The call for the Baghcheban theater festival was announced

Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh, a compassionate teacher who was the founder of the first school for deaf children.

 

Known as Baghcheban (literally meaning gardener in Persian), he was really the teacher of ‘silent flowers’.

 

He is famed for establishing the first modern kindergarten in Iran and the first school for deaf children in the city of Tabriz in 1924. He was also the inventor of the Persian language cued speech.

 

He was born in Urmia, northwestern West Azarbaijan province, but in early childhood, he traveled to Yerevan, Armenia. The first kindergarten he established was called “Baghche-ye Atfal” which means “Children’s Garden”. That is why he was given the nickname Baghcheban which literally means “gardener” in the Persian language.

 

Few people know of his life’s ups and downs. He left school as a child due to financial problems and worked in architecture and confectionery with his father, but because he loved writing, at the same time, he wrote for satirical magazines and gradually became the editor of the magazine.

 

In 1928 he wrote the first Iranian children's book in Persian. The book was called baba barfi which means “father snow” in Persian.

 

Tandis Honar Cultural and Artistic Institute will hold the first children's play festival in October in cooperation with the Islamic Culture and Guidance Office of Marand city.