Ras Mo Moses

Ras Mo Moses is
Delmance 'Ras Mo' Moses is an award-winning performing artist, performance poet, playwright, master-drummer, theater director who plays Afro Caribbean hand drums and percussion, musician and youth worker. His stage performances also include songs and poems accompanied by drummers of full band. He will get an audience cheerful & dancing at a party.
As a presenter and facilitator, he specializes in the use of literary and performing arts, music, audio and video production for violence prevention, youth development, overcoming trauma, personal transformation, organizing, and participatory learning. He facilitates trainings in theater of the oppressed including forum and image-theater and other Agusto Boal methods.
Work in Dominica
In his native island home Dominica, Ras Mo was a founding member of the Movement for Cultural Awareness. He pioneered the form of poetry called Peoples Performance Poetry. This form of poetry also evolved into a form of theater dubbed, Peoples Performance Poetry Productions. He also wrote and staged his first play a full-length peoples performance poetry production entitled Le2ve2 Domnitchen/Wake Dominicans.
Work in the Caribbean & USA
In the Caribbean, Ras Mo trained artists, teachers, youth leaders, farmers, peasant, and women's organizations to use popular education and theater for social change. In the US, he has trained staff for many agencies and has worked directly with inner-city communities, women and girls, and youth connected to the juvenile courts. He designed and led community programs for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and Youth Rights Media in New Haven and for Men Overcoming Violence, the Youth Treatment & Education Center and Performing Arts Workshop in San Francisco. He is skilled and experienced in working with children, youth and adults who have experienced trauma and students with difficulty in mainstream schools.
The Pink and Blue Arts for Violence Prevention Project
His latest project, The Pink and Blue Arts for Violence Prevention Project, includes a CD of original songs and performance poems to accompany curriculum modules and workshops on violence (youth, domestic, dating gang violence) sexism, gender socialization, gender equity, AIDS, drugs, teen pregnancy, cultural pride, and youth empowerment.
Pink & Blue Project also includes a multi-media theater production, Testify-Real Stories Real People. The play includes poetry, spoken word, story telling, rap, gospel, and reggae music and addresses machismo, sexuality, drugs, guns, gender, HIV, AIDS, power and violence.
Discography
Tjébé / Hold On United States 1998
Tanbou Lanmou Dominica 1987
Poetry Publications
The Mask 1995
Melting Pot 1988
Crossroads 1982
Awards
DOMINICA: Special recognition for outstanding contribution in of the field performance poetry
The National Cultural Council, 2008
CONNECTICUT USA: Visionary Artist Award Arts Council of Greater New Haven, 2006
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