Description | from The Convergence Zone Please join the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics for an artist talk with Robert Farid Karimi. Please pre-register to receive an e-mail with the Zoom details the day of the event. This reading and talk is open to the public and will be recorded. Robert Farid Karimi (they/he), a critically acclaimed performer, author and social engagement artist who makes healthy messaging delicious with his Diabetes of Democracy/ThePeoplesCook Project: a culinary engagement project which combines humor and food - Karimi inspires audiences to exchange their cultural culinary histories, connect with one another over food, to discover their own power towards personal balance. Diabetes of Democracy served over 60000 people from 2009-2019, not including TV audience. A Creative Capital artist, Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, RobertFaridKarimi featured their work on NPR, TheSmithsonian, SouthXSouthWest, HBO’s DefPoetryJam, Los Angeles Times, Callaloo, Total Chaos: an anthology of Hip Hop theory, Asian American Literary Review, and A Good Time for The Truth: Race In Minnesota (selected as this year’s One Book/One Minnesota, and various platforms worldwide.
Karimi designs games and interactive performance experiences to spark audiences/players, in all manner of civic spaces, to imagine worlds of mutual community nourishment; they serve as Assistant Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theater department at Arizona State University. RobertFaridKarimi.com. |
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