This year's non-profit Norooz program will be held at the McNamara Alumni Center located on the University of Minnesota campus on Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 6:00pm to 12:00am. The McNamara Alumni Center is located at 200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Parking is available at the adjacent University Avenue Ramp. For more information about the McNamara Alumni Center, please visit www.alumnicenter.umn.edu or view the photos below.

Admission is $30 per person and includes dinner, entertainment, DJ and dance, and face painting and balloon artwork for children. Tickets are currently available at Caspian Bistro located at 2418 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. TICKETS ARE PRE-SALE ONLY. NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR.

This year's musical showcase stars Amirhossein Kiani. Our guest DJ's will be DJ Armin and DJ Ryan. To view sample face painting and balloon artwork available for children, please visit www.rainbowpartyarts.com.

The tentative dinner menu, provided by D'Amico Catering, consists of the following:
*Shirazi Salad (tomatoes, cucumber, onion, and mint)
*Assorted Naans (with a yogurt accompaniment of apples and toasted cumin seeds)
*Polow (basmati rice with ta-dig)
*Jujeh Kabob (marinated, grilled chicken skewers with roasted tomatoes)
*Gormeh Sabzi OR Kabob Koobideh
*Tea, Coffee, and Water

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA) has made it possible for PSOM to offer graduate and professional students a $5 discount. Discounted tickets must be purchased from a PSOM board member and are not available at Caspian Bistro. All other students will receive a Best Buy or Chipotle gift card at the door with a valid student ID, while supplies last. For more information, please contact PSOM@umn.edu.

Special thanks to Coca-Cola, TCF Bank, GAPSA, the Student Activities Grants Initiatives, Caspian Bistro, Chipotle, Best Buy, and the Consortium for the Study of the Asias for making this event possible.

 

 

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Movie Night: Baran
 

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Coffman Memorial Union Theater

Street: 300 Washington Avenue Southeast

City/Town: Minneapolis, MN
Description: Please join the Persian Student Organization of Minnesota (PSOM) for our second Persian Film Night of the year! The film will be prefaced by an educational presentation beginning at 6:30pm. Free food
and drinks will be provided. The film will start promptly at 7:00pm.

This film was done with many non-professional actors to tell a story of unrequited love in Teheran. Lateef, an Iranian, is a young man whose only concern is with making money in his job as a construction worker. He happens upon Rahmat, an illegal Afghani immigrant whom he plays malicious tricks on. Through their interaction, Lateef discovers that Rahmat has disguised herself as a boy in order to stay in the country. Lateef falls in love with the Rahmat and wants to make her life easier when the company is ordered to fire all employees of Afghan descent, but his love only leads to more heartache. This heartbreaking and timely film is sure to send the message of the difficulties of life in present day Teheran straight into the heart of your audience.