World renowned pianist, Honored Artist of Armenia and Russia Maria Ghambaryan will perform on May 17 in St. Petersburg’s state academic capella.
Grammy Award winning musician and activist Serj Tankian and social impact filmmaker Carla Garapedian introduced the organization’s first initiative – a USD 5,000 video challenge from the Oscar-winning director Terry George (Hotel Rwanda and The Promise).
The Wall Street Journal has referred to the film, noting that it’s difficult to make such a film in Hollywood without a funding by a philanthropist when there is no book or TV script.
The Armenian trailer of the Armenian Genocide Hollywood film ‘The Promise’ is available online. The world premier of the movie will be held on April 21.
People’s Artist of Armenia, soprano Hasmik Papian has been awarded the Gold Medal of Armenia’s Culture Ministry for significant contribution in the development of Armenian and global opera art and on the occasion of her 30th anniversary of her career, the Culture Ministry told.
On April 5 one of screening rooms of London’s Soho hotel was full of guests. Representatives of the UK government and parliament, well-known British media outlets, cultural, community and business circles, diplomats and ambassador brought their participation.
“The war in Congo was one of the deadliest wars since World War II. I vow to keep the promise to help support human rights in Congo,” Gosling said in a video.
One sees what is happening in Turkey right now, how Turkey is dealing with its own minorities, the type of language that the President of Turkey is using in regards to non-Muslim Europe, it all reflects the same narrow, ethno-religious nationalism that prevailed there 100 years ago.
This is the present situation of the Armenians. I should not have to ground the Armenian Genocide in comparisons to the Holocaust to illustrate its horror, it was a genocide, and is thus reserved a special, terrible place in human history all its own (indeed, the word “genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin precisely in response to the Armenian Genocide).
The Challenge flash mob initiated by Eurovision 2017 Armenia’s representative Artsvik Harutyunyan continues. This time the challenge was accepted by Georgia’s Tako Gachechiladze, who performed Lorik by Komitas.
