Fresno: Armenian Genocide Commemoration Preliminary Calendar of Events

February 15, 2015 By administrator

January 2-25, 2015 “Remembering Armenia” Photography Exhibit

Dr. Jane Kardashian and Michael Karibian

Spectrum Gallery, 608 E. Olive Ave, Fresno, California

Art Hop Reception Jan 8, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Open: Thursday 12:30-5:00 p.m.

Friday 12:30-8:00 p.m.

Saturday, Sunday11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Admission Free

January 24, 2015 Sayat Nova Choral Group of Los Angeles Hamazkayin

First Armenian Presbyterian Church

430 S. First Street, Fresno, California

January 8-February1 “/alter/pieces: degrees of sacrifice”

Hazel Antaramian-Hoffman art exhibit

Art Hop reception, Jan 8, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Fig Tree Gallery 644 Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, California

Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12:00-4:00 p.m. Admission Free

February 11, 2015 “The Armenian Genocide in Film: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives” Part I, first in a three-part series of lectures by Kazan visiting Professor Dr.Myrna Douzjian (UCLA).

Organized by the Armenian Studies Program, California State University, Fresno

University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium Room 191 7:30 p.m.

Admission Free

February 21, 2015 Armenian Cultural Day

(Backgammon Tournament, Music, Dancing, Costumes,

Arts and Crafts, Food Demonstrations, Coffee Reading) 2:00 p.m.

Fresno, Art Museum, 2233 N. First Street, Fresno, California 93703

Open Thursdays-Sundays 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Admission: $5.00 for non-members, Free for members

Children under 5 years of age are free

March 2- April 9 Art Exhibits:

“Armenia Observed”

Photography by Peter Carapetian

and they walked for you and for me

Installation by Joyce Gostanian Kierejczyk

Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College Admission Free

1101 E. University Ave., Fresno, California

Art Hop Reception March 9, 2014 4:00-8:00 p.m.

Hours: Monday/Tuesday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.,

Wednesday/Thursday 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Closed Friday-Sunday

Closed March 30-April 3

March 8, 2015 Chookasian Ensemble and Dance Troup

Armenian genocide, is about to land at the Eurovision song contest #armeniangenocide

February 15, 2015 By administrator

Turkey is not going to like the Eurovision this year.(AP Photo/ Photolure, Hayk Badalyan)

This year’s edition of Europe’s top kitsch-fest, which will be held in Vienna May 19-23, had already promised plenty of intrigue, with Ukraine withdrawing from the contest, Russia organizing a competing event (while still going for a Eurovision win), and the decidedly non-European nation of Australia planning to make its contest debut. Report http://qz.com

Now comes word that Armenia will present a song evoking the aftermath of the Armenian genocide.

This year’s Eurovision contest roughly coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Ottoman empire’s decimation of its Armenian minority. More than 1 million people who were living in what’s now Turkey were killed. Others scattered, seeding the modern Armenian diaspora.

The genocide, which began in April 1915, is still denied by the Turkish government; a trial underway in the European Court of Human Rights Court will test whether outlawing its denial is a violation of free speech.

Armenia will take part in Eurovision with a song evocatively titled Don’t deny, by Genealogy. The group will be comprised of artists from the Armenian diaspora—one each from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe—who will be joined on stage by an Armenian performer.

Armenian news agency Armenpress reports that the meaning behind the choice to have performers from five different parts of the world is to symbolize unity and peace.

The number goes along with the five petals of the Forget Me Not flower, and another participant will join the group and bring the “petals” together.

According to the Eurovision official website:

The idea is to unite a new generation of Armenians on stage whose families once spread all over the world in the year 1915.

The performers reportedly will include French-Armenian Essaï, who recently released Je n’oublie pas (I don’t forget), a song he dedicates, in the video, to “the 1.5 million Armenians, victims of the 1915 genocide.”

