Robert Karimi in Philly and Jersey, Oct 8 & 9

The amazing and incomparable Robert Karimi will be kickin' it wit us in Philly at CCP on Thurs, Oct 8th and then in New Jeru at Ocean County College on Fri, Oct 9th.

The 8th is open only to CCP students who sign-up, but the OCC event is for the 2009 Mid-Atlantic College Student Literary Magazine Conference and is open to the public as long as folks register. Robert will be performing and leading a workshop. Details, including conference registration and workshop description, are below.

About Robert Karimi:

Robert Farid Karimi is an interdisciplinary playwright, multimedia humorist 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’s collaborative performances: 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, Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative, and 2009 Creative Capital grantee.

He creates, develops and directs ensemble based interdisciplinary performances — an exploration of the Iranian Hostage Crisis and 9/11 with Chicago youth entitled blindfolded, a performance project with mixed race youth working with special needs youth in Alaska, and he led a project with Hmong and non-Hmong artists about the negotiation of identity in new homelands entitled Hmoob-land (Hmong-land)

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. 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.

http://www.kaoticgood.com/


Workshop Description:

"OMG. We Need to Share This. GO!"

Part motivational speech, part workshop, part crazy time-crunch creation, this workshop led by Robert Farid Karimi will guide a group to create a 'zine' to capture the moment of energy in the room.

The goal: to create a published 'zine' in our allotted time, to think about all the things that inspire us to write, to understand how to harness humor and incisiveness, and to share how our group/individual process can help us capture the energy of a moment, political or otherwise. Bring your favorite writing instrument that allows you to flow.

At Community College of Philadelphia on Thurs., Oct 8:
3-7pm in the Coffeehouse (open to CCP students only)

Hosted by the CAP Literary Magazine and The Spoken Word Poetry Club. Sponsored by The Office of Student Life.

At Ocean County College on Fri., Oct 9th for the 2009 Mid-Atlantic College Student Literary Magazine Conference:

Noon-1:30pm, Technology Building 13, Rm 1

Performance at OCC to follow from 2:00-2:30pm

Registration for the 2009 Mid-Atlantic College Student Literary Magazine Conference begins at 8:30am.

Registration fee: $5 for students
$25 for faculty/staff/public

Ocean County College
1 College Way
Tom's River, NJ 08754

http://www.ocean.edu/

Co-Hosted by Community College of Philadelphia

For more info, email me: michelle@yellowrage.com

Love,
Shelly-Shell