First Fajr Handicrafts Festival opens

The first edition of Fajr Handicrafts and Traditional Arts Festival has begun at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran.

About 150 works produced by 70 prominent Iranian artists are on exhibit at the festival.

Fajr Festivals are annually held in Iran during the Fajr Decade (literally meaning ten days of dawn) which marks the anniversary of the ten days from the return of Imam Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, to Iran (February 1) until the victory day of the Islamic Revolution (February 11) in 1979.

Fajr Festivals include Fajr Film Festival, Fajr Theater Festival, Fajr Music Festival and Fajr Festival of Visual Arts among others.

The first edition of Handicrafts and Traditional Arts Fajr Festival opened on January 30, 2017 and is scheduled to run until February 3, 2017.

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