Visiting Hours of Zanjan Book Fair Extended

Zanjan – Executive Secretary of the 11th Zanjan Book Fair Announces Extended Visiting Hours until 10 p.m. on the Fair's Final Days, and Praises Citizens' Unprecedented Welcome and Cultural Campaigns

According to the report of Iran's Ambassador Arjan in Zanjan, due to the enthusiastic and wide reception of different classes of people, families, elites and book and literature enthusiasts, the visiting hours of the 11th edition of the country's book fair at the permanent site of international exhibitions in Zanjan province (Caspian) increased in the final days.

Farzad Valimoghadam, Executive Secretary of the 11th Zanjan Book Fair announced this news to the journalists and stated: In view of the unprecedented reception of the culture-loving people of the province and in response to the demands of culture and art people to benefit more from the exhibition space, the visiting time on Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th October will be extended for one hour and the doors of the exhibition will be open to the public until 10:00pm.

Referring to the significant cultural dynamics of this event at the province level, he stated: Zanjan is always one of the leading hubs in events promoting knowledge, and the variety of departments, booths of executive bodies, and the provision of book-based trainings and consultations have been able to connect diverse audiences with cultural spaces.

The executive secretary of the 11th Zanjan Book Fair also pointed to the effectiveness of the side programs and added: "The Book Vow for Knowledge" popular campaign and the donation of books to prison inmates have been warmly welcomed by well-meaning citizens, and so far a significant amount of books have been donated by the people, which is undoubtedly a lasting step in the promotion of cultural justice.

According to Ambassador Arjan, the 11th book fair of the country's publishers has been held in Zanjan by the efforts of the Iran Book and Literature House and the General Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Zanjan province after a 7-year break, with the main slogan "Let's read for Iran" and the presence of about 300 publishers from all over the country. In this course, nearly 20,000 titles in the form of more than 100,000 book covers in specialized, academic, literature, Islamic studies, history, and the special section for children and adolescents have been exposed and selected by the audience.

One of the most obvious executive features of this course is the implementation of the new "centralized book sale" model; A modern structure that, instead of the traditional separation of booths, provides the possibility of centralized access, shelf arrangement and final settlement at the checkout for customers, and has significantly improved the speed of the purchase cycle.

Also, allocation of book subsidy with a 30% discount up to the purchase limit of 2 million Tomans and a general discount of 10% for excess purchases, led to new records in book sales per capita in the province. In such a way that in the first 3 days of the event, more than 5,400 volumes of books were bought by lovers of culture and literature in the capital of Hosseini's passion and enthusiasm.

Among the other initiatives of this cultural event is the allocation of exhibition days to the names of the cities of Zanjan province (Nazir Abhar, Khodabande and Soltanieh) in order to introduce the cultural capacities, honor the local pride and hold poetry nights and literary review meetings with the presence of well-known figures in the field of books.

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