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14, 2010
Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide
from
"The Independant"
The US wants to deny that turkey's slaughter of 1.5
million Armenians in 1915 was genocide. But the evidence is there, in a
hilltop orphanage near Beirut
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
It's only a small grave, a rectangle of
cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow
lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up
to 300 children, Armenian orphans of the great 1915 genocide who died
of cholera and starvation as the turkish
authorities tried to "turkify" them in a converted Catholic college
high above Beirut. But for once, it is the almost unknown story of the
surviving 1,200 children – between three and 15 years old – who lived in
the crowded dormitory of this ironically beautiful cut-stone school
that proves that the turks did indeed commit genocide against the
Armenians in 1915.
Barack Obama and his pliant Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton – who are now campaigning so pitifully to prevent the US
Congress acknowledging that the Ottoman turkish massacre of 1.5 million
Armenians was a genocide – should come here to this Lebanese hilltop
village and hang their heads in shame. For this is a tragic, appalling
tale of brutality against small and defenceless children whose families
had already been murdered by turkish forces at the height of the First
World War, some of whom were to recall how they were forced to grind up
and eat the skeletons of their dead fellow child orphans in order to
survive starvation.
Jemal Pasha, one of the
architects of the 1915 genocide, and – alas – turkey's first feminist,
Halide Edip Adivar, helped to run this orphanage of terror in which
Armenian children were systematically deprived of their Armenian
identity and given new turkish names, forced to become Muslims and
beaten savagely if they were heard to speak Armenian. The Antoura
Lazarist college priests have recorded how its original Lazarist
teachers were expelled by the turks and how Jemal Pasha presented
himself at the front door with his German bodyguard after a muezzin
began calling for Muslim prayers once the statue of the Virgin Mary had
been taken from the belfry.
Hitherto, the argument that Armenians suffered a
genocide has rested on the deliberate nature of the slaughter. But
Article II of the 1951 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crime of Genocide specifically states that the definition of
genocide – "to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial
or religious group" – includes "forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group". This is exactly what the turks did in Lebanon.
Photographs still exist of hundreds of near-naked Armenian children
performing physical exercises in the college grounds. One even shows
Jemal Pasha standing on the steps in 1916, next to the young and
beautiful Halide Adivar who – after some reluctance – agreed to run the
orphanage.
Before he died in 1989, Karnig Panian
– who was six years old when he arrived at Antoura in 1916 – recorded
in Armenian how his own name was changed and how he was given a number,
551, as his identity. "At every sunset in the presence of over 1,000
orphans, when the turkish flag was lowered, 'Long Live General Pasha!'
was recited. That was the first part of the ceremony. Then it was time
for punishment for the wrongdoers of the day. They beat us with the
falakha [a rod used to beat the soles of the
feet], and the top-rank punishment was for speaking Armenian."
Panian described how, after cruel treatment or through
physical weakness, many children died. They were buried behind the old
college chapel. "At night, the jackals and wild dogs would dig them up
and throw their bones here and there ... at night, kids would run out to
the nearby forest to get apples or any fruits they could find – and
their feet would hit bones. They would take these bones back to their
rooms and secretly grind them to make soup, or mix them with grain so
they could eat them as there was not enough food at the orphanage. They
were eating the bones of their dead friends."
Using
college records, Emile Joppin, the head priest at the Lazarite Antoura
college, wrote in the school's magazine in 1947 that "the Armenian
orphans were Islamicised, circumcised and given new Arab or turkish
names. Their new names always kept the initials of the names in which
they were baptised. Thus Haroutioun Nadjarian was given the name Hamed
Nazih, Boghos Merdanian became Bekir Mohamed, to Sarkis Safarian was
given the name Safouad Sulieman."
Lebanese-born
Armenian-American electrical engineer Missak Kelechian researches
Armenian history as a hobby and hunted down a privately printed and very
rare 1918 report by an American Red Cross officer, Major Stephen
Trowbridge, who arrived at the Antoura college after its liberation by
British and French troops and who spoke to the surviving orphans. His
much earlier account entirely supports that of Father Joppin's 1949
research.
"Every vestige, and as far as possible
every memory, of the children's Armenian or Kurdish origin was to be
done away with. turkish names were assigned and the children were
compelled to undergo the rites prescribed by Islamic law and tradition
... Not a word of Armenian or Kurdish was allowed. The teachers and
overseers were carefully trained to impress turkish ideas and customs
upon the lives of the children and to catechize [sic] them regularly on
... the prestige of the turkish race."