This is not the first time Eurovision has been tied to Armenian politics. In 2012, Armenia withdrew from the contest after the organizers selected Baku, Azerbaijan, as the host city of the event. Armenia and Azerbaijan had gone to war over the disputed South Caucasus territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in the 1990s, without ever getting to a resolution.

MARSEILLE Provence devoted an issue of its magazine Armenians Provence

February 14, 2015 By administrator

Marseille reception, La Provence

Reception at the headquarters of La Provence in Marseille for the launch of the magazine

Wonderful initiative of the newspaper La Provence in Marseille. The daily has published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide a special issue of its magazine “Armenians of Provence” (136 pages) on newsstands since Friday, February 13 (3.50 €). Thursday, February 12, on the eve of the launch of the magazine, the management of Provence had invited its drafting few dozen members and leaders of associations, political and cultural development of the Armenian community of Marseille. These discovered previewed this particularly rich number on the Armenians with sixty articles including “the roots of uprooted”, “Provence of the archives,” “a hundred years of memory”, “Faces of yesterday and today “and” address books “. Note also the interview with Charles Aznavour. “Armenians of Provence” according to La Provence is a “dive in the heart of a community that has been able to regain hope after the 1915 genocide and exile of the 1920s.” This tool will help Provençaux discover the intimacy of some 150,000 Armenians around them every day in the region.

Krikor Amirzayan in Marseille, text and photo report

Time to Unite time to #deturkification of Washington

France: Grand International Symposium: The genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the Great War

February 14, 2015 By administrator

Paris, Grand International Symposium,

Wednesday, March 25th – 16.30 / 8:30 p.m.

Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne 76 rue des Ecoles – 75005 Paris

Address by the President of the French Republic, FRANÇOIS HOLLAND

Messages of support

Address by the Rector of the Academy of Paris, FRANÇOIS WEIL

Address by the President of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

SIR PETER CYRILLE HAUTCOEUR

Inaugural Conference of MR YVES TERNON historian, member of the Scientific Council of the Holocaust Memorial, president of CSI

Thursday 26 March, 9h30-19h00,

Shoah Memorial

17 rue Geoffroy The Asnier, 75004 Paris

First Panel: 10.00-12.30

Space-time, the steps of the genocidal process

Chair: Catherine Nicault, historian, University of Reims. Discussant: Stephan Astourian, historian, UC Berkeley

Interventions:

1. The legacy of Abdülhamid II. Janet Klein, Historian, University of Akron.

2. The Ottoman opposition, the Committee of Union and Progress and 1908. Erdal Kaynar Revolution, historian, Polonsky Academy of the Van Leer Institute, EHESS.

3. The “European Concert” and reforms in the eastern provinces, 1878-1914. Claire Mouradian, historian, CNRS.

4. The Special Organization. Cetinoglu known historian, Free University of Ankara.

5. The entry of the Ottoman Empire in the war, from 1914 to 1915. Mustafa Aksakal, historian, Georgetown University.

12h30-13h30: lunch

Second Panel: 13.30-15.00

Perpetrators, Victims, Rescuers

Chair: Richard Hovannisian, historian, UCLA.

Discussant: Vincent Duclert, historian, EHESS.

Interventions:

1. The first phase of the Destruction: Deportations and Massacres (April-August 1915). Raymond Kevorkian, historian, University of Paris VIII.

2. The second phase of the genocide. KM-historian, Rutgers University.

3. Forced conversions. Umit Kurt, historian, Sabancı University.

15.00-15.15: Pause

Third Panel: 15h15-16h20

Witnesses

Chair: Wolfgang Gust, journalist. Discussant: Ara Sarafian, historian, Gomidas Institute.

Interventions:

1. European and American Witnesses. Hans-Lukas Kieser, historian, University of Zurich.

2. Armenian Witnesses. Amatuni Virabyan, historian, State Archives of Armenia.

16h20-16h30: pause

Fourth Panel: 16h30-19h00

Other minorities Empire

Chair: Gérard Chaliand, geostrategist. Discussant: Laurent-Olivier Mallet, historian, University of Montpellier.

