Theatre, Opera, Poetry, Film
David James Brock is a Canadian writer of opera, theatre, poetry, and film.
Author of poetry collections Everyone is CO2 and Ten-Headed Alien.
Co-creator of Breath Cycle, an opera for cystic fibrosis.
A Million Billion Pieces, my new play with opera (music by Gareth Williams) premieres at Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre.
I will read at Adam Sherkin’s vinyl release Romance from the Coda, a new album that includes a recitation from Gallows Humour, monologues I wrote as companion pieces to Chopin’s scherzi, “Gallows Humour.”
FAWN Chamber Creative presents Pandora, a new opera ballet, written by librettist David James Brock (Toronto, ON) with music composed by David Storen (Vancouver, BC), Joseph Glaser (Montreal, QC) and Kit Soden (Montreal, QC).
David James Brock will attend the 2018 Victoria Festival of Authors
David James Brock will attend the 2018 Victoria Festival of Authors
Reading from Ten-Headed Alien at the 2018 Winnipeg Writer’s Festival.
David James Brock will be reading from Ten-Headed Alien at Toronto's Art Bar reading series.
David will return to the Common Reading Series in Toronto along side Curtis Leblanc and Mallory Tater.
David will be a part of the Writing Illness panel at the Canadian Writers’ Summit, where he will discuss his work with Breath Cycle, an opera created for singers with cystic fibrosis.
David is reading Ten-Headed Alien at Knife Fork Book with Dani Couture!
The Wolsak & Wynn Hamilton launch!
An all new version of Wet will be performed as part of Itsazoo's 2017/2018 season!
The spring 2018 launch in Toronto of new titles from Wolsak & Wynn, including Ten-Headed Alien, is nigh.
Vancouver launch of Ten-Headed Alien with Laisha Rosnau (Our Familiar Hunger, Nightwood Editions).
On Friday the 13th (of April), Brock and Couture will launch their new collections of poetry at beautiful Biblioasis in Windsor. We would love to see you there.
David James Brock will be reading from his new collection Ten-Headed Alien as GritLit partners with LitLive Reading to open up the Grit Lit festival week.
"More than Earthly Meat and Drink" a suite of poems from Ten-Headed Alien has been set to music by Adam Sherkin. This song cycle will premiere at Sherkin's LISZT: Pilgrimage at the Glen Gould Studio Mainstage.
The first reading from Ten-Headed Alien at the University of Guelph's MFA in Creative Writing’s Reading series.
Three new poetic monologues for Adam Sherkin's concert series in response to three of Chopin's Scherzi.
I read from my prize winning poem "Bionic Pigeon Wing on the Roadside" as part of "What's Your Story - Etobicoke." I also run a workshop on "Writing Dialogue" as part of the event.
Tapestry Opera presents Songbook VII, which includes Miss Quickly, a short piece I wrote with composer Iman Habibi.
A Pacific Herring Gull talks love, life & death while spinning Yacht Rock records.
Hosts Michael Winter and Catherine Bush celebrate the 10th anniversary of University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA program, whose faculty, alumni (including me), and students have been pushing boundaries―being reckless!―for the past ten years.
After being performed in Canada and selling out at the Edinburgh Festival, Noise Opera brings back the Sloans Opera by Gareth Williams and David James Brock to Glasgow’s oldest pub this July for just seven performances.
David James Brock's play Wet (winner of the 2011 Herman Voaden Award) will be presented at the 2016 Revolver Festival as part of the UpDrafts Reading Series. Under the direction of Chelsea Haberlin and dramaturgy of Sebastien Archibald, ITSAZOO Productions is presenting this reworked version of the play.
David James Brock will be reading new poems and from his poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, at Poems for All Occasions at Victoria's Caffè Fantastico Specialty Coffees. The reading also features friends and fellow Toronto poets Daniel Scott Tysdal and Jim Johnstone reading from their new collections.
David James Brock will be a featured reader (late replacement) reading new poems and from his poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, at Planet Earth Poetry's weekly reading series in Victoria. The reading also features Tina Biello and an open mic.
Buy Everyone is CO2 at the reading or on the Wolsak & Wynn website.
David will return to Tapestry New Opera as the librettist for a new collaboration of experimental punk and opera in Tap: ex Metallurgy. This piece explores modes through which opera might assume a twenty-first century rebirth and involves collaborating with members of Canadian hardcore band Fucked Up, and two of Canada’s most masterful and versatile opera singers, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó and tenor David Pomeroy.
Sewing the Earthworm will be a part of the Canadian Art Song Project's Recital Series, part its 2015-2016 season.
For the first time in Brian Harman's (composer) and David James Brock's (writer) Sewing the Earthworm's project, Carla Huhtanen (soprano) and Steven Philcox (piano) will be joined by choreographer and dancer Jennifer Nichols.
David James Brock joins a killer lineup of poets on September 5th for a series of microtalks on the theme of Play & Poetry.
David James Brock will be reading new poems and from his poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, at Palmpiset Press's Pillette Village Reading Series in Windsor. Buy Everyone is CO2 at the reading or on the Wolsak & Wynn website.
