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Victoria Time (PST): Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 02:01 am PDT
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Persian Classical Music Concert
کنسرت موسیقی اصیل ایرانی
کیهان کلهر
Songs of Hope – Kayhan Kalhor
Tue.10.Dec
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Alix Goolden Performance Hall
Victoria Conservatory of Music
Quadra @ Johnson Street
Entrance for this concert is at 900 Johnson Street. The Balcony is closed for this event.
One of Iran’s most beloved artists and the preeminent ambassador of Persian music Kayhan Kalhor is a soulful master of the kamancheh, the Persian spiked fiddle. Widely known for his stirring improvisations exquisite compositions and extensive collaborations, Kalhor returns to Victoria alongside with setar virtuoso Kiya Tabassian and one of the greatest voices of new generation Iran’s singers, Hadi Hosseini. Together they will present a unique program of sublime Persian music and poetry.
Kayhan Kalhor, Kamancheh
Hadi Hosseini, Voice
Kiya Tabssian, Setar
Hamin Honari, Tombak
Kayhan Kalhor
Five-time Grammy nominee and a Grammy winner (2017) Kayhan Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the kamancheh who through his many musical collaborations has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music in the West and is a creative force in today’s music scene. His performances of traditional Persian music and multiple collaborations have attracted audiences around the globe. He has studied the music of Iran’s many regions in particular those of Khorason and Kordestan and has toured the world as a soloist with various ensembles and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lyon. He is co-founder of the renowned ensembles Dastan Ghazal: Persian & Indian Improvisations and Masters of Persian Music.
Kayhan Kalhor has composed works for Iran’s most renowned vocalists Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri and has also performed and recorded with Iran’s greatest instrumentalists.He has composed music for television and film and was most recently featured on the soundtrack of Francis Ford Copolla’s Youth Without Youth in a score that he collaborated on with Osvaldo Golijov. In 2004 Kayhan was invited by American composer John Adams to give a solo recital at Carnegie Hall as part of his Perspectives Series and in the same year he appeared on a double bill at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival sharing the program with the Festival Orchestra performing the Mozart Requiem. Kayhan is a founding member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and his compositions appear on several of the Ensemble’s albums.
Kiya Tabassian
Setar virtuoso and acclaimed composer Kiya Tabassian has carved out a privileged place on the international music scene with his ensemble Constantinople and as a soloist. With his celebrated cross-cultural musical encounters, he travels across the five continents to present his creations and his music on stages all over the world.He has contributed to many eclectic projects as a composer performer and improviser. To cite a few he has collaborated with the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. He has actively participated in the international project MediMuses from 2002 to 2005 as a member of a research group on the history and the repertoire of Mediterranean music. He also intervened in the Atlas ensemble (Netherlands) since 2009 and contributed to the Atlas Academy as a tutor a double project aimed at conjoining contemporary music and oral traditions together.
In 2015 he establishes and directs the very first world music residency program at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity and between 2017 and 2022 he acts as Associate Artist of the prestigious Rencontres musicales de Conques (France). Kiya was a member of the Conseil des arts de Montréal for seven years including as chairman of the music committee for three years. He also set at the Board of Directors of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for four years. He is the artistic director of the Centre des musiciens du monde a music Centre he co-founded in Montreal in 2017 as a space for creation meetings exchanges and the transmission of knowledge between professional musicians and the public.
This concert is presented as a collaboration between the New Old World Music Society of BC and Constantinople.
Venue Accessibility
The 900 Johnson Street entrance is at ground-level and wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator located on the first floor: as you enter the building go down the ramp to your right and the elevator is on the left at the bottom. Priority seating can be provided at concerts if you have accessibility issues; please contact the Venues Department . Wheelchair accessible restrooms are located on the main floor, beside the lobby in the Reception and Registration area.
Victoria Conservatory of Music
https://vcm.bc.ca/event/songs-of-hope-kayhan-kalhor/
Tickets:
https://www.showpass.com/songs-of-hope-kayhan-kalhor/
کیهان کلهر
Songs of Hope – Kayhan Kalhor
Tue.10.Dec
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Alix Goolden Performance Hall
Victoria Conservatory of Music
Quadra @ Johnson Street
Entrance for this concert is at 900 Johnson Street. The Balcony is closed for this event.
One of Iran’s most beloved artists and the preeminent ambassador of Persian music Kayhan Kalhor is a soulful master of the kamancheh, the Persian spiked fiddle. Widely known for his stirring improvisations exquisite compositions and extensive collaborations, Kalhor returns to Victoria alongside with setar virtuoso Kiya Tabassian and one of the greatest voices of new generation Iran’s singers, Hadi Hosseini. Together they will present a unique program of sublime Persian music and poetry.
