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Exhibition of Armenian Artists Opens in Istanbul

September 4, 2015 By administrator

The works Scout Tufankjian and other Armenian artists will be featured at the exhibit in Istanbul (Photo: Scout Tufankjian)

The works Scout Tufankjian and other Armenian artists will be featured at the exhibit in Istanbul (Photo: Scout Tufankjian)

ISTANBUL (Public Radio of Armenia)—A new exhibition at Istanbul’s Depo gallery takes a closer look at personal and communal affiliations in the Armenian diaspora, “scattered like pomegranate seeds across the world.”

“Grandchildren: New Geographies of Belonging” opened today at Depo in Istanbul’s Tophane neighborhood, and will run until November 1, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

“In a global context where mobility and the virtual world challenge established identifications with national societies, ethnic groups or religions, Armenians can be considered a good example of a group with a long, cosmopolitan and globalized history,” Depo says about the show on its website. The exhibition includes works from Armenian artists based around the world. It is coordinated by Silvina Der-Meguerditchian and organized in cooperation with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Federal Foreign Office Germany, the Goethe Institut- Istanbul, Anadolu Kultur, the Cultural Academy Tarabya, and Heinrich Boll Stiftung.

The works of Achot Achot (Yerevan/Paris), Marian Bedoian (Buenos Aires), Talin Buyukkurkciyan (Istanbul), Hera Buyuktasciyan (Istanbul), Silvina Der-Meguerditchian (Buenos Aires/Berlin), Linda Ganjian (New York), Archi Galentz (Moscow/Berlin), Karine Matsakyan (Yerevan)  Mikayel Ohanjanyan (Yerevan/Florenz), Ani Setyan (Istanbul), Arman Tadevosyan (Gyumri/Nancy), Scout Tufankjian (New York) and Marie Zolamian (Beirut/Liege) are included in the exhibition.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian, exhibition, istanbule

“Genocide after Genocide” exhibition to be displayed at the European Parliament

July 17, 2015 By administrator

By Siranush Ghazanchyan,

Genocide-after-Genocide-1-620x300An exhibition titled “Genocide after Genocide” opened today at the Union of Architects of Armenia. Thirty-two posters in Armenian and English present the monuments of Western Armenia destroyed by Turkish authorities.

The exhibition was previously displayed in Stepanakert, Ijevan and Vanadzor. This fall it will be taken to  Brussels and will be on display at the European Parliament. It will later move to other European cities, including Lyon and Amsterdam.

Samvel Karapetyan, President of the Research on Armenian Architecture Fund, said at the opening ceremony that the initiative aims to show what has been happening in our historic homeland ever since 1915. According to him, the current generations must be informed about our cultural legacy. “If the monuments are endangered, we have a duty to keep the public informed about the cultural genocide,” he said.

Source: armradio.am

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: European Parliament, exhibition, “GenocGenocide

Hranouch Hagopian inaugurated at the Intercontinental Hotel Hôtel Dieu in Marseille the exhibition “apricot blossom” in the genocide centennial

June 20, 2015 By administrator

10897073_10205464355782491_1371915397176264618_n-480x380-480x380As part of the events marking the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, Friday, June 19, Hagopian Hranouch the Minister of Diaspora, arrived in Marseilles with HE Viguen Tchitetchian, Ambassador of Armenia to France visited Intercontinental Hotel Dieu hotel for the inauguration of the exhibition “apricot blossom” presented by the Marseilles Provence 2015 Armenia headed by Angèle Melkonian. Among those present, Samuel Lalayan the Armenian Consul in Marseilles, Didier Parakian the Deputy Mayor of Marseille and one of the leaders of Armenia Marseille Provence 2015, Richard Findykian Deputy Mayor of the 9th and 10th, Hratchya Aslanyan responsible for the Diaspora Armenian Ministry of Europe, director Patrick Malakian, Councillor Colette Babouchian, sculptor Toros accompanied by his wife Mary, and other personalities and artists. Photos Isahak Akkayan

Krikor Amirzayan

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: apricot blossom, armenain, exhibition, France, Marseille

Turkey: ‘So, as it turns out, I’m Armenian’

May 4, 2015 By administrator

The “Onlar” (Them) multi-screen video exhibit can be visited at SALT Galata until June 28.(Photo: Kenan Sunar)

By JÜLİDE GÜNGÖR

An older woman wearing a yellow dress appears on the TV screen.

