Join us for a conversation with Iranian-American artists Tannaz Farsi and Taravat Talepasand with art historian and curator, Dr. Jordan Amirkhani.

In recent months, Iranian citizens have been risking their lives and protesting the nation’s authoritarian regime, awakened by the nightmare of the killing of Mahsa Amini, a 21 year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was arrested for “improper hijab” and beaten to death by the morality police, a Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In these past several months, protests have grown as the movement “Woman, Life, Freedom” has been swelling across the world and flourishing through the expression of art. 

Baraye in Farsi means “for” or “because of” and Shervin Hajipour’s song has become the anthem for this protest movement and has also inspired the title of this conversation. 

With special thanks to Outlet PDX for providing the production of risographs on various social justice protest posters that Farsi and Talepasand have collected and archived as gifts for the attendees to take with them. 

This program is supported by the Northwest Art Council at the Portland Art Museum.