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Shabnam Parvaresh is a clarinetist, artist and curator from Tehran, Iran. She studied fine arts in Tehran and then started her musical career after studying clarinet privately in the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, she left Iran to study jazz clarinet at the Osnabrück Institute of Music. In her musical work, she takes an exploratory approach that combines elements from Persian music with electronic sounds, improvised music and jazz to create a new musical aesthetic on the clarinet.  She shared the stage with established Jazz musicians like Sebastian Gramss, Angelika Niescier, Achim Kaufmann, Jan Klare and Grammy Award Winner Kinan Azmeh, among others, and performed as a soloist at the invitation of the European Clarinet Association. In 2020, she formed her Sheen Trio, whose debut album Gozar will be released in the spring of 2023 on  Berthold Records label.  Pieces by the Sheen Trio have already been featured on the WDR and SWR public radio channels and it has played at national and international festivals.  In addition to other engagements as a musician, including Jan Klare's orchestral collective The Dorf, she is active as a painter and has realized solo exhibitions of her paintings in Tehran, Osnabrück and the U.A.E and was recently nominated for the Osnabrück Art Prize. As a curator she organizes the concert series "Klangfenster in der hase29" for improvised music in Osnabrück.

Meditation teacher, author, and clinical psychologist: Tara Brach has practiced and taught meditation for over 40 years, with an emphasis on vipassana (mindfulness or insight) meditation. Tara is a teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. A clinical psychologist, Tara is the author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, Radical Compassion, and Trusting the Gold. Her podcasts are downloaded over 2 million times a month.

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