CaféLitt released the survey results

Finally after about 2 months, 60 persons have participated in our survey. We sent survey several times to encourage the CaféLitters to contribute in survey. The results were analyzed and are shown in pie format graphs. Interestingly 46% women and 54% men were participating in our survey. While only 37% of our participants are women. In average 62% of CaféLitters are between 18-45 years old. Concerning time and place for CaféLitt sessions, the majority of participants vote for the same time and day and for a Café (81%) in Downtown. Unfortunately there are only 2 women who present in CaféLitt during last 40 sessions! Anybody can help us with a logic reason?  Come on ladies!

CaféLitt needs your help and support

According to the survey, some of the CaféLitters promised to support CaféLitt. Your support (from one dollar to 1000$) will improve the quality of our sessions.

If you are interested to help us to make summary of the sessions for our site, archive and Hafteh Magazine, and/or updating our Facebook account please write your email in the following box to contact you soon.

We need your financial supports to equip CaféLitt with projector (~ 497$+tax), Sound system and microphones (~148$+tax), camera (to have a visual archive, ~279$+tax), screen (~100$+tax) and sound recorder (for voice archive, ~69$+tax) which comes to total 1230$ (tax included). If anything remains, we will spend it for Photo contest preparation.

Please give us your financial supports through: (1) in person, (2) PayPal: Use donation button at our website and donate through you credit card or PayPal account.(3) RBC Royal Bank: Institution#: 003, Branch Transit#: 04461, Acc#: 1012954, under the name of CaféLitt and ask Pasha Javadi or Mohammad Jabbari Hagh for Receipt.

For our second International Photo and Film contest we appreciate you support and sponsorship of the companies. Please send us your Logo by e-mail before December.

CaféLitt Paris

Last Friday 6th Nov. 2009, CaféLitt-Paris began to work. Dr. Mehdi Keshtkar, one of the founders of CaféLitt, who has gone to Paris for his professional life, started another CaféLitt in Paris. Their first session was held by our friend, Farrokh Vahabzadeh who talked about Ethnomusicology. On 13th Nov. Sara Habibi (Lawyer) talked about Global Financial Crisis. Their future programs will be: November 20; "Fashion and mode design" by "Dena Motevalian", "Ethics" by Ali Attar, "West influence upon Asia", "Sweden Adventures" by "Golnaz Karbaschie", "National Identity" by "Mehran".

Please tell your friends in Paris to go to paris.cafelitt.com or contact with: paris@cafelitt.com for more information and participate in CaféLitt Paris!

150^th session

This week is our 150^th session!

CaféLitt Registered

After about 2 years and half, we have registered the CaféLitt as a non-profitable organization and opened a bank account for that. If you can help us concerning grants please contact us.

Winner

According to our site star ratings, the best sessions of CaféLitt are: (1) Shakespeare and his masterpiece; Hamlet (2) Nazism (3) French revolution.

 The special fact about it is that all these sessions are presented by: Dr. Shahdad Heydari! We would like to thank him for his awesome sessions. Thank you Shahdad!

Halloween

Unfortunately in our Halloween session there were not many costumed participants! Beside Bardia Sadinejad who presents the Horror movie, wearing "MARD NAMRYEE" and Ehsan Daneshyar with a "JALLAD" costume and few people with mask and small changes, most of the other participants were Normal ;-) !You can find its photo in our gallery!

CaféLitt School

After the results of our survey, we decide to run some special courses! We will start soon! CaféLitt would like to collaborate with you! Please contact us of you can teach anything special. Feel free to suggest the strange courses!

Our Logo! To change or not to change! That is the question!

During previous months we have lots of discussion about our Logo. What do you think?

To change? or not to change!?

Let's have free discussion! PANELS!

We will have some new sessions to make CaféLitt more interactive! We are going to choose a subject, an introduction of 10 min. that follows with free discussion!  What do you think about it?

Moreover, we want to have some Panel sessions that prepared with a group that is working on a subject.  Do you have any idea? What about a group, a subject and 1-2 sessions of CaféLitt?

Tintin in CaféLitt

We will have a special session on Tintin on January. Dr. Heydari who is well known not only as a good dentist but also for his awesome talks in CaféLitt will give a serious talk about Tintin. Since this will be deep analysis of Tintin and not a story telling, please try to read some of Tintin albums before our session! This session will be held in French too on February.

Globalization

Last year, in our 2nd anniversary, we promise to enter the Canadian society and try to have more English or French sessions. Honestly, we are not successful yet. We are still looking for someone who can help us to arrange more international sessions. Please write your email if you can help us about this!

CaféLitt new children

CaféCinema will finish its first part (or program): Iranian Cinema. CaféPhilo works well and continue slowly but strongly. BookClub was not successfull and needs someone to take care of that. CaféTheatre is not active and will have session on "Waiting for Godot" by Becket soon. We are looking for two Boys to complete our "cast"!

Soon we will have a CaféMusique and CaféMemory. More information will be announced soon. All idea about any Café is welcome!

By the way, if you are a Poet, please contact us ASAP. We plan to have a poesy night every now and then in which you can read you own poems and talk about them.

Second Photo Contest, First short film Contest

After the successful experience of our first Photo competition (or contest), we are going to launch the second one soon. This will be more international and we start to make connection in other countries. Please let us know if you like to help us for this event.

If you like to be our sponsor, let us know by an email containing the information of your company, contact numbers and your logo till 15th December.

CaféLitt Imaginary Archive

If we have enough money, we will buy a camera to record some of the sessions and make an archive from these films for everyone all around the world! Something like a TED, in smaller scale!

Ethics

We have made a mistake once and send the CaféLitt email to "TO"! So your email addresses were visible! Herewith we would like to apologize about that. But unfortunately because internet is a new device for some people have no idea about the Ethics of internet. So some opportunists steal the emails and send their email to some of the Cafelitters without their permission! We would like to ask you to forward the emails that you doubt coming from our list, and you don't want to receive them, to CaféLitt, so we can ask the senders to stop abusing your email. Moreover we will write an article about Ethic soon in Hafteh, to teach the ethical issues of internet world.