Iranian children books council has introduced the best books of last Iranian year  in nine branches of writings,translations,illustrations,philosophy, arts and entertainments, recreations, poetry, reference books, and social sciences.

The srcond theater festival with the peace as its main theme will be held in Urumia western Iran.

"Colour and Soil" cultural institute are the organizers of this event and it is a cooperation with Hoze Honari institute of Western Azerbayjan province.

The priogramme is a tribute to the international day of theater in Iran under  the title of "Peace, the aim of pure Men" and will be held on 25th-28th of Ordibeehesht

The most extreaordinary novel of the year will be introduced on Thursday!

The prize giving ceremony of sixth Wav literary festival will be held on 11th Esfand(1st Mar 2010), to honour the most different fiction written in the year.

The niminees for the prizes are " Darreh Penhan" by Gharache Daghi, "Rooz Hezar Saat darad" by Fereydoon Heydari Malek MIyan, "Suratak Haye Taslim " by

The last event in Iranian yyear of 1388 will be a festival of films with aduration of one minute which emphasises on limitation of consumption among the public.The move has started since the begging of the year to reduce Iranian consumers attitude towards consumption of goods.

The event is organized by the Image world institute and film makers can send their works till the last day of the year.Also the young artists club has planned to hold a

The first festival of theater - reality will be organized by Ali Moazzeni to prepare the ground to perform plays with religious themes.

The festival will be held between two eids of Qorban and Ghadir (public religious celebrations) . Subjects like Ashura, Imam Reza,Quran,Fatemi, Mahdavi, Alaviand likewise will be of interest and works performed in previous public festivals will be the main items to exhibit. 

The Fajr International Music Festival will be inaugurated in Tehran, Kerman and Shiraz concurrently on Friday.

Eleven halls in Tehran will host 107 performances during the festival by 13 pop bands, six classical ensembles, 12 traditional ensembles, seven choirs and 12 regional music ensembles that are taking part in the event. The festival aims to discover promising young ensembles and to promote regional music as well as connections between people and music, the festival secretary Mohammad Ali Khabari mentioned during a press conference.

The secretariat of the first biennial of calligraphy announced that 1720 pieces of calligraphy have entered the National biennial of calligraphy which will be held in Ghazvin - Iran.

Alikhani said: we have received the works on CD's from 732 Iranian calligraphers so far and the International participation will also be announced very soon.

Secretariat of ninth Shahid Ghanipour literary festival announced the names of books and writers nominated for its 9th award.

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

Rahimi,Vahedi and Sultanzadeh were selected the best Afghan writers of the past decade.

"Gelim Baf" a book by Taghi Vahedi ,"Hezar Khaneye Khab o Ekhtenagh" by Atiq Rahimi and "Asgar Goriz " by Mohammad Asef Sultyanzadeh won the prizes at the Nowrouz festival's ending ceremony in Tehran Niavaran cultural center.

The ceremony was organized by Afghans residing in Iran with  mohammadi as the secretary of the event.