Kayhan Kalhor, Kamancheh
Hadi Hosseini, Voice
Kiya Tabssian, Setar
Hamin Honari, Tombak
Kayhan Kalhor
Five-time Grammy nominee and a Grammy winner (2017) Kayhan Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the kamancheh who through his many musical collaborations has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music in the West and is a creative force in today’s music scene. His performances of traditional Persian music and multiple collaborations have attracted audiences around the globe. He has studied the music of Iran’s many regions in particular those of Khorason and Kordestan and has toured the world as a soloist with various ensembles and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lyon. He is co-founder of the renowned ensembles Dastan Ghazal: Persian & Indian Improvisations and Masters of Persian Music.
Kayhan Kalhor has composed works for Iran’s most renowned vocalists Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri and has also performed and recorded with Iran’s greatest instrumentalists.He has composed music for television and film and was most recently featured on the soundtrack of Francis Ford Copolla’s Youth Without Youth in a score that he collaborated on with Osvaldo Golijov. In 2004 Kayhan was invited by American composer John Adams to give a solo recital at Carnegie Hall as part of his Perspectives Series and in the same year he appeared on a double bill at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival sharing the program with the Festival Orchestra performing the Mozart Requiem. Kayhan is a founding member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and his compositions appear on several of the Ensemble’s albums.
Kiya Tabassian
Setar virtuoso and acclaimed composer Kiya Tabassian has carved out a privileged place on the international music scene with his ensemble Constantinople and as a soloist. With his celebrated cross-cultural musical encounters, he travels across the five continents to present his creations and his music on stages all over the world.He has contributed to many eclectic projects as a composer performer and improviser. To cite a few he has collaborated with the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. He has actively participated in the international project MediMuses from 2002 to 2005 as a member of a research group on the history and the repertoire of Mediterranean music. He also intervened in the Atlas ensemble (Netherlands) since 2009 and contributed to the Atlas Academy as a tutor a double project aimed at conjoining contemporary music and oral traditions together.
In 2015 he establishes and directs the very first world music residency program at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity and between 2017 and 2022 he acts as Associate Artist of the prestigious Rencontres musicales de Conques (France). Kiya was a member of the Conseil des arts de Montréal for seven years including as chairman of the music committee for three years. He also set at the Board of Directors of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for four years. He is the artistic director of the Centre des musiciens du monde a music Centre he co-founded in Montreal in 2017 as a space for creation meetings exchanges and the transmission of knowledge between professional musicians and the public.
This concert is presented as a collaboration between the New Old World Music Society of BC and Constantinople.
Venue Accessibility
The 900 Johnson Street entrance is at ground-level and wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator located on the first floor: as you enter the building go down the ramp to your right and the elevator is on the left at the bottom. Priority seating can be provided at concerts if you have accessibility issues; please contact the Venues Department . Wheelchair accessible restrooms are located on the main floor, beside the lobby in the Reception and Registration area.
Victoria Conservatory of Music
https://vcm.bc.ca/event/songs-of-hope-kayhan-kalhor/
Tickets:
https://www.showpass.com/songs-of-hope-kayhan-kalhor/
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شب عاشقان بیدل چه شبی دراز باشد / تو بیا کز اول شب در صبح باز باشد - سعدی
جمعه، ۲۰ دسامبر ۲۰۲۴
از ساعت ۶ عصر تا پاسی از شب
در سالن ویکتوریا ادلوایس کلاب
Victoria Edelweiss Club, Niagara @ Dallas Rd
فرصتی برای گردهمایی ایرانیها و فارسیزبانان و بزرگداشت این آیین کهن ایرانی در فضایی گرم و صمیمی
• پذیرایی با شیرینی، آجیل، میوه و شام سبک سنتی (آش رشته)
• حافظخوانی و شعرخوانی
• اجرای موسیقی سنتی ایرانی
• رقص گروهی ایرانی
• بازی و سرگرمی
• رقص و پایکوبی پایانی
بلیط: بزرگسالان: ۲۵ دلار تا پایان ماه نوامبر و ۳۰ دلار پس از آن | کودکان زیر ۱۰ سال: رایگان
لینک خرید بلیط:
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/yalda-night--2024-2
در هنگام خرید بلیط از سایت Zeffy، اگر تمایلی به پرداخت کمک مالی به این پلتفرم رایگان ندارید، لطفاً گزینه Other را انتخاب کرده و عدد صفر را وارد کنید. امیدواریم با حضور گرم شما، شبی سرشار از شادی و خاطره برای جامعه ایرانی و فارسیزبانان جزیره ونکوور رقم بخورد.
