List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2008-09-10

Dear Friends,



Marti Emerald is a candidate for San Diego City Council. She is committed to cleaning our city government and needs the support of the Iranian American community of San Diego. She has already given a speech at an AIAP meeting.



Please join us on September 10th at The 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant, 8885 Balboa Avenue, San Diego, from 5:30-7:30pm.



The Iranian American Community of San Diego can make a difference in the city election. Please mark your calendar and be there.



Contributions:

Host Level ~ $270

Minimum ~ $75



To RSVP please contact Kelli at (619) 239-1721 or kelli@kmstrategies.net, OR golchinlaw@gmail.com



For further information, please visit: www.MartiForSanDiego.com



Iranian American Democrats of San Diego

www.iadsd.org

BAIAD's September meeting will be held at Roasted Coffee Bean in Cupertino
Date:: Wednesday September 10, 2008
Time: 6:30 PM- 9:00 PM
Place: Roasted Coffee Bean - 19110 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 (Corner of Tantau & Stevens Creek Blvd)


Agenda:

1- Report on BAIAD's Sept 7th successful event where 150 people showed up and 27 people became new paid member of BAIAD!!
See BAIAD's website for the report and pictures. Should be ready by 9-9-2008
Open discussion on what went right and what went wrong (can be improved)


2- What is next? The new team of BAIAD has accomplished one successful event, so what is next?

3- Mehdi's report on BAIAD's Volunteer plan to help Obama & local candidates. Get ready for phone banking to Nevada!


4- Report on Santa Clara Democratic party's September meeting.

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Minutes of the last meeting on August 13 at Faz Restaurant in Sunnyvale
Presents: We had 12 people present: Mehrdad Moayedzadeh, Sousan Manteghi, Fahimeh Eghtessadi, Morteza Tajally, Mariam Ghazvini, Carol Nelson, Griffin Nelson, Hamid Banaei, Melodi Masanidi, Shila Mortezi, Nazy E. & Mehdi Safipour (that is me)

1- Most of the meeting was dedicated to discussion on organizing BAIAD events for Sept. 7th where Steve Westly will be the main speaker. Duties where assigned to different people present. Melodi volunteered to create an event page on Facebook for BAIAD. Melodi made a great page for us.. Later we found out Sina Ferdosi had already made a event page and invited all his friends. Thank you Sina & Melodi.

2- Morteza spoke very briefly about his recent trip to Iran.

General Information:



Host: Iran's House of Art - University of Minnesota

Type: Movie Screening and Lecture

Date and Place: Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Location: Coffman Memorial Union Theater

Address: 300 Washington Ave SE Minneapolis, MN 55455

Email: iham@umn.edu

URL: http://www.honar.us/jostojoo





Description:



Two documentaries by the Iranian Director, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb shall be screened, that portray the lives of musicians in Iran. "Back Vocal" represents Iranian female vocalists and "Off Beat" relates to underground rock musicians. The documentaries shall be followed with a lecture by Mamak Khadem, a female Iranian vocalist, who will speak of her own personal experiences.



For more information please visit our web site at: http://www.honar.us/jostojoo



Admission: Free

Hypernova w/IAMX live in New York - Sept 10
Live @ the Blender Theater at Gramercy
Event Info Host: Hypernova
Type: Music/Arts - Concert
Network: Global
Time and Place Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Bender Theater at Gramercy
Street: 127 East 23rd Street
City/Town: New York, NY
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Contact Info Email: info@hypernova.com

DescriptionGreetings friends,

Hypernova will be performing one of their most special shows with IAMX @ the Blender Theater at Gramercy.

Tickets are 20$ and available online @

http://www.livenation.com/event/getEvent/eventId/331788


Blender Theater
127 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010

Please help spread the word!

Peace.

Hypernova