Happy Nowruz. Ahhh, that will be Persian new year. As celebrated by the people of modern Iran? and the British Museum.So how do the Iranians celebrate. Big feast; painting eggs; music, that sort of thing (according to Wikipedia). and the British Museum we listened to music; painted eggs made monster wings and tail and contributed to carpet tiles (I couldn't find any reference to the latter two in Wikipedia for Nowruz; but the monsters were based on Persian art and the Persians were famous for their carpets. And the big feast we took ham and cheese butties.
So what were the tiles? Each participant was given a white ceramic tile, pens to draw on glass and a sheet about a type of Persian art (we had geometric shapes). Using only two colours the participant then drew something inspired by what was on the sheet. Finally these were arranged according to strict rules into a complete display. How did it go down? B drew his tile with his standard rapid
fire approach leaving D to complete his with all the precision of a 5 year old; this took half an hour so I take it as a success.D's favourite "Painting eggs" fairly standard egg painting; we can repeat the exercise at Easter. It has to be said he put more effort into the tiles.
B's favourite tile "my one"
What: Persian New Year
Where: British Museum
Getting there: Walk from Holborn
Cost: Free
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