Halide
Adivar, later to be lauded by The New York Times as "the turkish Joan of
Arc" – a description that Armenians obviously questioned – was born in
Constantinople in 1884 and attended an American college in the Ottoman
capital. She was twice married and wrote nine novels – even Trowbridge
was to admit that she was "a lady of remarkable literary ability" – and
served as a woman officer in Mustafa Ataturk's turkish army of
liberation after the First World War. She later lived in both Britain
and France
And it was Kelechian yet again who found Adivar's
long-forgotten and self-serving memoirs, published in New York in 1926,
in which she recalls how Jemal Pasha, commander of the turkish 4th Army
in Damascus,
toured Antoura orphanage with her. "I said: 'You have been as good to
Armenians as it is possible to be in these hard days. Why do you allow
Armenian children to be called by Moslim [sic] names? It looks like
turning the Armenians into Moslims, and history some day will revenge it
on the coming generation of turks.' 'You are an idealist,' he answered
gravely and like all idealists lack a sense of reality ... This is a
Moslem orphanage and only Moslem orphans are allowed.'" According to
Adivar, Jemal Pasha said that he "cannot bear to see them die in the
streets" and promised they would go "back to their people" after the
war.
Adivar says she told the general that: "I
will never have anything to do with such an orphanage" but claims that
Jemal Pasha replied: "You will if you see them in misery and suffering,
you will go to them and not think for a moment about their names and
religion." Which is exactly what she did.
Later
in the war, however, Adivar spoke to Talaat Pasha, the architect of the
20th century's first holocaust, and recalled how he almost lost his
temper when discussing the Armenian "deportations" (as she put it),
saying: "Look here, Halide ... I have a heart as good as yours, and it
keeps me awake at night to think of the human suffering. But that is a
personal thing, and I am here on this earth to think of my people and
not of my sensibilities ... There was an equal number of turks and
Moslems massacred during the [1912] Balkan war, yet the world kept a
criminal silence. I have the conviction that as long as a nation does
the best for its own interests, and succeeds, the world admires it and
thinks it moral. I am ready to die for what I have done, and I know that
I shall die for it."
The suffering of which
Talaat Pasha spoke so chillingly was all too evident to Trowbridge when
he himself met the orphans of Antoura. Many had seen their parents
murdered and their sisters raped. Levon, who came from Malgara, was
driven from his home with his sisters aged 12 and 14. The girls were
taken by Kurds – allied to the turks – as "concubines" and the boy was
tortured and starved, Trowbridge records. He was eventually forced by
his captors into the Antoura orphanage.
Ten-year-old
Takhouhi – her name means "queen" in Armenian and she was from a rich
background – from Rodosto on the Sea of Marmara was put with her family
on a freight train
to Konia. Two of her two brothers died in the truck, both parents
caught typhus – they died in the arms of Takhouhi and her oldest brother
in Aleppo – and she was eventually taken from him by a turkish officer,
given the Muslim name of Muzeyyan and ended up in Antoura. When
Trowbridge suggested that he would try to find someone in Rodosto and
return her family's property to her, he said she replied: "I don't want
any of those things if I cannot find my brother again." Her brother was
later reported to have died in Damascus.
Trowbridge
records many other tragedies from the children he found at Antoura,
commenting acidly that Halide "and Djemal [sic] Pasha delighted in
having their photographs taken on the steps of the orphanage ... posing
as the leaders of Ottoman modernism. Did they realise what the outside
world would think of those photographs?" According to Trowbridge's
account, only 669 of the children finally survived, 456 of them
Armenian, 184 of them Kurds, along with 29 Syrians. Talaat Pasha did
indeed die for his sins. He was assassinated by an Armenian in Berlin in
1922 – his body was later returned to turkey on the express orders of
Adolf Hitler. Jemal Pasha was murdered in the turkish town of Tiflis.
Halide Edip Adivar lived in England until 1939 when she returned to
turkey, became a professor of English literature, was elected to the
turkish parliament and died in 1964 at the age of 80.
It was only in 1993 that the bones of the children
were discovered, when the Lazarite Fathers dug the foundations for new
classrooms. What was left of the remains were moved respectfully to the
little cemetery where the college's priests lie buried and put in a
single, deep grave. Kelechian helped me over a 5ft wall to look at this
place of sadness, shaded by tall trees. Neither name-plate nor
headstone marks their mass grave.
Sweden, turkey jointly denounce genocide vote
Swedish
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt (C) and his turkish counterpart Ahmet
Davutoglu (R) talk to the media after their meeting in Saariselka
Inari, in the Finnish Lapland March 12, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Lehtikuva/Jussi Nukari
SAARISELKA, Finland (Reuters)
- The foreign ministers of turkey and Sweden condemned on Saturday a
vote in the Swedish parliament that defined the early 20th-century
killing of Armenians by Ottoman turks as genocide.
