Zoom link:https://bit.ly/3kP7wMZ Pardees Azodanloo holds an Master of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota and currently works for DES Architects and Engineers in San Mateo, CA. She will talk about some famous and successful female architects who are working in Iran and internationally, and show some of their projects. Her talk will also go […]

Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3iSVwZ1 Shaherzad Ahmadi is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Professor Ahmadi\'s talk will offer a history of Iranian cinema, beginning with the first talkie, \"The Lor Girl.\" I will examine the themes that animated Iranian cinema in the Pahlavi period as well as […]

Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3kTJwIp Niloofar Hadi Sohi principal violist with the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, formerly with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, performs new works for viola and piano by young Iranian composers, accompanied by pianist Jordan Buchholtz.The compositions include:From one land to the other/از دیاری به دیاری دیگر (Setareh Shafii Tabatabai)Enticing (Pouria Khadem)A Persian illumination (Pedram […]

Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3ax29NH Shakopee native Dan Rein,master of the Persian setar, accompanied by percussionist Chris Gray, will play improvisations based on the forms and structure of traditional Iranian music . Dan is the recipient of grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome

https://bit.ly/3h57MoP Author reading and talk by Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan.“’To read Juan Cole’s deft, plain-spoken translation of the Rubáiyát is to find companionship, to rejoin a thousand-year human conversation about how to endure, enjoy, and find a fleeting beauty in everlastingly dire times. The lucid, cogent and mind-opening Epilogue […]