The Canticle of the Birds by ‘Attâr’ or the Art of Spiritual flight Leili Anvar and Frédéric Ferney read passages of the poem (in English with passages of the original Persian text) accompanied by a Persian musician, playing the parts of the hoopoe and of different birds, dervishes, sages, fools, and princesses, telling stories sometimesRead More
Dilan Ensemble is participating in the High-Fest festival to memorialize the “100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide” by Ottoman Empire in Yerevan, Armenia!
In a show blending refinement and innovation, Shahriyar Jamshidi, accompanied by his acolyte Raphael Weinroth-Browne, eradicates the boundaries between East and West to give way to a magical conversation between the kamancheh, an Iranian string instrument, and the cello. With melodies that range from melancholic to intense and fiery, this duo weaves a unique musicalRead More
The 15th annual 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival where will take place at Tranzac club from November 4-7, 2015. It would be a great opportunity for me to introduce Kamanche a major bowed string instrument from Iran and central Asia and also to present improvisation form of Kurdish and Iranian music. My performance include aRead More
There is a social revolution underway in Rojava, Syria, that presents a living alternative within a region beset by despotic and sectarian politics and exploitative imperialist interventions. Despite portrayals in the commercial media, the people of the Middle East are not passive victims of ISIS terror and State repression. In Rojava, they propose participatory self-Read More
