Art And Culture

Art & Experience Cinematic Group, affiliated to the Iranian Organization of Cinema and Audiovisual Affairs, in collaboration with the Embassy of China has organized a three-day program to…

Tehran Museum of Music will hold two improvised concerts by musician and researcher Majid Kiani.

At the events slated for August 30-31, Kiani, 76, will play santur, Honaronline reported…

Popular singer Salar Aqili will perform with the Isfahan National Orchestra on August 17 in the central tourist city.

Composer and violinist Morteza Shafiee, will conduct the 50…

Meem Theater Group from Afghanistan is slated to perform an adult puppet show at the 17th Mobarak International Puppet Theater Festival in Tehran, August 23-29.

Afghan writer and…

Selected bookshops across the country will offer discount during the Summer Book Sale, a nation-wide program organized by the Book House Institute starting from August 21. The Book House website…

Two adaptations from veteran playwright and filmmaker Bahram Beyzai’s plays are being performed in Tehran theaters.

Pop singer, songwriter, guitarist and composer Mazyar Fallahi, 43, will perform two concerts on August 24 in Tehran.

Convention Center of Milad Tower will host Fallahi for at 6…

Diplomat Gallery in the north of the city is holding an exhibition of paintings by Faezeh Afjehnia.

The works presented seek to highlight the problems of women and issues like violence…

A painting exhibition by Mehdi Labafi opened on August 10 at Iran Art Gallery and is to continue till August 16.

His paintings narrate some of the bitter incidents that people come…

Conceptual installations of artist Ebrahim Eskandari is on view at an exhibition that opened on August 10 at Aaran Art Gallery.

Eskandari is preoccupied with the forgotten and vanishing…

Musicians Mehrdad Mehdi and Asou Kohzadi will hold two duet performances on August 15 at the Persian Gulf Complex in Shiraz. Mehdi on accordion and Kohzadi on violin will play pieces from their…

Artist Ali Nedaei’s exhibit at the Contemporary and Modern Art Gallery (CAMA) in London is titled “Silent Myths,” but the 23 pieces on display are anything but quiet.

An adaptation of a play by Swiss author and dramatist Friedrich Durrenmatt is on stage at the House of Performance at Theater Department, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic…

A drama play about the time Iran got involved in World War II is on stage at Mehregan Theater until September 11.

The play “The 21st Day” written and directed by actor and playwright…

A complete archive of Azarabadegan, a Turkic newspaper published in Tabriz from 1949 to 1978, was gifted by Abdollah Zehtabi, chief editor and managing director of the daily, to the Central…

Veteran theater director Ali Rafiee will be honored at the 18th Hafez Celebration in Tehran on August 13.

According to the public relations office of the ceremony, the Hafez Statuette…

The 3rd edition of Health Film Festival is to be held in Tehran on August 23-27.

Organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, the event promotes films on…

The upcoming weekly meeting of Book City Institute will deal with some of the fundamental questions related to humankind.

“Science, Philosophy and Theology: Eternal Questions” is the…

Iranian short animations and films are competing in the 14th Jecheon International Music and Film Festival in South Korea on August 9-14.

Short animation “Butterfly” directed by Maryam…

Conductor and composer Nez’hat Amiri is to conduct Iran’s National Orchestra at Vahdat Hall on August 30.

Amiri will join the orchestra as a guest conductor. The concert includes…

The Film Academy has revealed a series of changes to the Academy Awards that have major implications.

President John Bailey and CEO Dawn Hudson announced Wednesday the three key changes…

Naqsh traditional ensemble will present solo and group performances at Roudaki Hall.

On August 16, the ensemble, led by tar and setar player Amir Sharifi, will perform a repertoire of…

A live music program dubbed “Few Nights of Ney and Qanun,” will be held for the eighth time on August 13-15.

Organized under the auspices of music company, concert organizer and music…

The paintings of Amir Reza Faqihi, a mix of Persian miniature elements and those of modern industry, are displayed at Farmanfarma Gallery in Tehran.

Dubbed “Dialectic” the exhibit…

The Drought, an apocalyptic book by English novelist and essayist James Graham Ballard (1930-2009) was released in Persian by the Tehran-based publishing house of Cheshmeh.

Ballard’s…