Shohreh Kia was born in Iran; she was student in National University of Iran, when she started her political activism by participating in all left activity in the university.
Along with her peers and other Iranian citizen she took part in her uprising against the Shah’s regime.
After the revolution, she took an active role in group of left student called “DANESHJOOYAN MOBAREZ”, then become an active member of the left and radical socialist group called” PAYCAR DAR RAH AZADI TABAGHEH KAREGAR”.
Shohreh was arrested in1981 with thousand of young political activist and spent six years of her life in prison. She has been interested in art and especially painting in her entire life, and believes that art has a very important rule in the society.
During the six years of prison she always trying to do any kind of art work, carving the stone, or when she has no brush and no colure, used needle and tread to show her feeling and bring hope and life to those very dark and painful years.
She has a collection of artwork from those days, which will show as an art exhibition and video clip in this seminar.
Shohreh escaped Iran in1988 and immigrated in Canada, in her exile she continued to be active for her believe and while working as a professional, her interest in art continued by taking art classes.
For the very first time in June 2005, in Cologne, Germany in the” FIRST SEMINAR OF THE POLITICAL PRISONER OF IRAN” she presented her DVD and also participated in an exhibition of art work and all the memories from the political prisoners.
Her DVD was very well received, and then after was showed in most of the ceremony which was in the memory of the commodore and friends were executed by the regime, in the different country in Europe, Canada and U.S.A.
Currently she is an active supporter of her political beliefs within her community. and as a artist she does painting.
Recently she was participate in the group exhibition in Alliance Francaice” in Vancouver, and also was invited to participate in group art exhibition in ”THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL IWSF CONFERENCE“ in Berkley California.
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About Shohreh Kia DVD presentation:
"I dedicate this collection of my embroideries called "Beyond Confines" to the awakened souls. These works are woven by my heart and inspired by my soul. I did these works during the years of 1981-1987 in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran,captured as a political prisoner.
My endeavour here is to show how I visualized my hopes and dreams in the context of art while I was under pressure of violence and dictatorship. By doing these works I became able to fly my wings over the tall walls of the prison cause a one who dreams of human equality and freedom stays hopeful and chooses to defend himself in various ways."
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