Interventions:

1. The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth century. Georges Bensoussan, historian, the Holocaust Memorial.

2. The complexity of the genocide of the Assyrian-Chaldeans. David Gaunt, a historian, Centre for Baltic and East European University of Soedertoern.

3. Ottoman Greeks. Sia Anagnostopoulou, historian, University of Athens.

4. Kurdish-Yezidi-Armenians, many facets of a community in exile (s). Estelle Amy of Bretèque, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, CNRS.

Day 2: Friday, March 27, 9h30-20h30

EHESS

Amphitheatre Furet

105 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris

Fifth Panel: 10.00-12.30

Logic of war, economic, ideological.

Chair: Joël Kotek, a political scientist, historian, University of Brussels. Discussant: Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, historian, EHESS.

Interventions:

1. Logical ideological, demographic and economic genocide. Hamit Bozarslan, political scientist, historian, EHESS.

2. The logic of pre-genocidal massacres. Vincent Duclert, historian, EHESS.

3. The evolution of the Caucasian front. Peter Holquist, historian, University of Pennsylvania.

4. The mechanisms of decision making of the Young Turk leadership (1913-1915). Erik-Jan Zürcher, historian, University of Leiden.

5. The spoliation of property during the Armenian genocide. Mehmet Polatel, historian, Koç University.

12h30-13h30: lunch

Sixth Panel: 13h30-16h00

International relations and criminal law

Chair: Peter Mertens, lawyer, Sociology of Literature Centre, Free University of Brussels.

Discussant: Vincent Nioré, lawyer and president of the Institute of Criminal Law.

Interventions:

1. The trial of Constantinople (1919-1920). Mikaël Nichanian, historian, National Library of France.

2. breaking the consensus. The Perinçek case, the Armenian genocide and international criminal law. Sevane Garibian, lawyer, Universities of Geneva and Neuchâtel.

3. The status of Armenian stateless refugees and international action of the League of Nations and the International Labour Office. Dzovinar Kevonian, historian, Institute for Political Social Sciences, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

4. Raphael Lemkin, the extermination of the Armenians and the invention of the word genocide. Annette Becker, historian, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

5. Lemkin and the Armenian genocide, a legal play. Olivier Beauvallet, international judge.

16h00-16h15: Pause

Seventh Panel: 16h15-18h20

Historiography, a new research field

Chair: Michel Marian, philosopher, Institute of Political Studies in Paris. Discussant: Edhem Eldem, historian, Boğaziçi University.

Interventions:

1. The historiography of the Armenian genocide, a new field of research. Gaïdz Minassian, journalist and political scientist, Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

2. Reflections on Ottoman historiography (years 1960-1990) about the role of non-Muslims and the Ottoman Armenians in commerce and the urban economy. Stephan Astourian, historian, University of Berkeley.

3. The Ottoman governors opposed to deportations and massacres of Armenians. Ayhan Aktar, historian, Bilgi University.

4. The speech of Turkey on the Armenian genocide. Jennifer Dixon, political scientist, Villanova University.

18h20-18h30: Pause

Eighth Panel: 18h30-20h30

Perspectives on clearing trails or the Armenian ghost.

Chair: Patrick Donabedian, art historian, University of Aix-Marseille. Discussant: Antoine Spire, journalist, vice president of Lycra.

Interventions:

1. The permanent traces of the 1915 genocide in the Armenian memory; role of politics in their registration or erasure. Janine Altounian, essayist, translator of Freud.

2. The confiscation and destruction of wealth and property of Armenians and genocide. Dickran Kouymjian, historian, California State University.

3. Photographing after. Pascaline Marre, photographer and Anouche Kunth, historian, CNRS.

Aram Andonian 4. The Nubar library and the creation of a heritage in exile after the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians. Boris Adjemian, historian, Library Nubar AGBU.

3rd Day: Saturday, March 28, 9h30-19h30

National Library of France Quai François Mauriac, 75013 Paris

Ninth Panel: 10.00-12.30

Storage, transmission, history, negation

Chair: Henry Rousso, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Claude Mutafian historian.

