Roudaki Decoration Workshop
The decor workshop being situated on the North-Eastern side of Vahdat Hall’s parking lot in an area of 360 square meters was opened simultaneous with the inauguration of 29th Fajr International Theater Festival in January 2011(Bahman 1389)
This workshop is , responsible for construction and installation of deCor for theater and cinema bands. Rudaki Foundation has four active workshops: blacksmith, tailoring, carpentry and assembly hall. Tailoring and carpentry workshops are constructed in a 12 x 6 meters and assembly hall with dimensions of 12 x 12 meters.
Technical, efficient and professional entities are in charge of the carpentry, blacksmith and tailoring workshops and young and knowledgeable individuals are busy fashioning decor.
Rudaki Foundation’s Art Training Center
Rudaki Foundation’s Art Training Center inaugurated in February 2010 in 1000 square meters of land on the south side of Ferdowsi Hall and the time of its activities in the field of music and arts education for children and adults.
The Training Centre is active with four workshops: music and painting, music and visual arts training equipment, and a library with over 170 specialized books.
The center also has established a workshop for children and young adults, art workshops for adults as well as a lobby for shopping and resting.
On the second floor of the training center, there are two art workshops for apprentices with traditional and classical instruments equipped with training facilities including classical and traditional instruments such as piano, setar of Zadkhalil, tar of Tavakol, guitar, professional tambour, kamancheh of Joudaki, santur, tombak of Helmi, ombak of •Siiirani, workshop violin, handmade violin, bass Xylophone, alto xylophone, soprano xylophone, small drums, tympani, alto metalophone, and soprano metalophone.
Music workshop due to the lack of specialized places welcomes apprentices’ use of classes and instruments free of charge at any time. Also, drawing and painting workshops 1 and 2 host apprentices and masters offering requiredinstruments such as canvas, tripod, full-length mirror, and many other training tools.
Specialized library has been established with more than 170 books on music, painting, drawing, calligraphy, and art history. The library is going to be stuck with all available scholarly books on music and visual arts until (2011) 1390.
Establishment of School for Traditional and Ritual Performances
Establishing the school for traditional and ritual performances is one of the future prospects that this center.
The school is planned to hold workshops on and be active in training Iranian theatres such as Ta’ziyeh, Takht-e-Hozi, Kheymeh-ShabBazi (Iranian Puppet Theater), minstrelsy, Pardeh-Khani.
In the field of theory, classes will be held on historical overview of Iranian traditional and ritual plays, performance practices, music in drama, semiotics, identifying types of puppet shows in various regions of Iran, types of minstrelsies, and Shahnameh recitations with the respective masters in attendance.
There also will be held classes on acting, script writing, scene decoration, lighting, costume design, make-up, puppet making, improvisation, and mythology and ancient legends.