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Here are some of the events that we celebrated
and planned in the past. We will try to
increase our activities... hopefully with your
help.
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March 1997:
Nowrooz Celebration 1376 - ISCA's Dance Party
June 1997:
ISCA's Dance Party and fundraising for earthquake
relief in Iran. We
raised $113
to help the building of schools in
Ardebil province through the efforts of the
Iranian Graduate Students Association in southern
California.
June 1997:
Trip to Ohiopyle State Park.
October 1997:
Jan 1998:
Khatami Interview on CNN Get-Together.
March 1998:
Nowrooz Celebration 1377!
June 1998:
WORLD CUP FEVER!! - Iran vs. Yugoslavia
and Iran vs. USA.
Fall 1998:
ISCA's Iran Table at the International
Students Festival on campus.
March 1999:
Nowrooz Celebration 1378 - Iranian Cultural
Association of Pittsburgh's (Iranian Community
in Pittsburgh) annual Persian New Year's Party.
April 1999:
Nowruz Celebration 1378 - ISCA's Nowrooz Party. Pictures appear
in the members page. It was a huge success thanks to help from
the CMU kids as well.
October 1999:
Elections were held. New officers were elected.
Get aquainted with our new officers
here.
December 1999:
Dinner on Shabe Yalda in Ali Baba's restaurant.
January 2000:
Had a table at the University of
Pittsburgh's Students Activities Fair.
On the left picture you can see from left to right, Elmira, Nima and Yusef.
On the right picture you can see again Elmira, Nima, Yusef and Mehdi.
February 2000:
Get-Together of Pitt and CMU kids in the La Fiesta restaurant.
April 2000:
Our Nowrooz 1379 celebration was a blast, especially thanks to the wonderful
traditional Iranian dances performed by the University of Maryland Persian
Dance Troupe headed by Nassim Ebrahimi who came all the way from the DC area to
perform! Also thanks to our own Jassem Bastaki, who's wonderful mastery of the
OUD (ancient Iranian string instrument) added to the flavor of the night!
Lastly thanks to Mrs. Bozorg, Mrs. Ghajarnia, and Mrs. Etemadi for their wonderful
Iranian and Afghan dishes. Unfortunately, our pictures did not come out except
a couple that Nima managed to salvage from Dorna's camera. They are on the members
page.
August 2000:
Our pride-packed presence at the University of
Pittsburgh's Freshman Students Activities Fair managed fo find us a few
new members, including our Japanese-Iranian officer, Payam! Morad promises
he's going to remember to bring the pictures for us someday soon, so come back to see them.
October 2000:
So OK yaar, we got hungry for some Indian food and organized a hot and spicy group of
curry-Iranian people to eat and have some fun at the India Garden Restaurant in South Oakland.
Halloween 2000:
Five of us packed up the old MEHDI-Gmobile and attended the Philadelphia Persian Society's Mascarade for
Charity Halloween party which benefitted drought relief in Iran. Cheers to the PPS for a job well-done!
Fall Iranian Movie Madness:
We were fortunate enough to organize and go see Bahram Ghobadi's 'A Time for Drunken Horses'
and Makhmalbaaf's 'A Time of Innocence.' Who says Pittsburgh isn't cosmopolitan?!
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