Swedish
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who is holding informal talks with foreign
ministers including turkey's Ahmet Davutoglu in northern Finland, said
he was upset by the vote on Thursday and concerned it could affect
turkish-Armenian reconciliation.
"It's regrettable because I think the politicization of history serves no useful purpose," he told reporters.
"We
are interested in the business of reconciliation, and decisions like
that tend to raise tensions rather than lower tensions," he said.
Sweden's
parliament, by a vote of 131-130, backed a resolution that branded the
killing of up to 1.5 million Christian Armenians by Ottoman turks as a
genocide, a term that turkey resolutely rejects.
Swedish
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt phoned his turkish counterpart, Tayyip
Erdogan, on Saturday and said he disagreed with the resolution,
according to a statement on the turkish prime minister's official
website.
The vote followed a
decision by a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives the week
before approving a nonbinding measure condemning the 1915 killings.
In both cases turkey responded angrily, withdrawing its ambassadors to Washington and Stockholm.
The
vote in the Swedish parliament was particularly galling for turkey as
Sweden is one of Ankara's strongest backers on issues such as turkey's
desire to join the European Union.
Reinfeldt
told Erdogan Sweden would continue to back turkey's EU bid and that the
vote was driven by domestic politics and would not affect bilateral
relations, the statement said. Erdogan canceled a planned visit to
Sweden this month, and the government recalled its ambassador from
Stockholm.
Davutoglu said turkey
would not stand by quietly if other nations took similar steps to
describe the 1915 killings as a genocide and said it was pointless for
countries to think they could put pressure on turkey.
"We
will not be silent and we will not just show the usual attitudes. For
each case we will have a different (set of) measures," he said.
"What
is the purpose of this? If the purpose is to make pressure, nobody can
make pressure on turkey. if the purpose is to get local domestic
concerns raised, turkish historical events should not be misused for
these narrow issues."
Davutoglu,
the architect of turkey's foreign policy of re-engaging with its
neighbors, including Armenia, said it was wrong for parliaments to
think they could define history purely via a vote.
He
also said he was concerned about the impact the vote could have on
efforts by Armenia and turkey to reconcile their history and find a
political common ground at a time when they are making progress toward
normalizing relations.
(Editing by Matthew Jones)
By Washington Post | March 6, 2010
Genocide resolution may not get House vote
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has reached agreement with
congressional leaders not to schedule a House vote on a resolution
labeling the World War I-era massacre of Armenians as genocide, a US
official said yesterday.
The nonbinding resolution, which narrowly passed the House Foreign
Affairs Committee a day earlier, prompted a furious reaction from NATO
ally turkey, which recalled its ambassador from Washington.
turkey is critical to US security interests because of its support
for war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also will have a key vote
at the United Nations if the Security Council considers sanctions
against Iran.
turkish officials said yesterday that the resolution could also
torpedo an agreement aimed at normalizing their country’s relations
with Armenia; the accord was mediated by Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton. Neither side has ratified the agreement as yet.
“We believe congressional leaders understand the severe impact any
further action would have on normalization between turkey and
Armenia,’’ a senior administration official said yesterday.
The issue is an awkward one for the administration because, in their
old roles as senators, President Obama, Vice President Biden, and
Clinton had called on President George W. Bush to declare the killings
a genocide. 
New York Times March 4, 2010
House Panel Says Armenian Deaths Were Genocide
WASHINGTON — The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted narrowly on
Thursday to condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians early in
the last century, defying a last-minute plea from the Obama
administration to forgo a vote that seemed sure to offend turkey and
jeopardize delicate efforts at turkish-Armenian reconciliation.
The vote on the nonbinding resolution, a perennial point of friction
addressing a dark, century-old chapter of turkish history, was 23 to
22. A similar resolution passed by a slightly wider margin in 2007,
but the Bush administration, fearful of losing turkish cooperation over
Iraq, lobbied forcefully to keep it from reaching the House floor.
Whether this resolution will reach a floor vote remains unclear.
In Ankara, the capital, the office of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
immediately issued a sharp rebuke. “We condemn this bill that denounces
the turkish nation of a crime that it has not committed,” the statement
said. Ambassador Namik Tan, who had only weeks ago taken up his post in
Washington, has been recalled to Ankara for consultations, according to
the statement.
