Esfandiar is the founder of جلسه ادبی پنجشنبه ها Pardis Literary Group later on changed to "Thursday Literary Group" - The Society of Creative Artists- from 1995 until 2005. The group runs over 200 gatherings and over 5000 hours of critical debates which are ready to be published on the web. Below are the original documents related to my report to the public in International Hotel in London when the group went public after many years of private gatherings.
there is a list of sample programs of the long list of group activities.
the group introduced art and critical thinking more actively than any other Iranian Community in London at the time. The number of talks was more than the Pen Society and the Society of Writers in Exile in literature and art we were more active than the Iranian Community in London, Kanoon Iran, and the Iranian Community in West of London (Omid).
Pardis then changed the name to the "Thursday Group" since the gathering was on Thursdays.
in my note I explain how the group formed and where the meeting took place.