Now in the Triangle area of North Carolina for four years, Pamir is in this part of the country to pursue art and writing, having moved from Florida to higher ground as a proactive climate migrant. TO CONTACT please, click this email link, find him on LinkedIn or reach out via social media.
Pamir Kiciman's photography appears in 86 Logic Issue 6, and his writing was selected for HOME? An Artistic Exploration of Housing in the Triangle (NC) by the Orange County Arts Commission. Returning to acting in the summer of 2023 (see below), he's been an arts journalist and photographer for The Local Reporter in Chapel Hill. His feature about the Spirit in the Land exhibition at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art appeared in INDY Week.
See his Muck Rack profile for all arts and culture features.
His current projects include presenting poetry and writings in performance art pieces or collaborations with dancers, rather than only words on a page or live readings.
Pamir's photography includes recent work with creatives in dance, movement, avant music and musicians, theater, visual arts, and photojournalism.
He's also a pro teacher and practitioner of meditation and healing arts.
As a Reiki Teacher and Meditation Guide, he has conducted Reiki Trainings in South Florida at Broward Health - Imperial Point Hospital - and FAU College of Nursing; practiced Reiki and Hypnotherapy at the same hospital; and presented about Reiki at an ITP Medical Conference as well as giving Reiki sessions to participants. He founded Oasis Reiki Dojo which follows Usui Sensei's original, Japanese Reiki teachings.
Durham, NC — Bipeds Present Shadowbox Session #20 An evening of musicians and movers.
Me on the left together with the amazing Victoria Nelson on natural percussion sounds.
"ETU" A POETRY-BASED DANCE LITANY
Iteration I
An original performance work by Pamir Kiciman
Performed and co-created with Jody Cassell
🎭Artists\\
Pamir Kiciman\ original poem, recitation, sounds, vocalizations and movement
Jody Cassell\ dance and shape maker, gestures, embodiment, vocalizations
Themes\\ loss \ beauty \ love \ memory
DESCRIPTION\\ This piece is an offering. It offers solace in the throes of suffering. Sourcing in the beauty of the natural environment, the material grounds nature's overlooked ability to be a presence. The land serves as refuge for supplication and renewal while morphing through loss, beauty, love and memory. Housed in a poem, dancer and poet expressively shape and shift spacetime with movement, words and vocalizations, punctuated by traditional and nontraditional sounds in an emotive landscape that's present and beyond.
Written, produced, directed and performed by © Pamir Kiciman 2024 / Luna Moth Creations.
Behind the scenes photos for dance film set with green screen, for Jennifer Scully-Thurston's "Playing House" at Shadowbox Studios, Durham, NC.
CABARET by Stone Soup Theatre Company, Oct., 2023. All photos at this link are ones I was hired to capture and many more.
After a decades-long hiatus, Pamir returned to the stage in RedBird Theater's comedy Numbers Are Down in Durham, the summer 2023. You can read the playbill here. He also read three parts in the stage reading of La Famiglia by Annie Taft.
My exclusive Chapel Hill and Durham author interviews and debut novel reviews:
Hired to photograph a knitted naked dress made as an art piece.
Video: Photographs manipulated to emulate the qualities of wabi-sabi. All images ©️ Pamir Kiciman
An improvisational monthly program in Durham, NC.
Social media management, including content creation and guidance to enhance brand visibility and engagement. Search engine optimization (SEO), driving traffic and improving online presence. Email marketing and automation, newsletter design and content writing for effective communication. Photography and photo editing, producing high-quality visuals/graphics for social media and marketing materials. Design and manage Facebook Pages, optimizing content to foster community interaction and growth. Video and audio recording and editing, creating engaging multimedia content that resonates with target audiences.
Highlighting uniquely talented artists of all stripes in the community and presenting original stories about people, art spaces and arts and culture events.
Writes and publishes the Reiki Help Blog covering all things holistic, mindful, somatic, consciousness, mindbody, healing and spiritual.
In March 2024, I took down my Reiki web domain and blog. The writings on the blog from 2007 on can be found on the Internet Archive, visit this link.
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Boneyard Beach at Botany Bay, Edisto Island, South Carolina on Jan 9, 2021. A surreal, beautiful and haunting location. These tree carcasses are here because of erosion! Sad and stunning. The trees died because erosion caused the ocean to come inland and now it's a place of beauty and pain. This is climate change in action. All images ©️Pamir Kiciman
These are from 8 am in the morning on 10/18/20 - a period when I spent large chunks of time on Florida barrier island beaches that are unguarded (no lifeguards). This was a wild day of photography at high tide with rain pelting down, then the sun bursting out of the clouds, one minute dark and moody, next minute dazzling and bright.
This coastline is an outcropping of the Anastasia formation, a stretch of limestone rocks known as coquinas. The outcropping is what gives the beach a dramatic look, with the waves of the Atlantic exploding over the rocks and creating numerous coves. All images ©️Pamir Kiciman
Postgraduate work in Theater
Updated Reiki Master Training in Usui Reiki Ryoho
Authentic Japanese Reiki
Hypnotherapy Certification
Sufi Aromatherapy Training