CGP London

Annual Open Exhibition

Unselected exhibition of works in all media with two £500 awards, kindly donated by Lady Charlotte Stevenson.

12th July - 2nd August
Opening times : 12-6 Wed-Sunday

Private view: 12th July 2009 2-5 pm

CGP London, Southwark Park , London
map and contact details: Here

Take a second look

Photography and painting exhibition by

Tim Lewis & Maryam Hashemi
Opening night Tuesday April 28th 6-9pm admission free

live music by StevMoyes

The exhibition is part London Canal Museum's temporary exhibition and will last till 30th August,
10-16:30 everyday
closed Mondays
admission £3

www.canalmuseum.org.uk

VISIONS OF EXCESS
Ron Athey & Lee Adams

Sun 12th April @ SHUNT 9 pm
part of SPILL festival

http://www.shunt.co.uk/events.php?p=7

I'll be volunteering for Franko B in this event an will be one of various bodies for his work.

Contemporary Art, Short Films, Performances, Live Music and DJ. All In One Night! All Iranian!
Brought to you by Contemporary Iranian and Persian Empire.

Music:
- Simorgh (http://www.simorgh.org.uk/)
- Azadeh (http://www.myspace.com/azadehmusic)
- DJ Shervin

Artists:
- Annouchka Bayley
- Mehrnoosh Kalashi
- Omid Alamouti
- Somayeh Mohseni
- Arsalan Yousefzadeh
- Golriz Kolahi
- Zoha Zokaei
- Mona Kalashi
- Morteza Salehi
- Ashkan Dastmalchi
- Fari Bradley
- Maryam Hashemi
- Niloufar Zokaei

23 March 2009 / 7pm – 12pm at Nottinghill Artsclub
21 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3JQ

Exhibition starts at 7, live music from 9

*** Peykan 88 will be covered by BBC Persian TV ***

Tickets: £15 adv, £20 at the door

(Limited tickets available, please buy in advance to secure your entry)

Buy Tickets @ http://wegottickets.com/event/45993

I am invited to Iranian Festival in Edinburgh from 31st Jan - 4th Feb .
The festival is being organised by the Edinburgh University Persian Society and a dedicated team of volunteers.
There are seven categories arts, books, comedy, film, food, lectures, and music with events taking place in venues across Edinburgh from 30th Jan -8th Feb.

I'm taking 18 works , which 10 of them are new works on canvas and 8 are what remained from Hejab series. The works will be exhibited in St .John's Church and There will hopefully be a chance that I could also do a drawing workshop . I'm very much looking forward to it and I'm sure its going to be a lovely experience,The organiseres which are all volunteers have been very sweet and helpful.

As far as I'm aware this the first ever Iranian festival in UK which I'm so pleased to be part of and honored to be featured alongside someone like Sharnush Parsipur.

look out for pictures and news after the show check out he festival's website: www.ediranfest.co.uk

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