Interventions:

1. The sacrifice, witness and forgiveness: The Candidate Zareh Vorpouni. Marc Nichanian, professor of philosophy, Sabancı University.

2. Gender, genocide survival. Islamized Armenians again working memory. Ayşe Gül Altinay, anthropologist, Sabancı University.

3. Teaching genocide: European examples. Alban Perrin, historian, the Holocaust Memorial, Institute of Political Studies in Bordeaux.

4. The Founding Myths of Turkish denial. Büşra Ersanli, political scientist, University of Marmara.

5. The memory of the genocide in Turkish Armenians. Hira Kaynar, historian, EHESS.

12h30-13h30: lunch

Tenth Panel: 13.30-15.00

Specificities and comparatismes, I

Chairman: Jean-Pierre Chrétien, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Meir Waintrater journalist.

Interventions: 1. Genocidal thinking: a comparative perspective. Dominik Schaller, historian, University of Heidelberg.

2. Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks by the Ottomans. Roger Smith, historian, College of William and Mary.

3. The Armenian Genocide in the light of a general theory of genocide. Bruneteau Bernard, Professor of Political Science, University of Rennes I.

15.00-15.15: Pause

Eleventh Panel: 15h15-17h00

Specificities and comparatismes, II

Chair: Claire Mouradian, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Yves Ternon, historian, member of the Scientific Council of the Shoah Memorial.

Interventions:

1. Uniqueness of the Holocaust. Christian Ingrao, historian, CNRS.

2. Singularity of the famine in Ukraine. Nicolas Werth, historian, CNRS.

3. Uniqueness of the Tutsi genocide. Helene Dumas, historian, EHESS.

17h00-17h15: pause

Closing Conference: 5:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. President: Gaïdz Minassian, journalist and political scientist, Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

Interventions: 1. Report of the symposium. Raymond Kevorkian, historian, University of Paris VIII.

2. 1915 and the social sciences. Taner Akcam, historian, University of Clarke.

3. Turkism and pan-Turkism. Erik-Jan Zürcher, historian, University of Leiden.

4. The contemporary denial and its defenders. Richard Hovannisian, historian, UCLA.

5. The outlook from the perspective of international justice. Nicholas Koumjian, prosecutor at the international courts.

6. The issue of research on the Armenian genocide in Turkey. Ragıp Zarakolu, editor.

Practical information

Registration by mail in the number of places available

colloquecsi@gmail.com

http://centenaire.org/fr/espace-scientifique/colloquesseminaires/le-genocide-des-armeniens-de-lempire-ottoman-dans-la-grande

Hammer Museum to Mark Genocide Centennial with Year-Long Film Series

January 28, 2015 By administrator

LOS ANGELES—Throughout 2015, the Hammer Museum will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide with a yearlong film series, “I Am Armenian: A Year of Armenian Culture and History on Film,” and a Hammer Forum discussion, “The Armenian Genocide: A Century of Denial.” The year will be dedicated to exploring the many facets of Armenian culture, history and landscape beginning with the screening of “Calendar” (1993) on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 7:30 p.m.

Attending a Hammer public program is free and tickets will be available on site at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour before the program begins. More information about admission is below and online at hammer.ucla.edu.

Announced Films:

“Calendar”
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m.
A photographer traveling in Armenia for a calendar project realizes that his wife, an Armenian translator, is falling in love with their driver and unofficial tour guide. The Academy Award-nominated director, Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”), reveals the unraveling of a marriage through a series of flash-forwards. (1993, Dir. A. Egoyan). Question and answer session with Dr. Carla Garapedian and Robert Lantos, producer of Ararat, to follow.

“The Lark Farm” (“La Masseria Delle Allodole”)
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.
An Armenian family becomes caught up in the Ottoman Turkish government’s annihilation of the Armenian people between 1915 and 1923. This Italian film by brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani is adapted from the best-selling novel by Antonia Arslan. (2007, Dir. P. & V. Taviani). Question and answer session with Dr. Carla Garapedian and Dr. Siobhan Nash-Marshall to follow.

