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A Pencase from Persia
A Persian pencase, V&A Museum In preparation for the next exhibition at the Portico library, I chose to read Persia as it is by C. J....
Women's World Cup 2023
This year, Women's World Cup is shown live across BBC and ITV. If you were someone from the future reading the above text, would you have...
A dark day for Humanity
"The first small group of asylum seekers has boarded the controversial Bibby Stockholm housing barge after a series of delays over safety...
Say it in any language
Doosti community was one of the groups participating in this year's Lowry Open Day. People were invited to write their own messages of...
The magic of performance
Performing your own writing is one way to find readers. A quick way of gaging the effect of your words without the need for a publishers,...
هونیا منفرد در سیزدهمین بزرگداشت فردوسی
د سیزدهمین بزرگداشت فردوسی دوستان شاهنامه در منچستر اجرا هونیا منفرد با سپاس فراوان از پیمان ماندگار برای فیلمبرداری پستی دیگر از همین...
Hot Seat Guest: Goldis Gorji
Goldis has been involved with the 'Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging' project at Manchester Museum. One of the aims of the project...
Thank You Joe
Out of many activities that I do in an average typical or even nontypical day, pottery is the one that I mostly connect with. With...
The Chemistry of Art
Last week marked the end of a busy period of performances and events or me. Although I enjoyed each and every events, I needed to relax...
I Am an Orange Dot
I Am an Orange Dot’s performance, Failsworth, June 2023 How the work started I pondered on issues around migration and displacement for a...
Khosrow Hassanzadeh
It's my final farewell to Khosrow Hassanzadeh RIP. Looking for one of his pictures to use here, I came across an old weblog entry. I...
Colours of Emotions
On Sunday, I met a friend for a chat and goodbye before she travels back to the USA. Quite by accident we ended up in-front of the Old...
Poetry and Ghazal with Prof Michael Schmidt
Looking forward to listening to Prof Michael Schmidt's talk on Ghazal this Thursday through Zoom. I am the host for the session. ...
Gordafarid, a female warrior
'Gordafarid, a female warrior', the storytelling session with music which took placed on the 1st July at The Old Parsonage House as part...
Evaluation forms: the result
The result of the #evaluation_form indicated that 100% of people are very likely or likely to #recommend our story-telling session with...
Music: Sharghiye Ghamgin
World Premiere, Niaz Nawab, Golazin, Gelareh Sheibani - Sharghiye Ghamgin For more info visit Farhang Foundation
Thanks for being with us
Thanks to everyone who attended 'Gordafarid, a female warrior', the storytelling session with music yesterday. Talking about Shahnameh,...
Evaluation form: Gordafarid, a female warrior
This is the evaluation form for the Gordafarid, a female warrior session (1/7/23). A free storytelling and music event. Didsbury Arts...
Gordafarid, a female warrior
The Old Parsonage house will be hosting Shahnameh tomorrow. Hope you can join us. منزل پارسونج فردا میزبان شاهنامه خواهد بود. به امید...
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