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May 2011

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Current Programmes

Heroic Ages - Thousand Years Persian Book of the Kings
Exhibition

Forugh Farrokhzad: Conquering the Garden
Reading and discussion

Festival Of Music In Middle Eastern Cinema
Conference and film screening

An Evening of Persian Poetry
Lecture and film screening

Tales from the Shahnameh
Storytelling and Workshop for Families

Lunch and Literature: New Persian Cooking
Talk, Demonstration and Sampling

The Golha Project
Digital Archive - 2nd Phase

Persian Manuscript Digitisation Project at the British Library
Digital Archive

Institutional Partnership Programme


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Music in Middle Eastern Cinema

MUSIC IN MIDDLE EASTERN CINEMA

Conference and film screening

Saturday 14th May to Friday 20th May 2011

Various Venues

A mini-festival of feature and documentary films, and a two-day conference, focusing on the rich musical heritage and the burgeoning new music scenes in the Middle East.

 

Organisers

City University London and London Centre for Arts and Organisational Exhange in association with Iran Heritage Foundation, Institute of Musical Research, Centre for Iranian Studies at SOAS and The Royal Anthropological Institute.

Conference

Tuesday May 17th and Wednesday May 18th
Two-day conference at the Institute of Musical Research (including the spring meeting of the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum).

Speakers: Martin Stokes (Oxford), Nacim Pak (Edinburgh), Kay Dickinson (Goldsmiths), Kamran Rastegar (Tufts), Peyman Yazdanian (Iran), John Baily (Goldsmiths), Tony Langlois (Limerick), Havana Marking and Federico Spinetti (Alberta). Plus film screenings.

For further details and full schedule please click here.

Feature Film Screening

Saturday May 14th and Sunday May 15th

Venue: Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn
Tickets: £8.50/£7.50
Box office: 020 7328 1000

For further details and full schedule please click here.

Documentary Film Screenings

Thursday 19th and Friday 20th May
Free Admission

Two days of documentary film screenings in the Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS where music is the central focus of the narrative.

For further details and full schedule please click here.

Enquiries

Valerie James at music@sas.ac.uk
www.music.sas.ac.uk Tel: 020 7664 4865

Iran Heritage Foundation, 5 Stanhope Gate, London W1K 1AH
Tel: +44 (20) 7493 4766
Email: info@iranheritage.org


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