“Ravished Armenia”
Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.
The 1919 silent film Ravished Armenia tells the incredible story of Aurora Mardiganian, an Armenian girl caught up in the 1915 Armenian Genocide. After witnessing the murder of her family, Aurora was kidnapped, forced to march over fourteen hundred miles and sold into slavery before finally escaping to Europe and then the U.S. Her story was the basis for a hugely popular book and film, starring Aurora herself, which was seen by thousands of people around the world. Filmmaker Carla Garapedian, from the Armenian Film Foundation, and Anthony Slide, author of “Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian” and former film historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, bring Aurora’s story to life with rare film clips and photos.

“Aghet – Ein Völkermord”
Tuesday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
The prizewinning film “Aghet” (Armenian for “the catastrophe”) by acclaimed German filmmaker Eric Friedler tells the story of the Armenian genocide, one of the darkest chapters of the First World War. Though there is an international consensus that up to 1.5 million Armenians died in the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Armenian genocide is still not recognized by Turkey as a historical fact. “Aghet” deals with the political motives for this continuing silence. This innovative German documentary relies on authentic testimonies by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time and Armenian survivors. Famous German actors give these eyewitnesses finally the opportunity to make their voices heard. (2010, Dir. E. Friedler). Director Eric Friedler will join for a discussion following the screening.

Upcoming 2015 screenings, for which dates and information are to be announced, include “The River Ran Red,” “The Color of Pomegranates,” “Without Gorky,” “The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia,” “Vodka Lemon,” “Here,” “Silk Stockings,” and “A Story of People in War and Peace.”

Hammer Forum: The Armenian Genocide: A Century of Denial

Wednesday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m.
Armenians and human rights advocates around the world commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide, in which an estimated 1.5 million people were killed between 1915 and 1923. Richard Hovannisian, a professor of Armenian and Near Eastern History at UCLA, and David L. Phillips, director of the Peace-building and Rights Program at Columbia University, offer an in-depth look at the Turkish refusal to recognize the genocide and efforts to foster dialogue and reconciliation between Turks and Armenians. Hammer Forum is moderated by Ian Masters, journalist, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and host of the radio programs Background Briefing, Sundays at 11 a.m., and The Daily Briefing, Monday through Thursday at 5 p.m., on KPFK 90.7 FM.

Hammer Forum is made possible in part by Bronya and Andrew Galef.

Hammer Presents: Honoring the Armenian Masters

Sunday, April 19, 2:00 p.m.
Co-presented by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Members of the Armenian Music Ensemble at UCLA and the VEM String Quartet present a chamber music program of masterworks by Armenian classical music in commemoration of the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

All Hammer public programs are free. Tickets for assigned seating in the Billy Wilder Theater are required and available at the Box Office one hour before each program. Early arrival is recommended. Tickets are available one per person on a first come, first served basis.

As a benefit for their support, members enjoy priority ticketing and seat selection, subject to availability.

Parking is available under the museum for a flat fee of $3 after 6PM.

All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA.

Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and all Hammer members.

Visit hammer.ucla.edu for current exhibition and program information and call 310-443-7041 for tours.

Remembering Hrant Dink 8th Commemoration series of events list

January 17, 2015 By administrator

Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Canakkale, Bursa, The İskenderun,

London, Lyon, Vienna, Massachusetts, Ottawa, Toronto, Los Angeles,

Berlin, Brussels, Paris.

At 13:30 on January 19 in Taksim, 15.00 te front of Agos, we’re they shot him. AHPARİG are HERE!

“Centenary year of 1915, the coverage of the murder of Hrant Dink, the darkened evidence, the protection and defense of the killer, responsible for the concealment of murder in state court on behalf of the eighth year of müsamere done.”

Istanbul

HDPE in a press release before the event and then march organized by the Sisli organization and documentaries will be screened.

