Iranian-Canadian Artist Denied Entry to US for San Francisco Performance

Friday, February 07, 2020

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KQED

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Iranian-Canadian artist Shirin Fahimi, scheduled to perform on Friday at San Francisco’s CounterPulse, was denied entry to the United States on Tuesday. Her two-person performance with Morehshin Allahyari will continue, says co-presenting arts nonprofit Southern Exposure, as “a resilient, unbending adaptation of the original piece.”

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Sarah Hotchkiss