Partners
Here are the primary organisations and individuals supporting this project, with several other applications for major fundraising underway.
Bagri Foundation
The Bagri Foundation is a UK registered charity, inspired by unique and unexpected ideas that weave the traditional and the contemporary of Asian culture. The Foundation, with its roots in education, is driven by curiosity and a desire to learn, and aims for each project to challenge, engage and inspire. Through a diverse programme of film, visual arts, music, dance, literature and talks, the Bagri Foundation gives artists and experts from across Asia and the diaspora, wider visibility on the global stage. Recent projects include Chang/ce a
Bagri Foundation has made a generous donation for the animation of Zal & Phoenix.
The Marchus Trust
We gratefully acknowledge support from The Marchus Trust fund for Zal and the Phoneix project.
PRS Foundation's 'Women Make Music'
We gratefully acknowledge support from PRS Foundation’s ‘Women Make Music’ Fund.
www.prsfoundation.com/grantees/shohreh-shakoory-women-make-music/
THE D’OYLY CARTE CHARITABLE TRUST
Dame Bridget D’Oyly Carte (1908-1985) established The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust in 1972 to support her personal interests which included her enjoyment of theatre, music and gardening, and, in particular, helping disadvantaged and disabled children. Today, the Trust continues her legacy through its three grant programmes: the advancements of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement.
Dame Bridget was the grand-daughter of Richard D’Oyly Carte, the theatrical impresario who famously built and opened the Savoy Theatre (London) in 1881 and the Savoy Hotel in 1889.
Zal team is very grateful to the D’Oyly Carte Trust for their generous support.
The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) is the UK’s foremost learned society dedicated to promoting and supporting scholarship and research excellence on all aspects of Iran and the wider Persianate world, and to increasing public understanding and knowledge of this region. The Persianate world includes territories historically associated with Persian and Iranian culture and language: Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Transcaucasia, Iraq, the Persian Gulf littoral, and South Asia.
https://www.bips.ac.uk/
PSCPS exists to promote Persian studies in Cambridge and across the UK. Its activities include termly lectures on Persian and Islamic art, academic conferences and publications and other cultural events, like art exhibits and musical performances.
Professor Djalal Khaleghi Motlagh
Professor Djalal Khaleghi Motlagh poet, writer and researcher for Shahnameh, Dr Khaleghi-Motlagh has conducted over 50 years of extensive research on the epic literature of Iran and the Shahnameh. His research papers have been published in the most prestigious international academic journals. Among his extensive works are his editing of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, which has been published in eight volumes under the late editor and founder of the Encyclopedia Iranica, Ehsan Yarshater. professor Khaleghi-Motlagh’s numerous appointments include his teaching posts in Germany, faculty membership in the International Millennium Congress of the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi as well as being a board member of the Trustees of the Ferdowsi Foundation and on the committee for the Cambridge Shahnameh Centre for Persian Studies in the UK.
Bonyad Ferdowsi Tus Organisation
TUS is the foremost non-profit organisation in Iran dedicated to promoting the work of Ferdowsi and other Iranian art and literature.
ShivaNova / DAN Network
ShivaNova is a cutting-edge world music company led by composer Priti Paintal. It celebrates cultural diversity through music as well as through other art-forms including storytelling, dance, visual art and projection, circus and theatre. ShivaNova also delivers an extensive programme of workshops for young people.