Historians say that as many as 1.5 million Armenians died amid the
chaos and unrest surrounding World War I and the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.
turkey denies, however, that this was a planned genocide, and had
mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign against the resolution.
A White House spokesman, Mike Hammer, said that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had told Representative Howard L. Berman
of California, the committee chairman, late on Wednesday that a vote
would be harmful, jeopardizing turkish-Armenian reconciliation efforts
that last year yielded two protocols aimed at a thawing of relations.
President Obama spoke to President Abdullah Gul
of turkey on Wednesday to endorse the efforts at normalization with
Armenia, said Philip J. Crowley, a State Department spokesman.
“We’ve pressed hard to see the progress that we’ve seen to date, and we
certainly do not want to see that jeopardized,” he said.
The timing of the administration’s plea seemed to catch some committee
members by surprise. Early in the meeting on Thursday, the ranking
Republican member, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, said
that the administration had taken no position on the vote. But several
minutes later she requested time to correct herself: an aide had handed
her a news article describing the administration’s newly announced
opposition.
Suat Kiniklioglu, a member of turkey’s Parliament who was in Washington
to meet with lawmakers, said later that he thought the intervention by
Mrs. Clinton — who was asked about the resolution last week before the
same House committee, but did not condemn it explicitly — had come too
late.
Bryan Ardouny, executive director of the Armenian Assembly of America,
also said he doubted that Mrs. Clinton’s intervention had changed much.
“It was closer than anticipated,” he said of the vote, “but at the end
of the day the truth prevailed and the members made a very affirmative
statement in the face of the opposition.”
Committee members were clearly torn between what they said was a moral
obligation to condemn one of the darkest periods of the last century
and the need to protect a relationship with turkey, a NATO
partner vital to American regional and security interests. “This is not
one of those issues that members of Congress look forward to voting
on,” said Representative Gary L. Ackerman, Democrat of New York.
Like nearly every member, Mr. Berman saluted turkey as an important
ally. “Be that as it may,” he added, “nothing justifies turkey’s
turning a blind eye to the reality of the Armenian genocide.
“The turks say passing this resolution could have terrible consequences
for our bilateral relationship,” Mr. Berman said. “But I believe that
turkey values its relations with the United States at least as much as
we value our relations with turkey.”
While still in the Senate, Mr. Obama had described the killings of
Armenians at Ottoman hands as genocide. Mrs. Clinton, also then a
senator, had taken a similar stance.
Last year, she strongly supported talks that led to two protocols
between turkey and Armenia calling for closer ties, open borders and
the creation of a commission to examine the historical evidence in
dispute.
Those accords, not yet ratified by either nation’s lawmakers, could now
be endangered, opponents of the resolution said. “This is a fragile
process that destabilizes the protocols,” said Representative Dan Burton, Republican of Indiana.
Sebnem Arsu contributed reporting from Istanbul.
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Professor of Salem University
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genocide, accountability, human rights and lack of justice of the perpetrators.
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PICNICS/FESTIVALS and DANCES: summer of 2010- For details
click here
Saturday,
August 28
Picnic at Sts Sahag and Mesrob Armenian Church
Providence,
RI
Saturday
and Sunday, September 11-12 Keremesse Boston ~ One Town, One Tent
Watertown,
MA - ACEC- 47 Nichols Ave [indoor and outdoor]
Featuring: - Armenchik
Sunday,
September 12
Trinity Family Festival - Cambridge MA
Sunday, Sept. 12
St Gregory Armenian Church, 158 Main St, North Andover,
MA
Sunday, September 26
Armenian Church of Holy
Translators
– metro west
Hopkinton, MA
SCHOOLS and Language Classes
Due to students increase Erebuni Armenian School is hiring a qualified
teacher.
Requirements: someone with educational background, with
passion to teach and who loves kids. Must have work authorization. Please
contact the principal, Armine Medzorian at 781-883-4470 for details. We are
also opening a fun classroom for 4 year olds. 3 hours of Armenian language
every Saturday through poetry, theatre, songs, dance and games. It’s a warm
learning environment for children; fun field trips and events throughout the
year. Please email amedz@verizon.net if you have a child ages 4-16 or visit www.erebunischool.org for more info.
