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Events in Chicago For more information about any of the following programs or to add your name to a listserve to receive information about events in Chicago send an e-mail to shemmati@neiu.edu For more information about any of the following programs or to add your name to a listserve to receive information about events in Chicago send an e-mail to shemmati@neiu.edu
EVENTS IN CHICAGO
September 8, 2001
Pari Zanganeh in Concert Doors open at 7:00 PM Concert starts at 8:00 PM North Shore Center for the Performing Arts 9501 Skokie Blvd. $ 20.00 847 673 0614
September 30, 2001
Deedar, Dinner and Dancing With D.J. Masoud Program for young adults, sponsored by Iran House of Greater Chicago Reza's Restaurant, Ontario location 6 - 10:00 PM $20.00 847 673 0614
Sunday, October 7th, 2001 @ Noon till dark
Mehrgan Picnic Sponsored by Iran House of Greater Chicago D.J. Music, great food, sports and lots of fun Harms Woods South Forest Preserve, Grove #5 Harms Woods, Skokie 847 673 0614
October 2001
Iranian Films in Chicago, Tentative Schedule
The Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N. State Street Chicago, IL 60601 presents: The 12th Annual Festival of Films from Iran October 6 through November 4, 2001
Saturday and Sunday, October 6 and 7: To be announced
GOING BY, 2000, Iraj Karimi, 88 min. With Fariba Kamran, Mehran Rajabi, Shahrokh Foroutanian Saturday, October 13 and Sunday, October 14 at 6:00 p.m.
SHRAPNELS IN PEACE, 2000, Ali Shah Hatami, 80 min. With Nemat Soltani, Abdolhamid Darchi Pouran Saturday, October 13 at 8:00 p.m., Sunday, October 14 at 4:00 p.m.
THE HIDDEN HALF, 2001, Tahmine Milani, 108 min. With Niki Karimi, Mohammad Nikbin, Arilla Peisani Director Tahmine Milani in person (not confirmed) Saturday, October 20 and Sunday, October 21 at 6:00 p.m.
UNDER THE SKIN OF THE CITY, 2000, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, 92 min. With Golab Adine, Mohammad Reza Foroutan, Boran Kosari Director Rakhshan Bani Etemad in person (not confirmed) Saturday, October 20 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, October 21 at 4:00 p.m.
Panel discussion with festival guests--free admission! Sunday, October 21 at 1:30 p.m.
YOU ARE FREE, 2000, Mohammad Ali Talebi, 90 min. With Ehsan Qasemi, Siavash Lashkari, Abdolreza Akbari Saturday, October 27 at 6:00 p.m., Sunday, October 28 at 4:00 p.m.
DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN, 2000, Mariam Shahriar, 123 min. With Altinay Qelich Taqani, Peyman Mir Ali Akbari, Soghra Karimi Saturday, October 27 at 8:00 p.m., Sunday, October 28 at 6:00 p.m.
UNFINISHED SONG, 2001, Maziar Miri, 93 min. With Ali Reza Anoushfar, Ghogha Bayat, Hossein Soleymani Saturday, November 3 and Sunday November 4 at 6:00 p.m.
UNDER THE MOONLIGHT, 2001, Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi, 100 min. With Hossein Pour Sattar, Hamed Rajabali, Mehran Rajabi Saturday, November 3 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 4 at 4:00 p.m.
Admission: $8 general; $4 G.S. Film Center members Become a Gene Siskel Film Center member-it's the best cinema deal in town! A $45 membership brings you discount admission, plus many free programs and special events. A $60 membership provides all this plus up to 60 sneak previews of first-run movies. Call 312-846-2600 for more information, or visit our web site at www.siskelfilmcenter.org.
Chicago Humanities Festival XII Words and Pictures
November 1-11 2001
Over 120 programs are offered. The following 3 programs may be of interest to you.
Sunday November 4, 2001 @ 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Elaine Sciolino: Persian Mirrors Journalist and author Elaine Sciolino gives an inside view of Iran-- the contradictions and daring experiments in freedom that she has witnessed as a reporter. Book sales and signing follow. Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State St. Chicago
Sunday November 4, 2001 @ 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Abbas Kiarostami: Persian Poetry, Photography and Filmmaking Iranian filmmaker. photographer, and poet Abbas Kiarostami, winner of the grand prize at Cannes in 1997, reads from his poetry and talks with scholars Ahmad Karimi- Hakkak, Michael Beard, and Jamsheed Akrami about his evocative work. Chicago Public Library Harold Washington Library Center 400 South State St. Chicago
Sunday, November 11, 2001 @ 3:30 - 4:30 PM
East Meets West in Gina Nahi's New Novel Gina Nahi, a chronicler of Jewish life in Iran, reads from her new novel Sunday Silence, a love story set in Appalachia. Book sales and signing follow. National-Louis University- Downtown Campus 122 South Michigan Ave. Chicago
Advance tickets: $5:00 from festival web site at www.chfestival.org or Call 312 494 9509 for phone charge On site: $6:00 Cash only based on availability Programs subject to change. Chicago Humanities Festival 500 North Dearborn Street Chicago, IL 60610 312 661 1028 Do you have an annoucement? Email us
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