Arts & Melody of Diversity, Equity & Inlcusion
Local artists will be engaged in calligraphy history and art exhibition along with their musical performances. They come together for Sustainability through the fundamentals of the unison language of art and music as small businesses
Get ready to be dazzled through the rhythm of Western classically trained musicians to the mystical Eastern musical adventures.
Together, they transfer you to a new dimension of Sustainability!
And, what event can include all humanitarian purposes packaged in one better than this
Past Events:
2020
Bulletin update for all artistic performers
To all artistic performers who are interested in collaborating with UNESCO BMW:
Please submit a video sample of your art work not lasting more than 2 minutes. Also, include a resume of your specific talents in this area of submission and give us the permission to use your intellectual property for the specific purpose of online programming. If you would like, you may want to display a copyright notice on your displayed work.
We want it to be known that UNESCO BMW will have the final right to edit your submitted work in terms of total time
frame and in the depth of its content. All artist and music performers for 2020 have thus far been offering their serves online and free of charge, and none have been materially compensated. We foresee this to continue through 2020.
2020
UNESCO Monthly Programs:
Breath of Earth Play
To contribute in real terms to this transformation and in order to create a new and sustainable world, UNESCO BMW proposes Shakespearean Play by T.E.V. (Theatre of Eternal Values). It is a unique experience enabling all participants to rediscover the inexhaustible breath of the earth in each and every one of us.
All Shakespeare’s plays have transformation at their heart and we see that in his texts in several ways. The most visible manifestation of transformation in the plays stems from Shakespeare’s pre-eminence in creating inner lives for his characters that are complex and evolving as they react to events
2019
Open Mic:
In 2019 we had an open mic session every second thursday of the month between april and december 8pm – 10pm
Our UNESCO BMW met with different people regularly. The idea of the Open Mic came from our artist circle. They created a room for themselves to express and perform their talents. And that was!
We had a CHi room for performances, a social room for our snacks and mingling with each other and so much attention also on respect towards mother nature in using the real fun mugs instead of paper or plastic ones for our teas and organic genuine snacks instead of junk food.
some participants:
Elena Agarwal – Filmaker
Karmen Tarpanian – Writer
Najee Banks – Guitarist, Actor, Vocalist
Zhenya Zianouka – Violin player
We work with a great artist Shahnaz ( Negar) Shokrekhodaie 
inherited her passion and talent in the visual arts from her father’s family. Though she always had a love for painting growing up, her own exploration as an artist did not begin until moving to the United States over a decade ago. Ms. Shokrekhodaie first exhibited her paintings in a charity fundraising event in Oklahoma City in 2010. After moving to the east coast, she also exhibited her artwork in the 2012 Iranian New Year Festival in Arlington, VA. Throughout the past decade, Ms. Shokrekhodaie has sold her art work to private collectors and also welcomed the opportunity to donate several her works to support local charities and non-profit organizations.
Middle east resolution program at FCC
13 Oct. 2019
“In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility…”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V
Linda P. Funsch, the Professor of Middle East & Islamic Studies invited our President of UNESCO BMW Zohreh Rezazadehvto have a lecture in her classroom in FCC about Iran . Zohreh explained about the history of Great Cyrus, Zarathustrian teachings effects on Iranian culture and Islamic religion in Iran. She also talked about Iranian customs and food. More than 50 adult students were listening and making comments. There was a special atmosphere suggesting: If we are the source of all our social and political problems, we are also the solution!
At the end Zohreh played daf for them and they had a global wish of PEACE!
Human rights concert + meditation
In 1950, this date was chosen by UN to honor the first global enunciation of Human Rights. A day marked both by high level political meetings and cultural events and exhibition dealing with human rights issues.
UNESCO Clubs Center with its partners, as part of UN Civil Society, invited the citizens of Frederick to attend a special kickoff for the 2019 annual Season for UN Human Rights.
To celebrate the event, a classically trained violinist, Zhenya Zianouka with her students make a fantastic and memorable performance.
Art and Melody
19 Nov 2019 at FCC
International artists were engaged in calligraphy history and art exhibition along with Persian Classical Music Performance and “Cindy Wong Lema” Dance. They came together for Sustainability through the fundamentals of the unison language of art and music. We were dazzled through the rhythm of Western classically trained musicians to the mystical Eastern musical adventures.
Together, they transferred us to a new dimension of Sustainability!
Conference on non violence
Jan. 19 2019
UNESCO Center for Peace, with its partners, invited the citizens of Frederick to attend a special kickoff for the 2019 annual Season for Nonviolence.
The Season for Nonviolence was established in 1998 by Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, as a yearly event celebrating the philosophies and lives of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
It is anchored by a mission statement of principles and commitments toward living in a nonviolent way.
2018
Love America tour
The love America tour is a collection of international Students that travelled throughout the US for 3 weeks giving performances and teaching meadtitation
They performed together with 2 local Artist at the UNESCO BMW office. It was an amazing experience
2016
Art Exhibition
Featuring Shirin Shahram Badie. Her creations are reflections of natural world, and connect the viewer with nature in a spiritual way. “My paintings from nature are gifts from our colorful life,” says Badie. “The essence of nature holds a special compassion for humans. It offers energy as a self- healing tool. By carrying sun of life in the world, nature brings the innocent light and peace into our lives.”
Shirin has earned recognition and awards on a regional level and her works have been selected in local group and solo art exhibits in Washington DC area.
Craft Exhibition
Arists from 8 different countries displayed their craft in our previous office in Church St. These artists had the opportunity to express their inspirations and skills and at the same time having a UNESCO Organization as their common field of exposure. The purpose of these events help them to build their self confidence, dignity and have some income as part of greater connection.
Liudmyla Verdier flower exhibition
A real showcase of handmade and hand dyed flowers, bouquets of flowers and silk accessories is presented to you.
In Collaboration with UNESCO Center for Peace, we are proud to offer Handicrafts from around the World during this Holiday Season. This collaborative Project is all about building the self-esteem of crafters that have limited access in offering their handiworks in the market place.
“Silk flower making is an art to render the beauty of the nature to be captured in the finest silk. I’m so passionate about this kind of craft and proud of myself for being taught how to do it. It’s very special to me because it gives me a chance to admire the beauty of the nature and at the same time to render this beauty in silk and share it with people.
The flowers and accessories are handmade and hand-dyed.”
2015
Symbol exhibition
Termeh is the name given to a specialty cloth that originated in Yazd. Traditionally, the cloth was hand-woven using natural silk (Persian, ابریشم abrisham) and wool fiber (Persian, پشم pashm). Termeh can take the form of fabric, sheets, panels and spread sheet. In this last case, is maybe done by gold and silver threads.
Marco Polo, travelling the Aryan trade roads (called the Silk Roads) passed through Yazd in 1272 CE. He arrived in Yazd at about the time that Zoroastrians had been reduced to a minority in their ancestral lands. Polo described the city as good and noble, and took remarked that city was noted for its silk production. In ancient times, Yazd and Kerman together with Kashmir in the northern Indian subcontinent and the Fergana valley (presently in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) were silk and wool textile manufacturing centers..
Generally speaking art and handicrafts communicate the knowledge of Divine through symbols. These symbols rooted in the Collective consciousness, and can live beyond the time and places. They say that Zarathustra planted a cedar tree in front of an Ahura Mazda temple. This tree has grown up so tall and at some point bent its head down to the temple. From then the iconic image of the cedar tree’s bent head became the symbol of humility towards God Almighty. This symbol is also called ‘Kashmiri’, describing the prosperity and blessing upon the seeker of truth.