“St. Sahag and St. Mesrob” Armenian School
is accepting applicants for 2010-2011 academic year. The school is located at
St. James Armenian Church in Watertown,
MA. We accept students from ages 2.9 to 12
(Nursery to 6th grade). The school
offers the Armenian language and culture to the students in conjunction with
current resources. If you are interested
please email Marina Minasian at amindra@wmconnect.com
Conversational Western Armenian at NAASR
Beginners’ class – Tuesday nights
Advanced beginners’ class – Wednesday nights
See flyer for
more info
Armenian Language Classes for Adults at Mesrob Mashdotz Institute
of St. James Armenian Church. See flyer and
application
CAFÉ ANOUSH at ACEC 47 Nichols Ave, Watertown,
MA
Lat one of the season- August 26
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Café at St James in Watertown:
Doors open: 6:15 Dinner: 6:30
Friday,
September 10, 2010
Friday,
November 12, 2010
- Teachers and tutors
* Lori
tutors SPLN/ELL/Regular education students, at home
* Noune teaches/trains voice -for singing and speaking
-children and adults ages 7 & up
* Siranoush teaches violin to all ages
* Math -college & high-school- in English, Armenian and Russian
- SAT, GRE, GMAT quantitative sections by Veronika
* Armenian Dance Lessons by Naira
* Natalie tutors reading, writing, math, science, history and Armenian to
elementary, junior
high, and high school students. natshem758@gmail.com
or (818) 437-1668
- Workshops
* Armenian Dance Classes for Adults - January 2010- see flyer
* Karoun
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* Armenian Heritage
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* Armenian Academic Association email group
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* Sayat Nova Dance Company of Boston mailing list
* Amaras Art Alliance mailing list
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* Carved in Stone
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* Pleasing
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Currently on Display in the Museum’s Contemporary Art
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An
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* Identifying
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* Hmayil
Armenian Prayer Scrolls: Religion, Occult and Art Rolled into One
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Picnic at Sts Sahag and Mesrob Armenian Church
Providence,
RI
70 Jefferson St
Outdoor picnic, on the Church grounds, under the tents
Armenian music by the Brian Ansbigian Ensemble
3:00pm
Losh Kabob, Chicken Kabob, Shish Kabob and Khema will be
served. Fun and games for the kids, including Ron the Baloon Guy. Full cash
bar. 50/50 Raffel, Cash Raffel and 100 Lottery Scatch Ticket Raffel. Come join
us for truly great summer evening of Armenian food, music and fun for all ages.
Cash, Check, Visa and Mastercard accepted. For more information contact the
Church office at 401-272-7712 or office@stsahmes.org.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Classic Groove at Ponte Vecchio
Danvers MA
Ponte Vecchio -435
Newbury St
(Off Rte95 north Exit 50)
10:00 PM
Featuring
Steven Tashjian(Clarinet,Tenor,Alto/Soprano )
Face (Keyboard and Vocals)
Kevin Magarian (Lead and Rhythm Guitar
Paul Dillon (Drums and Vocals)
Featured Vocalist Vicki Rose
For further Information or reservations
Call Ponte Vecchio 978-777-9188 or Call Steven Tashjian
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
MUSANER:”A
core of Boston's key world-music jazz players
"-The Boston Phoenix
At the Regattabar: "The
hub of jazz in Boston."
-The Boston
Globe-
Harvard Sq. Cambridge,
MA
7:30 - 9:00 pm
Having recently returned from their concerts in Europe, MUSANER will have their debut performance at this
nationally-acclaimed jazz venue. Come and support this unique ethno-music
ensemble which has been selling out to crowds in various cities. This will be a
performance not to be missed, with new musical material and promoted by Medici
Music Productions.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Ground Breaking Ceremony of Armenian Heritage Park
Boston, MA
Parcel 13 on the
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway
2pm
Among the distinguished guests in attendance:
His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians
The Honorable Deval L. Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts
The Honorable Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of the City of Boston
Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate,
Diocese of theArmenian Church of America (Eastern)
Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan,
Prelate, Eastern Prelacy of the Apostolic Church of America
Sponsored by Armenian Heritage Foundation and its
Benefactors invite you to
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For further information, please visit www.ArmenianHeritagePark.net
Saturday and Sunday, September 11-12, 2010
Keremesse Boston ~ One Town, One Tent
Watertown,
MA
ACEC- 47 Nichols Ave [indoor and outdoor]
Featuring:- Armenchik
John Berberian Ensemble featuring OnnikDinkjian
Arev Armenian Folk Ensemble
And many others
Open air festival on the ACEC grounds and Nichols Avenue celebrating Armenian
history and culture with excellent offerings of Armenian music, cuisine and
other entertainment for all ages. For additional info please contact us at
617.926.6067 or email us at acec@acecwatertown.org
More details to come
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Jazz Evening with Sandi Bedrosian and the Jazz Ensemble
Chelmsford,
MA
St. Vartanantz Armenian Church at 180 Old Westford Rd,
7:30 PM
Tickets $30
Appetizers, Pastry, Door prizes
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Trinity Family Festival- see flyer
Cambridge
MA
Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Greater Boston
Church grounds- 145
Brattle Street
12 Noon to 5 PM
For further information, please contact the Holy Trinity
Church Office at 617-354-0632, email office@htaac.org,
or log onto www.htaac.org
(Coming Events page).
