(21 Feb) Regular Meeting and a Presentation by Mr. Tohid Abdollahi (+GAL)

Posted in Activities, Future projects, Galleries, Guest Speakers, Meeting, News and Events. Written by Admin on February 23rd, 2018

At the Regular meeting of Rotary Club Sofia International held at the Hilton Sofia on 21 February 2018, we had numerous guests – Mrs. Krasena Kancheva, Mr. Mehrdad, Mr. Marcel van der Hoek, Mr. Petar Kabakov.

We had also special guest Maestro Mr. Nicola Guerini, member of Rotary Club Verona. He presented to us his CD with Classical music, special book about Verona, and we exchanged the flag of  his club with us. You can find more information about Maestro Guerini here – https://www.nicolaguerini.org/videos.

Ms. Hristova updated the present on the Wine It! – Fundraising wine evening, which will on 15 March 2018 at 19:00 in Ranchero Steakhouse by Bodega. She consequently gave the floor for the presentation of Mr. Tohid Abdollahi.

A presentation about Persian traditional attire and the photographic portrayal thereof was delivered by Mr. Tohid Abdollahi. Following in the footsteps of an illustrious father who was a pioneer in the Persian film industry, his son Mr. Abdollahi, followed his passion in Persian cultural clothing by incorporating lessons learned from his fathers’ example and displayed numerous photographic portraits of traditional Iranian scenes with models attired in beautiful cultural clothing.

Though maintaining its’ own distinct identity there were remarkable similarities with traditional Bulgarian dress. Mr. Abdollahi aims to showcase the Persian culture in Bulgaria, and even hinted at the idea of pursuing a similar exhibition of Bulgarian traditional dress in the future.

The fellowship continued after the official part, as usual, in the lobby bar of the hotel.

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