NOWRUZ COMMISSION
Nowruz Commission is a non-profit global multi-cultural public diplomacy organization dedicated to promoting the spirit of Nowruz. Nowruz Commission is a non-religious, non-political organization that focuses on bringing people of different cultures together to celebrate Nowruz.
Nowruz means “New Day” in Persian. It signifies the celebration of the first day of Spring at the exact moment of the Vernal Equinox. Legend has it that it started 3,000 years ago in Persia. In the beginning, people of all origins celebrated it together. However, over time, this togetherness was lost. Each culture celebrated it on its own and in its own community. That was true until March 17, 2010, when for the first time in known history, nine countries and communities came together to form the Nowruz Commission, and once again celebrate this time-honored tradition together at the Library of Congress. *** Nowruz, literally meaning “new day,” has lived up to its name in wondrous ways. For at least three millennia, it has provided the supreme occasion for renewal and rejuvenation. The power behind its inexhaustible appeal resides in a simple truth: humans need a ritual that transcends distinct and distinguishable group identities to celebrate our common humanity.
Nowruz does so by inviting everyone to contemplate nature as it puts on its most magnificent dress at springtime and to synchronize personal and communal relations with the spirit of nature. Pointing to nature’s ability to renew itself each and every year, Nowruz manifests intense human yearnings that transcend all divisions. The roots of Nowruz are scattered in myth and in history in much of western Asia and is anchored most profoundly in Persian mythology, where it marks the beginning of the calendar. In recent centuries, as Empires in India and Iran, In Anatolia and Central Asia gave way to the modern countries, Nowruz has been celebrated in accordance with myriad local customs and traditions. Everywhere, however, it offers the promise of a human community in which a race of all races can create a new global culture beyond all nationhood and nationality. It aspires to no less than a human community as beautiful and colorful as nature on the first day of spring.
Mission: To revive the togetherness of all cultures who first celebrated Nowruz in the beginning. To promote and preserve not only the physical significance of Nowruz as a universal new year, but also its philosophical significance of renewal of the bonds of friendship, care and compassion around the world. Vision: To help cause a positive and measurable change in the lives of the people of Nowruz countries, their health, their education, their environment and their degree of care about people all over the world.
https://www.govserv.org/US/Washington-D.C./200860803333789/Nowruz-Commission