Art And Culture

‘Iraj, the Singing Genius of Iran,’ a book on the life and works of the acclaimed traditional Persian singer, will soon be brought out.

Author Ali Mohammad Khorshiddoust has compiled a…

The French theater company Pyramid will perform a play titled ‘Index’ at the 35th Fajr International Theater Festival in Tehran slated for January 20-31.

A 2015 production, it is a…

Filmmaker and documentarian Mehdi Asadi, 45, is planning a documentary on the ancient city of Rey.

Rey, also spelled Rayy, was formerly a great city in Iran, remains of which lie on the…

Book City Institute will hold a two-day Italian translation workshop on January 19-20 at its cultural center in Tehran.

The free workshop titled ‘Translation in Italian’ is being organized…

The 35th Fajr Film Festival has revealed the line-up for the competition at this year’s edition slated for January 29-February 9 in Tehran and 30 other provinces.

The 32nd Fajr International Music Festival will be streamed live online for fans who cannot attend the performances, said event director Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh at a press conference at Vahdat Hall…

Tehran City Theater will host the ‘Odyssey Marathon Reading’, a collective event to relive the 2,700-year-old epic poem by semi-legendary Greek author Homer, as part of the 35th Fajr…

Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, one of the most informative sources on the subject, is to be debated today, January 8, at the Book House Institute in Tehran.

The two-hour…

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), in the Netherlands, has announced the full line-up of its Bright Future program, where an Iranian movie is also included in the competition for…

‘Marx and Coca Cola,’ a play by Danish author Nils Schou, 74, will be staged at Tehran’s Paliz Theater by Iranian playwright and theater director Kianoush Akhbari.

The play is slated for…

Tehran Symphony Orchestra (TSO) conducted by the renowned Italian musician Paolo Olmi will perform on January 19 during the Fajr International Music Festival at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

A number of Iranian publishers were prosecuted for unauthorized insertions in textbooks, according to Seyed Hussein Talaee Zavareh, the deputy head of the Organization for Educational Research and…

‘My Brilliant Friend’ (in Italian ‘L’amica Geniale’), a fiction by one of Italy’s best-known contemporary writers is now available in Persian.

The original book in Italian is translated by…

The Public Libraries Office of Gilan has organized workshops where mothers will be trained how to read books and tell stories to children.

The story-telling and book-reading workshops are…

The play ‘The Yalta Game’ directed by Iranian-Armenian actor and director Levon Haftvan is currently on stage at Tehran’s Baran Theater.

Developed from a theme in Anthon Chekhov’s 1899…

Painter Siamak Azmi, 44, is portraying “transmuted” humans in the shape of dolls at his latest exhibition.

‘Doll’ is Azmi’s upcoming solo exhibit which opens Friday, January 6, at Tehran’s…

Thirty ancient Persian artifacts repatriated to Iran from Italy in November have been displayed for the public at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.

Representatives from the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM) will attend the 35th Fajr International Theater Festival (FITF) in Tehran from January 20-30.

The Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) in Tehran will host story-tellers from Iran and the world at its upcoming event in February.

The 19th…

On the occasion of the 70th birth anniversary of the renowned master of Persian classical music instruments tar and setar Mohammad Reza Lotfi (1947-2014), a commemoration ceremony will be held on…

The folk music ensemble ‘Dilmun,’ led by musician, singer, theater director and actor Mahmoud Farzinejad, 39, will perform its latest pieces at Tehran’s Azadi Tower on January 11.

Dilmun’s…

The Persian translation of ‘Recipes of Loneliness from the Kitchen of Love,’ written by Turkish writer Yekta Kopan, 49, has been recently published by Ghatreh Publications in Tehran.

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The play ‘Mafia’ directed by theater director Afrooz Foruzand will be staged at Tehran’s Baran Theater in February.

It was written by Foruzand in 2013 when she was focusing more on writing…

Painter and sketch artist Sara Alirezai has curated a group exhibition titled ‘Resolution,’ at Tehran’s Jorjani Art Gallery.

The exhibition will run through January 9 and features paintings…

A conference on Persian poet Saadi (1213-1291 AD) and Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-479 BC) will be hosted on January 8-9 by Hebei University in China’s Hebei Province.

The conference…