PARSA Community Foundation’s Kaleidoscope of Cultures Gala in the San Francisco Bay Area. It promises to be a festive evening celebrating the diversity of our heritage and the evolution of our traditions as we have embraced the American Dream.
PARSA serves the Persian speaking diaspora in the United States. Its goal is to encourage volunteerism, strategic giving and civic participation. PARSA supports programs that preserve and advance Persian arts and culture, develop leaders and scale community initiatives nationally.
For more information, please view the attached, or http://www.parsacf.org/about/faq/newsletter/images/spring-2007/Save_the_Date.jpg
With warm regards,
Radha Blackman
Director of Development and Outreach
PARSA Community Foundation
1735 East Bayshore Road Suite 30B
Redwood City, CA 94063
Phone 650-367-9105
Fax 650-367-9168
www.parsacf.org
We Request The Pleasure Of Your Company
At An Evening Celebrating Persian Heritage
PARSA Community Foundation Inaugural Gala
OCTOBER 20, 2007
HONORING:
Simone Otus Coxe
Volunteerism and Action Award
Ali Saberioon
Philanthropist of the Year Award
Featuring:
Dan Ahdoot,Master of Ceremonies
Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam,Nakissa Dance Company
Cocktail Reception at 6:00pm
Dinner, Live Auction and Awards at 7:00pm
Dancing at 10:00pm
Menlo Circus Club
Atherton, CA
$500 per person
Cocktail Attire
About PARSA Community Foundation:
Blending Persian traditions of charity with cutting edge philanthropic practices, PARSA CF encourages strategic giving and active civic participation through education, tax-efficient vehicles, and recognition of community service.
PARSA CF awards semi-annual grants to enterprising non-profits in the United States focused on preservation and advancement of arts and culture, leadership development, and civic integration.
We strive to perpetuate ancient Persian values of freedom, tolerance and hospitality.
*Seats are limited and available on a first come first serve basis. To purchase tickets and for more information click here.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 20 at 6:30
Half Moon
East Bay Premiere!
Bahram Ghobadi (Iran/Iraq/Austria/France, 2006, 107 mins)
The Kurdish people know no national borders, so it is with full hearts-also with laptop, cell phone, and rooster-that a dozen Kurdish musicians, all sons of widely revered elder Mamo, attempt the trip from Iranian to Iraqi Kurdistan to perform, now that Saddam is gone. Here, everything lyrical is also practical-a de Chirico landscape reveals itself to be a simple graveyard-everything transcendent rooted on earth: the heart-stopping "celestial voice" of scores of women singing as one reveals the existence of some 1300 female singers exiled by the 1979 revolution. There is no separation between the artistic and the political, the magical and the musical on this marvelous, fraught journey.
The Pacific Film Archive Theater is located at 2575 Bancroft Way (between Telegraph and Bowditch) in Berkeley, CA. Advance tickets are available by calling (510) 642-5249 or visiting http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/tickets
For more information on this and other programs, visit http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries
From: Jason Alley <jalley@berkeley.edu>
Please alert Iranian friends in New York to attend this big Folkloric Dance Event. The National Folklore Troupe of Egypt will give a one night performance in New York at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. It is a big cultural event and we look forward to having people from all cultures and background. Below is more info about this event.
From Brooklyn Center's Community Showcase
The Egyptian Ministry of Culture presents
Al-Ferqa Al-Qawmyyah:
The Egyptian Folkloric
Dance Troupe
A Brooklyn Premiere!
For the first time in New York, here is a chance to experience the intoxicating beauty of Egyptian/Arabian culture through the long history of the Raqs Sharqi -- the colorful and exotic folkdances of Ancient Egypt as passed down through eons of generations. These dances arose from Upper Egypt, Cairo and Alexandria and were an integral part of both ancient religious ceremony as well as secular celebration; these dance forms were danced in local towns and villages where men, women and children all knew the colorful baladi or saiidi movements.
Don't miss this chance to see a whirlwind of pageantry and celebration as you are drawn into the midst of what would have been seen in the Temples, at weddings, street fairs and festivals -- wherever the people celebrated life.
Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 - 7pm
Walt Whitman Theatre
Tickets: $35, $30, $25
Tickets can be purchased at: www.ClickATix.com
or by phone at: 866-386-4849
For more detailed info, call Hatem at: 347-254-8437 or Ahmed at: 718-864-8603
Email for additional information: borninmotherland@aol.com
From: Hatem El-Gamasy
Rutgers Persian Cultural Club Presents:
Mehregan 2007
Date: October 20, 2007
Time: 7:30 pm- 12:00 am
Location: Busch Student Center, MPR
Admission: $7 students w/ID and children
General Admission: $12
Enjoy a night dancing with music by DJ ARASH and a wonderful dinner!!!
Dinner will be served promptly at 8 pm!
For more info please contact: rutgerspersianclub@yahoo.com
For Direction please check: http://map.rutgers.edu/directions/nb.aspx
From: RutgersPersianClub <rutgerspersianclub@yahoo.com>
..:: Bibi : SAT : OCT 20 ::....:: SF ::..
It's been long enough and our hips need some serious lovin!
We've been emailing, posting, blogging, myspacing, listserving...
any which way to get you to come out and shake your hips with us!
Join us at Club Eight in San Francisco for chic and sultry Masquerade!
Fusion of Middle-Eastern North African & International Beats
Benefiting Local LGBTI Swana Wellness & Support Program Development
CLUB EIGHT 1151 FOLSOM SAN FRANCISCO 9 PM-2 AM 21+
DJ BABA Q . DJ BAHMAN . DJ EMANCIPACION
Hosts Nazli Hanem & Femme Fuego
Performances by SooozhyQ & Freyja
Featuring 2nd floor chillout lounge
$15 DOOR . $10 BIBI EMAIL LIST Members . SIGN UP @ http://www.MySpace.com/BibiSF
Be sure you get the confirmation email after signing up and that you confirm.
From: Rostam <rostamqrostam@yahoo.com>
Night club in south orange county,oct 20 ,07 @ 9:30 pm
persian and international music
From: Mark masoud <markmasoud@yahoo.com>
