Puppets by 4-9 age group
During our work with IYDA community group, our youngest participants (aged 4-9 years old) made puppets to accompany the Iranian children's story 'The Little Black Fish'. Here is a selection of some of their work. For more information on the workshop sessions at IYDA see here. Photograph: ...
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Olivia from LPO on her experience of the workshops
Olivia Jageurs is a harpist currently taking part in the LPO Foyle Future Firsts Scheme. Here she talks about her experiences working with young people from IYDA as part of our workshop series. This month I was lucky enough to play and assist in composer Soosan Lolavar’s Stay Close Project – a ten-month project ...
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A view from IYDA
Mariam, a member of the IYDA management committee and former member of the youth group tells us what Stay Close means to them. When we were approached to take part in the Stay Close project we knew it would be an exciting and rewarding opportunity for both our community and members. Established in 1989, IYDA was created ...
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Ben on working with 4-9 year olds
In October, I was very kindly invited by Soosan Lolavar to take part in a number of workshops for the Stay Close Project. These workshops were part of an 8-week course working with members of the Iranian Youth Development Association and made up the second phase of Soosan's greater 10-month long project. The idea behind ...
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Workshops at IYDA and The Little Black Fish
The Little Black Fish is an Iranian children's story written in 1967 by Samad Behrangi. Behrangi sadly drowned at the age of 28 while swimming in a local river but his work continues to be revered in Iranian society. The story tells of a fish who longs to explore beyond the stream in which she lives, eventually taking her ...
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Arvin Sedaghatkish
I first met Arvin at a talk he gave comparing two pieces by contemporary Iranian composers - 'Music - Haiku' for solo piano by Ehsan Saboohi and 'Only that spark and nothing more' for solo oboe by Karen Keyhani. He talked at great length about how both composers allude to aspects of traditional Iranian music in their ...
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