Nowruz Celebration

Please join us in our Nowruz ceremony, the ancient (and modern) Persian New Year celebrating the first day of Spring. There will be Persian traditional dinner, a series of very entertaining performances and afterwards we will get to dance till we drop. Here are the details:

Date: Friday March 25th, 2011
Time: 6pm till midnight
Location: Assembly Room, William Pitt Union, University of Pittsburgh
Admission fee: $10 for students, $20 for non-students
Tickets: See below

Please note: as opposed to most of our events, you must purchase your tickets in advance (by March 19th); there will be no at-the-door tickets sales due to the University restrictions. We realize that this is a bit more inconvenient, so we have set up as many purchase methods as possible:

1. On-line: http://www.showclix.com/event/NowruzCelebration. Please note that a convenience fee will be charged for online sales.

2. In person: Tickets will be available for purchase on-campus at both Pitt and CMU, from March 7th until 18th. More detail follows:

Pitt:
You can visit the Box Office on the first floor of the William Pitt Union (just beside the Information Desk). Please note that the Box Office will be closed the week of 7th-11th for Spring Break.

CMU:
You can go to the Information Desk on the first floor of the University Center (near Kirr Commons, a.k.a. the black chairs).

Representatives:
You can also get in touch with the following people to purchase tickets:

* Anahita Khojandi (Pitt, Swanson School of Engineering): ank83@pitt.edu
* Behdad Beheshti (Pitt, Swanson School of Engineering): beb65@pitt.edu
* Omid Moghimi (Pitt, School of Arts and Sciences): omm3@pitt.edu
* Rava Vivian Allahyari (Pitt, School of Arts and Sciences): vra2@pitt.edu
* Hassan Takabi (Pitt, School of Information Sciences): hat26@pitt.edu
* Bahar Laderian (Pitt, School of Medicine): bal73@pitt.edu
* Narges Sharif Razavian (CMU, School of Computer Science): razavian@cmu.edu
* Yasaman Torabi (CMU, Heinz College): ytorabim@andrew.cmu.edu
* Amin Aghaei (CMU, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering):aghaei@cmu.edu

3. Mail: To purchase your ticket(s) by mail, please mail your check (no other payment method can be accepted, sorry) to:

Omid Moghimi
257 Melwood Ave, Apt 1
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Checks must be made payable to "Omid Moghimi". Please enclose a note indicating your name and the number of student and/or non-student tickets you would like to purchase (corresponding, of course, to the amount of the check).

* Tickets purchased by mail or online will be available for pick-up at the door.

The tentative schedule is as follows:

6:15-7:00 Screening the movie “Babak & Friends: A First Norooz” (IMDB link)
7:00-8:30 Persian traditional dinner (including Sabzi polo Mahi)
8:30-10:00 Shows & performances (including a performance by a dance group from Washington, DC)
10:00-12:00 Music & Dance

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you all at the party!