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(Iranican ReportsTM: Tirgan Part II is Here)
Not only the biggest, but by far the best Iranian Festival Outside of Iran. Tirgan just set a new standard for iranian festivals/events worldwide. Hats off to Iranian Canadians in Toronto! Despite the off week, Iranican LiveTM will be airing and later podcasting an anticipated show this Wednesday August 6th at 10PM ET with guests Jian Ghomeshi and Mehrdad Ariannjead on the festival on RadioJavan.com
A unique and interesting feature of Tirgan was that it included no LA pop singers, while other festivals’ leading attraction often center around such figures. Iranican LiveTM explores this issue to examine the cultural and social relevance of any festival’s artist selection.
Iranican LiveTM is a freestyle radio program which explores, with no hidden agenda and no rules, a host of iranian cultural issues through a talk show interface. It has been added to the Radio Javan lineup as a bi-weekly talk show on Wednesdays 10PM EST/7PM PST since May 21, 2008. Iranican LiveTM podcasts are available on the Radio Javan podcasts page.
27 comments
Good Job!
Iranican, you should change the headline to “Iranican Rapes Persian Satellite TVs in broad daylight… again!”
Not only were none of the Iranian Satellite TV stations there to cover Tirgan, but none of them, or all of them put together can not, and have not, yet produced a video that’s even remotely close to the one above in terms of quality. How come a bunch of young Iranians in their 20’s who are either students or work full time can pull this off with a non-profit organization, and our multi-million dollar TV stations who are media by profession are still playing with feces in LA?
Tirgan was the best festival ever.
Organized and selected.
Thanks for the report.
Even that I sound funny in it!
Regards,
r.
btw, this is the festival web site:
http://www.tirgan.ca
haha.. nicely said ardeshir…
the TV stations, even in Toronto.. (let alone LA) so useless.. they open their mouth on TV and I smell the s$*^..
Excellent job guys. Great content, interviews and editing
bahal bood; (well done!)
Where is the rest? third and forth day?
This guy who you showed on the third day is not Massoud Shoari!! Who is he then?! Massoud Shoari looks like this : http://www.mshaari.com
Added by Admin- Video Updated, See comments below.
you guys rock! you need your own channel.
dynamic, upbeat, interesting, and most of all entertaining.
What a great coverage of the event. Great job to the whole team. This video was amazingly directed. And I agree with everyone else, you put programs on satellite to shame.
good job, honestly when I saw you in Tirgan I didn’t expect such a professional report
, brief, informative, perfect quality, nice shots…
Said Shanbeh zadeh ROCKS
great stuff!!
i can’t watch it because of excessive camera movement. excellent show but very poor camera
Astonishing!!! I didn’t know anything about Tirgan till now, seems great! Thanks Iranican. ; )
Great video and great job with the editing too!
This is exactly what the North American-Iranian media should be like.
Salaam,
The performance on the 2nd day was NOT Masoud Shaari Trio.
Originally it was supposed to be Mr. Shaari, Hossein Behroozinia, and Trichy Sankaran’s Trio.
But, unfortunately this Trio couldn’t happen due to visa problem.
Therefore, they decided to have another trio instead:
Reza Manbachi (Tar & Setar), Amir Manbachi (Tombak), and Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam & Kenjira)
I am really wondered why IRANICAN is not updated about this issue.
regards
–Reza Manbachi
Added by Admin- Thanks for the Update, we have made the change, please see comments below
While it’s impressive that someone from “Los Angeles” had flown to cover the Tirgan festival, I’m disappointed by the reporter’s content and the quality of reporting and editing.
It is rather evident from the comments that Iman was appealing to his beloved crowd, which seems to resemble the Iranian-Americans who have no roots, no culture, no knowledge of reporting, professionalism ….. The only remnants of Iranian culture for this crowd seems to be Persian Pop Music and “Chel o Kabab”. It’s pitiful.
I think the first thing that’s evident from this reporting, is that Iman didn’t have a good grasp of Tirgan, and it’s goals; to promote and identify Iranian culture and heritage. The background music and the dialogue which essentially “disrupted” the report were really poor and inappropriate.
I’m also not sure if your audience really cares that so and so is from “this” part of Tehran or from “that” part. Most probably half of the commenters have NEVER been to Tehran.
