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March/April, 2003

 

 Volume III, Number 16

 

Persian Student Association of Stanford University & 

Anjoman Sokhan Proudly announces

Shabi Ba Simin Behbahani
Friday, March 14, 2003
At 6:30 pm
Stanford University
Cubberly Auditorium
Introduction By 
Dr. Sadroddin Elahi
This program is open to the public with no admission fee.
We look forward to seeing you at this very special occasion. 
Please send this invitation to your friends and colleagues.

INT'L WOMAN'S DAY EVENT BY KAVOSH GRP

Kaavosh Woman's Group Honors International Woman's Day!
Women's Voices Against War

Slide Show: "Human Rights Under Fire" And "A recent Travel
to Israel/Palestine" A Report by Delnaz Abaadi (in Persian)
War, Gender & Race
A lecture by Bahar MirHosseini (in English)
A war For or Against "Women's Freedom" and "Democracy"
A look at women's situation in Afghanistan by Azizeh
Shahmoradi from Iran (in Persian)
DATE: Saturday March 8, 2003
LOCATION: University of California Berkeley, Valley
Life Science Building, Room # 2060
TIME: Gathering at 5:30PM, Program starts at 6PM
Donation: $5.00
For more Information: 408-245-6666

workshops - Dr. Holakouee will conduct the following workshops:

  Self Confidence & Self Esteem, Saturday March 8, 3-9 pm.

  Piccolo Restaurant (HozKhouneh)

  Price: $30 SIP members, $65 non-members

  What is Love & Who is in Love, Sunday March 9, 3-8 pm.

  Faz Restaurant, Price: $30 members, non-member price unknown.

2nd Annual
Tiburon International Film Festival
Date: March 14-20, 2003
Place: Playhouse Theater, Tiburon
www.tiburonfilmfestival.com
Email:
info@tiburonfilmfestival.com

Shirin Neshat (writer/director), WOMEN WITHOUT MEN: Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker living in New York City. Her innovative approach to infuse disciplines to arrive at new forms of expression has brought her international acclaim. Neshat is the winner of numerous awards, including the Grand Prix of the Kwangju Biennial in Korea in 2000 and the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Venice Biennial in 1999. She has exhibited widely in major European and American cities. Among her most recent solo exhibitions are Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Canada; Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna and the Serpentine Gallery in London. She has been included in numerous international exhibitions and festivals, including Documenta 11, Germany; Sau Paulo Biennial, Brazil; the Locarno Film Festival; the Chicago International Film Festival; the San Francisco Film Festival and many others. Her film Passage, made in collaboration with composer Philip Glass, was presented at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in 2001 and her short film Tooba will premiere at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Women Without Men is based on five short stories by the Iranian author Shahrnoush Parsipour that parallel the experiences and lives of different women living in distinct socio-political and cultural settings.