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Author Viken Berberian To Present His New Book In Toronto

On Wednesday, June 27th author Viken Berberian will present his new his new book The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade from Fantagraphics! at The Beguiling Books and Art bookstore in Toronto. Berberian will be in attendance to talk about the book, ...

Boston Globe’s Anush Elbakyan receives third Emmy Award

Anush Elbakyan "Armradio",- Anush Elbakyan, Senior Video Editor and Video Director for the Boston Globe, has received her third Emmy Award of the US Television Academy, Arthur Elbakyan announced in a Facebook post. Elbakyan oversees the production ...

Alene and Sara Shanazarian to Present New Play at Toronto Fringe Festival

                                                    Alene and Sara Shanazarian (TorontoHye)- Vancouver-born and ...

Komitas In The 21st Century

Komitas, Ruben Sevag, Chobanian, Gasbar Ipekian 1907, Lausanne. By: Araxie Altounian   2019 marks the 150th anniversary of Father Komitas, the priest-musician known as the “Father” of Armenian classical music. To most Armenians he is ...

Three Armenians included in list of world’s top 30 violinists

"Nouvelles Arme’nie".- Ranker Portal recently published the list of the world’s most prominent violinists of our time. 30 violinists were included in the list, 3 of whom are Armenians. Samvel Yervinyan and Sergey Khachatryan represent Armenia ...

Soheil Parsa’s New Adaptation Of The Cherry Orchard Wraps Up

Arsinee Khanjian and Cliff Saunders starring in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard directed by Soheil Parsa. (Photo by John Lauener).   By: Varak Babian Chekhov’s last play, The Cherry Orchard, written in 1903, just one year before his ...

Interview With Visual Artist Matilda Aslizadeh: Exploring Perception Through Mixed Media

                                                            A scene from RESORT Installation, 2016. Matilda Aslizadeh is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Throughout her career, she has developed a ...

Asmik Grigorian titled world’s best female opera singer

(The lithuania tribune)- The winners of the International Opera Awards were presented at a gala ceremony in London’s Sadler’s Wells theatre yesterday, April 29. Asmik Grigorian took the Female Singer of the Year award for her role as ...

Exhibition on Irish High Crosses and Armenian Khachkars opens in Dublin

"CatholicIreland.net",- An exhibition exploring the similarities between Irish High Crosses and Armenian Khachkars will run throughout May at Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin. The photographic exhibition was formally launched last week to ...

Raffi Bedrosyan Tells The Story Of Hidden Armenians In A New Book: “Trauma and Resilience: Armenians in Turkey”

  The Armenian Genocide in 1915 caused the destruction of 1.5 million Armenians living in historic Armenia. To escape the fate of their compatriots, many Armenians stayed behind, converting to Islam to save themselves. Today, they are known as ...