Pink Fish Ensemble's
Living Puppet Show
Sat 29th March

@

The Foundry

84-86 Great Eastern Street London EC2

Don't miss the 30 minutes performance of Pink Fish Ensemble at 8pm ,collaborating with unique musicians continued with 2 other mad performances by other artists.

you can have the chance to interact with the performers and contribute to the livining art piece which you could be part of yourself,

We also invite you to bring an object to be used in the performance,
you can also view the amazing London Biennale's exhibition curated by
Wendalena in the same space.

http://www.foundry.tv/

Extremely Popular and Successful Event !

On 31st of Jan 2008 , Rumi Poetry night was taken place in National Portrait Gallery .This was a joint event by Abbaz Fiaz (member of The Persian Thursday Group), Poet In The City and National Portrait Gallery.

We had a list of almost 300 people that were keen to attend the event when the space capacity was only 160 ,therefore another event was organized on 6th of March so that we could place the rest of the audience for that night .
It was a nightmare as we had to turn away many of our audience and promise to place them for the second event, of course we had exactly the same problem for the second event ,but everything went smooth at the end.
The poems were interpreted to English by Sir Robert Maxwell with help of Abbaz Faiz , the translation was unbelievably beautiful and the absolute Rumi spirit within the words could be felt easily. Abbas Faiz, whom had done the selection of poems, was the speaker of the night . He gave a brief intro to Rumi's life and poetry and pointed out interesting facts about Rumi's importance and popularity in today's Iranian's society.
Here is the list of Farsi readers on the first night 31st Jan:-----------------------------------------

Bahman Forsi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mehri Kashani -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maryam Hashemi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

and the English readers :

Sir Robert Maxwell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maryam Hashemi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abul Foroushan

After the readings ,the audience had the bounce of enjoying the performance of Parvin Cox and two other musicians which gave the night a beautiful finishing touch. On the second event, 6th March , we were repeating the same program with slight changes, this time we had Lobat Vala with us in our Farsi reading group which a great treat also Esmat Faiz and Dunken Fisher joined our English reading group.

Listen to BBC Persian Report Here

Destination Peckham

Area 10

21st,22nd,23rd June 2007

Fund raising event for

Resonance FM

&

Artery Arts Projects

with performance, music, art installation and poetry

part of the Camberwell Festival

http://www.area10.info/

Over 60 artist from around the world participated in this 3 night event

Participating artists were:

Artery Arts Projects, Antony Elliot, Alex Guri, Alvaro Henao, Andrea Meneses,Alisdair McGregor, Alua Nascimento, Abbi Torrance, Alexandra Zierle, Bill Allen, Brede Korsmo,Buffy Sharpe, Charlie Fox, Claudia Larcher, Counterproductions, Chikukuango Cuximazwa, Caroline Kraabel, Cecillie Nusselein Gravesen and Fritz Stolberg, Edgar de Oliveria,Emanuele Zumella and other guest artists, Gilberto Da Silva, Gavin Henry, (H)Appy Logies, Harald Smykla, Insecurity Guards, Janine Lai, Jill Rock and Richard Cardew,Kollaborators, Karen Damico, Kir Morrison and Peter Shipman,Katsunobu Yaguchi, Lee Barlow,Lisa Bradley, Lilli Hartmann,Marta Angelozzi, Maryam Ashrafi, Monica de Miranda, Mirka Flander and Jari Haanperä,Maryam Hashemi, Maria Keirah, Monday Love Film Room,Maia Sambonet,Olivia-Jane Ransley,Psychological Art Circus, Pim Conradi, Pink Fish Ensemble, Paula Roush, Rachael House, Robert McNeill, Rozzie Taylor, Sarah Enderby,Sunshine Frere and Jenny Pickett, Shabnam Shabazi, Shervin Shaeri, Sjaac van der Bent,Tim Jeeves, Transnational Performance Militia, Teresa Paiva, The Travellers, Veronica Cordeiro,

Music from:

Adma Newport, Adriano Silva Pinto, BIDAD, Drea Parks, Luminescent Orchestrii, Rhythms Of Resistance Samba band and DJ Chico , Sofia Buchuck, Polaris, Sir Francis Dashwood and the Hellfire Club, Steve Moyes with (Evrah , Sandy Kindness and Chris Leeds), The Temperatures,Yousuf Mahmoud's Afghani Band, DJ Buster, DJ’s Dime and the 2012 Show DJ Crew from Resonance FM.

