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Benefit Dinner & Concert in support of iranian.com
The Host Commitee cordially invites you to join
Kiosk's Arash Sobhani & Hamed Nikpay along with other well-loved
Iranian Artists for a special evening of art & music to benefit.
Sat, April 19. Cocktail Reception & Art Exhibit/Silent Auction - 6PM
Dinner - 7PM. Concert and Festivities -
http://iranian.onefireplace.com/Default.aspx?

Benefit Dinner and Concert
supporting the expansion of
Iranian.com
The Host Committee
Honorary Co-Chairs
Shahrnush Parsipur
San Francisco Supervisor, Ross Mirkarimi

San Francisco Commissioner, Dr. Elahe Enssani
Behzad Golshan
Maryam Jahangani
Maryam Majidy
Amir Salamat
Lale' Shahparaki Welsh
Wayne Willis

with Master of Ceremony, Bruce Bahmani

Registration Levels
Benefactor Single (1 ticket) - $150
Benefactor Couple (2 tickets) - $250
Ruby Benefactor (2 tickets) - $1,000
Diamond Benefactor (2 tickets) - $3,000
Diamond and Ruby Benefactors will be recognized in the Program and on the website.

The Host Committee cordially invites you to join
Kiosk & Hamed Nikpay
along with other well loved Iranian artists for a special evening of art & and music, to benefit Iranian.com

Saturday

April 19, 2008

Cocktail Reception - 6 pm
Dinner - 7 pm
Concert and festivities - thereafter

Palms / Luxor Restaurant
(near El Camino and I-380)
101 Brentwood, So.San Francisco

Contributing Artists
(in alphabetical order)
Musical Artists
Anoosh Khazeni
Babak Khiavchi
Hamed Nikpay
Ardalan Payvar
Arash Sobhani
Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghmai

Visual Artists
Ali Dadgar
Taraneh Hemami
Shahab Laal
Simin Meykadeh
Amir Salamat
Shiva Pakdel
Hadi Tabatabai

Background For The Benefit
For the past 13 years, Iranian.com has been an unbiased forum for hundreds of authors, artists and others to share their stories, essays, poems, cartoons, thoughts, feelings, pictures -- and many other expressions of the living culture. It operates with one full-time editor (Jahanshah Javid) and volunteers who contribute their time without pay. The site operates on a breakeven basis, based on modest revenues from advertising -- it's basically a labor of love.

In 2007, the old site was unacceptably primitive. It did not have any of the modern tools that readers wanted -- things like comments, blogs, on-site search, and the ability to upload content for consideration. Therefore, Iranian.com borrowed some money and commissioned a major overhaul on the site. Unfortuneately, that effort went over budget, and the funds raised were completely used to deliver the site that you see today.

The community wants and deserves more! It wants a vibrant community calendar. It wants directories that will help members find Iranian businesses and community resources or organizations. It wants better / faster news coverage, more music features and better support for mobile access. If Iranian.com is to serve the needs of the community in the 21st Century, it simply MUST build and provide these "Web 2.0" features.

The net proceeds from the Benefit Dinner and Concert will be used exclusively to build out the technology on the site in order to better serve the community. Your help is appreciated.

Major contributions would be welcomed and credit on the site itself is available to significant donors.