Art news in brief

Iranian vocalist to perform at Pakistani festival

TEHRAN – The Iranian vocalist Alireza Qorbani will perform a concert at the Mystic Music Sufi Festival in Islamabad, Pakistan.

 

Musicians Saman Samimi, Milad Mohammadi and Zakaria Yusefi will accompany Qorbani during the performance, which will be held on December 4.

 

The festival will also be held in Lahore on December 6 and 7, and in Azad Kashmir on December 28.

 

IAF to host “Day of Murders in History of Hamlet”

TEHRAN – The Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) will host a performance of “The Day of Murders in the History of Hamlet” by director Faranak Sabaii starting today.

 

Written by French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltès, the play is a re-envisioned version of Shakespeare’s classic with four of the main players: Hamlet, Gertrude, Ophelia and Claudius in a younger, faster, more urgent exploration of family dynamics, ambition and murder.

 

Sorush Taheri, Maneli Hosseinpur, Arash Tabrizi, Farzaneh Salahshur and Mehdi Shayan will act in the play, which will go on stage at the Entezami Hall of the forum.

 

Cinema Organization of Iran, IRIB to expand relations 

TEHRAN – Cinema Organization of Iran Director Hojjatollah Ayyubi and the newly-appointed managing director of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Mohammad Sarafraz, discussed the expansion of relations in a meeting on Sunday.

 

During the meeting, Sarafraz appointed Asghar Purmohammadi as coordinator of relations between the two institutions.

 

Iran, Tajikistan to boost cultural ties

TEHRAN -- The expansion of cultural relations was discussed during a meeting between Tajik Minister of Culture Shamsiddin Orumbekov and Iran’s Ambassador Hojjatollah Faqani in Tajikistan on Monday.  

 

During the meeting, Orumbekov and Faqani spoke of the countries’ potentials for holding mutual cultural and film weeks, and theatrical and musical events.

 

SB/YAW

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