The Adventures of Sahar Khadjenoury

04/07/2024

:The fashion show featured 19 designers from across the state that displayed everything from modern takes on traditional designs, ready-to-wear, couture collections and the avant-garde."
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The second annual Utah Indigenous Fashion Week happened at the Leonardo Museum in Salt Lake City Saturday.

02/01/2023

Utah State Capitol - Winter stories by Nebo title 6 School District. Featuring the Moccasin Game

08/16/2022

Monument Valley, UT - August 20 In Person Casting!
Please feel free to share this flier with anyone that may benefit. If you are interested but cannot attend, send a current pic & contact info to [email protected]

06/01/2022

Monument Valley and Aneth
FREE Drive In Movie coming to YOU! June 03 and June 04

✨Free Drive In Movie Night This Weekend!!✨
Friday, 6/3
Aneth Chapter House
Saturday, 6/4
Monument Valley Visitor's Center
FREE for all Star Wars fans: Ats’ahoniyee’ nil holoo doo.
That’s “May the Force be with you” in Navajo.
THIS WEEKEND join the Rural Utah Project, Utah Film Center, and Navajo community leaders for a screening of Star Wars; A New Hope in Navajo! Friday night Aneth Chapter House, Saturday at the Monument Valley Visitors Center.
💫🪐The movies are totally free -- bring a blanket, chairs, and snacks and enjoy a movie under the stars! Films begin at dusk. A New Hope was first released in 1977, a story about an invading empire threatening indigenous people and culture, it captured the attention of the world and started a film franchise. In 2013 thanks to Manuelito Wheeler and several other members of the Navajo Nation. the film was dubbed into the beautiful Navajo language. 💫🪐
FREE!
MORE INFO AT UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG/UTAHFILMTOUR
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Fri, 6/3
Aneth Chapter House
Sat, 6/4
Monument Valley Visitor's Center 📡✨💫🪐

05/17/2022

05/02/2022

May is here!! I love this time of year

🌻☘🦅🐝T'aatsoh, Growth of Bigger Leaf Plants. It is named for the plants with bigger leaves that were now growing everywhere.

03/20/2022

💐Norooz| Nowruz | Noruz Pirooz💐
It's the Persian New Year and the beginning of Spring 🌱☘ This special holiday happens precisely at the vernal equinox. (By the way, many countries celebrate today, so I want to wish everyone a Happy New Day)
Friends and families alike have been celebrating for centuries dating back to the ancient Mesopotamian civilization and the Persian Empire.
Around this time families go into deep cleaning mode, and the Wednesday before Noruz, those who are able jump over bonfires for good health, and set up the Haft Sin. This is a table dedicated to represent good things for the new year items that start with Persian letter "س":

🌱Sabzeh (سبزه): Sprouting /Grass: the symbol of rebirth and growth (green grass or Sabzi, wheat/lentil sprouts) - I substituted with basil on the rez
🥣Samanu (سمنو): Samanu (pudding made with wheat germ): the symbol of power and strength.
🫒Senjed (سنجد): (wild olive): the symbol of love.
Somāq (سماق): Sumac (navajo: chiłchin): the symbol of sunrise.
🏺Serkeh (سرکه): Vinegar: the symbol of patience.
🍎Seeb (سیب): Apple: the symbol of beauty.
🧄Seer (سیر): Garlic: the symbol of health and medicine.
💐Sonbol (سنبل): Hyacinth: the symbol of spring's arrival.
🪙Sekkeh (سکه): Coin: the symbol of wealth and prosperity.
🏺Somagh (سماق): Sumac: the color of sunrise
And the staples:

🥚Tokhm-e Morg Rangi (تخم‌مرغ رنگی): Eggs: the symbol of fertility.
🔍Ayina (آینه): Mirror: the symbol of self-reflection.
🔥Shem'a (شمع): Candle: the symbol of enlightenment.
🐠Maahi-ye Qırmız (ماهی قرمز): Goldfish: the symbol of progress. (I didn't have a gold fish this year
📘Ketaab (کتاب): Book: the symbol of wisdom. I've included some Rumi and The Main stalk, a synthesis of Navajo Philosophy.
🌹Rose Water
My additions:
Navajo Philosophy boom (The Main Stalk)
Sweet Grass Braid
Sage
Cedar
Navajo Sumac (chiłchin)

I've made adaptations to my haftsin, and although I'm still learning fluency, I consider myself incredibly blessed to come from 2 incredibly rich and beautiful cultures. ❤
Fun side note about why the time and date change each year: " No-Rooz occurs once in a few centuries and is the day when the vernal equinox, coincides with sunrise at a given longitude. We all know that the earth goes around the sun and when the sun is exactly over the equator it is called the vernal equinox and on that day the 24 hour period is equally divided between night and day. At a given longitude every year the equinox occurs at a different time. The time difference in Iran is about 5 hours 48 minutes and 20.16 seconds, when compared to the year before. Thus the New Year is ushered in, each year at different hours of the day, coinciding exactly with the equinox. This practice is still carried on in Iran as a nation.

