First Annual Meeting and Election of Broad Members for Rooyesh Cultural Society was held in December 13, 2009.

We held this first election of board members while briefly reviewing the B.C. Society Act.

On this note we brainstormed the roles and responsibility of board members according to the B.C. Society Act.

This meeting was witnessed by a fairly large number of members and participants.

We talked about all the services and programs offered during the year of 2009 and past couple of years before the society was registered.

A summary of all seminars and activities were discussed verbally. Our treasurer Zahra Beigi gave us a report about the financial situation with outstanding balance of 20 dollars.

We invited members to candidate for the role of board members and used a good amount of time to let people consider participating. After all the group discussions about future plans for new programs and partnership, we managed to elect five board members, four from the previous year and one new director.

Here is the list of new elected directors for Rooyesh Cultural Society for the year of 2010:

Mehdi Hosseini

Afsoun Golchin

Mina Sabzevari

Fereshteh Hoshidari

Zahra Beigi (Treasurer)

We wish all the success for the new directors of Rooyesh.

The Generation Gap

November 15, 2009, Rooyesh cultural Society had the pleasure to have a young yet experienced, knowledgeable, and well-spoken speaker Mr Ardeshir Ahmadi, who is a film maker.

Ardeshir is student at the University of British Columbia and he studies art of cinema. Recently he has done a documentary about Iranian singer and rap culture in Los Angles. In that documentary, he uses a critical eye on what he sees as he goes on a trip to L.A.

Ardeshir talked about the generation gap that he witness and the ways in which families would need more help in creating a mutual understanding.

We appreciate Ardeshir coming and talking to us and we wish him all the best in his much interesting film projects.

We like to add that Ardeshir is the founder of Ardeshir TV Group and you can find him in his website: http://www.ardeshirtv.com/

Meeting October 18, 2009

Rooyesh Cultural Society had the opportunity to organize for an information session about Global Warming.

Amir Soleimanian, a student of Simon Fraser University (engineering), offered our members an excellent presentation about global warming and the challenges as result. Amir started learning about Global Warming as a student of Carson Graham secondary school in North Vancouver. He has attended several presentations and seminars while he actively updates himself about this very important topic.

Amir managed to speak in Farsi for us while his very interesting video in English was talked about in the meeting. Amir definitely impressed us with this video that he had created himself.

We learned about Cape Farewell project and how our responsibility for careful use of energy is increasing.

Thanks to Amir who taught us a whole deal about this amazing project. We wish him all the best.