No proper research (didn’t know what Massoud Shaari looked like or the fact that he actually didn’t make it), no recognition or respect for Mohammad Reza Lotfi, etc …..
Once again, the effort is impressive, but the end result is not. Let’s hope that the next attempt has some substance.
Ba salaam,
I truly want to thank everyone who has taken the time to write in the blog and help us with their input. I am very grateful that there is a stream of criticism, more so than all the appreciations, because the criticism will help all of us at Iranican to continuously improve.
Of course neither I, nor any of the Iranican members claim to be professional reporters, so we are honored that our audience wants to hold us up to such standards. We are all working or students who put effort aside from our full-time jobs or studies. We have a passion for this line of work and, above all, believe in retaining the true values of our Iranian culture and feel the need to reach our peers who are growing up here to know about it. It is distressing for me to see the new generation of Iranians are unconscious of the literature, music, language and history. It is heartbreaking to see that everyone of them recognizes Beethoven, but have no clue who Mirza Abdollah, the father of Iranian music is. All of this combined with the political arena we live in these days, urged us to strive for an avenue to communicate with this generation, and bring forth voices such as yours and ours.
The challenge of course is keep our audience interested and tuned, and based on the experience we have gained over the past 3 years of Iranican, we have learned that most of our target audience is overloaded with information, but still seeks infotainment (entertaining information). The other segments who actively like to learn and research this material do not need to watch a clip like our “3 Shanbeh Soori Report” to learn why we celebrate such a day and why it is on a Tuesday when it really is a Wednesday festivity. So our reports contain a form of entertainment that can connect to this audience and our effort is to trigger questions in the minds of our viewers about the issues I have mentioned, giving them facts and relative information in between the lines. We may not be the best at this, not even close, but it is important for us to keep the goal solid and uphold our mission statement. These comments are very helpful and effective for us to improve.
Unfortunately we cannot publish hours of footage online, no one will have the patience to watch it, so we are forced to cut out material that other type of audience would have enjoyed. There were many interviews with rigorous discussion about why Iranian traditional (Aseel) music is not recognized by the young Iranians, especially those growing up outside of Iran. There were many detailed questions about the history of Tirgan and how it began, what was celebrated, what were the foods ancient Iranians had for this festivity, what is the actual day in the Iranian calendar and why? All of them accompanied by the answers, when the interviewee did not know them; which was almost every single case. Answers that were a result of hours of in depth research by our research team and the reporters. We may publish a third segment on Tirgan to include some of this.
At this point we are also contemplating on a creative way of releasing raw footage for those who like see the whole story. We want to roll out Iranican Raw, which will be all of the unedited, “raw” footage from our reports. We are open to ideas on that, so please let us know what you think.
Lastly to clear the issue of Masood Shoari, we knew that he was not there, I personally walked up to Mr. Reza Manbachi and asked him about it. The answer I got was what he has mentioned in the comment above—visa problems. But I had heard that Mr. Shoari is a resident of Canada and I confirmed this fact with a friend who knew Mr. Shoari, so because we never got official statements from Tirgan organizers, we left the name, as they did in their program. I understand there is still misinformation given out on our part, and we apologize for that. I am glad that Mr. Manbachi himself left a comment to clear it up. The clip was modified a few days later when we submitted it to Bebin.tv. I’ll ask our editor to redo the clip for our own website as well. We sometime face these problems because we’re shorthanded, and do all of this for a cause without any sort of funding. We are a non-profit organization; no one on the Iranican staff is paid, and all of the expenses come collectively out of our own pockets.
Again thank you for all the comments, keep them coming…
Truly yours,
Iman
P.S. Just to clarify, we are not in Los Angeles, Iranican is located in San Francisco Bay Area, and we actually are trying to bring an alternative view than the Iranian pop culture in LA.
Hi,
thanks for the comments…
Just to clarify regarding the visa problem of Mr. Shaari: He is not a resident of Canada, and my brother personally handed him his invitation letter in order to get visa, but unfortunately it couldn’t be issued in time.
That news is certainly WRONG that he is a resident of Canada! But, they might have confused Mr. Shaari with the other artist who was supposed to accompany him: Mr. Hossein Behroozinia, who lives in Vancouver, Canada.
ایمان و برهان جان
خیلی گزارشاتون قشنگ و جالب هست
من همیشه میبینم
سعید کرمانی
ایران – تهران