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Six Pillars to Persia is named loosely after Al Afghani’s writings. A travelling thinker and activist born in Afghanistan in the mid 1800s, he believed the castle of happiness stood on six pillars.

This week we speak with established artist Farhad Ahrarnia, prior to his solo show here in London until February 25th 2012.

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Agrin Ensemble

New Podcast Up

The Art of Improvisation. To hear the interview and the music of the Agrin Ensemble, a due split between Iran and the UK,  click HERE

To hear Resonance 104.4FM streamed live click here, or tune in on 104.4FM on your radio dial.

Spoken Easternisms

Six Pillars present a week of special broadcasts on the UK’s first art-music radio station Resonance FM

From Monday 18 to Friday 24 July, 2011, between 20.00 – 21.00 hours in collaboration with the London-wide Shubbak festival, Six Pillars broadcasts a week of talks and discussions about arts and culture from the Middle East.

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  • July 12th live event, Lyrical Easternisms – Persian and Arabic music at Ginglik, London in collaboration with Shubbak Festival – see EVENTS
  • July 15th live event, Easternisms – Middle Eastern contemporary classical and avant garde at Cafe Oto, London  in collaboration with Shubbak Festival – see EVENTS

Six Pillars hosted several live variety nights for charity, including two variety arts night for human rights supporters Amnesty and one for Index.

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16 Responses to Latest News:

  1. Ella | April 23, 2008 at 2:38 pm |

    I just started reading back through your blog and am fascinated, I will definitely be following this site.

  2. nadia | July 15, 2008 at 10:57 am |

    I’m glad you dropped by my blog, now I found yours. Your posts are very interesting. I shall return :)

  3. Mitra Memarzia | November 10, 2008 at 11:38 am |

    Hi Fari,

    Thanks for getting in touch- have just emailed you.

  4. Zain | November 20, 2008 at 5:43 pm |

    Hi Fari,
    I remember hearing a show where this artist was talking about her artwork..she uses caligraphy but experiments and adds her own touch to it..any idea whom it is..i would like to maybe check out her work on the internet..thanks, Zain

  5. lee stapleford | January 14, 2009 at 2:30 pm |

    Hi Fari, Thanks for Six Pillars. Did you know that there is a new BBC Iranian TV service (launched today – you probably already know)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/

    It would be great to see your work on it.

  7. josh | March 20, 2009 at 4:01 pm |

    wow! i’ve been to yr blog before and used it for my persian/iranian synthpop research! glad you like the mix. i’m half lebanese/polish but an avid admirer of everything persian!

  8. nima | October 18, 2009 at 6:09 pm |

    veery good blog

  9. presta | November 15, 2009 at 11:13 am |

    Maybe you should have a link to this blog on the resonance page? I was listening to resonance, and I couldn’t find any information about the show on their site-

  10. HAMIDREZA | November 28, 2009 at 3:01 pm |

    سپاسگزارم از کوشش شما

    thanks for your activities

  11. javanejoon | March 12, 2010 at 7:25 am |

    Great site. will be following you from now on. and I will be listening sunday … I want to see Googoosh :)