Vancouver Institute for Afghan Studies and Ariana TV are and proud to host the first Afghan Film Festival Venue from Oct 1st to October 6th 2006 at Inlet Theatre, 100 Newport Drive, Port Moody, BC evenings at 8:00 PM.

Inlet Theatre
100 Newport Drive
Port Moody, BC
Canada

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Afghan Film Festival Venue: Inlet Theatre, 100 Newport Drive, Port Moody, BC.

Time: October 1 to October 6, 2006, evening 8:00 pm

Ticket Price: $5:00 per person/per evening

Film Scheduel

a. Sunday, October 1st, Migrated Birds

b. Monday, October 2nd, The Stoning & Sacrifice

c. Tuesday, October 3rd, The Love Story

d. Wedensday, October 4th, The Stranger & Gulchaihrah

e. Thursday, October 5th, Kabul Cinema & Shabnum

f. Friday, October 6th, Akhtar, The Joker

VIFAS is proud to sponser the following Event:

When: March 6, 2005 8:00 pm

Where: Centennial Theatre (Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver)

What: Radio Kaboul: Mahwash & Friends Legends of Afghanistan.

Details:

Music at the Crossroads of Indian, Persian, and Arabic traditions. Winners of BBC 2003 World Music awards. With Spcial Guests: The Honari Family – Baluchi Music of Iran.

Ustad Farida Mahwash (vocalist), is unanimously acknowledged as the greatest female singer of Afghanistan. She is joined by top Afghani musicians in exile, including Aziz Herawi (Rubab, Sitar) one of the top Afghani instrumentalists in the world, and flutist Henri Fournier, disciple of Hariprasad Chaurasia. The group also brings together several percussion instruments: the tablâ of Indian origin and the Afghan zirbaghali (similar to the Iranian zarb and the darbukka of the Islamic Middle East and North Africa) thus reflecting the various facets of Afghan music and influences.

This concert is co-presented with Centennial Theatre, and with the collaboration of the Vancouver Institute of Afghan Studies (www.vifas.org).

Tickets $28.50/$33.50 on sale at Centennial Theatre Box Office: 604-984-4484, or online at Ticketstonight.ca.

For more info on the artists, visit:  www.bbcradio.co.uk

VIFAS is proud to announce the following event:

KITES, GUNS and DREAMS
Images of Afghanistan by Canadian documentary photographers

An exhibition featuring the work of four renowned Canadian documentarians:

Roger Lemoyne, Robert Semeniuk, Lana Slezic and Christopher Grabowski.

UBC Robson Square Downtown Campus, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver

Opening: Thursday, October 14th at 7 pm

Exhibition: Thursday, October 14th to Nov 3rd 2004
Exhibition hours: 8 am – 10 pm
Campus contact: 604-822-3333
http://www.robsonsquare.ubc.ca/
The images in Kites, Guns and Dreams span the past decade of Afghanistan’s long and difficult history, focusing primarily on civilian life. In the words of Roger LeMoyne: “In the wars of the last decade, the greatest number of casualties was among non-combatants. There has been an increasing use of civilian populations as a weapon: they are used as cover, bargaining chips, targets of psychological warfare, or as another resource for soldiers to exploit.”

The photographs in this show shrink the geographic and cultural distance between Canada and Afghanistan, between us and them. In the midst of the heart-breaking devastation of their beautiful land, the grace and kindness as well as the resilience and ferocity of the Afghan people is clearly rendered.

Panel discussions
UBC Robson Square Downtown Campus, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver

Afghanistan Now, October 22nd at 7 pm.

The dialogue Afghanistan Now features a panel of experts: Shahnaz Quayumi on psychological trauma, Dr. Karim Quayumi on healthcare and Dr. Brian Job, Director of the Centre of International Relations, on security and reconstruction. The evening begins with a presentation by the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society on Canadian support for the free media in Afghanistan.

Photographing There, October 23rd at 3 pm.

Dialog on documentary photography with photographers featured in the exhibition and other documentarians, members of Narrative 360.

Kite tournament
Vanier Park behind the Vancouver Planetarium
Saturday, October 16th from 11 am to 3 pm

The Vancouver Institute for Afghan Studies and Narrative 360 are holding a Kite Tournament on Saturday, October 16th. Kite flying is a popular pastime deeply rooted in Afghan culture. Annual kite tournaments in Kabul drew huge crowds until the tradition was interrupted under Taliban rule when kite flying was forbidden.

The members of the Vancouver Institute for Afghan Studies will hold presentations and performances reflecting different aspects of Afghan culture during this event.

Textbook collection for Kabul University http://www.narrative360.com/kites/Message.htm – top
Throughout the show and at the kite tournament, the public is invited to bring donations of used textbooks. The books will be forwarded to the University of Kabul.

For more information, please email  Narrative 360 http://www.narrative360.com/kites/Message.htm – top