The journey around the sun takes 365.24190 days, which gives us about 5:48:20.16 hours time difference every year, (give and take a few minutes each year) thereby every fourth equinox is about 23:13:20.64 hours ahead and so a day is added to the end of that year hoping to solve the equation. While in fact, the fifth year is started short by about 46 minutes and 39.36 seconds or .0324 days. Every 120 years a leap year is skipped to cover this shortfall. But even that result in a fraction 120 X 365 +116/4 = 43829 days accounted for by our system of recording leap years. While in fact the earth has taken 365.24190 X 120 = 43829.028 days. Thus the 120th year starts short by 40 minutes and 32 seconds (1440x.028), which only reduces the difference but does not zero it out. With present day technology and atomic clocks these inconsistency are more visible. Thus in ancient days the only way to zero the difference was to wait for the sunrise to coincide with the equinox at the same longitude and that is what the ancient Iranians did and called for a special celebration." https://www.iranchamber.com/culture/articles/norooz_haftseen_never_told.php

01/13/2022

This is almost 2 years later and still, if feels like COVID has put on a bookmark on all of our lives. And so many friends and family members have left us. I am incredibly thankful to have been able to share our story early on and to continue to do so.

01/12/2022

Sneak peek - ‌BBC Persian visits Navajo Country for this all exclusive interview, full episode is NOW available in the link posted below. This is the story of immigration during the revolution in Iran and an upbringing in the Native American Residential School system coming together in marriage, to make me. From cooking Persian food on the Navajo Rez, a career at the Native PBS station to the Utah Navajo COVID Relief Program, to bringing cultures together.

Broadcast: BBC Persian #
Producer: Amir Payam

Special Thank you:
Pooya Rezai
Allen McGreevy
Siamak Khadjenoury
And Yari Rahnama
Dr. Hamid Adib's Rug Gallery (Murray, UT)
The Utah Film Center for allowing to film during the Aneth Drive In event
The Utah Navajo Community

Youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR23juQ0cPGSfbl1TOlWAmoq5tQNu1A1JfhyDSHWUsqUHlKhF0zChm8wGCM&v=iYDj8ySBWkA&feature=youtu.be
from BBC Persian:
چمدان؛ در قلمرو بومیان ناواهو پدر من تنها ایرانی بود

نسخه کامل چمدان سحر به مدت ۲۷ دقیقه را روز یکشنبه ۱۲ دی - دوم ژانویه در تلویزیون و کانال یوتیوب بی‌بی‌سی فارسی تماشا کنید.

سحر خواجه نوری، فیلم‌ساز و تهیه کننده تلویزیون ایرانی- بومی آمریکایی تا چند سال پیش در لس‌آنجلس بازیگر و مدل بود.
اما یک روز سر صحنه جمله‌ای شنید که هضم آن برایش خیلی سنگین بود.
سحر عصر همان روز تصمیم گرفت عطای هالیوود را به لقایش ببخشد و به زادگاهش بازگردد.
جایی که مادربزرگ او بنا به رسم بومیان ناواهو، بند نافش را در خاک آنجا دفن کرده بود.
سری جدید چمدان یکشنبه‌ها در تلویزیون و کانال یوتیوب بی‌بی‌سی فارسی.

زمان پخش
یکشنبه دوم ژانویه ساعت ۲۳۰۰ به وقت تهران در تلویزیون بی‌بی‌سی فارسی

یکشنبه دوم ژانویه ساعت ۱۷۰۰ به وقت تهران در کانال یوتیوب بی‌بی‌سی فارسی
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سحر خواجه نوری، فیلم‌ساز و تهیه کننده تلویزیون تا چند سال پیش در لس‌آنجلس بازیگر و مدل بود. اما یک روز سر صحنه جمله‌ای شنید که هضم آن برایش خیلی سنگین بودسحر...

06/03/2021

TONIGHT! Join us at the UNHS-Montezuma Creek Hogan for the first Reel Iina Film Festival. Screening the films from our young filmmakers, in person!
Film Contest for Utah Navajo & White Mesa Ute Mountain Ute teens and Young Adults. Admission is Free, all ages welcome. Social Distancing will be required.