List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2006-09-24

The Translation Project and Niloufar Talebi invite you to a benefit screening of
Midnight Approaches..., an evocative, multi-dimentional and entertaining DVD of films
based on the contemporary poetry of Ziba Karbassi, Abbas Saffari, Partow Nooriala, Majid Naficy, Saghi Ghahraman and Reza Farmand.

Honorary co-chairs, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi
Special guests include:
SF Poet Laureate, Jack Hirschman
Shahrnush Parsipur
Michael Tilson Thomas
Behrouz Vossoughi
Joshua Robison

This project will be featured on KRON 4 news in San Francisco on September 17th.

Seats are limited, GET TIX NOW!


Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter St, San Francisco
6-9 pm

Admission:
Reception, silent auction and screening - $75.00
Reception, silent auction, screening and musical performance - $125.00
All of the above plus a copy of our DVD - $200.00
Silver VIP sponsor - $2000.00
Gold VIP sponsor - $3000.00
Platinum VIP sponsor - $5000.00

Make checks out to Afsaneh Art and Culture Society (AACS)
and mail to:
756 "A" San Jose Avenue
SF, CA 94110

Event Details
Reception and silent auction 6-7pm
Screening 7-8pm
Live musical Performance 8-9pm

Catering generously donated by Meykadeh restaurant in North Beach

“I found the marriage of visual, musical and poetic imagery in Niloufar Talebi's work to be touching, effective and an ideal way to discover and appreciate contemporary Iranian poetry.”
-Michael Tilson Thomas
-Musical director of the San Francisco Symphony

Founded in 2003, The Translation Project is a non-profit endeavor whose mission is to bring contemporary Iranian literature to the world stage in multiple languages and media.
For more information, see

An Encounter with Rumi - The great Sufi poet of the 13th Century
(Maulana Jalal al-Din Maulavi

Poetry Dance Performance Art

Sunday September 24th, 2006 4pm
Satellite Student Union Fresno State

Guest Speaker - Dr. Majid Naficy, Dr. Ferdowsi
Namah Ensemble Dance - Banafshe Sayaad

Ruba'ie #45
Within thy soul a soul doth dwell:
Go, seek it well!
Within thy mountain is mine;
get it for thine.

The sufi seek as he doth go,
if thou canst so:
search not for him thy self apart,
but search thy heart.

FREE of Charge

Sponsered by: College of Arts and Humanities
Iranian Culture and Art Club of Fresno
Fresno County Library
Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute


California State University, Fresno
College of Arts & Humanities
2380 E. Keats Ave. M/S MB 99
Fresno, CA 93740-8024

Huron High School - Ann Arbor, Michigan



For more information about the concert please visit :



http://www.umich.edu/~igsa



or e-mail us at : igsa.board@umich.edu