CHTHO venues to offer free admission on Intl. Museum Day

May 13, 2013, 8:41 am

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TEHRAN – The museums of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (CHTHO) will be offering free admission on May 18 and 19 to commemorate International Museum Day, which is May 18.

 

“This act will encourage people to visit museums more often,” CHTHO Deputy Director Yahya Rahmati said in press release on Monday.

 

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) established International Museum Day in 1977 to encourage public awareness of the role of museums in the development of society.

 

International Museum Day is a special moment for the museum community. On this day, participating museums highlight an issue that concerns all cultural organizations. 

 

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Iranian ensemble tops at Tajik music festival

May 13, 2013, 8:38 am

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TEHRAN -- An Iranian music ensemble led by Vadud Moazzen has won the first prize at Tajikistan’s Shashmaqam Music Festival.

 

The winners were honored during the closing ceremony of the festival on Sunday, Iran’s Embassy in Dushanbe announced on its website on Monday.

 

Mehran Ahmad-Hazrati, Ahmad Sattari, Yusef Moharramian and Mehran Farshbaf are the members of the ensemble, which is led by vocalist Vadud Moazzen.

 

Musicians from Afghanistan, China, and Azerbaijan have participated in the annual event held to celebrate Tajikistan’s National Shahsmaqam Day, which is May 12.

 

Shashmaqam or six maqams (suites) is a Central Asian musical genre, (typical of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan).

 

Each maqam is set in one of the classical Persian musical modes, or melodic forms, each of which has a specific scale, typical melodic patterns, and accepted emotional content.

 

Regional courts and large towns developed their own sets of maqams, performed in unison by an orchestra and a male chorus.

 

The festival was held from May 9 to 12 in Dushanbe.

 

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May 13, 2013, 5:10 am

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TEHRAN -- The 30th International Quran Competition will be held at the Summit Conference Hall in Tehran from June 1 to 7.

 

Hashem Soltan-Nejad and Vahid Vakili from Iran will compete in the memorization and recitation categories, the State Endowment and Charity Affairs Organization announced on Monday.

 

A seminar on Quranic research has also been arranged on the side section of the event, and interested applicants are asked to submit their works to the secretariat of the completion before May 20.

 

Last year, Qasem Moqaddami received the first prize in the recitation category and Hossein Motamedi won the first prize in the memorization category.

 

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10th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial kicks off

May 13, 2013, 8:43 am

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TEHRAN – The 10th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial, displaying over 500 works by Iranian and foreign cartoonists, was inaugurated during a ceremony at Tehran’s Saba Art and Cultural Institute on Monday.

 

Cartoonists from Turkey, Brazil, Indonesia and China are competing with Iranian artists during the month-long event, director of the Iran’s Cartoon House Masud Shojaei-Tabatabaii said during a press conference held here on Sunday.

 

Angel Boligan from Mexico and Eduardo Baptistão from Brazil were invited to join the jury, but they were unable to travel to Iran due the financial problems the biennial faced this year, he added.

 

However, pictures of entries will be mailed to several of them for final judgment.

 

Iranian artists Bahram Azimi, Bahram Arjmand-Nia, Jamal Rahmati, Mohammadreza Dust-Mohammadi and Ali Jahanshahi are also on the panel.

 

Shojaei-Tabatabaii said that the winners will be announced during a ceremony on June 2.

 

A selection of the works will be displayed in Yasuj, Kohkiluyeh-Boyer Ahmad Province, concurrent with the Tehran exhibit and the Ahvaz Museum of Contemporary Art will be the next host.

 

CDs containing images of the works on display at the biennial will be distributed during the closing ceremony.

 

This year the biennial is focusing on the themes of “Persian Cat”, “Dilemma” and “Superstition”.

 

The cartoon section of the biennial is dedicated to works on “Superstition”. “Persian Cat” is the theme of the caricature section, and the comic strip section centers on “Dilemma”.

 

Saba Institute is located on Mozaffar St., off Taleqani Ave., near Felestin Square. The biennial has been organized by the Iranian House of Cartoon.

 

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Art Bureau officials meet Supreme Leader

May 13, 2013, 8:42 am

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TEHRAN -- A group of officials of Iran’s Art Bureau met Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Monday.

