A Festival As A Pattern For Similar Events; 100 Thousand Audience, A Breaking Record, and…/ All Stories of Closing Ceremony of Hamedan Children and Young Adults Theatre Festival
21st Hamedan Children and Young Adults Theatre Festival was finished with introducing winners in different sections on October 13th evening.
Iran Theatre- Bouali Hall of Hamedan was host of closing ceremony of 21st Hamedan Children and Young Adults Theatre Festival while the great family of Iranian Children and Young Adults Theatre beside Hossein Taheri (General Manager of Iran Dramatic Arts Center), Mohammad Naser Nikbakht (Governor of Hamedan Province), Fazel Ebadi (Manager of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Hamedan Province), Payam Dehkordi (Director of 21st Hamedan International Children and Young Adults Theatre Festival) were presence at closing ceremony of this great event.
In this ceremony which was performed by Azadeh Namdari, Hossein Taheri said: “I thank Payam Dehkordi for his companionship in this edition of the festival. As the manager of Iran Dramatic Arts Center, I was witness of his hard activity in holding the festival in the best way which was the sign of his love to theatre.”
He pointed: “With paying attention to criticisms and activities which were done, we can say that 21st Hamedan Children and Young Adults Theatre Festival can be a pattern. I hope other festivals take ideas from it.”
Payam Dehkordi who came on the stage with his little daughter and started his talk with reading one of Rumi’s verses. Without speech he left the scene and the audience applause him warmly.
Fazel Ebadi, talked about ancient history of Hamedan province in improving culture and added: “Warm welcoming of families and their children is the sign for holding this artistic event in a better way in future. Hamedan province has continually programs to be a base for holding artistic events for children and young adults in the world, while we took some steeps in this way.”
Also, governor of Hamedan province continued his talked with emphasizing on this issue that Hamedan is the house of history civilization and said: “21st Hamedan Children and Young Adults Theatre Festival has had warm welcoming. Based on statics, almost 100 thousand people of Hamedan watched programs. Because of these issues we insist to return back International Children and Young Adults Film Festival to Hamedan and we ask managers’ special attention to it.” In the closing ceremony, there were various programs and performances like performing a child in character of Mobarak which made a warm atmosphere in the hall.
In continue of the ceremony winners of this edition of the festival were introduced with dedicating certificate, statue and cash prizes.
Winners of Children Section
Set and Costume Designer:
First Place: Rayhaneh Motahhari, and Arash Sharifzadeh for “Grofalo”
Best Actress:
2nd Place: Minoush Rahimian for “Dream Journey of Dwarfs”
Best Actor:
1st Place: Saeed Abak for “Grofalo”
Directing:
First Place: Parastoo Golestani for “Dream Journey of Dwarfs”
Best Child Actor:
Aida Khosh Daman, and Mahan Alizadeh for “Gholi Gholombeh”
Play Writing
Special Prize: Mohsen Pour Ghassemi for “Tik Taak”
Winners of Street Section
Best Idea:
Narges Khak Kaar for “Delicious Foods”
Music:
Afshin Shoudrizan for “When Zal Was Small”
Best Actress:
Narges Khak Kaar for “Delicious Foods”
Best Actor: Moslem Nouri for “Control + Anger=Control Anger”
Directing:
Narges Khak Kaar for “Delicious Foods