Celebration for the International Peace Day on Sep 20, 2009

Rooyesh Cultural Society managed to have a community celebration for the international peace day. In our community announcements, we had called this event as a celebration for “Peace and Love.”

It was a pleasure to have a large number of people attending this evening of festivity and socializing. To begin with we had the chance to talk about our Society’s new ideas and programs for this fall and winter. In addition briefly, we discussed Society’s goals and missions in order to get more people involved for future work.

Down the road, we had the chance to listen to a beautiful poem that was read by a participant Mrs. Felora Talebi. This poem shed light to our peace and love festivity, as it reminded us of how much peace is appreciated.

The poem was from Malek O-Shoara Bahar(1884-1951), name of the poem was "joghd jang" which was written in March of 1950 by Bahar.

This piece of poem took us to the world where peace sells less while war becomes the misery for human life.


We moved on to hear a beatiful poem read by Mrs Samira, the poem was from Fereydon Moshiri (1926-2000) from the "gozargah Tarikh."

This evening became a chance for participants to share their songs and ideas about how we could bring peace into our homes. We could laugh and learn while we had more chance for information exchange, listening to some live music Santoor/ Tonbak.

In one sentence; this evening was a simple way of celebrating and refreshing our minds. Thanks to everyone who attend and helped.

روز جهانی صلح

A New Start

After a longer time of pause in our web blog activities, now we come back.

Rooyesh Cultural Society's board of directors had a meeting in August 20,2009 and everyone agreed to get Rooyesh a new fresh start from this Fall.

We will have a month of summer break until September 20 of 2009, while we will prepare for a new type of cultural programs with variety and fun involved.

We call our next workshop as “peace and Love” event, as we continue celebrate the international peace day(September 21) as every year. We will add more love to our event as we all need hope, connection, and joy. Details about this event will be announced by media ahead of time.

We want to admit that since our celebration for Rooyesh in April, we have been keeping low in order to make some fundamental changes in our programs.

One significant event that impacted our programs was the Iran situation since June 12, 2009. The tragic events in our home country truly shocked us and left us paralyzed. This was a major reason for no update on our blog while our every other Friday meetings have occurred, although maybe with some lower number of people attending.

Now gladly we will announce that from September 2009, we will have entertainment, poetry, and music involved in our twice in a month seminars while we will use a wide range of guest speakers in areas of literature, art, and philosophy.

We look forward for all suggestions, feedback, and contacts. We are hoping to get new members and fund raise during this fall.

Our Community Meeting on May 1, 2009

In our May 1 st meeting we had the chance to listen to Mrs Bahareh Mashreghi who is a lawyer and practicing law in a general area. Our members had the opportunity to learn about some legal aspects of ICBC claims, Family sponsorships, Family separation, and Custody support. We appreciate Mrs Mashreghi coming to our meeting and giving us such important information.
Rooyesh Cultural Society

Rooyesh Community Meeting April 17, 2009

Our community workshop had a quest speaker Mr. Karamati who talked about the financial crisis in the world and here in the North America. We also had Stacey from the Canadian Cancer Society and she informed us of the Persian Women’s Health Breakfast. We let the group know about our first official presentation of the Society which will be announced in the media. This event will be in May 9, 09 and we will have live Persian music, dance, and many moments of appreciation for everyone who has supported Rooyesh to be the place for community growth as it is now. Please join us and check for the detailed info about our meetings / festivities.

We welcome sponsors as well as everyone in our community to attend.

All of us at Rooyesh Cultural Society

Free coffee at Starbucks and helping the environment

How to help our environment: Starbucks has started. You get free coffee when you have your own mug with you.

Check this link: http://www.starbucks.ca/en-ca/_Social%20Responsibility/Earth%20Day.htm

Persian Women's Health Breakfast

Persian Women's Health Breakfast

Please join the Canadian Cancer Society for an informative Persian Women's Health Breakfast.

Come and learn from our speakers about living a healthy lifestyle and what you can do to reduce your risk of cancer. All proceeds will go to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Where: Gleneagles Community Centre
6262 Marine Drive, West Vancouver

When: Sunday May 3, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Ticket Cost: $35.00 (includes speakers, fully-catered breakfast, and door prizes)

To purchase a ticket, please phone or email:
Canadian Cancer Society
#205-126 East 15th Street
North Vancouver, BC V7L 2P9
604.985.8585
northshoreunit@bc.cancer.ca