Twin cities Iranian Culture Festival
Celebrating iranian-americans’ rich cultural heritage
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2023/24 MSP Iranian Film Fest
The 2023 MSP Iranian Film Festival has been postponed, and will be presented in partnership with the MSP Film Society, January 5-7 2024 at The Main Cinema - 115 SE …
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115 S.E. Main St.
Minneapolis, 55414
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Featured 2023 Iranian Culture Festival Presenters and Performers
- Dan ReinDan Rein is an American musician who plays traditional Iranian instruments. He has studied classical Iranian music for over 25 years and plays music on a variety of Iranian instruments, including the setar and dutar. He also plays the dubanj, an instrument he created which is a cross between an Iranian dutar and a banjo, …
- Roya Nazari: Creating Powerful Art About Women’s Rights in America and IranRoya Nazari is a local artist, originally from Iran, and a student in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of Minnesota. Her art is often meant to ignite conversation about social issues like mental health, the environment, and women’s rights. She shared that the Women Life Freedom movement in Iran inspires some of …
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- Niayesh ShababiNiayesh Shababi is a guitarist and composer. A current music education major, Shababi aspires to be a performer and continue composing music. He has been playing and studying classical music for 10 years. However, his freelance work fuses styles like contemporary music, jazz, electronic dance music (EDM), and Persian music, putting a modern spin on …
- Niccu TafarrodiNiccu Tafarrodi Niccu Tafarrodi is an Iranian artist and a Board Member for the Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective. Tafarrodi creates dioramas based on her memories and experiences in Iran, to highlight Iranian culture. Tafarrodi started making dioramas after visiting a museum in Chicago and seeing the art form for the first time. “I thought …
- Faraz GhassemiFaraz Ghassemi is a classically-trained pianist and piano teacher from Iran. He started playing piano when he was only four years old and moved to the U.S. in 2013. Ghassemi started his school, Zoom Twin Cities, as a way to teach students to play piano and make connections through music. Ghassemi continues to work as …

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The 2023 Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective programs are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.