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Saturday, October 22nd at 12:00 Noon at the Farmers Market in Downtown - Meet The Freshman Pot Luck BBQ Click Here for more information
Monday, October 10th at 8:00 PM in Wellman 119 - ISCAO's 1st General Meeting of the 2005-2006 school year. ISCAO's new board is delighted to invite you to its 1st General Meeting of the fall quarter. We sincerely welcome all the freshmen, transfer and the new faces to our community.
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Past Events
Opening Friday,
August 19th - the movie "The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam" "The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam" will open August 19th at the Opera Plaza Cinema 4, 601 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102, (415) 267.4893 and the Shattuck Cinemas 10, 2220 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704, (510) 464.5980. Opening weekend support is VERY important to insure the film stays in the theater. Check out the film "The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam" this weekend for a special guest appearance by director Kayvan Mashayekh.
Kamran is a 12 year old boy in
the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century
Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been
passed down in his family from one generation to another, and now it is his
responsibility to keep the story alive for future generations. His
dying brother, Nader, begins telling him the story as we flash back from the
modern day to the epic past where the relationship between Omar Khayyam,
Hassan Sabbah and their mutual love for a beautiful woman separate them from
their eternal bond of friendship.
09/03/05-09/05/05 - 18th annual friendship cup of IRAN tournament Reaching Tomorrow's
Friendship Today Open, Over35, Over45, Up to 8 Soccer fields September 3rd, 4th, 5th 2005 @ Southwestern College , Chula vista, San Diego, California (*** These fields are in excellent condition. These are by far the best fields that Jamedoosti has ever played on) Bring your family and friends for Service, Fun, Friendship.
Great Fields, Great Soccer, Great Hotel, Great Weather, Good Music, and Good
Food... Plan today! Register Today ONLINE To Attend! Click to Register!
Saturday, July 30th, 8 PM - Ostad Lotfi Concert @ Julia Morgan Theater, 2640 College Ave. Berkeley, CA , a leading interpreter of traditional Persian music, will be making a rare Northern California appearance with his son Omid Lotfi, on Saturday, July 30. A virtuoso of the tar and setar (long-necked lutes), he will perform extended improvisations from the classical Persian repertoire - music that is highly ornamental and noted for it's poetic and spiritual qualities.
Mohammad Reza Lotfi is recognized thoughout Iran, Europe and the United States as a brilliant composer and interpreter of traditional Persian music. Born in Gorgan in northern Iran, he graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Tehran University, where he later taught and served as dean. He studied tar, setar, and radif under such great masters as Shahnazi, Boroumand, Davami, and Salehi. In the 1970s he was the director of the Center for the Preservation and Propogation of Traditional Iranian Music in Tehran and Chavoosh Conservatory. He contributed for many years to Iranian National Radio and Television and founded the group Sheyda, which was instrumental in the revival of Iranian traditional music. After an extensive concert tour of Europe, he moved to the United States in 1987. In addition to performing widely throughout this country, he established the Shayda Cultural and Artistic Center in Washington D.C. to continue his teaching and scholarly activies. Maestro Lotfi's instruments, the tar and setar, are both members of the lute family. The tar, which derived from the Central Asian rebab, is known in Iran as the "king of instruments". It is a long-necked lute with six strings which are tuned in pairs. The mulberry wood body is in the shape of two hearts and it's long neck has 25 or more movable frets. The setar, because of it's delicacy and intimate sonority, is the preferred instrument of the Sufi mystics. It is a four-stringed, long-necked lute of the tanbur family. Smaller than the tar, the pear-shaped body is also made of mulberry wood. Its long narrow neck has 25-27 movable frets which produce intervals similar to the tar.
Thursday, July 28th - Analog Books Presents: Dr. Abbas Milani Speaking About Modernity in Iran Dr. Abbas Milani in Speaking About Modernity in Iran and his new books Lost Wisdom and King of Shadows Thursday, July 28th 7:30 P.M.
Sunday, July 24th 2005 - A talk by Mohammad Reza Lotfi, musician
"Berkeley Lecture Series" presents: Sunday, July 24th 2005 7:00 P.M. 126 Barrows Hall University of California, Berkeley
Lecture in Persian
Kaweh Vocals/Guitar Player performing in Bay Area Kaweh is a local artist in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. The Kaweh Quintet 
performs regularly in and
around the bay area. The group's music can be best described as
World, Jazz, Nuevo Flamenco with a touch of Latin, Brazilian,
Mediterranean and Middle Eastern with vocals in English, Spanish,
Italian.
Kaweh was born in Saarbruecken, Germany and lived his first seven years there. Having lived in Europe, he was introduced to many types of music in various languages from all over the world early on. He did spent four and a half years in Iran acquiring the Farsi language and some of the culture. Hence, the middle eastern influence in his music. After earning a Specialized Audio Engineering degree from Full Sail, Winter Park, Florida in 1998, he started recording "Seven"(2000). This debut album consists of jazz, folk, funk, fusion and middle eastern rock, featuring five vocal tracks and 4 instrumentals with a 17.5 minute bonus track on solo guitar. The second album "Play Spanish" was released on November 25, 2004. This album is an instrumental mix of nuevo flamenco, latin, jazz and middle eastern. All the songs from this album are currently being performed. Kaweh has over 100 compositions in various genres and languages and he is now recording the next album.
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