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Victoria BC Canada

Yellow Pages

کتاب تلفن راهنمای نیازمندیها و خدمات جامعه ایرانی‌ ویکتوریا
Directory of businesses, services & organizations in the Persian / Iranian community & the goods or services they offer. Free listing. Email us your Business/Service/Name/Business Type/Owner/Address/Phone/www/Facebook
YellowPages.PersianClub.Ca

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Nowruz Saal Tahvil

Spring Equinox 2023 | Nowruz
We wish you all a very happy new year; Nowruz pirouz!
Victoria Time (PST): Monday, March 20th, 14:24:27
Iran Time (IRST): Tuesday March 21st 00:54:27

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Sizdah Be' Dar

سیزده‌بدر
Sizdah Be' Dar Picnic
Sun.02.April
11:00
Goldstream Provintial Park
Bring pot luck, picnic, BBQ...
Has running water, but no electricity
Stove top food heating up
Park Forecast

Need a Ride / Can Give a Ride:

If you need a ride, take bus #50 from downtown, at Victoria General Hospital exit, Helmcken Road & Trans Canada Highway, get off the bus, stay at the bus stop on the over-pass ramp facing West.
You can also take take bus #14 from UVic or downtown, but have to cross the over-pass ramp to the North side.

If you can give a ride, take Trans Canada Highway, at Victoria General Hospital exit (Helmcken Road & Trans Canada Highway), take the hospital exit and meet students waiting at the bus stop on the over-pass ramp. Set your map destination to remind you to pick up UVic students at the highway.

Map: City Hall to Helmcken Rd

Map: Helmcken Rd to Goldstream Park

Brought to you by: Victoria Iranian-Persian Cultural Society

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Nowruz Saal Tahvil at UVic

Mon.20.March
13:00-16:00
Petch Fountain, in front of the McPherson library
Celebrate the Spring Equinox, Nowruz
Also a tribute to those who lost their lives in the "Woman, Life, Liberty" Revolution
as we gather around the Haft Sin table to welcome the beginning of 1402
The Spring of Freedom is near...
Map
UVic Iranian Students Association

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Nowruz in Nanaimo

Nowruz in Nanaimo
Tue, 21 March
17:30-20:30
Malaspina Theatre 900 Fifth Street
Potluck & live music
"Woman, Life, Liberty" exhibition
www.IranVi.ca
Event
Map

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News Bulletin

Read Persian Club .Ca's News Bulletins online
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FaceBook

Like & follow us on Facebook @PersianClub.Ca
Some of our short-notice events don't make it to our website
and are only announced on the FaceBook page
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Iran Revolution

Support the Feminist Revolution in Iran

www.NoToIslamicRepublic.Org

#WomanLifeLiberty

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Persian or Farsi?

Exonym / Endonym
India, 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!

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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

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Canada, Visa

Temporary public policy for nationals of Iran in Canada as temporary residents
These new facilitative measures are in effect and individuals can apply until February 28, 2024
This public policy will allow eligible Iranian nationals currently in Canada as temporary residents to apply for the following at no cost: extension of their temporary resident status in Canada, open work permits, study permits
Eligible applications submitted in Canada will be processed on a priority basis.
Canadian citizens and permanent residents living in Iran will also be able to apply for the following documents, at no cost, to help facilitate their travel: limited-validity Canadian passports, Canadian citizenship certificates, permanent resident travel documents
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/mandate/policies-operational-instructions-agreements/public-policies/iran-nationals-extend-stay.html

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Summer Fun

For Summer fun & entertainment guide, check our Facebook page
FaceBook.PersianClub.Ca
Facebook.Com/PersianClub.Ca

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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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Currency Exchange Rates

Visa students, wondering whether you should buy & bring U.S. Dollar, or Canadian Dollar?
Normally, you are better off exchanging your money only once, for you lose money with each exchange.
But, since the Gov.ir is artificially keeping the $USD low, the above rule does not apply.
To help you make an educated guess, here are the currency exchange rates:

