UBC Persian Club at the Chahar Shanbe Suri at Ambleside Park

UBC Persian Club is proud to invite you to our information booth at the Chahar-shanbe Suri at the Ambleside Park. This year we will be distributing Hafiz Poetry, and do face painting to raise money for cancer research.

Chahārshanbe-Sūri (Persian: چهارشنبه‌سوری), pronounced Chārshanbe-Sūri (Persian: چارشنبه‌سوری) is an ancient Iranian festival dating at least back to 1700 BCE of the early Zoroastrian era. The festival of fire is a prelude to the ancient Norouz festival, which marks the arrival of spring and revival of nature. Chahrshanbeh Soori, is celebrated the last Tuesday night of the year. The word Chahar Shanbeh means Wednesday and Suri is red. Bonfires are lit at sunset and the idea is to not let the sun set. Bonfires are lit to keep the sun alive till early hours of the morning. The celebration usually starts in the evening. On this occasion people make bonfires on the streets and jump over them. The young shoot fireworks before and during Chaharshanbe Soori (literally: Red-Colored Wednesday). In older Iranian dialects such as Pashto (Pashtoons also celebrate this annual event and call it “Sheshbieh”), “soor” means the color “red”…. [Wikipedia.org]

Come and join us to celebrate the arrival of spring and sing: “Sorkhi e to az man, Zardi e man az to” translated to “Give me your redness, and take my paleness” while jumping over the bon fires.

Iranian Canadian Congress at BC is organizing the night of the event. They are looking for volunteers for the night of the event. The volunteers will be served free dinner and refreshments during the event. Also, ICC will provide the volunteers with reference/recommendation letters in appreciation of your help with this event.

In order to sign-up for volunteering, Please contact us at ubcpersianclub@gmail.com. All the volunteers required to participate in a briefing session on March 6^th at 6:00PM. for more information please visit our “In Vancouver” page.

What: Chahar-shanbe Suri at Ambleside Park
When: Tuesday March 17^th, 2009 5:00PM-11:00PM
Where: Ambleside Park, West Vancouver
Information: ubcpersianclub@gmail.com
(604) 723-3465