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The city of Lahijan is a city in\u00a0Iran’s North-Western\u00a0Gilan province, on the shores of\u00a0Caspian Sea.\u00a0It is historically the first town in Iran to have\u00a0tea plantations. With its climate, soil quality and fresh spring water Lahijan stands to have the largest area of tea cultivation in\u00a0Iran. “Lahijan Spring Tea” is the best quality tea produced in the country.<\/p>\n
Group Exhibition of video, Painting, Ready made and\u00a0Installation opened for few hours on Monday 1est of Feb, 2010 at site of abandoned Saffari Tea Factory and building next to it which was the former residence of Saffari Family and the late owner of the Factory, in\u00a0Lahijan.
\nExhibition presented three Iranian artists : Ahmad Mir Ehsan, Mohammad Zahmatkesh,\u00a0Mohammad Khodashenas and the German artist Sonya Sch\u00f6nberger.<\/p>\n
Ahmad Mir Ehsan’s movie the Winter of Tea was to be projected on the facade of massive building factory which its roof came down due to the heavy snow few years ago, leaving only some trace behind of a decades of activities in the production of tea. \u00a0The video part of the min documnetary film \u00a0long \u00a0is shattered into small fragments by the texture of the old building, gives only glimpse of what is happening but the stroy and\u00a0dialogue\u00a0are playing a bigger role which are mainly in northern dialect Gilaki\u00a0spoken \u00a0in the \u00a0region.<\/p>\n
Sonya\u00a0Sch\u00f6nberger is showing her recent project GAZA ON MY MIND, which was realzed in exhibition Galerie Terre Rouge, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg, March 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Event Review The city of Lahijan is a city in\u00a0Iran’s North-Western\u00a0Gilan province, on the shores of\u00a0Caspian Sea.\u00a0It is historically the first town in Iran to have\u00a0tea plantations. With its climate, soil quality and fresh spring water Lahijan stands to have the largest area of tea cultivation in\u00a0Iran. “Lahijan Spring Tea” is the best quality tea … Continue reading Lahijan a new destination for contemporary art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","category-prg","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}