{"id":198,"date":"2008-03-18T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/18\/overheard-in-fog-citycity-hall-norouz-event-postponed-over-flap\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T07:42:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:42:17","slug":"overheard-in-fog-citycity-hall-norouz-event-postponed-over-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/198\/overheard-in-fog-citycity-hall-norouz-event-postponed-over-flap\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheard in Fog City:<br>City Hall Norouz event postponed over flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/narooz_060330\/mw2w0430_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nThe third annual Norouz event, scheduled for Friday, March 21 has been postponed one week<br \/>\ndue to a flap between event organizer, Turquoise Bridges, and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi.<br \/>\n<strong>Photos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>By Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">March 18, 2008<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Hold on to your Chelow Kebabs, folks &#8211; this year&#8217;s City Hall Norouz (Iranian New Year) event has been postponed one week due to a flap between Norouz event organizer Turquoise Bridges and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!--more--> Mirkarimi, who is the first Iranian-American to hold elected office in San Francisco and was instrumental in launching the first officially celebrated Norouz event at City Hall in 2006, was not invited to be a guest speaker at this year&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In other words, Mirkarimi, who has become the patron saint of all things Persian and a beacon for the Iranian diaspora, has been snubbed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;The board is very interested in bringing unity to the community,&#8221; Turquoise Bridges founder Nazly Mohaje told Fog City. &#8220;They don&#8217;t want any hint of division in the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not a political organization, we&#8217;re a peace organization,&#8221; Mohaje added.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">That division, we&#8217;re told, was created as a result of political differences between Mayor Gavin Newsom and Mirkarimi. Newsom, according to Mohaje, is &#8220;extremely popular with the Persian community. They don&#8217;t like the animosity between Mirkarimi and Newsom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Mohaje also did not appreciate the ever-judicious Mirkarimi highlighting Turquoise Bridges&#8217; non-sanctioned use of the City&#8217;s Seal in their 2006 and 2007 invitation literature authorized by the mayor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/narooz_060330\/mw2w0239_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nTurquoise Bridges founder Nazly Mohaje (right) , Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi (center)<br \/>\nand Mayor Gavin Newsom (left) at the first official celebration of Norouz<br \/>\nin San Francisco City Hall, 2006.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated to the snub, Mirkarimi announced he will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/19\/event-third-friday-art-partycelebrate-persian-new-year-with-supervisor-ross-mirkarimi\/\">host a Norouz celebration of his own<\/a> at his City Hall office at the same time Turquoise Bridges scheduled their event in City Hall&#8217;s rotunda on March 21, and that&#8217;s when the Turquoise Bridges board decided to postpone their event one week to March 28.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am thrilled to see as many Persian Norouz events now being celebrated throughout the United States,&#8221; Mirkarimi told Fog City. &#8220;However, I am concerned that some of these events are becoming more exclusive and more political which is why I decided to hold a more modest and free Norouz event in my office on March 21.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/norouz_city_hall_070323\/mw2w4678_std.jpg\" height=\"331\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/norouz_city_hall_070323\/mw2w4651_std.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/norouz_city_hall_070323\/mw2w4651_std.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual Norouz event, scheduled for Friday, March 21 has been postponed one week due to a flap between event organizer, Turquoise Bridges, and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi. 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