Date: January 18 Sunday

Walking 16.00 Liberation Cad.

Press release: 17.00 Pangaltı subway stop

Documentary: 18.00 HDPE building Sisli

Istanbul

ODP Istanbul Provincial Organization, ‘Hrant’s light to build the future’ is organizing a meeting entitled. Sage also be a memorial concert event of distinguished Cetinkaya, Burhan Sonmez, Ercan Kesal, İsmail Saymaz, Masis Kurkcugil, Nedim Sener, who will speak Sayat mullet and Yetvart Danziky.

Date: January 16 Friday

Location: Kent Theatre

Time: 19:30

Istanbul

Will be held at the Green House, and the Hrant Dink murder case in the light of “Discrimination and Hate Speech” journalist Murad Mıhçı in on conversations and participate as a speaker, writer and journalist Adnan Young.

Location: Green Home

Date: January 16 Friday

Time: 19:00

Istanbul

‘Say Stop to Racism and Nationalism! At a meeting held Initiative Dink murder trial of progress and justice will be stationed.

Speakers:

– Cengiz Aktar, – Cuneyt Sarıyaşar – Eren Keskin – Shares of Garou – Angels Ulagay – Senol Karakas – Ufuk Uras – Yetvart Danziky the

Date: January 17, 2015, Saturday Time: 16:00

Location: Algeria Restaurant

Istanbul

Anatolian Culture and Research Association, in the year 100. 1915 Armenian and Assyrian Genocide, “is Common Struggle of the People” is organizing a symposium titled.

Location: Ismail Beşikçi Foundation

Date: January 18 Time: 13:00

Istanbul

“We salute our neighbors … January 19, Monday, 19:30 Bakırköy Liberty Square, ‘Fascism persist brother Hrant’ We meet to say.”

Meeting place: Bakirkoy Freedom Square

Posted: January 19 Time: 19:30

Istanbul

Umit Kivanc, what happened after Dink’s murder, and to describe the process. Since the early days of the details of the case, and not the will to share with us, to answer our questions.

Location: Kargart

Date: January 22, 2015, Thursday Time: 20:00

https://www.facebook.com/events/1442604185962084/?ref=br_rs

Ankara

Ankara Initiative for Freedom of Thought, “in 1915 – Hrant and Justice is organizing a symposium.

Location: Çankaya Municipality Contemporary Arts Center

Date: Saturday 17 January Time: 15:00 to 20:00

Ankara

Ankara Aka Der Art, ‘the water finds cracks’ in the title, in memory of Hrant Dink is organizing a three-day series of events:

Date: Saturday 17 January Poetry Reading-Partner Partners Stage

Location: AKA-DER Red Crescent branch Time: 19:30

Date: January 22, Thursday

Short Film Screening-And Movie

Location: Pendulum Café Time: 19:00

https://www.facebook.com/events/317921385085565/?ref=br_rs

Ankara

YSGP Ankara Provincial Organization, the HDPE Party Assembly member Rudi Sayat Pulaty who will perform an interview with the Armenian Genocide, Hrant Dink will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the scope. ‘100 Years of Lamentations: 1915 Genocide, Hrant Yesterday and Today’ interview in the history of the title as follows:

Location: YSGP Ankara Provincial Building – Ziya Gökalp Cad. Atac-1 Sokak No: 42/5

Date: Thursday January 15, 2015 Time: 18: 30-20: 30

Ankara:

Will be held at the Middle East Technical University in Hrant Dink memorial lecture, Hrant Dink, Sarkis Seropyan to tell friends and Pakrat Estukyan work together Agosta.

Location: METU CCC-Auditorium Date: January 16 Friday Time: 14:00

Ankara:

‘Other Bicycle’ initiative, the journalists who were killed in the streets of Ankara to pedalla to commemorate Hrant Dink before. QuickChina street route, the Navy Üçok’s house, Muammer Aksoy, Ahmet Taner Kışlalı’nın have street. Musa Anter, Turan Dursun, Text Göktepe and crunch Emeç’l with “here we ahparig” will be called.

