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==Shahrzad Arshadi==

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Shahrzad Arshadi, a Montréal - base multidisciplinary artist and human rights activist, came to Canada as a political refugee on December 24, 1983. In the past two decades, Shahrzad has ventured into different fields of photography, film, sound and performance, enabling her focus on issues of memory, culture and human rights. 

She is an affiliate - Community Representative and Core Member at Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.  Also Students Coordinator and Coordinator for  “Fighting Marginalization” youth film workshops since 2008.  
In 2011 Shahrzad write and direct an experimental sound theater performance called: “It Is Only Sound That Remains” based on the life of Ziba Kazemi. This play has been on stage in Montreal and Toronto many times.

Her latest creation is “Dancing For Change” a documentary film, a story about secular and socialist women of the Islamic world, their ideals, activism, and visions for a better world. It focuses on six Kurdish Iranian women from three different generations. These women live with their male comrades in a mountain camp where they organize and have been fighting the Iranian fundamentalist Government since the past 36 years.
In a society where state and family violence against women is common, they are engaged in political and military training, writing, reading, broadcasting, dancing, and singing in order to make their voice heard against any kind of injustice. Most of these women have left their home and joined the Kurdish–Iranian underground organization, due to the extreme oppression they have been subjected to in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
"These women are not silent!"  
Dancing For Change -Trailer 3:29 minutes, https://vimeo.com/127649507
http://www.shahrzadarshadi.com/