Brought to you by:
انجمن فرهنگی ایرانیان و فارسیزبانان ویکتوریا
Victoria Iranian-Persian Cultural Society
انجمن فرهنگی ایرانیان ویکتوریا
جمعه، ۲۰ دسامبر ۲۰۲۴
از ساعت ۶ عصر تا پاسی از شب
در سالن ویکتوریا ادلوایس کلاب
Victoria Edelweiss Club, Niagara @ Dallas Rd
فرصتی برای گردهمایی ایرانیها و فارسیزبانان و بزرگداشت این آیین کهن ایرانی در فضایی گرم و صمیمی
• پذیرایی با شیرینی، آجیل، میوه و شام سبک سنتی (آش رشته)
• حافظخوانی و شعرخوانی
• اجرای موسیقی سنتی ایرانی
• رقص گروهی ایرانی
• بازی و سرگرمی
• رقص و پایکوبی پایانی
بلیط: بزرگسالان: ۲۵ دلار تا پایان ماه نوامبر و ۳۰ دلار پس از آن | کودکان زیر ۱۰ سال: رایگان
لینک خرید بلیط:
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/yalda-night--2024-2
در هنگام خرید بلیط از سایت Zeffy، اگر تمایلی به پرداخت کمک مالی به این پلتفرم رایگان ندارید، لطفاً گزینه Other را انتخاب کرده و عدد صفر را وارد کنید. امیدواریم با حضور گرم شما، شبی سرشار از شادی و خاطره برای جامعه ایرانی و فارسیزبانان جزیره ونکوور رقم بخورد.
Brought to you by:
انجمن فرهنگی ایرانیان و فارسیزبانان ویکتوریا
Victoria Iranian-Persian Cultural Society
انجمن فرهنگی ایرانیان ویکتوریا
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The war on Iran is coming
In the 1979 Iranian revolution, the West, not wanting a nationalist revolution with Socialist tendencies deliver the ex-colony to the Socialist camp, helped the the Ayatollahs to hijack the revolution.
The Ayatollahs decimated the nationalist and the Socialist opposition and consolidated their hold on power during the war with Iraq. They owe their regime to the war, for if there were no war, the Ayatollahs would not be in power today.
The regime of the Ayatollahs have failed, and they have failed miserably. They have failed economically, politically, socially, and culturally. They have even failed environmentally. They have destroyed the country: record unemployment, highest inflation rates in the world, highest per-capita addiction rate, 25% depression and mental illness, tsunami of cancer, high suicide and incarceration rate, high execution rate, highest rate of child executions in the world, abject poverty such that people walking on one of the largest oil and gas reservoirs in the world have resorted to selling their kidneys. It is the only country in the world where selling kidneys is legal. Having impoverished the nation, the Ayatollahs are now exporting prostitutes. They also, unilaterally, lifted the visa requirement for China, Iraq, and Oman, and have turned the country into a sex-tourism destination. Yes, the High Priests are now profiting off the avails of prostitution, praying on the most vulnerable.
In such dire circumstances, the only thing that could save the regime of the Ayatollahs is another war. The Ayatollahs want war. And the looming war with Iran is going to be ugly. It is going to be a regional war with Iran and its proxies in the Middle East. Should the regime proxies in Syria and Lebanon attack Israel with missiles, or should a missile hit an American military base in the Arab Persian Golf countries killing American soldiers en mass, that would be grounds for nuclear bombing of Iran. Justification? Same as in Hiroshima bombing, "saving lives".
I am a draft dodger, a socialist, and a pacifist. With the looming war on Iran, should Canada decides to "stand shoulder to shoulder with its allies and fulfill its NATO obligations", as Prime Minster Stephen Harper has said, my tax Dollars could go towards bombing my mom and sisters!
When the war starts, the logistics of the war is so huge and the machinery of war has so much momentum that there is no stopping it. The biggest demonstrations in the history, the opposition to the war on Iraq, could not stop it. Tomorrow is too late. We must prevent the war today. Join us at the Alternative Remembrance Day ceremonies and wear your White Puppy for peace.
Student Housing
Iranian visa students are coming to town and need a place to rent.Do you have a place you can give or rent to them?
Victoria Rental Listings for Students / برای اجاره دانشجویی
Contact Persian Club
Student Bank Referral
Are you a student & new to town? Persian Club can help you in setting up a bank account & getting a Credit Card. We will get you a free chequing account from which you can pay all your bills for free. We also get you the best student-friendly Credit Card. You will also get $50 signing-up bonus, to boot. You will be helping Persian Club as well as the club gets a bonus for referring you to the bank, too.Contact Persian Club www.PersianClub.Ca
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Persian or Farsi?
Exonym / EndonymIndia, China, Egypt, and Germany are the English-language exonyms corresponding to the endonyms Bharat, 中国 (Zhōngguó), مَصر (Mesr), and Deutschland, respectively.
