Peyvand is the intersection of Culture, Identity and Belonging, linking diverse communities through Arts and Cultural Engagement.
Celebrate 50 years of surprising cinema at the Seattle International Film Festival
An intrepid filmmaker tracks the Taliban’s first year in power in the wake of the United States’ Afghanistan withdrawal, centering on an air force chief and a low-level fighter as the fundamentalist sect takes over a former American military base known as the Hollywood Gate complex.
Jamshid, an Iranian American school counselor, builds a world-class Ultimate Frisbee team from the immigrant and refugee students arriving at his inner-city public school in Seattle.
Come meet social advocate, and educator Aria Fani. Professor of Persian language and literature and translation studies at the University of Washington.
Senior Lecturer at University of St. Andrews School of Modern Languages, Dr Saeed Talajooy studied and then taught English and world literatures in English in Iranian universities and through his teaching became interested in how ideas, characters and images travel across genres, cultures and historical periods.
Our Programs
Peyvand Family Empowerment supports families by providing parenting workshops, presentations from school faculty and counselors, and opportunities for networking and community building through cultural events and activities.
Peyvand Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) seeks to create a virtual and in-person safe, supportive, community of youth.
In 2015 the committee members were approached by the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) to support & promote Iranian films.
Peyvand since its inception has held cultural and fundraising events to support the University of Washington Persian and Iranian Studies Program (PISP).
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Peyvand is committed to helping underrepresented multicultural and immigrant youth and their families realize their potential through community building, education opportunities and enrichment resources.