| Description | This event is free and open to the public. Join us in celebrating our 2023 MFA candidates at the MFA Spring Festival! The Annual Spring Festival for the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program features readings and performances by Graduating MFA candidates and Guest Artist, Robert Farid Karimi. MFA candidates showcase selections from their MFA thesis projects.
Guest Artist Bio
Robert Farid Karimi with 25+ years of expertise as trans-disciplinary performer, producer, poet, educator, and social engagement artist brings nourishment, playfulness, and interactive storytelling to spaces worldwide – from General Mills to Off Broadway to Nuyorican Poets Café to HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, Hawaii International Film Festival, The Smithsonian, and South by Southwest. With his Iranian-Guatemalan heritage as a point of departure, Karimi plays a diverse group of characters in his solo and collaborative shows, from the mystical Disco Jesus to pop star Freddie Mercury to the idealist cook Mero Cocinero, who has cooked for luminaries MF Doom, Yuri Kochiyama and families and change makers worldwide.Karimi is an Assistant Professor of Performance Practices and Co-director of the Public Practice + Generative Play StudioLab at Arizona State University. robertfaridkarimi.com
Featured Readings by MFA Candidates
Alexandria Simmons, Fantasy and Folklore: The Education of Half-Orc Scarlette Urrug
Alysa Levi-D'Ancona, Mist Manifesto
Amy Eldridge, The Panther
Atlanta Duncan, Transmissions from the Mermaid Palace
Bujinlkham Erdenebaatar, Veiled Street
Connor James, The Carolyne Project: A Speculative Experiment of Narrative Structure
Marwah M. Shebl, The Last of Our Days
Madison Gaines, Studio 9
Matthew Livezey Whitehurst, Anti-Parietal Epithalamus
Raelynne Woo, Beyond the Curtain The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office by May 24 at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu |
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