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4 Shanbe Soori 2024

Iranian American Society of NY invites you to celebrate 🔥 4 Shanbe Soori 🔥

Entry includes Dinner, Fire Jumping and Kids Entertainment (Face Painting, Balloons, Popcorn, Cotton Candy & More!)


🗓️Tues March 12th 2024
⏰ 6PM-8PM
📍 Brookville Rerformed Church, 2 Brookville Road, Glen Head NY
🎟️ $40 per adult, $25 per child (12 & under)

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4 Shanbe Soori / Chaharshanbe Suri

is an Iranian festival of the fire dance celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year, of ancient Zoroastrian origin. It is the first festivity of the Nowruz Celebrations festival, the Iranian New Year.

Jumping over the Fire

Before the start of the festival, people gather brushwood in an open, free exterior space. At sunset, after making one or more bonfires, they jump over the flames, singing sorkhi-ye to az man, zardi-ye man az to, literally meaning "[let] your redness [be] mine, my paleness yours", or a local equivalent of it. This is considered a purification practice.