Meeting point: Human Rights Monument in Yuksel Street
January 18, 2015, Sunday Time: 11:00

https://www.facebook.com/events/377115219117205/?ref=br_rs

Izmir

Izmir Confrontation Workshop, a number of speech commemorating Hrant Dink.

Program as follows: Wednesday, January 14th, at 19.00,

We are searching for justice for Hrant:

Stars Ramazanoğlu (Author, Activist), Erol Bakırcıoğlu (Author, Activist)

January 15th at 19.00,

One Hundred Years of Seeking Justice:

Ferhat Kentel (Academic, City University),

Gulp Kurtoğlu (Academic, Ege University)

January 16, Friday at 19:00,

From January 19 to January 19: Documentary screening and hope Kıvanç’l Interview

Saturday 17 January, 17:00

Movies and Music concert conscience representation

https://www.facebook.com/events/866008343451731/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regu are

Canakkale

‘Friends of Hrant platform “, Hrant Dink’s death anniversary was called to action.

Posted: 19 January Monday
Location: Çanakkale Clock Tower
Time: 19:00

Bursa:

Hrant Dink murder in 8. stood in Bursa.

Meeting place: Setbaşı / Mahfel

Posted: January 19 Time: 18:00

The İskenderun:

Hrant Dink’s death anniversary held in Iskenderun in a memorial service.

Posted: January 19
Location: Painters Park
Time: 12:30

London

Organized by the Armenian Institute of Hrant Dink memorial event in the hope kivanc January 19 to January ’19: Justice for Hrant ‘and Gülengül Altintas’ Children do not get lost’ films will be shown.

Location: Armenian Home

Date: January 15 Time: 19:30

Lyon:

Ugab Hrant Dink memorial event organized by Karin Karakaşlı the last 20 years in Turkey to view a speech on the Armenian issue.

Location: Centre Culturel Alex Manoogian

Date: Saturday 17 January Time: 16:00

Vienna

A ceremony will be held in memory of Hrant Dink in Vienna Church.

Posted: Sunday, January 18 Time: 11:00

Massachusetts

MIT Armenian community (Mitas) and will make a documentary on the murder of Hrant Dink Bostonbul of joint activities. Besides, to talk about his friend Stephan of Dink Dink in the Cinar Gigi.

Date: 01/18/2016 Time: 13:00

Ottawa:

‘Garod / Longing – Longing’ will be the screening of the movie.

Location: Public Library Main Branch Auditorium

Date: January 18 Sunday Time: 14:00

Toronto

Armenian memorial event will be held at the Community Center to discuss Fethiye Çetin.

Location: Armenian Community Centre

Date: January 18 Sunday Time: 15:00

LA

Richard Hrair Dekmeji and Taner Akcam, speak to organize commemorative events Association of Istanbul Armenians.

Date: January 18 Sunday Time: 18:00

Berlin

Maxim Gorki Theater event will be held at the same time to make a speech Dink’s high school teacher who Mıgırdiç Margosyan. Followed by a performance artist Alina Manoukian over to family history.

Brussels:

Rakel Dink, Moraes and Paul Alexis Gavciyan talk commemorative event will be held with the support of the European Parliament.

Date: January 21 Location: Yehudi Menuhin Center

Paris:

L’Assemblée des Originaires citoyenne de Turquie (L’ACORT) and Le Collectif du Rêve Commun’s (CRC) meeting held in Levent Şensev will talk Aris and Zara Nazarian.

Location: Mairie du 10e – Salle des Fetes
Posted: January 23 Time: 19:00

Paris

‘Peniche Anako’, Hrant Dink, the murder of 8 years in a music concert and will commemorate the meeting.

Location: Peniche Anako
Date: January 18 Friday Time: 16:00

* This list is hranticinadaleticin.blogspot.com.t was prepared by compiling the address.

