Photo young violinst entertaining the audience at the talent show.

Badasht’s traditional Saturday Night Talent Show: National Spiritual Assembly member Erica Toussaint, entranced by the performance of a difficult piece of classical music by fifth-grader Maryam Baghdadi. Erica was extremely popular (no surprise) with the children and youth, and her gracious presence was certainly one of the reasons the school went so well despite having more than 50 people attend than the facility is designed to handle.