Art And Culture

Queen Elizabeth Theater in Vancouver, Canada, which regularly hosts acclaimed operas and concerts, will be running a spectacular performance by acclaimed Iranian musicians in collaboration with…

Iranian veteran film producer, director, scriptwriter and architect, Mohammad Ali Najafi, will be honored at the 36th Fajr Film Festival, slated for Feb. 1-11, 2018.

According to a…

Theater director Asghar Nouri is to stage a repertoire of three plays by Shakespeare in the first quarter of the next Iranian year (beginning March 21, 2018) at Sangelaj Theater House in Tehran…

A sumptuous, shadowy play of Pinocchio is scheduled to run at the National Theater of London until April 10, 2018.

An adaptation of Italian children’s writer Carlo Collodi’s 1883 tale…

Modern Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad (1935-67) is the subject of an upcoming tour planned by Zhiwaar Travel Institute on Dec. 28.

The tour starts at 9 a.m. in Vali-e-Asr Square and…

Safir English Language Academy, with branches across Iran, has organized a tour of Niavaran Palace Museum in north Tehran.

The tour will be led by one of the academy’s instructors who…

Gando Tour has planned a trip to the red village of Abyaneh and the golden desert of Maranjab both in Isfahan Province.

Slated for Dec. 28-29, the tour starts at 5 a.m. from Haft-e-Tir…

Kalout Travel will take enthusiasts on a one-day trip to Qazvin, the capital city of the namesake province.

The trip is scheduled for Dec. 28 and starts at 5:30 a.m. from Fatemi Street…

UNESCO Center Louis Francois in France honored members of the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults of Iran at its 2017 international visual arts competition.

French architect and urbanist, Christian de Portzamparc, 73, has recently unveiled one of his projects, a new building in the city of Montpellier, France.

Iranian-British architect…

‘Please Be a Natural Born Killer’, the title of a play currently staged at Baran Theater, is scheduled to run till Jan. 5, 2018.

Directed by Ali Akbar Akhoundi, it is the story of a…

Traditional Iranian vocalist and player of setar and santur, Hesameddin Seraj, 58, is giving a concert on Saturday at the Interior Ministry’s auditorium in Tehran, along with two musicians from…

Graphis Competitions, organized by the New York-based institute of Graphis, granted its 2017 Advertising Annual Gold Award to Iranian graphic artist and cartoonist, Alireza Nosrati, for…

Book City Institute’s central branch in Tehran will hold a ceremony on Sunday to unveil the 23rd list of Flying Turtle, a list of children and young adults’ books presented seasonally in…

A previously unseen series of illustrated Christmas letters written by English author J.R.R Tolkien (1892-1973) to his children, featuring Santa Claus and his helper Polar Bear, are to go on…

Mehrab Theater Hall is staging the play ‘Lord of Carnage’ written by French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter Yasmina Reza and directed by Abbas Nour-Mohammadi.

Mike Bartlett’s play ‘Bull’ is being performed at Hafez Theater Hall under the direction of Ehsan Paydar.

Bartlett is a British playwright who has also written screenplays for film and…

The play ‘L’astronome’ written by French writer Didier van Cauwelaert and directed by Masoud Salehi is on stage at Senoqteh Theater House.

Meaning ‘Astronaut’, the work is about two…

Photographer Afsaneh Poloei is holding her photomontage exhibition at Atbin Art Gallery.

A series of composite photographs combining architecture and human portraits are hanging on the…

If the mysteries of the Great Pyramid of Giza are ever completely solved, we may have a tiny robot to thank. That is because scientists are currently developing a miniature flying robot designed…

‘Barefoot, Bare, Heart in His Hand,’ a play written by German-based Iranian theater director and playwright Alireza Koushk-Jalali, 59, and directed by Yasser Attar will be staged at Tehran’s…

Faraj Alipour and Kourosh Asadpour, veteran singers of Lurish music (ethnic music of western and southwestern regions in Iran) will hold a concert on Thursday at the Ministry of Interior…

Tehran’s Roudaki Hall plays host to the fourth Ayenehdar Regional and Ritual Music Festival, December 21-23.

A Persian rendering of the Kurdish-language novel ‘City of White Musicians’ should soon be in the bookstores published by Afraz Publication soon.

Reza Karim-Mojaver has translated the…

The first edition of the Iranian Violin Ceremony will be held on December 22 at Azadi Tower Auditorium in Tehran.