we continue our coverage of the fifth annual two thousand and eleven iranian  and so the meaning of shame she might originally come from arabic roots words that actually mean on the side even though i don't have one it right now you guys are standing behind some of the posters from the years past and there's a little bit of a difference between say the first year over here and  is the running american community alliance which is a nonprofit organization in seattle didn't really have much resources for a new organization and didn't know very many people within the seattle community board members at the time and we got her involved with being part of the festival she's a graphic designer very talented so then she designed the posters for our third festival and has got the symbol of that  be different it will be interesting to see what happens there now the what's some of the things that you want the viewers of the program to know about the iranian community so you learning community is all about the law and the sharing of our culture the love of having people i mean when i travel to you ron a couple years ago i had a lot of people come up to me and say they've been all over the world and for the most hospitable now that's not saying other parts of the world are not hospitable but that's what i've heard from people saying so we are as the evenings of the culture we are all about the love about sharing our culture so having that poster be the representation of our festivals this year is actually pretty amazing and it's pretty much signifies everything that iran is about and our iranian culture is about  what i'd like everybody to know is this guy and everything we see on the news despite the word to hear around about iran iranian people didn't really love their american side too and that's everybody and a good love it when people of different backgrounds and different eras and as different cultures show up for our festival so that's i think the main thing that the as an organization want people to understand that  i've grown up here half of my life was in america half of my life was in iran so this country is just as much part of my life as iran and and i wouldn't be so i am today without the two so i think that's a huge thing two beautiful cultures so i i i used to say when i was younger that i was only iranian until very recently actually when i started really looking at what we do here at the festival and when i got involved  l that's another thing is that with these different cultures a lot of the folks are much older doing traditional dances and things like that and it's kind of nice when i see a lot of the younger folks actually carrying on those traditions and wearing the traditional outfits and doing the traditional dances rather than just new types dancing because i think it's important to hold onto that you know even even though you're american now you still have that culture behind you and it's good to celebrate it yes not only is it good to celebrate having that culture behind us i think go meshed with the iranian community as much i kind of stayed away just for different reasons and then over time when i when i went to college i started realizing how this is such an important part of me that was missing and i was so you know with for example with the older you know dance traditional dances and music when i was in iran i never listened to that was actually but like now that i'm here and i'm sort of the the governing those even though they were always part of my her rediscovering them and realizing this is really it speaks to a part of me that i'm sort of rediscovering sort of ironic you know you move from one place to a different place and you sort of realize you know i you know i really had you know you miss it so well that's one of the things that i see often actually with because i cover so many of these different cultures that folks like yourself kind of in the early twenty's or or sometimes even in their early thirty's or early teens they're rediscovering their heritage and like wow oh wow bad and i think not only it really does give people a sense of pride and for me i love children and that's what i my other life is around children that's what i want to make my career in is by teaching and i think it's so important for my younger sister for example to see that sense of community and be proud of her iranian background just as she is proud of her american background because you do hear a lot of negative stuff on the news and around you so i think having such an event that shows like all the beautiful things of our culture is so important and it's so important for people to have pride in that i think it helps build their self esteem and it helps them grow up to be more of a whole person rather than year she really had for a shine to her and i think she felt more complete after being a part of this and seeing lot of people who like this and people do like iran and they do like us and they do want to see this and she was amazed by so many of the traditional dancing and the cars you and she's never seen them before so it's really important and that's exactly what happens as you become more and more american you know the younger generations that are there enough familiar with their native briefest dot com for weekly programming updates information and links to numerous local events links to plays and musicals helping you to score points with your partner and links to the dozens of archived episodes and of course thank you for watching adventure t v cultural festivals what year is this for this event this is our eighth year at seattle center and part of the festival program this year is our first to do it today program both saturday and sunday yeah i didn't realize it was a two day event this year right to the festival just has grown to a certain size that we think it merits to have we have enough activities and bands and groups and everything to do today so that's what we did we expanded to two days this year is a big success ok is that the plan for next year as well to us once we become a two day pastor we activities you think you have for next year what will repeat i mean it's we have the form and it works pretty good we have the french food so we have the bistro the best deal we have the wine garden for the french wines and then we have the wine tastings we also have children's activities this year we had to pay talk field and they were able to play pong we've had music both for children and adult jazz as well as some modern french as well some of the old classic french with accordion well i know we didn't get a chance to see all of that but we did see quite a bit and we're actually in we're doing a second half hour on this episode so maybe next year we'll actually get two hours of footage we've definitely yes we're doing two days of events you know print the bands and the children's activities and and the different food and wine and especially the wine tasting maybe next year this year we also had a quick turn of it for soccer and we had a skateboard saturday with skateboard and today was kicked tournaments on sunday ok definitely are growing this operation yes and we hope to make it bigger and better and so we like to see every year to come to the bastille day festival here at seattle center part of the festival program definitely back and for more information on afraid i will if i do something actually i'm sure it's at the bottom right now as we're talking up so everybody is getting that correct ok yes it will be up and you get can find out what's happening in our look at that web page and we'll have the latest news on what the dates are going to be for next getting close to closing time  by is there a web site for more information yes so you can go to you if you go to all that flash and then you have all the information about our association and you can find more so our own network and  which was begun twenty five years ago or so yes we have had several occasions to celebrate anniversaries the fifth the tenth the tenth was a big so people if you know established a very nice connection often times to young people there to their sons and daughters who go back and forth for a time in france from here in to hear from friends ok now we are here trying to raise money for our scholarships one of our major major p e and objective is conversations we have for many many years now given a scholarship to a student going to not from the university of washington in memory  their memory establish that scholarship down on the other hand we have recently joined or affiliated to something called dollars for scholars of the national institution organisation that does what it says raise money to give scholarships to students and we have chosen to take the idea that the students would be studying french there usually are high school seniors who are planning to go to college or freshman who are already in college and new establish and confirm their intent to continue learning stablished connections have been established and people when i go to france i usually go to now where but for those that may be doing it for the first time and learning about then you also have information on how to get information where going to know yes yes yes indeed yes yes yes and going and we always have people who go to now and to get in touch with our organization over there which is not seattle enough there is an association so that we exchange and we usually recommend people to go to recommend to people that they will get in touch with the associations over there you know and there's a web site for more information of course is there no there's a web site for more information oh yes indeed there is a web site  programming update information and links to numerous local events links to plays and musicals helping you to score points with your partner and links to the dozens of our kind of associates and of course thank you for watching the civic northwest african american african american a quilter and i am debbie q ok all right i thank you for your time and we're going to go down and check out some more the entertainment as