The Shiraz Arts Festival was an arts festival held annually from 1967 to 1977 in the Iranian city Shiraz. Its creation was suggested by Farah Pahlavi and sponsored by National Iranian Radio & Television. The festival included music, dance, and theater, performed in the ruins of Persepolis, and attracted national and international artists, including Parisa, Yehudi Menuhin, Ravi Shankar, Ram Narayan, Vilayat Khan, Iannis Xenakis, Peter Brook, John Cage, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joseph Chaikin, Jerzy Grotowski, Valda Setterfield, and Merce Cunningham. Following the Iranian Revolution, the festival was discontinued. [1]