Midnight Approaches Orange County

The Translation Project invites you to a screening of an evocative, multi-dimentional and entertaining DVD of films based on contemporary Iranian poetry:

Midnight Approaches...
Created by Niloufar Talebi

Featuring the poems of Ziba Karbassi, Abbas Saffari, Partow Nooriala, Majid Naficy, Saghi Ghahraman and Reza Farmand, this innovative film project makes this poetry accessible to all.

Trailer available at http://www.thetranslationproject.com/index.php?cat=45

In addition to the screenings, Talebi collaborates with tar master, Sahba Motallebi, in a dramatic bilingual reading of selected poetry she translated for An Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Poetry Around the World (forthcoming 2007).

Mehgregan Persian Festival
Orange County Fair and Exposition Center,
88 Fair Drive Costa Mesa, CA 92626
September 9 and 10
3 pm film screening
4 pm live stage performance

For information about The Translation Project, visit www.thetranslationproject.com

“I found the marriage of visual, musical and poetic imagery in Niloufar Talebi's work to be touching, effective and an ideal way to discover and appreciate contemporary Iranian poetry.”
-Michael Tilson Thomas
-Musical director of the San Francisco Symphony

Press Contact: Shoja Adel, email:
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