Chinese, Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and German are exonyms in English for the languages that are endonymously known as "中文" ("Zhōngwén"), "فارسی" ("Fārsi"), "Türkçe", "العَرَبِيَّة" ("al-Arabiyah"), and "Deutsch", respectively. Reference
French / Français
German / Deutsche
Japanese / Nihon-go
Turkish / Türkçe
Spanish / Español
Arabic / العَرَبِيَّة
Persian / فارسی
ما فارسی صحبت میکنیم,
but we speak Persian.
We do not speak Farsi!
Persian Library
Persian Library is looking for a homeSelf checkout; help yourself; check yourself out a book in the list provided
We need book donations, if you would like to put your books into good use
We also need magazine subscriptions; consider a donation
Sending Money to/from Iran
Please get in touch with www.PersianClub.Ca if you wish to send money to/from IranWe can put you in touch with community members who can help you
You both save transaction fees, no commissions fees
You both get the best exchange rate; average of buy & sell rates
Secure; you sit together, transfer funds online in Iran bank accounts & get paid
Need Iran bank account's "Shabaa" number for online fund transfer
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To make every vote count, support our campaign for Electoral Reform & Proportional Representation to bring Democracy to Canada.www.FairVote.Ca
Helping Visa Students
Helping Iranian Foreign Visa Students
Once an East Indian student and his family left the ignorance and discrimination of India for the greener pastures of Uganda. After a year of studying medicine at Shiraz Pahlavi University, the student offered his resignation to the university. When asked why, he explained how Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator, blaming foreigners for his mismanagement, had seized his parent's farm, the parent could not send him any more money, and he could no longer afford his education. Shiraz Pahlavi University then gave him free tuition and room & board so that he could continue his studies. He finished his medical school, became a GP, and is now serving the community right here in Canada. Quite a few of his patients are Iranians. He has learnt the Persian language, mastered the Persian music, and loves Googoosh. Shiraz Pahlavi University made the right decision then and the world is a much better place because of it.
Today the table has turned. Iran's economy is so bad and the currency is doing so poorly that the Afghan migrant workers are fleeing Iran to go back home to Afghanistan, for their currency, Afghani, is now more valuable than IRR.
With the Iranian Rial at a free fall and the US$ hovering around 15,000 T (150,000 IRR), Iranian foreign visa students have a hard time covering their education costs. Couple of them could not afford to come back to school after the Summer holidays.
We must help them out!
Here are a few practical suggestions on how the community can help the students:
- Give them an unused room you can not be bothered to rent out
- Rent them a room in exchange for occasional babysitting or help & companionship for the elderly
- Money transfer: When sending money to your parents in Iran, instead of using a currency exchange service, give CAD$ to students here in Canada & they deposit IRR to a bank account in Iran. Online bank money transfers are now done instantaneously; it can be done right in front of you. We can help the students out by giving them a favourable & reasonable exchange rate
- Give them a job
- We can write letters to UVic/RRU/Camosun Student Awards & Financial Aid Offices explaining their plight and requesting a favourable look on their student-aid application
- Maybe UVic Iranian Students Association & the انجمن can cooperate and hold a monthly disco night at the Vertigo for the community to come together, have fun, and raise funds for the students
- UVic, SUB Felicita's has a $500 prize to be won for the best party
- We can recommend them for free rent in exchange for house sitting
- Send us your suggestions
Today the table has turned. Iran's economy is so bad and the currency is doing so poorly that the Afghan migrant workers are fleeing Iran to go back home to Afghanistan, for their currency, Afghani, is now more valuable than IRR.
With the Iranian Rial at a free fall and the US$ hovering around 15,000 T (150,000 IRR), Iranian foreign visa students have a hard time covering their education costs. Couple of them could not afford to come back to school after the Summer holidays.
We must help them out!
Here are a few practical suggestions on how the community can help the students:
- Give them an unused room you can not be bothered to rent out
- Rent them a room in exchange for occasional babysitting or help & companionship for the elderly
- Money transfer: When sending money to your parents in Iran, instead of using a currency exchange service, give CAD$ to students here in Canada & they deposit IRR to a bank account in Iran. Online bank money transfers are now done instantaneously; it can be done right in front of you. We can help the students out by giving them a favourable & reasonable exchange rate
- Give them a job
- We can write letters to UVic/RRU/Camosun Student Awards & Financial Aid Offices explaining their plight and requesting a favourable look on their student-aid application
- Maybe UVic Iranian Students Association & the انجمن can cooperate and hold a monthly disco night at the Vertigo for the community to come together, have fun, and raise funds for the students
- UVic, SUB Felicita's has a $500 prize to be won for the best party
- We can recommend them for free rent in exchange for house sitting
- Send us your suggestions