Six Pillars and Persian Arts

This Monday we interview Mania Akbari, who you may have seen as the lead role in Abbas Kiarostami's "10", a film that takes place entirely inside cars around Tehran. Mania has her first solo show in London and cuts through expectations with her frank, striking and exploratory show.

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Tonight I've had the joy of seeing an Iranian Daedulus and Icarus, which is the first play I've ever seen with surtitles. It was sharp and funny on so many levels, the father obviously representing both the conditionings we learn from our parents and state. The contrast between instinctive and emotional humans and rational thinking and hard grind, those who think themselves above others and those who are not permitted to think. Recommended.

Also this Monday on Six Pillars to Persia we are giving away two pairs of tickets to not one, not two, not three but four consecutive art film screenings at the Barbican on Sat Dec 6th. This series is called the "Untitled series and looks at film and video art from Iran in four main ways. Starting at 13.00 each screening is followed by a Q & A with the artists who are mostly not from the UK.

To win these tickets email sixpillarstopersia at resonancefm.com with your answer to this question: what does the title Untitled say about a work? The best answers will be read out on the show and the top two answers win.

Read about the first screening HERE

Fari

Live to Air

Playing live on the radio is a revelation.

Hidden physically from your audience, you know those listening intently will enjoy the radiophonic overtones, the democratic undertones (after all it's free) and you can concentrate fully for once on what you are hearing.

Tonight from 8-9pm we perform live from the kitchen of a residential flat, that, though still home to three people, is a public art gallery for the week.

Whitewashed windows and surround sound are just some of the features of Show Flat's opening tonight. Expect harmonically-related vegetable strainers, amplified partition walls and fully processed domesticity.

On Sunday 23rd Nov, we turn Resonancefm studios into a concert hall of types in a unique live-to-air radio concert led by the Resonance Radio Orchestra with special guests Otomo Yoshihide, DJ Sniff and Tam Dean Burn.

The centrepiece of the night’s broadcast is a new radiophonic adaptation of RL Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr.Hyde. Tam Dean Burn plays Jekyll, Cliff McClune is Hyde, Sam Collings is Utterson and Erik Fuller is Lanyon. The work has been adapted by Ed Baxter and features a critical exegesis by Stevenson expert Robert Mighall. RRO musicians include Chris Weaver, Aleks Kolkowski, Ivor Kallin, James Dunn, Fari Bradley, Xentos “Fray” Bentos and Ted Barrow.

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Oscillatorial Binnage broadcast live from the electro-mechanically altered Hackney flat, as part of the “Show Flat” series of open studio performances.

Friday November 22nd to Friday November 30th 2008 10AM-6PM
8 The Mount, Mount Pleasant Lane, Clapton E5 9PD

http://showflat.org/toby_clarkson.php