Unit 2 presents RFKarimi, cultural pot stirrer • chaos organizer • writer • that guy! WORKSHOP

Unit 2 presents RFKarimi, cultural pot stirrer • chaos organizer • writer • that guy!

RFKariimi will conduction a spokenword workshop and cook some good food to share with folks!
$5-15 sliding scale
Wed Feb 27th
5pm - 8pm
2-163 Sterling road, toronto
RSVP to: unit2arts@gmail.com

Fearlessness, Innovation, and Saying What Needs to be said (Which may not be what everybody wants to hear.

How to create work from a place of freedom, power, and joy. Be you spoken word, performance, or just love to write. Also there will be discussions about how to use the physical in your process, how and when to use humor, non-gender specific strippers and poetry, and what do richard Pryor and Iran have to do with all this?

About Robert Farid Karimi:
ThePeoplesCook.org
Cook.Eat.Together

KaoticGood.com

politically sexy/culturally mixed
Robert Farid Karimi is an interdisciplinary playwright, multimedia humorist, activist, and poet and the artistic director of kaotic good productions. His works include self (the remix), The Cooking Show con Karimi y Comrades, Shaving time, and the Approximate Value of a Foot Bubbler. Karimi has collaborated with artists such as Guillermo Gomez Peña and Laurie Carlos; performances include the Edge of The World, Reverend of the DiscoChurch, and McMuertos. His awards include a National Poetry Slam Championship, an Alliance of Artists’ Communities Midwestern Voices & Visions Award, a Verve Spoken Word Grant, NPN Creation Grant, a Kohler Arts/Industry residency.

A San Francisco Bay Area native, son of Iranian and Guatemalan parents and a UCLA graduate, Karimi’s work has been featured from Alaska to Australia. A National Poetry Slam Champion, and Def Poetry Jam performer, Karimi’s writings have been published in Callaloo, Latino Literature Today, and Total Chaos: The Art and the Aesthetics of Hip Hop by Jeff Chang. A 2009 Creative Capital grantee, he is currently developing The Cooking Show: Diabetes of Democracy, Farid Mercury, an exploration of Persian politics, masculinity and pop divination, and editing Punto!, a new Latina/o spoken word anthology.