Organised by
The Iran Heritage Foundation
Date
Friday 19th March, 17.30-18.45
Online event, please note this event will not be recorded.
Description
Join us for an online celebration of Norouz, to mark the eve of a new year and a new century. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis will give a brief introduction to the history of Norouz, a festival celebrated not only by Iranians but by many communities around the world. There will be a musical interlude, with a recording of Adib and Mehdi Rostami in concert at King’s Place in 2019, showcasing their album Melodic Circles, which was voted as one top 10 albums of 2018 by Songlines Magazine. Finally, Norouz celebrations would not be complete without poetry, and there will be some readings chosen and recited live by Narguess Farzad.
Biographies
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis has been Curator of Middle Eastern Coins at the British Museum since 2005. She is a member of the IHF’s Academic Grants Committee and is Vice-President of the British Institute of Persian Studies. She is also Joint Director of the International Parthian Coin Project, a collaborative research project involving major international museums with important Parthian coin collections, such as Tehran, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna and New York. She has published extensively on ancient Persian coins, art and culture and is particularly interested in religious and royal iconography.
Narguess Farzad is the Senior Lecturer in Persian and a member of the Academic Board at SOAS, University of London. She teaches several courses on Persian language, classical and modern Persian poetry, and translation studies. She is a member of IHF’s Academic Grants Committee and also the Chair of the Persian Language Online committee, a language-learning website owned and managed by IHF. She has written several articles and publications and is also a regular contributor to the art and culture programmes of BBC radios 3, 4 and the World Service.
The Iran Heritage Foundation
Date
Friday 19th March, 17.30-18.45
Online event, please note this event will not be recorded.
Description
Join us for an online celebration of Norouz, to mark the eve of a new year and a new century. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis will give a brief introduction to the history of Norouz, a festival celebrated not only by Iranians but by many communities around the world. There will be a musical interlude, with a recording of Adib and Mehdi Rostami in concert at King’s Place in 2019, showcasing their album Melodic Circles, which was voted as one top 10 albums of 2018 by Songlines Magazine. Finally, Norouz celebrations would not be complete without poetry, and there will be some readings chosen and recited live by Narguess Farzad.
Biographies
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis has been Curator of Middle Eastern Coins at the British Museum since 2005. She is a member of the IHF’s Academic Grants Committee and is Vice-President of the British Institute of Persian Studies. She is also Joint Director of the International Parthian Coin Project, a collaborative research project involving major international museums with important Parthian coin collections, such as Tehran, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna and New York. She has published extensively on ancient Persian coins, art and culture and is particularly interested in religious and royal iconography.
Narguess Farzad is the Senior Lecturer in Persian and a member of the Academic Board at SOAS, University of London. She teaches several courses on Persian language, classical and modern Persian poetry, and translation studies. She is a member of IHF’s Academic Grants Committee and also the Chair of the Persian Language Online committee, a language-learning website owned and managed by IHF. She has written several articles and publications and is also a regular contributor to the art and culture programmes of BBC radios 3, 4 and the World Service.
