Credits
Jasmine: Digital and Creative Coordinator
Jasmine joined the Sheba Arts team in August 2023 with the ambition to encourage children to connect to their heritage through various creative outlets.
Jasmine collected archive material from Haideh and Nejad’s family, co-designed the project’s website and worked closely with the workshop facilitators to ensure the project achieved its goals and ambitions.
Sepideh Ziabari: Project and Workshop Assistant Coordinator and Accountant
Sepideh works closely with the Sheba Team and the families of our participants to ensure that the workshops run smoothly. She is the primary point of contact between the Sheba Arts team and the wonderful community we have built.
Our Partners:
AIU RACE Centre
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre is a specialist library and archive focusing on the history of global majority communities in Greater Manchester (and beyond), as well as anti-racist activism, refugeeism and migration, and the development of thinking about race and ethnicity.
The AIU RACE Centre facilitated the project’s first workshop at Manchester’s Central Library where our participants and their families were able to learn more about the project and the process of archiving.
Head to our post about the workshop to find out more, special thanks to Laila, the Community Archivist, for running a great workshop!
Friends of Shahnameh
Friends of Shahnameh was formed in 2011 by Dr. Shahireh Sharif and Ali Sadeghi in Manchester to celebrate the national Ferdowsi Day (Commemoration Day of Ferdowsi). In 2015 they catered for non-Farsi speakers by adding an English section to the ceremony.
Shahireh and Atusa delivered four captivating storytelling workshops centered around Gordafarid and Bijan and Manijeh. From poetry to colouring and drawing, our workshop participants were able to connect to some of the character’s Haideh Ahmadzadeh danced.
Head to our workshops page to see what we got up to with Friends of Shahnameh!
Sabha Music Academy
Sahba Music Academy is an art and music academy based in the centre of Manchester who offer a wide range of classes for all ages and abilities. Founded by Masoud Ghasemi, Sahba have contributed their services as excellent performers at our launch event and facilitated four music workshops all based on the Caravan story. The children really enjoyed their take on rhythm through games and singing this special song.
Head to our workshop page to see more of Sahba’s sessions, special thanks to Negar Askari
and Hiva Sharifi for delivering these workshops.
Our Facilitators and Artists:
Dr Aida Froutan: Dance Workshop Facilitator
Dana Ismaili: Translator, Music and Dance Workshop Facilitator
Beena Nouri: Translator and Art Workshop Facilitator.
Katayoon Biookivahed: Event Performer
Bryn Price-Rogers: Filmmaker
Lydia Hooke: Event Photographer
Melania Bout: Project Logo Designer
Serge Tebu: Sound Engineer
Kindling Trust and Dootsi: Event Catering
Sublime Creatives: Web Designer
Special Thanks to Haideh and Nejad's Family
We would like to thank Hormoz Ahmadzadeh for supporting the project by providing unseen videos, images and archive material of his parent’s careers.
Thank you to our Funders:
