PSA with collaboration of PETAS is going to organize an event about Iranian new year. this event will be a combination of dance, music and drama by a group of international students coming from Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, as well as local students in USM. you are all invited on 13th of march to Dewan Budaya.
What is Nowruz?
Nowrūz (Persian language: نوروز [noʊruz]), meaning 'New Day') is the traditional Persian new year ceremony. For Persians, Nowruz is a celebration of renewal and change, a time to visit relatives and friends, and pay respect to senior family members.
Iranians and some other countries such as Azerbaijan, Ghazaghestan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Gherghizestan, south Pakistan (Baluchistan), Afghanistan, and north Iraq (Kurdistan) celebrate this festival every year on 21 of March.
Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Persia people and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea, Somalia, Yemen and some ethnic groups in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Republic of Macedonia. The festival is part of the pre-Islamic cultural heritage of these communities. The only Hindu ethnic group that celebrates Nowruz is the Kashmiri Pandit community. In Hinduism the first day of the year starts with spring. During the meeting of The Inter-governmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage of the United Nations, held between 28 September – 2 October 2009 in Abu Dhabi, Nowrūz was officially registered on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in Persian calendar. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox, which usually occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed. As well as being a Zoroastrian holiday and having significance amongst the Zoroastrian ancestors of modern Persians, the same time is celebrated in Indian sub-continent as the New Year. The moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day is calculated exactly every year and Persia families gather together to observe the rituals.
LATEST NEWS:
This weekened, we went to practise dance, not too many students came, because most of them went back to their hometown, some were sick and some had other plans :(
but we wish they will join us next session.
does any one like to join us? we are still looking for performers. the more, the better :)
