nasim asgari
nasim.asgari97@gmail.com
Human Rights & Equity Studies - York University, Toronto
Selected Poetry
Burning, 2020
Untitled, 2019
what was swept under the persian rug (self-published Anthology)
grenade 2018
Liminality
Make Ourselves Better, 2018
Forever an Immigrant, 2017
Exotical, 2017
Breath of a Warrior, 2015
Letter to Katy Perry & the Like- From a 16-Year-Old, 2014
Letter to Maman She will Never Read, 2013
Revolution of Butterflies & Still, a Long Way, 2013
Once Upon a Sunset, 2013
Dreaming the Dream, 2012
Wake Up, 2012
Revolutionize the Soul Step by Step, 2012
A Minaret in Switzerland, 2010
Selected Performances
2018 416 RISE, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto
2018 Poetry Evening, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
2017 Nuit Blanche, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
2017 Collecting Personal Archives: A Community Arts Space Project, the Gardiner Museum,
2017 Creative Time Summit Toronto: Of Homelands and Revolution, Koerner Hall, Toronto
2017 Opening Performance for Lowkey, York University
2017 Celebrating our Voices Panel, Ryerson University, Toronto
2016 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2016 Unity Charity MC and Spoken Word Showcase, Super Wonder Gallery
2015 Launch of the OHRC’s Policy on preventing discrimination based on creed, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Toronto
2015 Volume: Sisters Make Noise, Daniels Spectrum
2014 Spoken Word at Unity Festival
2014 TedX Rouge River, Toronto Zoo
Group Exhibitions
2018 Musinterpreted, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto (curated by Truth and Dare Project)
2017 Collecting Personal Archives: A Community Arts Space Project, the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (curated by soJin Chun Zahra Agjee)
2017 Writer & featured performer in Madeleine Co’s Listen to the Chorus, a collaborative large scale 4 channel video installation, Nuit Blanche, Toronto (curated by Barbara Fischer)Video
2020 Hope You Relate, (a collaborative music video with Terence Penny, Named Tobias, Zakisha Brown and Tracey Kayy), Art Gallery of York University.
2019 CBC Arts Series, “Poetic License: 8 young poets speak their truth in anxious times”, March 2019.
2017 CBC Arts Series, “Poetic License: Nasim Asgari ‘Forever an immigrant’: An Iranian-Canadian poet takes on turbulent times”, Jan 31, 2017
Films
2018 RISE, an experimental documentary by artists Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto.
Publications
Exhibition Folio: Ai Weiwei Unbroken, Gardiner Museum, 2019
Nasim Asgari, what was swept under the persian rug, self-published, 2018
Fatimeh Syed, “Speak Out: How an Inspiring New Generation of Spoken Word Poets Found Their Voices” This Magazine, April 1, 2016.
Desmond Cole, “Taking Action against Bill C-51: A report from Toronto, one of fifty-six Canadian cities to protest the government’s proposed anti-terror law”, The Walrus, March 16, 2015
Interviews
Metro Morning, Interview with Matt Galloway, March 29, 2018
Radio 1010 Interview with Desmond Cole, 2014
Awards
2016 RISE Edutainment Community Award
2014 on team that won second place in the York Region District School Board’s Poetry Slam
2014 Unity Charity MVP Award
2013 on team that won first place in the York region District School Board’s Poetry Slam