The St. Kirakos Armenian Church of Diyarbakir, Turkey has been looted and damages as result of the Turkish-Kurdish clashes in that region.
Harutyun Khachatryan has stepped down as director of Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival.
Fame is usually not the goal for a true artist. You can be famous for many things today. But as an artist you would like for your art and craft to be recognized all over the world, yes! And have people use what you do to their own best ability and appreciate it as much as you do. The main obstacle I would say is timing. Everything has it’s time and place and I believe that I have a place at the top of the industry.
President Serzh Sargsyan received People’s Artist of Georgia and the USSR, composer Giya Kancheli who is in Armenia to attend the Yerevan music festival dedicated to Kancheli, scheduled for June 18-20.
During Cannes 70th Film Festival (May 18-26), for the first time Armenia was represented in the sector Village International/Pantiero under the number 226.
This year, in the period of 70th Festival de Cannes—May 18-26, for the first time Armenia will be represented in the Film Market in the sector Village International/Pantiero under the number 226 through the pavilion of the Republic of Armenia, where these days “Aurora’s sunrise” of Bars Media, Sergo Ustyan’s “Exchange” and Artur Sukiasyan’s “The Wounded City” are trying their chances to succeed.
Israeli jazz bassist, composer, singer and arranger Avishai Cohen will perform with his Trio (Omri Mor – Piano, Itamar Doari – Percussion) for the first time in Armenia. The concert will be held on May 31 in Aram Khachatryan Concert Hall, Yerevan.
70th jubilee edition of Cannes has been launched at Côte d’Azur gathering world cinematography giants here. The feeling of cinema fete, felt in the air, pleasantly and successfully makes forget after-effects of tiring road, however, this mood has less probability to last long if you are here to work.
“I came into acting career in August of 2009. I was doing a job in Delhi and one of my friends, whose name is Karan Wahi invited me to Mumbai and said to give an audition for the show. I just started to act and the producers of the show confirmed me as an actor.”
“We don’t have difficulty in communication. Firstly, Suren Asatryan regularly visits Turkey for already more than 20 years and is fluent in Turkish, but even if he didn’t know Turkish, we would understand each other, we speak in a language of music. This is a good method for us to communicate. Music is freedom everyone understands,” he said.
