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A view from
a poster exhibition exclusive to watermelonsopened at Tehran’s Artists House on April 26 to mark the 10th founding anniversary of Association
of Iranian Graphic Designers. The event will run until May 2.
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Sahbaei Group
Performing at Vahdat
Tehran Symphony Orchestra conducted by veteran composer Manouchehr Sahbaei is performing a series of concerts at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall until May 2.
Speaking to IRNA, Sahbaei said that this is his first presentation following his appointment as the full-time conductor of Tehran Symphony Orchestra in January.
“Works by Russian composers such as Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff and Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin are being performed,“ he said.
Mussorgsky’s orchestral tone poem ’Night on Bald Mountain’, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 as well as Borodin’s popular works ’In the Steppes of Central Asia’ and the Opera ’Polovetsian Dances’, are being presented at the event.
Sahbaei also said that their next performance will be in July and he is determined to make use of all his experiences to improve the orchestra.
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BnF President
Tours Nat’l Library
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President of France National Library Bruno Racine (1st l) visited Iran National Library on Wednesday.
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President of National Library of France (BnF) Bruno Racine on Wednesday said his library is prepared to exchange maps of Iran with Iran National Library and Documents Organization.
According to MNA, Racine made the above statement during his tour of Iran National Library.
He also said, “We have some Persian manuscripts in our library, but they are not as many as available in National Library of Iran.“
Asked about the reason for his visit, he noted, “My visit to Iran is subsequent to my Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Ashari’s visit to France during which he toured various cultural institutions and centers. It was during his visit to France that he invited me to tour Iran.“
He noted that the National Library of France currently has 2,700 staffers and its annual budget is 200 million euros.
Ashari, head of Iran National Library and Documents Organization, for his part, said that the relation between the two libraries is tantamount to scientific and cultural ties between Tehran and Paris, which definitely helps improve mutual understanding.
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Imam Ali (AS)
Certainly, this world is a house of truth for those who look into it carefully, an abode of peace and rest for those who understand its ways and moods and it is the best working ground for those who want to procure rewards for life in the Hereafter.
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Women Filmmakers at Turkish Event
A section has been devoted to introducing contemporary Iranian women filmmakers in the 11th Flying Broom International Women Film Festival slated for May 8-15 in Ankara, Turkey.
Hana Makhmalbaf’s ’Buddha Collapsed out of Shame’ will be screened in the festival’s competition section.
Other films include ’Gilaneh’, directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, ’Goodbye Life’ by Ensieh Shahhosseini and ’Stray Dogs’ by Marzieh Meshkini, MNA reported.
Bani-Etemad will attend the festival as an honorary guest. Inspired by the words by French author Simone De Beauvoir, this year’s event will be based on the theme ’Be yourself, Create your own dreams’ and feature a wide range of films by 88 female directors from 27 countries.
Poster Exhibit Marks Persian Gulf Day
A poster exhibition featuring entries to the Persian Gulf Festival opened in Tehran on April 29 which is observed as the National Persian Gulf Day.
Several art centers, including Golbarg Gallery and Paidari Cultural House, are hosting the exhibit which is being held in cooperation with Iranian Graphic Designers’ Association. Some 500 works were submitted to the event following a call-up issued by the festival’s secretariat in March, IRNA reported.
Posters on display, based on themes, including ’Persian Gulf’s Iranian Identity’, are being judged by a panel whose members were veteran graphic designer Qobad Shiva as well as Mostafa Asadollahi, Farzad Adibi and Mohammad Ardalani. The event runs until May 14.
’Inner Eye’ Nearing End
The ’Inner Eye’ photo exhibition, which is underway at Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Arts, will end on May 2.
The exhibit, considered a major event in contemporary Iranian photography, opened on February 18 in six sections, ISNA reported.
Noted Italian photographer Riccardo Zipoli, who has published many articles in Iran and Persian literature, featured a collection of his works at the event.
Photos depicting the history of Iranian photography from the Qajar period to the present era replaced Zipoli’s photos on April 8.
Other sections include ’A Pioneer’, which is a retrospective of nature photographer the late Nikol Faridani, who died recently.
A catalogue of the exhibition has been submitted to Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry for publication permit.
’Blindness’ to Open 2008 Cannes
After keeping everyone in the dark for days, Cannes Film Festival organizers took the wraps off the remaining lineup on April 29, unveiling Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles’ ’Blindness’ as the May 14 opening-night film.
’Blindness’, the English-language adaptation of Jose Saramago’s best-selling mystery novel, stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal in a story about a city struck by a strange blindness pandemic, Reuters reported.
Also added to the festival lineup were pair of competition titles. Laurent Cantet’s ’Entre les murs’ will be the third Gallic title in the section, while James Gray’s ’Two Lovers’, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow, also will vie for this year’s Palme d’Or. Gray’s previous film ’We Own the Night’ competed at Cannes last year.
Cantet’s ’Murs’ is an adaptation of prolific French author Francois Begaudeau’s novel about a French teacher at a secondary school in a rough neighborhood. Begaudeau, who wrote the script alongside Cantet and Robin Campillo, also stars as himself.
As expected, Barry Levinson’s Hollywood satire ’What Just Happened?’ will close the festival May 25. The film’s star, Robert De Niro, will serve double duty on closing night. In addition to presenting the Levinson film, the actor will bestow the Palme d’Or on the competition winner.
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