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VAHE OSHAGAN: Between Acts ~ Wednesday, October 20, 2021 ~ Live Discussion on Zoom/YouTube
Vahé Oshagan: Between Acts is a literary biography of the pre-eminent writer and public intellectual of the modern Armenian diaspora. The film infuses the traditional documentary with visual, sound-text, and scholarly interpretations of Oshagan's poetry and prose.
Gender & Intersectionality in Post-Soviet Armenia ~ Friday/Saturday, October 15-16, 2021 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
Friday / Saturday, October 15-16, 2021, at 11am EDT / 8am PDT / 7pm AMTLive on Zoom. Registration is required and free.Livestream on the Zoryan Institute YouTube channel ZI e-Chronicles. This two-day conference, held virtually over Zoom, will provide a platform to discuss and better understand gender-related issues in the present-day Republic of Armenia. PANELS October 15, 2021 ARMENIA'S GENDER TROUBLE: Deconstructing "Anti-Genderism" from Historical, Linguistic, and Socio-Cultural Anthroplogical Perspectives POLITICS AND REPRESENTATION: Uprooting Secism, Racism, and Homophobia in Education, Decision Making, and Public Discourse PANELS October 16, 2021 EQUITY AND EMPOWERMENT: Creating and Distributing Resources Beyond the Gap WAR, TRAUMA,...
Gate to Heaven ~ Boston Area Film Screening & Discussion ~ Sunday, October 10, 2021 ~ In Person Event
Please join us and support yet another brilliant film by Director Jivan Avetisyan with a storyline set during the 2016 four-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh. You will have the opportunity to view the film, meet the film director in person, and learn more about the film and Avetisyan's upcoming projects.
ROUBEN MAMOULIAN: An American-Armenian Theater and Film Director and Artist ~ Friday, October 8, 2021 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
Please join us for this work-in-progress presentation, marking the 124th birth anniversary of American-Armenian stage and screen director Rouben Mamoulian.
Gate to Heaven: New York/New Jersey Film Screening & Discussion ~ Friday, October 8, 2021 ~ In Person Event
Gate to Heaven SynopsisHaunted by his past, German journalist Robert Sternvall returns to Artsakh, in 2016, after 22 years when the Nagorno-Karabakh war reignites to cover the conflict. As a result of his journalistic investigation, Robert meets Sophia Marti, a young opera singer, who happens to be the daughter of missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan, whom Robert abandoned in captivity during the fall of the village of Talish of Nagorno-Karabakh in 1992. As their romance develops, Robert’s guilty conscience catches up…