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David Chislett

Born

The United Kingdom

Website

https://davidchislett.com/

Genre

Business: Music Industry, Poetry

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Speaker, MC, Host, Poet, Writer

David Chislett is a multi-talented speaker and writer. He is an experienced voice artist and MC with a strong background in poetry, theatre and live radio work, as well as live events and radio ads.

Trained in public speaking, debating and acting from school level, David graduated to national radio in 1994 when Barney Simon used him as a live radio correspondent on 5FM from London. This stint developed into the creation of the SA Music Explosion, a half hour weekly show on Barney Simon’s daily night time show on 5FM in 1996 that David hosted and ran.

A published author, David is also a poet and public speaker who works with creative activations, motivation and inspiration. He has lectured at AFDA and WITS on cre Speaker, MC, Host, Poet, Writer

David Chislett is a multi-talented speaker and writer. He is an experienced voice artist and MC with a strong background in poetry, theatre and live radio work, as well as live events and radio ads.

Trained in public speaking, debating and acting from school level, David graduated to national radio in 1994 when Barney Simon used him as a live radio correspondent on 5FM from London. This stint developed into the creation of the SA Music Explosion, a half hour weekly show on Barney Simon’s daily night time show on 5FM in 1996 that David hosted and ran.

A published author, David is also a poet and public speaker who works with creative activations, motivation and inspiration. He has lectured at AFDA and WITS on creative writing and its processes and performed at numerous spoken word evenings around South Africa.

David was awarded the Ernst Van Heerden Creative Writing Award in 1998 for the short story: Pin Stripe Punk. He created, edited and contributed to Urban 1 in 2001, edited and contributed to Urban 2 in 2002 and edited Urban 03 in 2003. He also contributed to “From Joburg To Jozi” published Penguin Books as well as contributing short fiction to Litnet, Unlikleystories.org, Botsotso, Ons Klyntjie, The Literate Gymnast and Grrr.

A Body Remembered, his debut collection of short stories, was published through Ge’Ko in August 2009. His music indsutry guide-book, 1,2,1,2: A Step By Step Guide to the SA Music Industry was published in SA in September 2010. Then in July 2012, Chislett released his debut poetry collection, For You Or Someone Like You. He is currently writing a novel.

David has MC’d Moshito, The SA Music Industry Conference, the Up The Creek festival and the Revolution Stage at Oppikoppi in 2008 as well as countless smaller shows around the country over a period of years. He has also presided over book launches, spoken word sessions and other media events.

David has a wide range of interests and is therefore adaptable and flexible in his approach to public speaking. His voice, trained both through opera singing lessons and public speaking work (live and radio) is strong and pleasant. David is available for spoken word performances, guest speaking on creativity and the music industry, MC-ing and hosting of functions or events. ...more

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David Chislett's Blog

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Optimise Any Team

Holidays are wonderful things for ruminations: long term thinking without a specific end-goal. When I returned from my summer holiday one thing was clear: I need to run regular webinars. I am well aware of the negatives: zoom fatigue, suspect value, congested market, inadequate niching etc etc. But, from speaking to participants and reading the […]

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