All the time

• Private and semi-private classes. Near Los Angeles.
• Persian, Turkish
• Monday's at 7:30 pm
• Saturday's at 11:00 am
• Things change -- always EMail first!
• For more information: robyn@robynfriend.com.

• 26 October.  Concert in Santa Monica.
• 3:00 pm, 525 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, Californa
• Part of a program for the Daniel Pearl World Music Days event
• For more information:  http://www.music-days.org
• 24 October.  Concert in West Los Angeles.
• For more information:  http://www.levantinecenter.org
• Early October.  Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
• August.   Middle-Eastern Music and Dance Camp, Mendocino California
• For more information:  http://www.middleeastcamp.com/
• July.  Cairo, Egypt.
• 28-29 June.  Lecture at Sophia Poster's, Los Angeles, California.
• April.  Bath, UK.  Shropshire, UK.
• 29 March.  Now-Ruz concert, Palos Verdes, California
• 28 March.  Olympic Collection, Los Angeles.

2007

• April.  Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
• June.  Dushanbe and Khorog, Tajikistan.
• August.   Seattle, Washington
• 100 Railroad Avenue South, Kent, Washington, http://www.saqra.net, 253-813-8580. For more information:  http://saqra@saqra.net/
• August.   Middle-Eastern Music and Dance Camp, Mendocino California
• For more information:  http://www.middleeastcamp.com/
• October.  China.

• 6 May.  Bath, England.
• Performing at 1,001 Nights Society Annual Extravaganza
• Other work-shops in Bristol and London are pending
• July.  Dushanbe and Khorog, Tajikistan.
• Events TBD
• 14-18 August.   Middle-Eastern Music and Dance Camp, Mendocino California
• For more information:  http://www.middleeastcamp.com/
• 22 August to 13 September.  Tajikistan.
• Events TBD.

• 25-30 August.  Samaqand, Uzbekistan.
• Performing at Sharq Taronalari 2005 song festival
• With Neil Siegel and Susan Rudnicki
• 6-7 August.  New York City, New York.
• At Morrocco's studio.
• More info
• May.  Khorog, Tajikistan.
• Events TBD
• 26-29 March.  Prague, Czech Republic
• Workshops in classical Persian dance, Iranian folkloric dance, and dance technique for the Oriental dancer.
• Contact:  Renata Milgrom, renamilgrom@hotmail.com
• 19-24 March.  Vienna, Austria
• Workshops in classical Persian dance, Iranian folkloric dance, and dance technique for the Oriental dancer.
• Contact:  Barbara Hofbauer, 0043/1/526 47 77, studio.chiftetelli@vienna.at, www.chiftetelli.at
• 16 March.  Bristol, England, UK
• Persian dance workshop, with Medea Mahdavi
• Contact:  medea@footwork.org
• 5 March.  Iowa City, Iowa
• Daughters of Shahrazad face-to-face:  cultural encounters through the expressive arts of Middle-Eastern women
• Robyn will be both teaching and performing (Uzbek and Persian dance)
• Contact:  319-354-9638, or www.kahramandance.org
• 8 January.  Cafe Dansa, West Los Angeles
• "Cafe AMAN" -- Robyn sings and dances with Garip Bulbul, a Turkish music ensemble.
• 8:30 pm

• 18 September.  "Festival of Dancing Colors Gala -- concert of singing and dancing from the silk route
• 6:00 pm, Corona Civic Auditorium, 815 W. 6th Street, 92882
• Persian and Armenian dancing, and more; Persian and Azerbaijani songs, and more.
• for more information: check the MECDA on-line calendar of events, or EMail to Rachel Lazarus.
• 10-15 August.  The Edinborough Festival, Ediborough, Scotland
• With Medea Mahdavi and Neil Siegel
• 19 June.  Café Z at the Skirlball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
• Robyn sings and dances with Garip Bulbul, a Turkish music ensemble
• Garip Bulbul takes its name from two important concepts in Turkish music: garip for the ineffable quality of longing evoked in music and bulbul for the nightingale, the natural embodiment of musical expression.
• Garip Bulbul performs music of the Ottoman Empire, a region which at its apex extended from its center in Anatolia west to the Balkans, east to Egypt and Syria, and south to North Africa. Garip Bulbul consists of Robyn Friend, tef and voice; Martha Mavroidi, Lavta; Sonia Seeman on clarinet; Neil Siegel, tar and ud; and Ergun Tamer, kanun.
• For driving directions:  http://www.skirball.com/
• 14 March.  Fund-raising event for Bam earthquake victims, Olympic Collection.
• 29 February.  Purim event in the San Fernando Valley.

