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Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival

Co-organised by the Elphinstone Institute and the Grampian Association of Storytellers, who are also generously sponsoring the event.

Book your free place by e-mailing elphinstone@abdn.ac.uk.

Join us in celebrating Nowruz, the Persian new year, through poetry and story. Hossa Skandary-Macpherson, originally from Afghanistan, will share tales that she learned from her mother, a teacher of Persian literature, and Leila Nesha Mokadem, originally from Iran, will speak of the Persian new year and its seven symbols. The event will be in English, Dari, and Farsi.

Speaker
Hossa Skandary-Macpherson and Leila Nesha Mokadem
Hosted by
Elphinstone Institute
Venue
The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Floor 7, Craig Suite
Contact

Free event, booking required at elphinstone@abdn.ac.uk

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