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Markazi Satellite TV interviews Niloufar about the project and will screen footage from Paper Boats, the DVD of films based on poetry. Interview can also be viewed online at www.pamtv.us
9 - 10 pm PST (Los Angeles Time)
Screening our Poetryfilms and doing a dramatic collaborative reading at SIP’s annual Spring event.
FAZ Restaurant, Grand Ballroom
1108 N. Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale
Tickets: Free for Members, $15 for Non Members
Event Information: 408.236.2188
The presentation consisted of my talking about the VISION of The Translation Project, a dramatic reading of poetry accompanied by Ostadd Nejad, and a screening of selections from our DVD. It went very well and the audience was engaged and excited. Afterwards, I was able to meet and chat with numbers of audience members. A handful of community members offered to donate $100 towards the completion of the DVD. Since then, we have decided to release a preview version of the DVD to be given as a gift with donation. Had we known it would be in such demand, we would have released it sooner! Preview-DVD is scheduled for late June 2006.
Participants were young translators, either on a Comparative Literature Ph. D. track or already teaching. Conversations in various workshops and panels were very stimulating and I met translators such as Jason Grunebaum, Guillan Siassi, Rebecca McKay, Nina Shevchuk, Danny Refinejad, Nahrain Al-Mousawi and Eugene Sampson.
My poetryfilms were to screen, but the timing of their screening was not well-planned (scheduled after the Carnival ended and everyone was gone) and it coincided with apocalyptic mid-west weather, so the audience was no bigger than a handful of U of Iowa translators!