Sun of Fire // Son of Fire
A journey through the tradition of fire in ancient and contemporary Iran.
From Zoroaster to Mithra, from the Sufis to the brotherhoods of heroic chivalry.
What is the fire that has kept the Iranian soul and soil alive through thousands of years? What fires have kept a light burning in the darkest of days for Iranians, from the Mongol invasion to the contemporary veil of darkness gripping this ancient land?
Come and join us for a historio-mythical and musical journey through the different traditions and “names” of fire given to the ancient Iranians, from the Zoroastrian cosmic light of the Farr to the embodied, human, earthly fires of nobility found in the chivalric and heroic traditions.
Event Details
Immersive Performance & Historical Talk (including storytelling)
Date: Thursday, April 2
Time: 19.00 - 21.00
Place: Keizersgracht 123 in Amsterdam
Ticket Price: € 20
Buy/Reserve your spot via Embassy of the Free Mind or fill in the form below.
About the Hosts
Farânak Mirjalili (ReMA) a Jungian analyst based in The Netherlands. She is graduating this summer at the C. G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, Switzerland (IAAP). As both a Sufi mystic and psychoanalyst, she's interested in the places where trauma and the soul meet, and how the analytical work can become a work of descent and incarnation and the inherent relationality with each other, the greater cosmos and the whole of life. She’s especially drawn to the questions of what it means to be a mystic and advocate of the soul in our current landscapes of poly-crises.
She earned a Research Masters degree the University of Amsterdam where she did groundbreaking fieldwork research on the intersection of Jungian psycho-spiritual alchemy and laboratory alchemy— a work that she is now completing within a more Jungian and analytical framework at the CG Jung Institut. The title of her research is: “Alchemy & The Poetics of Matter: Eco-mysticism and the Practice of Alchemy for a Wounded World.”
Sepand Dadbeh (b. 1992) is an Iranian multi-instrumentalist, troubadour, and cultural entrepreneur known for his musical storytelling and innovative interpretation of multiculturalism in the performing arts. Raised in a family of renowned artists, he began with the Tombak before specializing in the Oud and Tanbour. At 18, he joined the prestigious Shams Ensemble, and in 2012 co-founded the Jansouz Collective with his sister Khorshid to honor their grandfather’s legacy. Sepand holds a BA in Iranian Music from Tehran University and an MMus in World Music from Codarts Rotterdam. His work seeks to harmonize spirituality and ancient musical traditions with contemporary artistic expression.