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Music Lessons

Douglas Hensley
Classical & Folk Music
Classical Strings, Guitar, Lute & Harp
Teaches in English, Persian & French
Victoria Conservatory of Music Teacher
778.265.0981
DouglasHensley[@]shaw[.]ca
www.DouglasHensley.Ca

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Music Teacher

Nima Golmohammadi نیما گل محمدی
Guitar & Piano
Teaches in English & Persian
کلاسهای تابستانی موسیقی در شهر ویکتوریا | به صورت خصوصی و گروهی | آموزش گیتار کلاسیک | آموزش گیتار پاپ ( همراهی گیتار و آواز) | آموزش ukulele (گیتاری کوچک با چهار سیم) | آموزش پیانوی مقدماتی | آموزش تئوری موسیقی | آموزش سلفژ | جلسه ی مشاوره رایگان | نیما گل محمدی بیش از دوازده سال مدرس گیتار در آموزشگاه های موسیقی تهران بوده، لیسانس نوازندگی گیتار از دانشگاه هنر تهران دارد و در حال حاضر دانشجوی فوق لیسانس نوازندگی گیتار در دانشگاه ویکتوریا میباشد.
1.639.998.5660
NimaGuitarStudio[@]gmail[.]com
Facebook
Youtube

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Home Internet Plans

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Persian Library

Persian Library is looking for a home
Self 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

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Sending Money to/from Iran

Please get in touch with www.PersianClub.Ca if you wish to send money to/from Iran
We 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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Women's Group

Join Victoria Iranian Women's Facebook Group & help build community

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UVic Persian Music Club

Persian Classical Music
Practice & Rehersals
Most Tuesdays 18:30
UVic, Cornett B112
Facebook Group

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Make Every Vote Count

To make every vote count,
support our campaign for
Electoral Reform & Proportional Representation
to bring Democracy to Canada.
www.FairVote.Ca

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#FreeNasrin

38 years in prison & 148 lashes
The Islamic regime has just imposed a very heavy sentence on Nasrin Sotoudeh, prominent Iranian Human-Rights & Women's-Rights lawyer, the harshest sentence Amnesty International has documented against a Human-Rights defender in Iran in recent years, suggesting that the authorities - emboldened by pervasive impunity for human rights violations - are stepping up their repression. - Amnesty International

• First sentence: 5 years in prison
• Second sentence: 33 years in prison & 148 lashes
• Total: 38 years in prison & 148 lashes

Being denied a lawyer of her choice, neither Nasrin nor her lawyer were present in court to defend her for this sentencing, she was tried in absentia, and this sentence was delivered to Nasrin in her prison cell. - Reza Khandan, Facebook

"Nasrin Sotoudeh has dedicated her life to defending women's rights and speaking out against the death penalty - it is utterly outrageous that Iran's authorities are punishing her for her human rights work" - Amnesty International

The Islamic regime knows they don't have to imprison every Iranian, they just need to get their leaders.
Let us start a
Twitter #FreeNasrin
Facebook #FreeNasrin
# storm campaign to free Nasrin.
www.NasrinSotoudeh.com

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Helping Visa Students

Helping Iranian Foreign Visa Students
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, 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
- We can recommend them for free rent in exchange for house sitting
- Send us your suggestions

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Persian Club Needs Help

Persian club needs web hosting. If you subscribe to Telus internet (have @Telus.Net email address), you can help. Telus gives free web hosting with internet subscription, and if you are not using yours, please let Persian Club use it. Chokh mamnoun!

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Food For Thought

Khod Rahaagar, the bulletin of Hezb-e' Iran-e' Aabaad, argues that inoculating Iran against reproduction of dictatorship & winning the next revolution is predicated on forming organized political parties. For the best news analysis, watch newscast on YouTube or listen to their podcast

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