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آبـان Aban

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About

Sholeh Asgary (b. Iran) engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences. Her work challenges colonial assumptions about what is heard, proposing new futures through sound.

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News + Upcoming

January 9, 2026

The Future is Collective Book Launch & conversation with author, Niloufar Khonsari; Sholeh Asgary, curator of "Love Letters to Aliens;" and Sharmi Basu, Executive Director of Vital Arts. In partnership with Medicine for Nightmares

6 - 7:30 pm Friday, January 9, 2026 at Southern Exposure, San Francisco.

Books will be available for purchase via Medicine for Nightmares.

Free and Open to the Public, Refreshments served

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December 20, 2025

Performance by Sholeh Asgary for: Yalda
ending the dark reign of empire, birthing the light of resistance

Saturday, December 20 from 7 - 11 pm at Cone Shape Top in Oakland, CA.

Alchemia presents: Yalda

with Sholeh Asgary, Falgoush: Dast Dar Dast: Folk Songs of Resistance from Afghanistan and Iran, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, OMJVinyls, DJ Alchemia

$15 NOTAFLOF
All ticket proceeds donated to grassroots mutual aid initiatives in Sudan

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October 25, 2025

"Love Letters to Aliens" Opening Reception with a Performance by Roco Cordova and DJ set by Alchemia, curated by Sholeh Asgary

5 pm til the end, Saturday, October 25, 2025 at Southern Exposure, San Francisco.

The exhibition, with work by Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, considers the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense – from the extraterrestrial to the intimate.

Free and Open to the Public

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