17th festival of children and young adults theater calls for participants in four sections of international theater,National, play writing and special.

Iranian theaters 

requesting to participate in international section must match international standards. In national competition Iranian plays which do not participate in international competition along with selected works of specialized competitions

The plays selected to compete in the 13th International Academic Drama Festival are announced. The festival will be held from April 30-May 8, 2010 in Tehran, Iran.

A panel of experts short-listed 39 plays into 13 works which were submitted by different drama educational groups in the country. In addition, 6 other works were selected to be considered in the international section of the festival.

The final ceremony of seventh festival of "Picture of the year" was held on Friday 12th Mar 2010 in Artists House, Tehran.

The competition covers different art forms; phtography, graphics, cartoon and film.

The organizers announced 1673 requests were recieved out of which 830 photographers were selected for participation in the comprtition. 871 photographs with 561 tabloids , out of 45000 frames went on the exhibition walls. 164 young

Secretariat of 11th Book of the Season Award announced the edition's selected works. The laureates will receive their awards in the House of Literati. Autumn authored works competed in this edition.

According to the Award\'s secretariat, 4152 works were assessed in the 11th edition. According to the categories.

General: 46 works, Philosophy and psychology: 384 works, Religion: 596, Social science; 699 works, Language: 63 works, Special science: 107 works, Practical science

The top medal of visual arts was handed to seven influential Iranian artists during the closing ceremony of the 2nd Fajr Visual Arts Festival here on Saturday at Vahdat Hall.

Late sculptor Ali-Akbar Sanati and late calligrapher Ayatollah Morteza Nojumi were among the influential veteran artists who were named to receive the medal. Painter Mahmud Javadipur, researcher Abbas Jamalpur, cartoonist Mohammad-Hossein Nirumand, ceramist Mohammad-Mehdi Qanbeigi, and photographer

The 11th Picture World(Donya-ye Tasvir) Cinematic and TV Films Celebration was held on Friday night at the Milad Tower after a two-year hiatus.

The magazine was banned in March 2008 and publication resumed about a year later.

“Night Bus” by Kiumars Purahmad is about an Iranian teenage combatant and a middle-aged soldier who are tasked to relocate a group of Iraqi prisoners of war by bus behind the front during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which in Iran is called the Sacred Defense.

Directed by Majid Majidi, “The Song of Sparrows” tells a bittersweet parable about the struggles of a

The 25th Fajr International Music Festival was brought to an end with the selection of winners in its six different categories.

The closing ceremony was held at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall where an official and musician Shaahin Farhat read the statement released by the jury. During the festival, eleven halls in Tehran hosted 107 performances by 13 pop bands, six classical ensembles, 12 traditional ensembles, seven choirs and 12 regional music ensembles. The festival also ran in the Iranian

The winners of the 9th Shahid Ghani pour literary festival announced.

The Competition started in a small mosque downtown Tehran and is named after a martyre of Iran-Iraq war, called Ghanipour a literary figure in his youth and a member of the mosque before martyrdom, while the writers who gathered to organize the festival have succeded.to uphold the event during past nine years and make it a national literary event

Tehran Art Expo will join Fajr visual art festival in  next event in 1389(2010).The Joint event wuill be performed in the Artists House .

The Public relations officer of the House, Amir Abdulhosseini told reporters there will be another art expo which will be held annually in Kish Island.