Cultural Events

Iranian art works, traditional costumes, calligraphy and paintings are on display in an Iranian festival of culture and arts in Jakarta.

Keyvan Saket, a remarkable Iranian musician, is to stage a concert in Canada on December 1, 2014.

Iranian artists contribute to the efforts of the United Nations food agency to take on global hunger.

Leading Japanese composer Kitaro is in Tehran to hold a concert in mid-October.

As part of efforts to boost cultural ties, Tehran is to organize a cultural event in Tunis.

Tehran-Lisbon cultural cooperation is to be promoted after two memoranda of understanding were signed.

The Kamkars, a very famous Iranian ensemble, are to stage charity concerts in Iran and Europe.

A photo gallery of the 4th Iranian Nomad Festival in Isfahan.

The Iranian artistic community has honored the memory of renowned theater director Hamid Samandarian. A July 14th issue of Iran Daily – a Tehran-based English-language newspaper – ran a short report on the ceremony to mark the occasion.

Birthplace, a movie banned for six years, secures permission for public screening.

A statue of Manuchehr Sotudeh, the oldest Iranologist alive, has been unveiled at a garden in Tehran.

Secretary of the International Publishers Committee at the 27th Tehran International Book Fair says the economic sanctions imposed on Iran restricted the financial sources for purchasing new foreign books and compared to the earlier years, their numbers have been reduced in the book fair.