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Thursday, September 16, 20108
NAASR Talk: Prof. James Russell, “The Armenian Magical
Medical Tour: A Manuscripts the NAASR Collection”
Belmont, MA
NAASR Center, 395
Concord Ave
8:00 p.m.
Details to follow
Friday, September 17, 2010
19th Anniversary of Armenian Independence Day: New Republic of Armenia.
Sponsored by Lowell
ARF Aharonian Gomideh
Lowell, MA
Lowell
ARS Center,
142 Liberty St
Dinner and Program:
Guest Speaker: Khatchig Mouradian, "The Sound of
Footsteps: Commemorating the Armenian Genocide in Turkey."
Adults: $20, Students: $10.
Reservations requested..
Please contact: Tom at TommyVart@aol.com
or Armen at armenj@comcast.com
Saturday, September 18
Sleeping Beauty Tea Party – see flyer
Featuring mini-ballet performance by Center Stage Dancers
Chelmsford,
MA
Sts. Vartanantz Armenian Church
180 Old
Westford Rd
10-12am
For Children of all ages
For more information contact Houry hooster@comcast.net
Saturday, September 18, 2010
St. James 3rd Annual Reunion Dance & Kef!
Hosted by the St. James ACYOA Seniors
St. James' Charles Mosesian Cultural and Youth Center,
Keljik Hall. 465 Mt. Auburn St.,
Watertown, MA.
Featuring: Bob Raphalian (Oud), Leon Janikian (Clarinet), Harry Bedrossian (Keyboard
and Vocals), Kenny Kalajian (Guitar), Leon Manoogian (Dumbeg), Jason Naroian
(Dumbeg and Vocals). $25 per person. Tables of 10 may be reserved with advance
payment. For reservations please contact Alexa Diranian at (339) 368-0529
or amdiranian@gmail.com. All are
welcome!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Gala Concert and Dinner
10 Anniversary of Greater
Worcester Armenian Chorale
Worcester,
MA
Armenian
Church of Our Saviour
Cultural Center – 34
Boynton Street
12:30 p.m.
Tickets are $25.00 for adults, $12.00 for children 12 and
under.
Led by Artistic Director and Conductor Konstantin
Petrossian, the program features Guest Soloist Vagharshak Ohanyan,
Baritone/Bass; Hasmik Kojoian, Mezzo Soprano and performances by the “Arevig”
Armenian Children’s Chorus and Dance Group.
Jointly sponsored by the Armenian Church of Our Saviour and
Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church
For reservations call 508-752-0592
September 20, 2010
2010 Golf Outing to benefit the
ACEC [Armenian Cultural and
Educational Center]
and
St. Stephens Armenian Elementary School
Framingham,
MA
Framingham
Country Club
Please contact Astor Guzelian at 781-326-5764 or Charlie
Aslanian at 617-347-2984 for information on how to sign up or become a sponsor.
Click on the links below to view photos from past events:
- 2005
- 2007
Thursday, September 23, 2010 – see full flyer
for details
K. George and Carolann S. Najarian, M.D. Inaugural Lecture on
Human Rights
Boston, MA
Faneuil Hall
Keynote Speaker: Kerry Kennedy, Human
Rights Activist
Opening Remarks: Peter Balakian
7 PM
Free and open to the public
Endowed Program of the Armenian Heritage Foundation, sponsor
of Armenian Heritage Park on the
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, Boston
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Armenian-American Veterans of Lowell - Sam Manoian Post #1
Annual Scholarship
Dinner Dance with Jason Naroian Ensemble
Chelmsford,
MA
Sts. Vartanantz Armenian Church
180 Old
Westford Rd
Cocktails - 6 PM and Dinner – 7 PM
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Concert Celebrating Music of Composer Dianne Goolkasian
Rahbee
Arlington,
MA
Armenian Cultural Foundation
3 PM
Admission: $10
Featuring:
- George Lopez, pianist
- Noune Karapetian,
soprano
- Nune Hagopian,
piano
- Lilit Karapetian
Shougarian, piano
- Miriam Gargarian,
piano
- Magdalena Richter,
violin
Program will include
- Sonata “Kiss of
Peace” and Sonata Breve Op.50
- Mini-Musical Drama
“Robbery” on the text by Diana Der Hovanessian
- Other piano works
Sponsored by the Armenian International Women’s Association
Info: aiwainc@aol.com
or 617-926-0171.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Celebrating Armenian Music Hovaness Badalian's
85th birth anniversary
Under the auspices of Ministry of Diaspora, Republic of Armenia
Featuring: Folk Instruments Ensemble of Sayat Nova Music School
and Soloists from Armenia
Providence,
RI
Sts.
