Painting exhibition by Maryam Hashemi
نقاشی از مریم هاشمی
Maryam
Hashemi was born in Birmingham in 1977 and brought up in Tehran. She
has been painting since she was a child and usually works in
illustration. She is inspired by dreams and legends, and favours women
and religion as subjects.
http://maryamhashemi.blogspot.com/
Dates & times: Sunday 1st February to Wednesday 4th February 2009, 1pm to 5pm
Venue: Rear hall, St Johns Church, Princes Street (West End), Edinburgh EH2 4BJ
Entry: FREE
نمایشگاه عکس از ایران
A collection of large black and white photographs of Iran, in particular Tehran, from around 1900 to 1970.
Personal photograph collection / عکسهای خصوصی
A collection of personal family photographs kindly donated by Iranians living in Edinburgh, which date back as far as the early 1900s.
Black & white postcard collection / کارت پستالهای سیاه و سفید
A collection of postcards of different people and places in Iran from the 1920s onwards.
Dates/times: Friday 16th January to Sunday 8th February 2009, 9am to 5pm
Venue: St Johns Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh
Entry: FREE
Zendeh presents ‘Kismet’, a drama laboratory
کارگاه تئاتر از گروه زنده 
This is a multilingual and multi-disciplinary new work in progress developed in Iran and the UK. As this new work moves towards being rehearsal-ready for June/July 2009, Zendeh’s artistic director Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh will lead and collaborate with participants exploring and examining the approaches to the dissolving of text into expression by gesture and movement and then reconnecting with the text. The working practice of Zendeh incorporates methodologies and principles of Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, Augusto Boal and contemporary theatre makers in Tehran.
This is an opportunity to engage with changes in practice and form in international performance.
For example, participants will explore performance, dramaturgy and the relationship between theatre and dance within the context of Iran and the UK. This will be enabled by a series of experiments testing:
Character creation and development through improvisation
Building scenes and story through textual analysis
The practice will explore approaches to making theatre/performance in Iran and the UK that is on the frontier of where dance meets theatre. Zendeh believes that artists are not defined nor censored by their borders - rather that the artist’s cultural identity is an instinctual and learned catalyst for inspiration in creating their art.
For more information, please see: http://www.zendeh.com
Date/time: Saturday 7th February 2009, 3pm to 5pm
Venue: Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh
Entry: £7 for adults, £5 for students and Equity members
Tickets for Kismet can be purchased from the Traverse Theatre box office:
In person at 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh EH1 2ED
By telephone on 0131 228 1404
Or, online at Traverse Box Office
School Exhibition
نمایشگاه مدرسه
The pupils of the Edinburgh Iranian School will be exhibiting their art and academic work. Persian classes in this school are available to children and adults.
Date/time: Saturday 7th February 2009, 11:30am to 12:30pm
Venue: Bruntsfield Primary School, Montpelier, Edinburgh, EH10 4NA
Entry: FREE
For more information/advice, please e-mail: arts@ediranfest.co.uk