Art And Culture

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  • Actor and director Javad Ensafi is to bring on stage five years of research about Norouz (Iranian New Year) traditions and festivities in the form of a play based on the vernal equinox.

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  • Ghazali Cinema Town, 14 km west of Tehran, is the destination of a short trip planned on Friday by Tiwall, the well-known ticket provider and platform for promoting cultural events.

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  • A weeklong tour across Khorasan Razavi and South Khorasan provinces has been organized by Arand Tour.

    On March 21, a VIP bus will leave Tehran at 4 p.m. for eastern Iran. A local house…

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  • Handicrafts of southwest Iranian province of Khuzestan will go on show at the International Handicrafts Trade Fair of Florence, Italy, from April 21-May 1.  The fair will feature…

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  • Tabriz, the capital of East Azarbaijan Province, will host the third edition of the international conference on ‘Archeology and Conservation along Silk Road’. 

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  • Iranian movie ‘Golnesa’ directed by Sattar Chamani-Gol has been placed among the nominees for the Remi Award of the 51st WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, scheduled to be held on…

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  • The children’s Persian book ‘The Bow Tie Python’, printed by Fanni Publications, has recently been released across the country.

    Writer Azam Mahdavi talks of protecting animals and…

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  • Jahangir Hedayat, the nephew of renowned Iranian short story writer Sadeq Hedayat, has compiled all the works translated by the writer in one book.

    Titled ‘Sadeq Hedayat and His…

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  • A violin belonging to the genius Albert Einstein who gifted it to a janitor’s son has sold for a whopping $516,500.

    The famed physicist played the stringed instrument since the age of…

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  • A total of 646 artworks will adorn different districts of Tehran for the third edition of the art project ‘Baharestan’ (literally meaning ‘abode of spring’), in which temporary artworks are…

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  • Turkey-based International Filmmore Women Film Festival on Wheels, March 10- May 10, is hosting a film from Iran in a section named ‘Good Films Make Good Neighbors’.

    Films screened in…

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  • City Theater in Tehran is currently hosting an adaptation of the short story ‘Dash Akol’ by eminent Iranian fiction writer Sadeq Hedayat (1903-51). Dash Akol was translated into English in 1979…

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  • Iranian poet Mansour Owji was honored on Sunday at the closing ceremony of the 12th Poetry Book of the Year Award selected by journalists. 

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  • The registration of foreign publishers interested in participating in the 31st Tehran International Book Fair has started on March 10, its Public Relations Office has announced.

    To…

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  • Veteran painter Ane Mohammad Tatari has displayed ‘Recent Works’ at Etemad Art Gallery.

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  • Calligrapher Milad Shams has set up an exhibition of his works at Mehr-Maryam Gallery.

    Titled ‘Winter,’ the solo exhibit opens on Monday and will run through April 20, Gallery Info…

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  • Painter Mohammad Reza Zohourian, 59, is holding a solo exhibit named ‘Some Partly Fade’.

    Farmanfarma Art Gallery is playing host to the exhibition that features a new series of the…

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  • The Fajr International Film Festival plans to launch an English website as the digital encyclopedia on Iranian cinema, concurrent with the start of the 36th edition of FIFF in April.

    The…

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  • The National Library of Czech Republic in Prague will hold an exhibition of Czech literature translated into Persian.

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  • Pop singer Mohammad Alizadeh, 36, will perform his new single ‘Zendegi’ (life), released online on Saturday, in his four upcoming concerts.

    Milad Tower in Tehran will host Alizadeh’s…

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  • Iranian-Armenian actor and theater director Levon Haftvan passed away on Saturday at the age of 51 in Tehran.

    On the set of the movie ‘Bride of Darkness,’ directed by Mahmoud Moazzami on…

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  • Italy’s Embassy in Tehran presents ‘Italian Design Day 2018’ on Sunday at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. The event is organized in the form of a conference with the motto of ‘Go Greener…

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  • Baran Theater Hall is hosting the play ‘Off’ written by Melica Jabbari and directed by Siavash Shohani. 

    The play centers on war and what its brutal nature does to women. The play,…

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  • Children’s musical ‘Land of Songs’, written and directed by Reza Bayat, is being performed at Hall No. 8 of Book Garden. 

    It is an adaptation of old Persian tales and is the story…

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  • A theatrical adaptation of Neil Simon’s play ‘The Good Doctor’ is underway at Gandom Art and Cultural Institute.

    ‘The Good Doctor’ is a comedy with music written by Neil Simon. It…

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