 

The Art Bureau was established by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO) in 1979 to promote art and literary works in line with the ideology of the Islamic Revolution.

 

IIDO Director Hojjatoleslam Mehdi Khamushi and Art Bureau Director Mohsen Momeni attended the meeting.

 

The Art Bureau’s activities in the field of literature of resistance and revolution have been great and inspiring, the Leader told the officials.

 

“The attempts made by some hostile currents to undermine the teachings and realities of the Islamic Revolution were neutralized by those activities,” he added.

 

He also asked the officials to redouble their efforts in translation of the literature of resistance and revolution and to promote this literature at Iranian academic centers.

 

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May 13, 2013, 8:44 am

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TEHRAN -- The Aria Animation Studio, a major private Iranian animation company, plans to offer “Muhammad, the Last Messenger of God”, a 3D animation series on the life story of the Prophet of Islam, at the Cannes Film Market this year.

 

The series has been produced in 26 episodes and the running time of each episode is 22 minutes, producer Dariush Dalvand told the Persian service of MNA on Monday.

 

“The animation has been produced using the most professional techniques in the world,” he said and added that the series is expected to be welcomed by the Arab TV stations, which plan to supply Islamic film productions to their viewers during Ramadan.

 

He said that 1750 cartoon characters have been used to narrate the story in “Muhammad, the Last Messenger of God”, which took four years to be produced.

 

The Aria Animation Studio, a major private Iranian company which is run by Dalvand brothers, Dariush, Kianush, Farzad and Kurosh, also plans to prepare a feature-length version of the animation, which was directed by Kianush.

 

Kurosh Barzegar has written the script based on “The Light of the Eternity” authored by Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani and Hojjatoleslam Mozaffar Salari.

 

The Cannes Film Market will be held from May 15 to 24.

 

Fantastic Films International, a Los Angeles-based company, got the franchise to premiere Aria’s 3-D Persian epic “Battle of the Kings: Rostam & Sohrab” in the world at the film market last year.

 

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“How Can I Be a Bird” to help quake victims in southern Iran

May 14, 2013, 8:30 am

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TEHRAN -- The Iranian theater troupe Giti plans to read “How Can I Be a Bird” to raise funds for earthquake victims in the southern Iranian province of Bushehr.

 

The play reading will be directed by Ruhollah Jafari at Tehran’s Hafez Hall on May 25, some Persian news outlets announced on Tuesday.

 

The play has been written by the Paris-based Romanian writer Matei Visniec. It is about a man with a wing in place of his right arm who was born like that. There are people who believe that he was born to deliver a message to humanity.

 

The reading performance will commence at 6 p.m. at the hall located on Shahriar St.

 

Jafari staged the play at the 30th Fajr International Theater Festival in Tehran in February 2012.

 

His troupe has previously performed “Horses at the Window”, “The Spectator Sentenced to Death”, and several other Visniec’s plays in Iran.

 

Many villages were totally leveled by several large quakes in regions in Bushehr Province in April.

 

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Book on Iranian victims of chemical warfare unveiled

May 14, 2013, 8:28 am

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TEHRAN – A book on Iranian soldiers wounded by Iraqi chemical weapons during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war was unveiled at a ceremony in the Tehran Peace Museum on Tuesday.

 

Entitled “Travelogue as Narrated by Coughs”, the book has been written by one of the Iranian soldiers, Hamid Hesam.

 

The book features his journey along with a group of the victims of chemical warfare and several members of the Tehran Peace Museum to Japan to attend an anniversary of the tragedies of the atomic attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

“Every year people from around the world and even from the United States gather in Hiroshima on this day, and the participation of the Iranian victims of chemical warfare can help the world to get to know more about the fact,” Hesam said at the ceremony.

 

“We need to make the world aware of the pain and oppression our civilians have been through all these years”, he added. 

 

The book has been published under the auspices of the Foundation for Preservation and Publication of Sacred Defense Works and Values.

 

In July 1988, the village of Zardeh in the Kurdish region of Eslamabad-e Gharb in Kermanshah Province was hit by Iraqi chemical bombs, which killed 275 people and injured 1,146. Many people in the region are still suffering from the effects of the attack.

