Robert Farid Karimi is an interdisciplinary playwright, multimedia humorist and poet and the artistic director of kaotic good productions. He will be in Baltimore for a residency at The Contemporary Museum from thanks to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. While in residence in Baltimore, Karimi & Co. will be hard at work and play on their new project, Diabetes of Democracy, an interdisciplinary theatrical experience incorporating music, documentary-style video, storytelling, political discussion and humor – as well as live cooking onstage – into a PBS cooking show format.  Karimi will research and test dozens of long-lost ethnic dishes that historically enabled people to manage Type II Diabetes. For more information visit: http://www.contemporary.org/future.html

Mara Neimanis, artistic director for In-Flight Theater, will be performing an excerpt from her new solo show premiering in February at the Creative Alliance about family, diabetes, and care giving.  Mara Neimanis creates theatre in the air using trapeze and invented aerial apparatus that include floating and suspended steel sculptures. Mara  teaches a variety of Aerial Classes for all ages in her studio at Load Of Fun, 120 North Ave at Howard. For more information go to:  http://www.in-flighttheater.com  

In-Flight Theater is the producer of the amazing Baltimore Alley Aerial Festival happening this year Sept 9-11. For more information visit:  http://www.in-flighttheater.com