210760_newsdetailShe is from Hemşin, and her maternal grandmother is a teacher of Islam. The woman in the yellow dress explains that many years later she returned for a visit. On doing some research, she discovered that she and her grandmother actually shared something unexpected — they were both Armenian. There are so many other stories like this in Turkey: the Jewish child not allowed to hold the flagstick at school, the young soldier not allowed to speak Kurdish with his mother, etc. The “others” of Turkey are all at SALT Galata in the exhibition “Onlar” (Them) right now. report ZAMAN

Let’s start off with the woman wearing red shoes about whom we know nothing, except that she is Jewish, before she starts talking: “When I was in primary school, our flag ceremony would always take place in a closed salon. A flag would be brought into the middle of the salon, and everyone had to put their hands out and hold the flagstick together; kids would volunteer for this. You’d raise your hand if you wanted to, and then go and hold the stick. Everyone wanted to do it, me included. So one day I went up to hold the flagstick, but I was sent back! I didn’t understand why at the time. Years later, I realized that it was completely identity based; I had been sent back because I was Jewish. I don’t know if it was thought that maybe Jewish peoples’ hands were dirty, or what, but I wasn’t meant to hold that flagstick.”

The truth is there are many citizens in Turkey who have shared similar stories. There are those who weren’t able to learn their native Zaza language, a Kurdish dialect from their grandparents for fear of retribution. The soldier who couldn’t speak to his mother for years as he was on military duty and couldn’t be overheard speaking Kurdish, though she only knew Kurdish. The youth whose mother would warn him whenever he left home, “Keep your Armenian identity a secret out there!”

Of course, these sorts of stories can be found all over the world, but in Turkey, the official version of events has been widely heard and accepted by the masses. This is why we sometimes feel strange when we encounter not the official, but the personal versions and accounts of what really happened way back when.

Citizen, speak Turkish!

İpek Duben deserves congratulations for her work. She gathered stories from 24 people of varying ethnicities, religions, languages and so on, and has put them all up for display and thought by those heading over to the SALT Galata gallery to see the “Onlar” exhibition.

The exhibition gives space to stories and memories from Kurdish, Alevi, Armenian, Jewish and Roma citizens of Turkey. Headscarved women and women who are victims of violence are also included in this exhibition. Curiously, there is no Turkish Greek voice. Apparently, Duben was unable to find anyone from this group willing to participate in this exhibition.

What we have in this new SALT exhibition is a serious vista of Turkey, one that needs to be heard. Duben herself says, “Whether you agree or not, you need to listen to these voices,” adding, “Everyone seems to have their own ‘Citizen, speak Turkish!’ memory in this country, myself included.”

State’s minority policies responsible for all of this

But how do we meet on middle ground? We hear from a young woman in blue busy perusing the show: “When we remove the fear of being ‘other,’ this entire business goes back to the state. If high school students weren’t treated to half a page of information on the events of 1915, if the talk didn’t always circle back to the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia [ASALA] when the topic of Armenians comes up, well, if these things weren’t the case, maybe coming together would have been easier. I think the factor that has made us all so late to confront these realities, that has made things drag on for so long, has been the state policies on minorities. We are talking about policies that have simply never allowed people to stand as one, to come together.”

This multi-screened video installation is on display until June 28. If you are in the mood to allow your mind some new confusion or to dispel any doubts about the power of our state, head over to see this. Because as Celal Salik noted in his book recently, “The deep differences between our citizens’ personal views and the official views we hear reflects the power of our state.”

 

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Armenian, exhibition, İpek Duben, SALT Galata, Turkey

#ArmenianGenocide exhibition opens in Nicosia

April 4, 2015 By administrator

f551fbed04390a_551fbed043946.thumbAn exhibition dedicated to the Armenian Genocide opened in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, on April 3, reports the Armenian National Assembly’s press service.

Opening speeches at the event were delivered by President of the National Assembly Galust Sahalyan and Chairman of the House of Representatives of Nicosia Yanakis Omiru.

The Armenian parliament speaker said that the commemoration events, organized worldwide upon the Genocide Centennial Commission’s initiative, have united different nations under the slogan “I Remember and Demand”, a universal address aimed to condemn the big tragedy and all the other crimes of genocides committed ever.

“The display of these exclusive photos, featuring the tragedy of the callously committed displacement and extermination against the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians. has a mission to keep the icon-light of memory burning and raise the society’s and especially the younger generation’s awareness of the gruesome atrocities committed in the Ottoman Empire at the last century’s beginning.  Tormenting though the recollection of the tragic events may be, equally obliging is to transmit the precept ‘Never Again’ from one generation to generation. This exhibition bears witness, as it is, to our determination to remember and demand, because atrocities committed against humanity have no limitation period,” Sahakyan said.

He further thanked Mr Omiru for organizing the exhibition, as all as to those who assisted in the initiative.