 

Likewise, in a previous attack, another Iranian Kurdish region, Sardasht, in West Azarbaijan was also struck by Iraqi chemical weapons on June 28, 1987. This was the first time that Saddam Hussein had used this type of warfare against Iranian civilians.

 

A quarter of Sardasht’s population of 20,000 of that time is still suffering from severe illnesses as a result of the attack.

 

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Carnegie International exhibit to screen docs by Kamran Shirdel

May 14, 2013, 8:32 am

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TEHRAN -- Nine documentaries by the Iranian filmmaker Kamran Shirdel will go on screen at the Carnegie International, an exhibition which has been organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh in the United States.

 

“Tehran Is the Capital of Iran”, “Dubai: Pearls of the Persian Gulf”, “Women’s Prison”, and “The Night It Rained” and five other of his documentaries are scheduled to be  screened during the event, which will be held from October 5, 2013 to March 16, 2014.

 

Shirdel will also hold workshops on making documentaries on social themes during the event. 

 

The Carnegie International is the oldest North American exhibition of contemporary art from around the globe. 

 

It was first organized at the behest of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie on November 5, 1896 in Pittsburgh. Carnegie established the International to educate and inspire the public as well as to promote international understanding and peace.

 

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IAF hosting second graffiti biennial

May 14, 2013, 8:32 am

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TEHRAN -- The 2nd Tehran Graffiti Biennial opened at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) on Monday.

 

A group of famous artists and graphic designers attended the opening ceremony of the biennial, which is being held in the four categories of competition, exhibition, workshop and seminar.

 

Over 90 works have been selected for the competition section with the central theme of graffiti for Tehran, and 64 artworks will be exhibited in the review section in which murals of Tehran from the past decade will be displayed.

 

Pictures of some murals painted on walls across Tehran over the past 10 years will go on show at the exhibit, and they will be compared with the entries to the competition section of the festival, graphic designer Mostafa Asadollahi said at the opening ceremony on Monday.

 

Graffiti in Tehran must achieve an identity, like the graffiti in the cities of Yazd and Isfahan, he added.

 

Experts and researchers will also be attending a number of sessions arranged on the side section during the festival, which will be running until May 21.

 

Organizers have also dedicated a section to 3D paintings.

 

The forum is located on Musavi St., off Taleqani Ave.

 

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Acclaimed Austrian film screened at Iranian theaters

May 15, 2013, 7:48 am

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TEHRAN – The acclaimed romance drama “Amour” directed by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has been screened at Iranian theaters.

 

There has been a delay in the Farabi Cinema Foundation’s schedule to screen the film. The foundation planned to show it on March 6.

 

“Amour” is about Georges and Anne, who are in their eighties, and are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke and the couple’s bond of love is severely tested.

 

The film won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year. The film previously received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

 

It also was awarded a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

 

The 31st Fajr International Film Festival, Iran’s most important event in the movie industry, screened the film in its noncompetition section in February.

 

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Moldovan painting biennial picks work by Iranian artist

May 15, 2013, 7:47 am

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TEHRAN -- A painting by Iranian artist Pari Malekzadeh will be competing with other entries in the 3rd edition of Chisinau International Painting Biennial, which will be running from May 30 to June 16 in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova.

 

Malekzadeh is a graduate of paintings from Tehran’s Az-Zahra University and is teaching art at the Faculty of Art at Urmia University.

 

Paintings submitted from over 30 countries including Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cuba, Denmark, Switzerland, Philippines, France and Germany will be competing in the biennial, organizers have announced on the biennial website.

 

The biennial has been organized to show the evolution of painting over the years, and to present the broad range of aesthetic approaches and means of visual expression.

 

The prizes will be offered on May 30 during the opening ceremony of the biennial. The winners will be invited for a 3-day stay in Chisinau to participate in the awards ceremony.

 

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Iran, Norway to expand cultural ties

May 15, 2013, 7:49 am

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TEHRAN – Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini and Norwegian Ambassador Jens-Petter Kjemprud discussed the expansion of art and cultural relations during a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday.