Sahag & Mesrob Armenian Church
Egavian Cultural Center- 70 Jefferson St
7 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Cultural committee Sts. Sahag & Mesrob
Armenian Church
And Amaras
Art Alliance
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Second Annual Sts.
Vartanantz Golf Outing.
Westford,
MA
Butter Brook Golf
Club
8 a.m. registration and 9:30 a.m. shotgun start
Get 20 free raffle tickets with early bird registration by
July 31.
Golf Tournament Dinner, 4 p.m. at
Chelmsford,
MA
Sts. Vartanantz
Armenian Church
180 Old
Westford Rd
For registration and sponsor information, please contact StsVgolf@earthlink.net
Thursday, September 30, 2010
NAASR Talk: Garin Hovannisian, “Family of Shadows,”
Belmont, MA
NAASR Center, 395
Concord Ave
8:00 p.m.
Details to follow
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Please Join AGBU YP Boston
for Happy Hour at the Liberty Hotel
Followed by the hotel's famous Fashionably Late event
Featuring Armenian designer Samuel Vartan
6pm
Liberty
Bar - 2nd Floor of the Liberty Hotel
215 Charles
Street
Boston
Complimentary Admission
Please RSVP by replying to this email or at http://tinyurl.com/ypboston
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Brattle Boutique
Cambridge
MA
Charles and Nevart Talanian Cultural Hall- 145 Brattle Street,
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Admission is free
Sponsored by the Holy Trinity Women’s Guild, the Brattle
Boutique will feature a variety of specialty vendors selling gifts, jewelry,
gourmet foods and more. In addition, the
Sparks Street Café will offer snacks, pastries, beverages and light lunch.
The Women’s Guild welcomes interested vendors who would like
to display and sell their products or show their artistic creativity. For further information, please contact
co-chairs Marge Atamian at 781-899-0599 or email mcatamian@comcast.net
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Amaras Art Alliance &
The 85th Birth Anniversary of Hovanness Badalian
Under the auspices of Ministry of Diaspora, Republic of
Armenia
Featuring: Folk Instruments Ensemble of Sayat Nova Music School
and Soloists from Armenia
Lexington,
MA
Cary Memorial
Auditorium- 1605 Massachusetts
Ave,
4 PM
Tickets ($40, $30 & $20) call: 617-930-0181 or
617-331-0426
Or purchase online
Co-hosted by Amaras
Art Alliance & Armenian Society of Greater Boston
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Lunch with Andy Card
“An Inside View of the White House from a former Chief of
Staff”
Cambridge
MA
Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Greater Boston
Charles and Nevart Talanian Cultural Hall
145 Brattle
Street,
12:30 p.m.
For further information, contact the Holy Trinity
Church office, 617
354-0632, or email office@htaac.org.
Details to follow.
Thursday, October 7, 20108
NAASR Talk: Dr. Aida Boujikanian, “The Armenians of Lebanon,”
Belmont, MA
NAASR Center, 395
Concord Ave
8:00 p.m.
Details to follow
Thursday, October 7, 2010
"Remembering the Mekhitarists --- 50 years later,"
An illustrated talk by Tom Vartabedian, former student in
the Vienna
monastery,
North Andover,
MA
St. Gregory Church, 158 Main St
Noon
Avak luncheon
All are invited
Saturday, October 9, 2010
The Armenian
Independent Broadcasting of Boston
Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
Watertown,
MA
Cultural Program to include:
DR. HERAND MARKARIAN of New York, Master of Ceremonies
KHAJAG MKERTICHIAN, Remarks in Armenian
ANI DEIRMENJIAN, Remarks in English
SYLVA YUZBASHIAN of Armenia - Recitation
VAGHARSHAK OHANIAN - Baritone
HASMIK MEIKHANEDJIAN - Soprano
LILIT HAROUTUNIAN – Violin
LEVON HOVSEPIAN - Piano
8 PM
Champagne Reception
Admittance by Invitation
Please contact 617-926-6268 to obtain invitation
Wednesday, October 13, 20106
NAASR Talk: James Russell, “Calm before the Storm: The
Armenian Poet Misak Medzarents on the Threshold of the Genocide,”
Boston University
The Castle, 225
Bay State Road
6 PM
Co-sponsored by the Charles K. and Elisabeth M Kenosian
Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature at BU and NAASR
Friday, October 15 and Saturday, October 16, 2010
St. James 63rd Annual Bazaar!