In his speech, the Cypriot parliament speaker said, “The heinous crimes committed against humanity have not left the civilized world indifferent. The world press criticized that conduct of Turkey back in the 19th century. And the reports on display at this exhibition of French, Italian, British, American, Russian and Cyprus papers testify to that. Foreign officials serving in the Ottoman Empire reported their governments on the events, and many of them extended their complaint to the Turkish authorities. Those people’s testimonies and the photos portraying the horrendous scenes were later published in papers or memoirs; they are now valuable archive records and fair evidence of the awesome Turkish barbarities.”

The photos and records showcased at the exhibition were provided by the Armenian Genocide Museum- Institute.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: armenian genocide, Cyprus, dedicated, exhibition

Italy: Rome exhibition on the history of 3000 years of the Armenian people

March 22, 2015 By administrator

'Armenia. Il popolo dell'Arca', dal 6/3 mostra al VittorianoROME – A country about which little is known, but rich in history and culture. A people that has suffered throughout its history, but has always been able to get up after a fall. The ancient Armenian civilization and resilience of its people are the center of the exhibition ‘Armenia. The people of the Ark ”, held from March 6 to May 3 by the Central Hall of the Vittoriano in Rome. It is a tribute stressed the Armenian Ambassador to Italy Sargis Ghazaryan

by Stéphane / armenews

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian, exhibition, History, Rome

Armenian Genocide exhibition opens in Riga

March 15, 2015 By administrator

Riga-exhibitionAn exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide opened in Riga on Friday. The exhibits have been provided by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, the Armenian parliament’s press service reported.

Deputy Speaker of Armenian National Assembly Edward Sharmazanov, Armenia’s Ambassador to the Baltic states Ara Ayvazyan, spiritual leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Baltic states, Father Khosrov Stepanyan, and head of the Latvia-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group Sergejs Potapkins delivered speeches.

Sergejs Potapkins stated that the recurrence of similar crimes cannot be ruled out in the future unless the Armenian Genocide is condemned.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: armenian genocide, exhibition, riga

Estonia opened the exhibition on the genocide of Armenians in the international press

March 14, 2015 By administrator

arton109048-399x300March 10 was inaugurated at the National Library of Estonia the exhibition “The genocide of Armenians in the international press.” Edward Sharmazanov Vice President of the National Assembly of Armenia and Ara AIVAZIAN the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Armenia in the Baltic countries were present at the opening of the exhibition. Other personalities include the presence of Anders Peters President of the Council of Churches of Estonia, Razmig Khojaly responsible for the Armenian community of Estonia, the father Khosrov Stépanian responsible for the Armenian Church in the Baltic countries, Yanne Andreson director of the National Library of Estonia. In his speech, Edward Sharmazanov said that “Turkey unfortunately continues its denial policy by refusing to analyze its own history (…) to recognize the Armenian Genocide and normalize relations with Armenia (… ) for twenty years Turkey illegally keeps Armenia in blockade. “The vice president of the Armenian National Assembly also claimed that Turkey has defeated the Armenian-Turkish protocols on normalization of relations between the two countries. Ankara linking these agreements with the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh, which was not registered in the protocols signed in Zurich. Also intervened Ambassador of Armenia Ara AIVAZIAN Anders Peters President of the Council of Churches of Estonia, Estonian MP Igor Krayzine and historian Estonian Lembo Tannink.

Krikor Amirzayan

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: armenian genocide, Estonia, exhibition

France: ALFORTVILLE Opening of the exhibition on “book Talaat”

February 6, 2015 By administrator

IMG_4928_1280x853_-480x320-480x320Luc Carvounas, Senator Mayor of Alfortville yesterday inaugurated the conference “the book Talaat” organized by “Youth Nazarkek Hentchakian” on its premises at 148 St. Paul Vaillant Coururier in Alfortville. This exhibition illustrates the book Talaat, macabre record of deportations of Armenians died in 1915, was followed by a lecture given by Ara Safarian, historian and director of the Gomidas Institute in London. The exhibition runs from 10h to 19h until February 13.

Filed Under: Articles, Books, Genocide Tagged With: book-Talaat, exhibition, France

France ALFORTVILLE The book Talaat – Exhibition Opening

February 3, 2015 By administrator

EXHIBITION CONFERENCE

arton107732-387x480THE BOOK TALAAT

Exhibition Opening, Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 20H

Cultural Center “The 148”

148 rue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94140 Alfortville

by the Senator and Mayor of Alfortville, Luc Carvounas,

followed by a Conference

Ara Sarafian,

Historian and director of the Gomidas Institute in London, will present its work and analyzes book.

Expo Hours: 6 to 13 February 2015, from 10h to 19h

Filed Under: Articles, Books, Genocide Tagged With: armenian genocide, book, exhibition, talaat

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