Speaker’s Corner
by Shabnam Shabazi (aka Shabz)
A work in progress
.

4 May2007
Toynbee Studios
.
.


''Mixing the real with the virtual. Personal objects. Found objects. Built environments, found environments. No Single Space. No beginning, middle or end. A compositional collage of memory. An Intergenerational voyage for the artist retracing her steps, excavating her maternal history in her Mother & Grand Mother being speakers @ Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, London from 1979-1989 after being exiled as political refugees from Iran during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 when she was 9. ''

it was such a great project, I had a chance to be involved and work with Shabnam , truly sunning and inspiring experience.
pictures and updates will come soon.

Story of
The Greatest Persian Women
Of All time

Oval House Theatre
Thursday 19th April 2007, 1-2 pm

This presentation was part of Oval House Theatre's ongoing series of works-in-progress that creates the space for artists to experiment and discover, and gives you the audience a chance to be part of their creative processes.

''Tahereh Ghoratolane, Forough Farrokhzad & Shahrnush Parsipur

are three of the most famous women in the history of literature of Iran, each controversial and courageous in her own way.This project was reflecting part of their life and literature''

work-in-progress presentation by:

Soheila Ghodstinat
Parvaneh Soltani
Golkou Parhizgar
Maryam Hashemi
.
.
.


directed by
Parvaneh Soltani





Photos by Maryam Ashrafi

31st of March 2007 8pm until 6am

@ 491 Gallery

Read David Beth's review about the night check out the

Foolish People blog

Terra Incognita's photos by Sandra Simon

Pink Fish Ensemble 's
Paint therapy, Foundry 27th Feb

Photo by Alex Guri

Pink fish Ensemble performance was part of the live art events that were organised by Steve Moyes which was part of the monthly live art events which takes place on the last Tuesday of every month at the Foundry.
It was an unforgettable evening for all of us and we had a beautiful exchange of energy with each other and the brilliant musicians: Alison Blunt (violin),Ivor Kallin (viola),Sandy Kindness (clarinets, saxophones),Steve Moyes (cello,flute).

During this performance FPE created a surgery atmosphere by placing one of the member on the operation table while the other members were performing operation like painting on her .The atmosphere was changed into a living space after the brake ,the painted patient were moving around while the other member kept painting her .

Part of the PFE performance was live poetry which was written and performed live on the spot by David Blank.

here is that powerful poem:

Noodles... Rancid flesh of Pig
Lilith calls to me
Cheese Doritos
Paint Surgery

Jezebel found herself walking...
Down
Steps
The Cellar

Since she was a child Jezebel
had had a fascination and fear both
of that dark hole

She wiped her brow
Sweat dripped into the
paint

Red/Blood wept from
her womb

The Angles sing of the In-
-----------------------------Be-Twain

She was wretched and wrenched thus from the stair
span... falling

[nb: the star fell from heaven to earth]

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She awoke to find Self

On an operating table

Anaesthetized by the Fat

Gorged on the Fat

Flies feeding on her flesh

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She lost consciousness then

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The Green sprouted from
her flesh...

The vine wrapped caress

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Mobile phone sings...
The Devil calls
To
Her

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Surgeons frantic now daub
the brown...

The Earth...

The North...

The Black Dog Slavering
in the between

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Jezebel lay on her side

Not moving.

A pink ribbon in her hair

A child magickal in her womb

Tears

Blood

Flesh

The Eucharist

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Jezebel sat up...

The surgeons wove yellow
to purple...

The essence of her
be-coming and that of her
child

Ke-phra

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The child stirred in her
womb...

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Jezebel raised her head to the stars..
to the Great Mother of Heaven.. Nyx

Jezebel The Wing'ed Serpent
raised her head to kiss
The Dove

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Spread her legs wide

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The surgeons brought forth
the child....

The Black Dog bared its'
teeth and smiled

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{All the while the worm lady upstairs
cast a circle of worms}

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[ THE SURGEONS OPERA-TE ]

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Jezebel stood in all her glory,
wearing the skin of her child

The Black dog bared its teeth
and smiled

The Black dog bared its teeth
and smiled

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[The surgeons continued their work...]

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[and thus it was done… and the poet spake thus..]

Jezebel, the whore, in all her glory....
wearing the skin of her child.

The Black Dog nuzzled close
to her...

[the poet nuzzled close to her as he spoke these final words, whispering them unto her.]

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[finis.]

We received great feedback also some reviews, her is the link the review by Magick Eye:

www.myspace.com/magickeye