Persian/Iranian Events for April 2008

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Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1	2 "Celtic & Iranian Bridges" [Vancouver]	3 Dance Party @ Chatanoga [Bay Area - South Bay]	4 Iranian Alliances Across Borders to Host First Iranian-American Student Summit [Massachusetts] BAB’AZIZ-- THE PRINCE WHO CONTEMPLATED HIS SOUL [Bay Area - San Francisco] See and purchase the work of Babak Daleki and other artists [Bay Area - Peninsula]	5 5th Annual Norouz Festival Sizdeh Bedar [Bay Area - South Bay] United Cup Tournament [Bay Area - South Bay] Golden Thread's Fairytale Players present "The Girl Who Lost Her Smile" [Bay Area - East Bay] Celebrating the Birth of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) Milad Nabi [Bay Area - East Bay] UCSD Persian Club Norouz Show feat. Comedian Max Amini [California - San Diego] 18th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema [Los Angeles] UCSD Persian Club Norouz Party With Saeid! [California - San Diego] Arshia album release party [Los Angeles]
6 Noor Film Festival (April 6-13th) Opening Ceremony [Los Angeles] NY Sizdeh bedar at Bear Mountain State Park [New York] 5th Annual Norouz Festival Sizdeh Bedar [Bay Area - South Bay] dreame of the wanderer [Vancouver] anoushirvan rohani (and his son reza) and ahdieh in concert [California - Sacramento] 18th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema [Los Angeles] THE OFFICIAL 13BEDAR AFTER PARTY!!!! [Bay Area - South Bay]	7	8	9 The Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad--40 years later [Bay Area - East Bay] Persian Happy Hour @ District [Bay Area - San Francisco]	10 Persian Tech Entrepreneurs [Bay Area - Peninsula] The Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad--40 Years Later [Bay Area - South Bay] Red Carpet Premiere of AmericanEast [Los Angeles] Poetry Reading [Vancouver]	11 Defending Human Rights in Iran: Challenges for the West, Women and Islam [North Carolina] Shahnameh khani(04/11/08) [Bay Area - South Bay] 18th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema [Los Angeles] Rutgers Univeristy Norouz Celebration [New Jersey] The Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad--40 Years Later [Bay Area - East Bay] Film: COLORS OF MEMORY (2007, Iran/Germany) [Los Angeles] Pre-kickoff for Ross Mirkarimi' re-election campaign [Bay Area - San Francisco]	12 Poetry and Political Change-- A workshop for writers and poets [Bay Area - South Bay] first book signing of an Iranian author, Mr. Misha Ashoorian [Bay Area - South Bay] ABJEEZ live in Toronto [Ontario - Toronto] Lecture: Mr. Bazargan [Bay Area - South Bay] Persian night with Fazz [Bay Area - San Francisco] The Foundation for the Children of Iran After Party [Washington DC]
13 VA's Iran Day Show \| 2008 [Virginia] Vote for Mali as California District 9 Delegate [Bay Area - East Bay] Poetry Sunday @ Cafe Borrone (Menlo Park) [Bay Area - Peninsula] Beverly Hills Award Ceremony DAVID & LAYLA - Maz Jobrani Shiva Rose Jalal Jonroy, the Director at NOOR FILM FESTIVAL [Los Angeles]	14 Photo exhibition in Utrecht [Europe - Netherland] The Changing Concept of the "Intellectual" in Iran Today [Los Angeles]	15 Screening Liberally Presents: "Body of War" [Bay Area - San Francisco] 4 Comics/Dinner at Camden House Beverly Hills [Los Angeles]	16 AFTER THE REVOLUTION: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM TEHRAN AND CALIFORNIA [Bay Area - San Francisco] Night of Persian Poetry [New York] Film Screening - Caught Between Two Worlds, a documentary about Iranians in the U.S. by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri & Simin Farkhondeh [New York] Lecture: Azar Nafisi & Marjane Satrapi in Conversation [Los Angeles]	17 Iran and America: Future Friends? [Florida] Shabeh Jomeh & Eurocircle with a New Location [Bay Area - Peninsula]	18 Artist in Residency at The Lab Theory of Survival - Taraneh Hemami [Bay Area - San Francisco] CHOP SHOP - A Film by Ramin Bahrani [Seattle] A SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS AND VIDEOS FROM IRAN AND THE DIASPORA [Los Angeles] Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi - pre-kickoff for Ross’ re-election campaign [Bay Area - San Francisco]	19 From Behind the Caravan: Songs of Hâfez [Seattle] Benefit Dinner & Concert in support of iranian.com [Bay Area - San Francisco]
20 Ahsha Safai for San Francisco District 11 [Bay Area - San Francisco] Berkeley Lecture Series in conjunction with Taraneh Hemami’s exhibition of THEORY OF SURVIVAL [Bay Area - San Francisco] Dr. Farhang Holakouee's Lecture [Orange County] 18th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema [Los Angeles] 18TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF IRANIAN CINEMA [Los Angeles] Public Talk with Shirin Ebadi [Michigan] Music for a New World @Centennial Theatre [Vancouver]	21 "Iranian Politics and U.S.-Iranian Relations" [Ohio]	22 Professor Bahiyyih Nakhjavani - Novels and History: Diaspora writing and Iranian History [Bay Area - Peninsula] “Novels and History: Diaspora writing and Iranian History” [Bay Area - Peninsula] Marina Nemat - North Shore Writers Festival [Vancouver] Maz Jobrani LIVE in San Francisco [Bay Area - San Francisco] Nobel Peace Prize Leaurate from Iran, Shirin Ebadi, Speaking @ Barnard! [New York]	23	24 Persian Shabbat [North Carolina] Society of Iranian Professionals Informal Gathering [Bay Area - South Bay]	25 Sufism Symposium [Bay Area - San Francisco] Psychology and Spirituality Panel [Bay Area - San Francisco] Whirling Dervishes and Taneen Concert [Bay Area - San Francisco] Film: Dah be alaveh Chahar... [Bay Area - San Francisco] Laila @ RUBY SKYE \| The Biggest Mediterrean Style Club Party on the West Coast!!! [Bay Area - San Francisco]	26 Conference on "Iran Today" [New Jersey] Sholeh Wolpe at the LA Times Festival of Books [Los Angeles] Maz Jobrani with Kirk Fox and Ali Mafi, 8pm and 10 pm [Bay Area - San Francisco]
27 Wildflower Hike and Picnic [Los Angeles] Iran is not the Problem [Bay Area - San Francisco] Beyond the Golden Sunrise - A Spectrum of Persian Dances [California - Davis] iranian scholarship foundation fundraising gala [Bay Area - Peninsula]	28 Iranian-American Democrats of San Diego [California - San Diego]	29	30 After the Revolution: Contemporary Photography from Tehran and California [Bay Area - San Francisco]