Door Dog Music Productions collaborating with Azerbaijani pianist Chingiz Sadykhov and with Afghani, Iranian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Assyrian master artists to create a program combining traditional and newly composed music with poetry, dance, and film. The binding thread among the artists is observance of the vernal equinox or Nowruz, whose pre-Islamic origins are embraced in different ways throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.