TEHRAN – World-renowned French pianist Richard Clayderman arrived in Tehran on Thursday, Royal Honar, the Iranian institute that is the coordinator of Clayderman’s upcoming performances, has announced. Clayderman’s first concert will be performed at the Grand Hall of the Interior Ministry in Tehran tonight. His other performances will be held from June 27 to 29. […]

TEHRAN – The Iran Cultural Fairs Institute (ICFI) has signed memorandums of understanding with the Seoul International Book Fair (SIBF) and Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE). The MOUs were inked at the Seoul book fair, which is currently underway in the South Korean capital, the ICFI announced on Thursday. Based on the MOU between ICFI […]

Iran’s National Orchestra, leading by conductor Fereidun Shahbazian and vocalist Salar Aqili will perform in Azerbaijan on June 27 and 29. The performance is scheduled on the occasion of Iran’s cultural week in Azerbaijan. The orchestra will perform various Persian and Azeri music pieces. Fereidun Shahbazian along Tehran Symphony Orchestra is in Russia right now, […]

TEHRAN – An exhibition, which is scheduled to open on Friday at Tehran Saless Gallery, will showcase portraits of actors who appeared in Abbas Kiarostami’s acclaimed 2008 movie “Shirin”.   The portraits are from a collection by Gelareh Kiazand who will organize the exhibition “Shirin – Abbas Kiarostami” to commemorate the second anniversary of his […]

TEHRAN – The governor of Aleppo, Hussein Ahmad Diab, has praised the cultural services provided by the Owj Arts and Media Organization, a Tehran-based institution producing revolutionary works in art and cinema, for Syrian children, the Persian service of MNA reported on Monday. He made the remarks in a visit to the Grand Festival of […]

TEHRAN – Iranian artists Sara Ashrafi and Majid Hosseini will showcase a collection of their paintings in an exhibition titled “Sudoku” in the Danish city of Naestved. The exhibit will open at the Naestved Library and Citizens’ Service on July 3 and will be running until July 31. “The exhibit has been arranged at the […]

TEHRAN – Two-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi will preside over the jury of the official competition at the 15th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival, which will be held in the Armenian capital during July, the organizers have announced. British cinematographer Larry Smith, German film expert Beki Probst who is the president of the European […]

TEHRAN – Actor/director Mohsen Hosseini has announced his plan to stage a play based on German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “West-East Divan” in Weimar and Frankfurt following an invitation from the Goethe-Institut. Speaking to the Persian service of FNA on Sunday, Hosseini said that his troupe will give two performances in Weimar and four […]

Acclaimed Iranian feature movie ‘Track 143’, directed by Narges Abyar, is set to screen in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. According to a MoU, the flick currently run at China’s Qingdao film fest will be shown in 4 world spots, the producer said to local media. Mohammad Hossein Ghasemi noted that the Memorandum of […]

TEHRAN – Manijeh Hekmat narrates a story about sexual assault and the culture of silence in Iran in her latest movie “The Abandoned Road”. The film premiered in the official competition of the 36th Fajr Film Festival in Tehran on Friday. The film is about a woman employee who is kidnapped and raped on the […]