Event: Fund Raising Event for Children
Date: Thursday March 3, 2005
Time: 6:00PM - 11:00PM
Location: CLOUD (formerly Savino's Cafe)
Address: One Dupont Circle, Washington, DC 20036
Price: $7 Donation at the door
Details: 100% of all proceeds will benefit Children of Persia
For More Information, Please Visit www.igsfumd.org/news.htm
There will be plenty of great drink specials all night long and a raffle for great prizes including tickets to "Mohammad Reza Shajarian" at the Kennedy Center on saturday, March 5th And good seats for an upcoming NBA game at MCI center on Saturday, March 19.
We are pleased to anounce we have arranged for 2 great guest speakers. One will be "Afshin Molavi", the author of Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran, which was named by Lonely Planet as one of two "must-reads" for travelers to Iran, nominated for the Thomas Cook literary travel book of the year award. Molavi has covered Iran for the Washington Post and Reuters and his articles have appeared, among other places, in the Financial Times, the New Republic, and Foreign Policy. The other, Dr. "Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak",the famous writer-transaltor, Professor and Director of the University of Maryland’s Persian Studies Center.
100% of the proceeds from the event will benefit Children of Persia, a well respected, world-class organization with great leadership.
Date And Time
7:30 PM Thursday, Mar 3
Event Location
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, home to the Emmy Award Show in Hollywood
Description
Babak and Friends - A First Norooz Movie World Premiere at the incredible Steven J. Ross Theater. A first of it's kind, this exclusive event features cast & crew, and special guest performance by music sensations: Aris and Andy. Event includes cartoon screening and reception to follow. Seating at 7.30 PM.
Admission Fee
$75, $50
Tickets
http://www.babakandfriends.com/babak/about/LAPremiere.htm
E-Mail
info@babakandfriends.com
Website
http://www.babakandfriends.com
Contact
INVITATION ONLY event. 100 tickets available to the public. VIP seats: $75 Regular seats: $50 To inquire, please email us at info@babakandfriends.com
From: Sara S. (sarasefeed@yahoo.com)
Iranian novelist Morteza Baharloo will be holding a book signing for his debut novel, "The Quince Seed Potion," at Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA March 3rd at 7:30 p.m. Featured in the November issue of the Houston Press, Houston's #1 alternative weekly, and on the NPR's Houston-affiliate cultural arts program The Front Row Friday 11/5/04, The Quince Seed Potion has been hailed as "...an engrossing, elegantly told story..." by Booklist and Kirkus Reviews describes the novel as "...a vivid portrait..."
Please visit www.mortezabaharloo.com to learn more about "The Quince Seed Potion."
From: Tam Tran for Morteza Baharloo (ttran@mortbaharloo.com)