Playwright and performance artist Robert Karimi is a National Poetry Slam champion, a Def Poetry Jam alumnus and creator of the episodic theatrical experience “The Cooking Show con Karimi and Comrades.” Through the character of his alter ego, a chef named Mero Cocinero, the San Francisco Bay Area-born Iranian-Guatemalan trans-media artist brings people and food together for interactive evenings of storytelling, culinary adventure, nutrition and community. Karimi speaks at IdeaFestival Thursday, October 2 at 10:30 a.m. as part of a panel, “Art on the Edge.” He spoke with WFPL’s Erin Keane from Minnesota Public Radio’s studios in St. Paul, where he lives.
