional Economic Education Conference, Dominican Republic 1992

Lead Trainer Caribbean Regional Women's Animator Training, Grenada 1989

Facilitator International Popular Theater Festival, Toronto 1985, 1987

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Video Post-Production Professional Certificate Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA (in progress)

Advancing Youth Development Youth Development & Training Resource Center, New Haven, CT, 2010

Video Recording & Editing Technology, Contra Costa County Adult Education, Richmond, CA

Video Recording Technology, Small projects assistance team, Dominica, WI

Caribbean Cultural Arts, Jamaica School of Drama, Kingston, Jamaica, WI

Youth alumni of YRM, who Ras Mo worked with over five years ago, still talk about things he taught them and

recite lines from his well-loved poems and songs about identity, gender socialization, and overcoming community

violence. His body of experience and impressive multimedia work is an asset to any youth program or school.

Laura Mc Cargar, Executive Director, Youth Rights Media

Every day that I spent with Mr. Moses in my classroom was a learning experience even though I have been

teaching in New Haven Public Schools for 29 years. We have felt a tremendous loss since he has been gone. Mr.

Moses would be an asset to any program that involves media and youth. I recommend him without hesitation.

Merrie N. Harrison, teacher New Horizons School, New Haven

I have personally witnessed Mr. Moses incredible work and ability to connect people from all walks of life for the

greater cause of raising public awareness on domestic, dating and community violence He is able to address this

taboo subject with grace and respect to all people.

Paola Serrecchia, Greater New Haven Domestic Violence Task Force.

Delmance Ras Mo Moses deep respect for human beings, together with his enormous experience working with many

different communities both in the United States and abroad, has provided our region with a new understanding of the

visionary role of Community Artist Delmance Ras Mo Moses revolutionary work, frequently carried out behind the

scenes, fosters cooperation, nurtures young artists, and brings out creativity and a voice in everyone.

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven

There are a lot of people doing violence prevention, a lot of funds thrown at the problems, and a lot of

uninspiring talks and workshops. In contrast, Ras Mo s use of song, theater, and interactive exercises has a

transformative and motivational impact on people and allows them to develop innovative projects with others to

address violence. He is truly one of our most creative and effective voices.

Paul Kivel, Violence Prevention Educator, co-author of Helping Teens Stop Violence

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