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Exhibit Marks Oil Centenary
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A photo exhibition
featuring works by noted photographers Hassan Qaedi and Mansoureh Motamedi is underway at IranŐs Photographers House.
The exhibit is themed 100 years following
the oil discovery in Masjid Soleiman, Khuzestan province, southwest of Iran.
( Photo by Javad Moghimi)
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’Vanguard Companion’ At Vahdat
Tehran Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Manouchehr Sahbaei, will give a number of performances titled ’Vanguard Companion’ at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall from today until May 31 on the threshold of the 19th anniversary of the demise of the father of Islamic Revolution, the late Imam Khomeini (June 3).
Announcing this, Babak Rezaei, managing director of Iranian Music Association, told Fars News Agency that the program is being held in cooperation with the association, Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry’s Music Office and Roudaki Foundation.
“Each performance includes two sections. The first features ’The Sun’s Departure’, composed by Saeid Zehni in five movements,“ he said.
The five movements feature incidents prior to the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the revolution’s victory, the Sacred Defense Era (Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88), the demise of the late Imam Khomeini and his children.
’The Sun’s Departure’, which was composed on the order of Iranian Music Association, features a number of works by noted poets, Ali Moallem Damqani and the late Qeisar Aminpour, he added.
“’Vanguard Companion’ is among Moallem’s poems centered on the late Imam,“ Rezaei noted.
The second part includes four compositions, including the famous signature tune ’Khomeini, O Imam!’, composed by Mohammad Ali Shokouhi, will which will be performed by the Music Office’s choral group.
Rezaei also said that the piece will be performed on the occasion of the ’Ten-Day Dawn’ celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Canada to Host Iranology Confab
The Seventh Biennial Conference on Iran Studies will be held from July 31 to August 3 in Toronto’s Park Hyatt, Canada.
Some 250 international researchers and Iranologists will present the findings of their most recent studies on Iran at the event which is to be organized by the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS), Fars News Agency reported.
Iranian scholars, including Mohammad Reza Bateni, Abolqasem Esmaeilpour, Mehdi Jafarzadeh and Fatemeh Jafari will attend the conference.
The event will also feature a performance by Morshed Valiollah Torabi, American maestro Joann Falleta and members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra of a piece from Iranian composer Behzad Ranjbaran’s Shahnameh-inspired Persian Trilogy.
A collection of feature and documentary films, including Niki Karimi’s ’A Few Days Later’, Mani Haqiqi’s ’Laborers Working’, Mahnaz Afzali’s ’Red Card’ and Samira Makhmalbaf’s ’Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame’, will be screened at the event.
A concert and a book fair will be held on the sideline of the event.
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Imam Ali (AS):
That knowledge which remains only on your tongue is very superficial. The intrinsic value of knowledge is that you act upon it.
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Farshchian Documentary Under Production
Iran’s Gouya Art House is producing a documentary on the life and works of celebrated painter and miniaturist Mahmoud Farshchian.
The shooting began in Farshchian Museum in Tehran’s Sa’adabad Complex where the artist unveiled his recent works, namely ’Qadir’ and ’Kowsar’, Fars News Agency reported.
Directed by Nasser Mirbaqeri, the documentary also features renowned Iranian artists including Ali Akbar Sadeqi (painter), Yadollah Kaboli (calligrapher), and Ezzatollah Entezami and Parviz Pourhosseini (actors).
The documentary is scheduled to be screened within a month concurrent with the release of Farshchian’s latest book.
’Beyond Fitna’ on Web
A group of independent documentary writers have posted the documentary ’Beyond Fitna’ on the Internet in response to the blasphemous anti-Islamic film, ’Fitna’, produced and released by the Dutch legislator Geert Wilders.
Spokesman of the NGO ’Islam and Christianity’, Mohammad Karimi, told IRNA that the documentary was produced as a rebuttal to the Dutch sacrilegious video.
Karimi said the Iranian film is posted on the following websites: www.nogic.com, www.youtube.com, and www.video.google.com.
The documentary is in three languages--English, Persian and Arabic.
Qobadi, Guillermo to Collaborate
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Bahman Qobadi will collaborate with the renowned Mexican scriptwriter Arriaga Guillermo on the script for his latest film ’60 Minutes About Us’.
The 50-year-old author will collaborate in preparing the final draft of a screenplay written by Bahman Qobadi and revised by Kambozia Partovi, according to ISNA.
Guillermo received the 2005 Cannes Film Festival’s Best Screenplay Award for ’The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada’. ’A Sweet Scent of Death’ and ’The Guillotine Squad’ are among his latest novels.
Khorramshahr Teahouse Paintings on Display
An exhibition of teahouse paintings, themed ’The Anniversary of Khorramshahr’s Liberation’, featuring works by five veteran artists opened at Palestine Museum of Contemporary Arts on Tuesday.
According to IRNA, Ali Akbar Lorni, Mansour Vafaei, Ahmad Khalili, Seyyed Hassan Hosseini and Mohammad Farahani are among few remaining artists involved in teahouse painting in Iran whose works are on display at the event.
The museum, affiliated to Iran’s Academy of Arts, is holding the ten-day event to showcase the capabilities of teahouse painters. A workshop is also being held on the sidelines of the event which will run until June 6.
Bard’s ’Cursed’ Tomb Set for a Revamp
William Shakespeare’s tombstone is set for a makeover- despite bearing a curse against those who move it.
The grave is being restored as part of extensive repairs at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-on-Avon, London.
The stone, which renovators say will not be moved, warns, “Blessed be the man that spares these stones, and cursed be he who moves my bones.“
Shakespeare, who was baptised and buried at the church, is thought to have penned the warning epitaph, BBC reported.
The Bard’s words have warned off the curious for almost four centuries as well as sending a plea to modern developers.
Shakespeare was baptised at Holy Trinity in April 1564 and buried there 52 years later.
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