 

Hosseini praised the interest of Norway in the art and cultural activities of Iran, and stated that Iran is ready to boost its collaboration with Norway in different fields.

 

He also talked about Iran’s readiness to provide the foundation for the dialogue of religions and the translation of Persian books into the Norwegian language.

 

He also invited Norwegian officials to travel to Iran to become familiar with the truth about Iran.

 

Ambassador Kjemprud also stressed on the development of cultural ties with Iran and said that these relations will help boost ties in different economic, political, academic and scientific fields.

 

He added that the people of his country are interested in Persian culture, literature and poetry, and also asked for the translation of Persian books into Norwegian. 

 

He also praised the recent achievements of Iran in the cinema industry and warmly welcomed the idea of holding an Iranian film week in his country.

 

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Tehran center to review Polanski’s “Carnage”

May 15, 2013, 7:49 am

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TEHRAN – Roman Polanski’s comedy drama “Carnage” will be screened at Tehran’s Andisheh Cultural Center at 6 p.m. today.

 

Islamic seminary teacher Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Barmaii and a number of critics will review the film after the screening.

 

“Carnage” is about two pairs of parents who hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight; however, as their time together progresses, their increasingly childish behavior throws the evening into chaos.

 

The movie is a 2011 comedy co-written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the play “God of Carnage” by French playwright Yasmina Reza. The film is an international co-production of France, Germany, Spain and Poland.

 

The Andisheh Cultural Center is located in Helal-e Ahmar Park, Shariati St.

 

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More Iranian films to go on screen at Cannes Film Market

May 15, 2013, 7:50 am

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TEHRAN -- Three more Iranian films have been added to the lineup for screening at the Cannes Film Market.

 

“Fourth Child” by Vahid Musaian, “Mr. A” by Ali Atshani and “The Resident of the Wooden House” by Hossein-Ali Layalestani will be shown at the ongoing market, which runs until May 24.

 

“The Fourth Child” tells the story of an Iranian actress who gives up cinema to discover a new world through photography of the famine and war in Somalia.

 

Mehdi Hashemi, Mahtab Kermati, and Hamed Behdad starred in the film. 

 

“Mr. A” chronicles the life of an engineer who knows that he will die in the near future, but he does not know the exact time.

 

“The Resident of the Wooden House” is about a 6-year-old girl, who waits for her uncle who is missing in action.

 

An Iranian lineup was previously announced to be screened at the Cannes Film Market. 

 

The lineup includes the 3D animated TV series “Muhammad, the Last Messenger of God”, documentaries “I Am a White Mercenary”, “Seconds of Lead”, “Glimmer” and “Trucker and the Fox”.   

 

The market is the business counterpart of the Cannes Film Festival and one of the largest film markets in the world.

 

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Iran gives green light to Asghar Farhadi’s “Past”

May 15, 2013, 7:52 am

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TEHRAN -- Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has granted a screening license to “The Past”, Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s first movie that was shot outside of his homeland.

 

The Iranian premiere of the film will commence next week in several theaters in Tehran, Iran Cinema Organization announced in a press release on Wednesday. 

 

The Iranian film distribution company Filmiran announced in mid-March that it is seeking to premiere “The Past” in Iran.

 

The screening license was granted at Filmiran’s request. 

 

Starring Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim and Ali Mosaffa, the French-language film is about an Iranian man, who has ongoing domestic problems with his French wife. He deserts her and his two children to go back to his homeland, Iran.

 

The film is currently contending for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It is among the top ten most anticipated movies at the film gala.

 

Farhadi’s previous film “A Separation” won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a French César for best foreign film earlier in 2012 as well as Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2011.

 

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Goethe Institute honors Iranian translator for his contributions to German literature

May 17, 2013, 7:01 am

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TEHRAN -- The Iranian author and translator Mahmud Hosseinizad was selected by the Goethe Institute as one of the three winners of this year’s Goethe Medal for his outstanding contributions to German literature in Iran.

 

The Goethe Institute annually honors three non-Germans with Goethe Medals for meritorious contributions in the spirit of the institute.

 

The institute’s website described Hosseinizad as “one of the most important translators of contemporary German literature into Persian.” 