Watertown,
MA
10 a.m. to 9 p.m. - both days
For more information please contact (617) 923-8860 or email
info@sthagop.com.
Read more
Sunday, October 17, 2010
YerazArt Young Musicians from Armenia In Concert
Presented by Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Greater Boston
Concert Sponsors: Aurelian and Anahid Mardiros
Cambridge
MA
Longy School
of Music
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
27 Garden
Street,
4:00 p.m.
Admission: $20.00 per person.
For further information or to purchase tickets, please
contact the Holy Trinity Church
at 617-354-0632 or email office@htaac.org.
See attached flyer.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Celebratory Banquet honoring the 100th Anniversary of Sts.
Vartanantz Women’s Guild,
His Eminence Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate, of the
Eastern Diocese will preside over the event
Chelmsford,
MA
Sts. Vartanantz Church
For tickets and donation information please contact
978-256-7234.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Union of Marash, Watertown
Chapter
Celebrates the Centennial of the Organization's Conception
Watertown,
MA
ACEC- 47
Nichols Ave
More information to follow
Saturday, October 23, 2010
First Armenian Church 2010 Fall Harvest Bazaar
Belmont,
MA
First Armenian
Church- 380 Concord Ave
12 noon to 8 pm
Delicious Food, Dried fruits
Attic Treasures, Books, etc
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Orthodox Church Choir's Festival
Providence,
RI
Sts.
Sahag & Mesrob Armenian Church
Church Sanctuary- 70
Jefferson St
4 PM
Sponsored by Cultural committee of the Sts. Sahag &
Mesrob Armenian Church
Friday, October 29, 2010
Armenian Celebrities
In concert: Pianist Maria Gambarian
of Moscow Conservatory
Cambridge,
MA
First Church in Cambridge
Congregational - 11 Garden St
8 PM
Co-sponsored by Amaras
Art Alliance and
Boston
University School of Music Piano Department
Details to follow
October 29 – 31, 2010
3rd Annual Boston
Armenian Film Festival
Boston Harbor,
MA
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Sponsored by the Armenia
Dramatic Arts Alliance [ADAA]
Saturday, November 6, 2010
2nd Annual Cocktail Reception of SOAR, New
England Chapter
Arlington,
MA
Armenian Cultural Foundation- 441 Mystic Street
6:30-10:30pm
Brief presentation- live music - mezze, full bar, prize
raffle and silent auction, including artwork created by children from Zatik
Orphanage in Armenia.
For more info or to RSVP, please contact Laura at (617)
744-0913 or at SOARNewEngland@gmail.com
The Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief is a non-profit
organization that provides humanitarian relief to orphanages in Armenia
www.soar-us.org/newengland
Saturday, November 20, 2010
St.
Stephen's Armenian Elementary School 25th Anniversary Gala
Details to Follow
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Hakob Karapents 85th Birth Anniversary Celebration
Arlington,
MA
Armenian Cultural Foundation
3:00 p.m.
Details to follow
Friday, December 3, 2010 and Saturday, December 4, 2010
Trinity Christmas Bazaar
Sponsored by Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Greater Boson
145 Brattle
Street, Cambridge MA
Friday, 3:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Details to follow.
For further information, contact the Holy Trinity Church
Office, 617-354-0632, or email office@htaac.org.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
The Final Curtain: Three Armenian Sopranos
Noune Badalian, Armenia – see video
Noune Karapetian, USA
Aline Kutan, Canada
Boston, MA
Venue TBA
7:30 PM
Sponsored by Amaras
Art Alliance on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary
Details to follow
Saturday, December 4, 2010
4th Annual Banquet of ANCA Eastern Region
Providence,
RI
Crowne
Plaza Hotel Providence-Warwick
6:30 pm -Cocktails and silent auction
8 pm. dinner and awards program
For more information call 401-523-0205 or email erbanquet@anca.org
Friday, December 31, 2010
New Year's Eve Dinner & Dance
Sponsored by the Sayat Nova Dance Company of Boston
Details to follow
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Erevan Chorale and
Orchestra Annual Christmas Concert
Cambridge,
MA
Holy Trinity Armenian Church,
4 p.m.
Details to follow
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has a tourism campaign.
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Click
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