Art And Culture

Tamashagan, a private cultural organization, will open its children’s theater institute in Tehran on Friday.

Established in 2015, it specializes in children and young adult theater, and has…

Iranian documentary ‘Alone Among the Taliban’, directed by Mohsen Eslamzadeh, is competing at Thin Line Fest, a five-day film, music, and photography festival in Denton, Texas, April 19-23.

The modified version of the 1987 Iranian feature film ‘Captain Khorshid’ written and directed by Nasser Taghvai will be unveiled at the 35th Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) on April 22 at…

For the first time Iran is participating in the Budapest International Book Festival in Hungary.

The 24th edition of the festival in the Hungarian capital Budapest slated for April 20-23,…

Acclaimed Iranian composer and kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor will perform on April 25-26 at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

The event is the latest leg of an extensive tour around Iran featuring…

The play ‘Reconsider Your Image of Me’, written by playwright Naghmeh Samini and theater director Arvand Dashtaray, will be performed in Germany and the Netherlands in August.

An exhibition of paintings by children and young adults aged 7-16 years will be held at Mahak Society to Support Children Suffering from Cancer, in northern Tehran on April 20-21.

Iranian Academy of Arts, affiliated to the presidential office, will conduct a training workshop on Avestan script.

The workshop on April 26 will teach the principles in the writing and…

The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics will be held next year in Ahvaz, capital of Khuzestan Province.

The event from February 1-2,…

A Polish father-son duo will perform at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall in late April.

The two-member band ‘Partyzant’ with Polish guitarist Krzysztof Toczko, 46, and his percussionist son Mikolaj, 20…

More than 50 Iranian architects and designers are among winners of the annual A’ Design Award and Competition 2016-2017 held in Italy.

Participating in different categories of the…

The short environmental documentary film ‘Once Hamoun,’ directed by filmmaker Mohammad Ehsani, 44, will be screened at the 6th Greenpoint Film Festival in New York.

The festival is slated…

A book containing the collections of artworks by acclaimed Iranian painter and graphic designer Koorosh Shishegaran, 72, is to be unveiled by Iran Heritage Foundation in London.

Iranian contemporary painter Ahmad Vakili, 56, will display his latest paintings at Tehran’s e1 Art Gallery.

His upcoming exhibition ‘Looking Through Nature’ opens on April 21 and features…

A book ‘Rudaki and 1,000 Years of Persian Poetry,’ containing the articles presented at a 2008 seminar with the same title in Almaty, has now been published in Kazakhstan.

The feature film ‘Drum’ by Iranian director Keyvan Karimi, 32, will be screened at the 19th edition of Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film (BAFICI) in Argentina.

At the…

Iran cinema has proved its mettle across the globe in the past two decades by winning numerous awards at various prestigious film festivals including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, London,…

A social drama ‘The Writer is Dead,’ written and directed by playwright, theater director and actor Arash Abbasi, 40, is underway at Tehran’s Hafez Hall until May 3.

Abbasi’s play opened on…

Iranian comedian Aref Lorestani passed away on Saturday in Tehran at the age of 45.

The renowned TV actor, mostly known for his roles in Mehran Modiri’s comic series, died of cardiac arrest…

Scholars from Iran and France will convene at a seminar in Tehran to exchange ideas on Persian poet Sa’di of Shiraz (1210-1292) and French poet and novelist Victor Hugo (1802-1885).

The two…

Rock guitarist and composer Shahab Sadeqi, 34, will perform an electro-hard-rock concert on April 20 at Tehran’s Azadi Tower.

The tickets are already sold out for the concert which starts…

Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) is showcasing selected works of the 7th edition of Sheed Award, an independent award for socio-documentary photography.

The IAF’s Momayez Gallery is displaying…

Elahe Gallery in Tehran has planned to hold three exhibitions by young Iranian artists in spring.

The painting exhibition ‘Pleasant Ecstasy’ by Iranian-born Californian-based graphic…

A guidebook for arts students written by Kevin Malcolm Richards, 51, assistant professor of History of Art at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, US, is now available in Persian.

A 2016 documentary about homelessness is planned to be screened for homeless people in Tehran.

The 70-minute documentary ‘Advantage,’ directed and produced by Iranian documentarian, actor…