Shabe Sher, Wed, Feb 12, 7:30PM, NY, Forugh Farrokhzad
Mark Your Calendars
Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003
Refer with me,
I'm powerless to speak
because I love you,
because "I love you" is a phrase
from the world of futilities
and antiquities and redundancies.
Refer with me,
I'm powerless to speak.
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Honoring Forugh Farrokhzad
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Forugh’s Voice & Documentary Film
An Exploration of Film & Poetry by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri,
and
Reciting Forugh’s Poems by Shabe Sher’s Young Poets
In Persian
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
7:30pm
Forugh - Tavalodi Digar
Farrah – Asheghane
Forugh - Vahmeh Sabz
Farinaz - Kasy ke mesl e hichkas neest
8:00 PM
This House is Black, a documentary on the leper colony.
Forugh narrates her poems in this video.
An Exploration of Film & Poetry by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri,
8:45 PM
Forugh – Fathe Bagh
Arezue – Gonah
Forugh – About Contemporary Persian Poetry
Forugh - Ayehaye Zamini
Mana – Zendegi
Forugh – Feminine Poetry
Forugh – Aarusake Kooki
Fruzan
Forugh - Imaan Biaverim Be Aghazeh Facele Sard
Note:
During Wednesday, February 12, Bowery Poetry Club is having “Poets Against
the War” reading. Basically anyone who wishes to can get on the mic and
voice opposition to the seemingly inevitable.
Also Bob Holman our friend and Bowery Poetry Club director will be
performing with a jazz quartet after our event at 10:00pm.(Music of Billy
Bang, poetry of Bob Holman)
ShabeSher
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About Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri
A Film Director and Producer, Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri holds B.A. and M.A. in
Cinema Studies from Trinity College in Hartford, Ct., and New York
University. She has worked in documentary films in Boston, New York and
Tehran. She also has worked for Internews Network in Iran, an international
media company that promotes dialogue in media. She produced several PBS
projects for Internews and other production companies in Iran, such as Vis a
Vis: Beyond the Veil and Adventure Divas, Iran episode. She has produced
and directed several personal documentary films about Iran: Journal from
Tehran, 1986 is a memoir of war days in Tehran, a prize winner which
screened at Independent Focus series of PBS. Far From Iran, is a
commissioned work by New England Foundation for the Arts; A Place Called
Home, 1998, is about the filmmakers decision to leave the US and live in
Iran. It is distributed by Women Make Movies, and screened at major art
centers and museums. Women Like US, is her recent film completed in January,
2002. It is a video portrait of five ordinary women in today’s Iran. She
lives and works in New York and Tehran..
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fee to cover their costs)
About Shabe Sher
Shabe Sher is a politically and religiously agnostic gathering formed solely
to better familiarize less than dexterous Iranian-speaking individuals with
the works of such superlative poets as Hafez, Rumi, Nima, Forugh and over a
hundred other great poets. The events are freely structured; that is, you
are not required to read, speak, or do anything whatsoever. Simply come
equipped with a deep passion for life and a voracious thirst for learning
about the Iranian poetry and culture.
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