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nasim asgari
nasim.asgari97@gmail.com
Honours B.A.
Human Rights & Equity Studies - York University, Toronto
Selected Poetry
Seethrough, 2021
Burning, 2020
Untitled, 2019
what was swept under the persian rug (anthology)
grenade, 2018
Make Ourselves Better, 2018
Forever an Immigrant, 2017
Exotical, 2017
Liminality, 2016
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
2021 X Avant- You In Mind, The Music Gallery, RISE, 918 Bathurst
2021 Unity Festival, Unity Charity, Gladstone Hotel/ Virtual Broadcasted on Amazon Music Canada
2021 Art on My Mind, Art Gallery of York University, Virtual
2021 The Good Time To, Bickford Park
2021 Musicians and Poets for Palestine, Virtual
2020 We Keep Each Other Safe, Toronto Prisoners Rights Project, Virtual
2020 Take Back the Night, Red Dot Project, Seneca College
2020 Stories of Truth 2.0, Racialized Young Professionals, Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay
2019 Poetry Solidarity & Resilience, GSA Carleton, Carleton University, Ottawa
2019 Don’t Pass It Down, Mosaic Institute, University of Toronto Mississauga
2019 Speakout Poetry, Studio.89, Mississauga
2018 FOLD 2018, Brampton
2018 Racism Talk Series, Ryerson Faculty of Community Service, X University
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
2017 Protest Against Muslim Ban, Black Liives Matter TO/ Coalition Against White Supremacy and Islamophobia, Toronto
2017 Urban Legends, Ottawa
2017 Newcomer Students Association, X University
2016 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2016 Unity 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 & 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”.
2017 CBC Arts Series, “Poetic License: Nasim Asgari ‘Forever an immigrant’: An Iranian-Canadian poet takes on turbulent times”.
Films
2018 RISE, an experimental documentary by artists Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto.
Publications
Pulse Zine, Students of Colour Collective, University of Victoria, 2021
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 protest government’s proposed anti-terror law”, The Walrus, March 16, 2015
Interviews
The Morning Shift, March 4th, 2020
Metro Morning, Interview with Matt Galloway, March 29, 2018
Radio 1010, Interview with Desmond Cole, 2015
Workshops
2017-2020 Toronto Public Library, Poetry Saved Our Lives
2019- 2020 All-Star Poetry Series
2018 Art Gallery of York University, Truth Be Told
2013 Unity Charity
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
Grants
Ontario Arts Council - BIPOC Artist Development Grant