A lively (and long!) chat with Mehrdad Seyf, founder of 30 Bird Productions, UK’s leading Anglo-Iranian theatre company. Fari met with Mehrdad at the beginning of his latest tour: Poland 3 – Iran 2, a multimedia piece performed in pubs with audience interaction and involving a sculpture piece containing a toilet and a toy train. [...]
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Six Pillars – Wael Shawky
Published by April 6th, 2011 in highlights, Promos, Shows and Six Pillars to Persia. 0 CommentsAhead of his forthcoming talk at Delfina Foundation we’ve pulled out some audio from Emirates March Meeting 2011 where Wael presented his work on the crusades from an eastern perspective, as depicted through marionettes on film. One part of the quartet of film retraces events unfolding in the four years between (1096-1099) and which played [...]
Six Pillars – Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Shirin Ebadi
Published by March 25th, 2011 in highlights, Promos and Six Pillars to Persia. 0 CommentsDr Shirin Ebadi, the First Iranian woman, indeed Middle Eastern woman, to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, spoke at SOAS on 2 February 2011 on ‘The Role of Women in Promoting Peace in the Middle East’. Here she discusses the women’s movement in Iran and the difficulties she herself has faced in standing [...]
Six Pillars – Pearls on the Ocean Floor
Published by March 6th, 2011 in highlights, Promos, Shows and Six Pillars to Persia. 0 CommentsThis Torture Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, …or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love [...]
Six Pillars – The .Com Father
Published by March 4th, 2011 in highlights, Promos, Shows and Six Pillars to Persia. 0 CommentsOn a visit to the UK, the founder of the largest website for Iranians in the world, Iranian.com visits the studio. Jahanshah Javid devotes his life to the website, known for its user generated content, and the catch-phrase ‘nothing is sacred’. Here the interview moves into other topics with interviewer Fari Bradley playing devil’s advocate [...]
Six Pillars – Persian Maps
Published by February 7th, 2011 in highlights, Promos, Shows and Six Pillars to Persia. 1 Comment“History and geography are the basis of all the humanities.“ After falling in love with a map of Persia in Harrods, Dr Ala’i spent years researching the cartography of Iran and Persia before publishing two large volumes by Brill, on different maps of Persia from the 1400s to 1925. Dr Ala’i was invited by Iran [...]
Six Pillars – Persian Cartography
Published by January 27th, 2011 in highlights, Promos, Shows and Six Pillars to Persia. 1 CommentPrior to a talk arranged by Iran Heritage, the estimable Dr Alai discusses how phonetics, fashion, social hierarchies and myth enter the world Persian cartography. With perhaps the largest personal collection of Persian maps Dr Alai has published two immense volumes on the topic both of which have been included in Brills Handbook list for [...]
Six Pillars – Sufi’s Night
Published by January 15th, 2011 in highlights, Promos, Shows and Six Pillars to Persia. 1 CommentJanuary 22nd 2011 Festival of Arts presents a night of improvised music and experimental Iranian dance: Sufi’s Night Fusing the influences of disciplined dances such as tango and flamenco, Iranian dance takes on an almost Indian Kathak like energy, and the dramatic motions of the two performers Shahrokh Meshkin Ghalam and Karine Gonzales convey all [...]
Six Pillars – The First UK Iranian Film Festival
Published by January 3rd, 2011 in highlights, Promos, Shows and Six Pillars to Persia. 0 CommentsNovember saw the launch of the London’s first Iranian Film Festival: UKIFF. In late October we met with one of the volunteers, Costas Sarkas, at one of UKIFF’s networking events, to find out what it was all about.
Six Pillars – Britain Retold
Published by January 1st, 2011 in highlights, Promos and Six Pillars to Persia. 0 CommentsPhotographer Sara Shamsawari exhibits a selection from her series in City Hall entrance until January 4th. The exhibition is a series of engaging portraits around the symbolism of the union jack with all its connotations. The photos are accompanied by statements and both promote a questioning of our ideas of what it means to be [...]