Culture days in Canada, 2018

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Culture Days Weekend National Launch 2018

Culture Days is excited to be hosting a national event to kick off the 2018 Culture Days weekend. Together with media partner CBC, we will be welcoming visitors to join us for performances, activities and speeches as we launch Canada’s annual weekend to celebrate arts and culture.

http://www.culturedays.ca
http://www.culturedays.ca

Millions of Canadians engage in thousands of free activities and performances hosted by artists, cultural organizations, and municipalities in communities across Canada. From Nunavut to New Brunswick, and from British Columbia to Baffin Island – and all points in between – we share all the inspiration, artistry, creativity and expression that reflects the mosaic of Canadian culture.

As a leading national voice for an active and engaged cultural life, we provide marketing and industry development resources that lead to greater cultural engagement. The Culture Days national awareness campaign culminates in a three-day celebration of the arts starting on the last Friday of September.

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Rembrandt house in Amsterdam, 2018

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It was a great experience to visit Rembrandt house in Amsterdam. When I visited this house, I felt I have taken a trip to the past and imagined myself during that era.

By seeing each room and paintings there, I felt existence of Rembrandt inside the house!

You shouldn’t miss this amazing place.

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Simurgh Speech: in commemoration of a famous poet named Attar Neyshaburi, April 2018

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The Creator of the Blessed Virgin, the One Who gave life and the Faith of the Soil. On the twenty-fourth day of April, 2018, a commemoration was held to commemorate the great synagogue of the mysticism of Attar, Neyshaburi. This circle, called “Simorgh’s Speech”, was entirely about the logic of Al-Tair Attar. At the beginning of this ceremony a music video titled Simorgh was displayed. The symposium with the artistic programs of Lady Simin Mehr, the prominent nationalist and Hadi Arab of the statue of softness, was decorated by Fazel Jamshidi, a singer-songwriter and gentlemen Manouchehr Soheili, Mahyar Soheili and Ehsan Livani. Dr. Moorezhi, Dr. Mokhousi, Dr. Nabavi lectured on the celebration of this literary-cultural gathering. The turning point for this summit was the presence of Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kodakani. Arshash Azizi, the composer of the Symphony “On the Infinite Day”, was inspired by the composer Logic al-Tayyur and Hossein Purnia, as well as Dr. Ramin Talebian and Dr. Maryam Masoumian short speeches.

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Attendees in Simurgh Speech convention

It was a great honor being host for one of the best and well-known Persian writer Dr. Mohammad Reza Shafie Kadkani.

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Dr. Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani & Marsa Arbab

Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani
Persian writer
Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani is a Persian writer, poet, literary critic, editor, and translator. Born in Nishapur, Razavi Khorasan, Shafiei-Kadkani graduated from Tehran University with a doctorate degree in Persian literature. Wikipedia
 
Born: October 10, 1939 (age 78 years), Nishapur, Iran
Books: Musiqi-ye She’r
Education: Faculty of Letters and Humanities of the University of Tehran, University of Tehran
Some photos of convention
Dr. Maryam Masoumian
Parisa Simin Mehr: narration of the story of Sheikh San’an
Tooraj Rezaei & Marsa Arbab

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Baltimore Staff Picks: Best Cultural Activities

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American Style Magazine goes ga-ga about Baltimore in its May issue listing favorite picks. The Americans for the Arts staff and colleagues in the region have put together some of their Baltimore favorites too–to help attendees at this year’s Annual Convention. This first blog post covers Cultural Activities in Baltimore:

  • Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum and a pint for history’s sake at Annabelle Lee Tavern, shrine to all things Edgar Allen Poe
    –Kate Gibney, Americans for the Arts
  • Visiting the Baltimore Museum of Art or attending the city’s Artscape
    –Sara Hisamoto, Visit Baltimore
  • Touring the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called the Baltimore Basilica. It’s considered the masterpiece of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the “Father of American Architecture.”
    –Theresa Cameron, Americans for the Arts
  • Get there early on a Saturday you can see a show in the center of the Harbor. Normally magic, clowns and singers.
    –Angel Baker, Americans for the Arts
  • Walter’s Art Museum (one of the best decorative arts collections in the world)
    –Karen Newell, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation

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Posted by Americans for the Arts, May 26, 2010