 

Since 2000, Hosseinizad translated several books by German authors such as Judith Hermann, lngo Schulze, Uwe Timm, Peter Stamm and Julia Franck into Persian. 

 

The Indian publisher Naveen Kishore and the Greek writer Petros Markaris are the two other winners of medal this year.

 

The prize will be presented to the winners during a ceremony on August 28, the birth anniversary of Goethe. 

 

The Goethe Institute is a non-profit German cultural association operating worldwide to promote the study of the German language abroad, and encourage international cultural exchange and relations.

 

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Poet Iqbal commemorated in Tehran

May 17, 2013, 7:20 am

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TEHRAN -- Pakistani poet Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) was commemorated during a ceremony organized by the Embassy of Pakistan in Tehran on Wednesday.

 

Several Iranian officials and literati attended the ceremony, which was held at the residence of Pakistani Ambassador Khalid Aziz Babar.

 

Pakistani and Iranian poets recited poems by Iqbal and on Iqbal during the event. A number of scholars also read articles about the poet.

 

Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal, was a philosopher, poet and politician in British India who presented the idea of a separate homeland for Indian Muslims which was ultimately realized in the form of Pakistan in 1947.

 

With literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages, he is considered to be one of the most important figures in Urdu literature.

 

Iqbal has been recognized and quoted as “the Poet of the East” by academics. 

 

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Lebanese cast to dub “Earth and Coral” into Arabic

May 17, 2013, 7:25 am

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TEHRAN -- Iranian filmmaker Masud Atyabi’s “Earth and Coral” is due to be dubbed into Arabic by a team of leading Lebanese actors at the Boudi Naoum Studio in Beirut next week.

 

Diana Ibrahim will direct the cast, Atyabi told the Persian service of MNA on Friday.

 

Ibrahim is a graduate of architecture from New York and enjoys over 15 years of experience in dubbing and film production.

 

“I will be traveling to Lebanon along with the producer Amir Parvin-Hosseini for the final arrangements,” Atyabi said.

 

The dubbing stage is expected to take about 20 days to be accomplished, he added.

 

The film is to be screened in Lebanon and Afghanistan afterwards, he said.

 

“Earth and Coral” has recently been granted a screening license by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and is due to be screened in Iran as well.

 

The story of the film is set in Afghanistan after the US-led invasion of the country. 

 

The film tells the story of a man, whose wife is kidnapped by the U.S. forces. However, he is told that his wife was killed in an explosion. 

 

A few years later during the wedding ceremony of his daughter, the man sees a woman clad in a burka who kisses the bride and groom. When she calls her little son to leave the ceremony, the man recognizes from the voice that this woman is his wife. As a result, the man and the woman face a dilemma.

 

The film was shot in Kabul with an all-Afghan cast.

 

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Foreign artists awarded at Tehran Intl. Sculpture Symposium

May 17, 2013, 7:25 am

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TEHRAN -- Six foreign sculptors were honored during the closing ceremony of the Fifth Tehran International Sculpture Symposium at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) on Wednesday.

 

Rumen Mihov Dimitrov, Petre Petrov and Nikolay Yotov from Bulgaria, Lenny Ratnasari Weichert from Indonesia, Christian Rey from Uruguay, and Mauricio Guajardo Rubio from Chile created works during the event, which opened on May 4.

 

There are plans to hold another symposium within the next six months, which will center on stone and glass at that time, Mohammad-Javad Shushtari, Director of Tehran Municipality’s Beautification Organization said at the closing ceremony. 

 

The organization as the sponsor of the symposium will try to develop the idea in other cities in the near future, he added.

 

Secretary of the symposium sculptor Saeid Shahlapur, also attending the closing ceremony, expressed hope that Tehran’s City Council would be willing to ratify the symposium to help the event from being halted during the coming years.

 

Iranian wooden sculpture masters Jamshid Moradian and Mohammad-Hossein Emad, as the guests of honor at the symposium, were also honored at the ceremony.

 

Among the participating Iranian sculptors were Mohammad Marvasti, Mehdi Rangchi, Ali Vaziri, Shahriar Rezaii, Samaneh Reihani and Fatemeh Majidi.

 

The symposium ran from May 4 to 15 at the Noruz Park located on Africa Ave.

 

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