2003

• 22-23 November.  Performing (22nd) and teaching (23rd) in New York
• At Morocco's studio
• For more information, click here
• More details on Morocco's web site
• 26 October.  Concert of Uzbek dances, featuring People's Artist of Uzbekistan Viloyat Akilova
• Along with dancers from the Akilov school of Uzbek dance: Carolyn Kreuger, and Louchia Tchoukhri, and Robyn Friend
• 7:00 pm
• $15.00
• Click here for a flyer
• Location: Great Hall, Plummer Park, 7737 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.  Click here for a map.
• You can buy tickets at the door (cash or check only!), starting at around 6:30 pm.
• Call 310-541-9694 UNTIL 3:00 pm on the day of the show to reserve tickets.
• 19-20 October.  Concert of Persian singing and dancing.
• 7:30 pm
• Morgan-Wixson Theater, 2627 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, California  90405
• 818-645-6314, or www.neyreez.com
• For a flyer, click here
• 17-24 August.  Middle-Eastern Music and Dance Camp, Mendocino California
• For more information:  http://www.middleeastcamp.com/
• 16 August.  Persian dance class in Sausalito, California.
• 5:30 to 7:30 pm
• Nautilus of Marin Studio, 3001 Bridgeway, Sausalito, California
• $25
• For reservations or information, call Evelyn at 415.289.1338.  You can also EMail her at evelynereece@hotmail.com.
• 16 July.  Concert at the Armand Hammer Museum, Westwood, Los Angeles.
• With the Turkish music ensemble Garip Bulbul
• For more information, click here
• 17 May.  Concert at the Levantine Center, Los Angeles.
• With Helene Eriksen
• Dances from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Persia, Morocco, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Egypt
• Songs from Persia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan
• For more information, click here
• 27 April.  Concert in Orange County.
• Folk and classical music of Iran
• With Neil Siegel & Siamak Pouian
• At the Orange County Museum of Art, 850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach, CA  92660
• 3:00 pm
• For more information:  Tim Tomkins
• 8 March.  In concert at UC Santa Barbara
• Persian singing and dancing
• Uzbek dancing
• With the UC Santa Barbara music ensemble
• Check the UCSB web for time and location

• 13 December.  Persian dance performance.
• At the Olympic Collection
• 9:00 pm
• 20 October.  Mehregan celebration at Nazemi ParsArt Center, Los Angeles
• I will dance sometime between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm
• 7412 Balboa Boulevard, Van Nuys, California. Click here for a map
• Call 818-904-0765 for more information
• 12 October.  Café Z at the Skirlball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
• 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm
• Robyn sings and dances with Garip Bulbul, a Turkish music ensemble
• Garip Bulbul takes its name from two important concepts in Turkish music: garip for the ineffable quality of longing evoked in music and bulbul for the nightingale, the natural embodiment of musical expression.
• Garip Bulbul performs music of the Ottoman Empire, a region which at its apex extended from its center in Anatolia west to the Balkans, east to Egypt and Syria, and south to North Africa. Garip Bulbul consists of Catherine Alexander on tef; Robyn Friend, tef and voice; Michael Hysinger, ud; Sonia Seeman on clarinet; Neil Siegel, tar and ud; and Ergun Tamer, kanun.
• For more information:  http://www.skirball.org/
• 19-23 August.  Middle-Eastern Music and Dance Camp, Mendocino California
• For more information:  http://www.middleeastcamp.com/
• 20 May to 10 June.
• In Uzbekistan, studying with Viloyat Akilova
• Classes in Los Angeles are blacked-out
• 30 March.  Now Ruz party and concert, California Institute of Technology, Dabney Lounge
• 7:00 pm
• Dinner and entertainment
• Students $15, general admission $25
• For more information: http://ficcit.caltech.edu
• 15-16 March.
• Medea Mahdavi will be performing her new show, "Dancing the Knife", in Bristol, England, at the QEH Theatre on 15 and 16 March.  Be there if you can!  Tickets and information available at http://www.footwork.org/knife/default.htm.
• 8-10 March.  MAJMA 2002, Glastonbury, UK
• Performance
• Teaching
• Lectures
• For more information:  somdanceco@aol.com, or look at the flyer
• 5-6 January.  At Morocco's "Weeklong", New York City
• Performance -- 5 January
• Persian dance work-shop -- 6 January
• For more information: morocco@tiac.net.