Teenage Armenian Girl Performs The Fifth Element’s “Diva Dance” on The Voice

January 17, 2015 By administrator

by Jill Pantozzi

Victoria Hovhannisyan is a famous soprano in Armenia. While Albanian soprano Inva Mula originally sang the Diva Plavalaguna’s famous song for Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, Hovhannisyan, with her five-octave range, has also been known to favorite the “Diva Dance” tune (the first part of the song comes from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor). The clip above comes from when she performed on Russia’s version of The Voice. The best is when you notice the judges know the movie by heart.

Here’s the completed film performance.

And here’s the original, full performance, as it was filmed.

And another extra from the DVD featuring the actress who played her, Maïwenn:

Source: themarysue.com

Kim, Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian to visit Armenia in April

January 13, 2015 By administrator

According to EOnline, Khloé Kardashian, Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian are planning to travel to their paternal ancestral homeland in April.

The specifics are still being worked out for their family milestone journey, but Kim is set to take daughter North West with her, while Kourtney will be traveling with kids Mason,Penelope and Reign as well. Several cousins are also expected to be along for the continent-crossing ride.

Kim’s hubby, Kanye West, will make the trip if his upcoming touring schedule allows.

“Visiting Armenia has been on Kim’s bucket list forever,” a family insider tells us. “They are all so excited! They want to learn about their heritage.”

Move: Scandal Parajanov: theatrical release on January 7

January 6, 2015 By administrator

On January 7, the film comes out in theaters Serge Avedikian: The Scandal Parajanov or the tumultuous life of a Soviet artist. I report here this bright film about a mischievous and unclassifiable creator. I also mentioned my meeting in Yerevan (Armenia), four years before his death, with the director censored and suppressed by the Soviet power.

When passing Serge Avedikian in civilian life, one can not imagine he interprets Sergei Parajanov: Yet the transformation is amazing, it really seems to see come to life before our eyes of spectators marveled author fiery horses.

The story of the film begins in Kiev in 1958 precisely during the filming of Horses, and later in Yerevan Sayat Nova. In 1973, he was imprisoned in Ukraine, as the authorities seek to destroy with the perversity of zeks (common law prisoners). But Parajanov is a holy man. He is an artist and he will give zeks drawings, playing cards porn, to their great joy. So, they will protect it. It holds up through this activity. If he is imprisoned is that the authorities accused him his homosexuality under Article 121 of the Soviet Constitution.

Cinema full house for “The Cut” by Fatih Akin screened last night in Valencia preview

December 6, 2014 By administrator

Friday, December 5 as part of the launch of the Armenian Heritage Centre program, offered in Films Valencia Ship (Drôme) preview screening of the film “The Cut” by Fatih Akin. The public responded in large numbers because instead of a single room “The Cut” was screened in two halls that hosted more than 300 people.

During more than two hours, the audience impressed by Fatih Akin film on the moving story of an Armenian family decimated by the Armenian Genocide held its breath. At the end of the film, he made a large ovation with applause.

Cyril Desire, film director The ship then called one of the producers of “The Cut” the French Stéphane Parthenay which gave new Fatih Akin returned the same day in Istanbul where he oversaw the film in near twenty rooms in Turkey. Stéphane Parthenay who claimed that Fatih Akin held in Valencia this projection that identifies an important Armenian community then answered many questions from the public.

“Fatih Akin expectations of the distribution of the film in France in view of the large Armenian community and the genocide issue which is more sensitive in France compared to Germany,” he said and added ” by addressing the issue of the Armenian genocide, Fatih Akin hopes to raise awareness in Turkey.

“ The mayor of Valencia, Nicolas Daragon welcomed this event, which is one of the first of a long series of 2015 program Armenian Heritage Centre. Piatton Laure, director of the Armenian Heritage Centre also mentioned the rich program that CPA offer throughout 2015. Annie Koulaksezian-delegated Romy Community Advisor CPA stressed the many events scheduled at the CPA. Annie Koulaksezian Romy-like Nicolas Daragon stressing that 2015 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the city and the metropolitan area have decided to encourage multiple events.

Krikor Amirzayan