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A Call for Rain / Գարունը եկաւ ամպերով, Ամպերը եկան անձրեւով, Storytelling, Songs, and Games in Armenian ~ Sunday, April 30, 2023 ~ In-Person Event

A Call for Rain / Գարունը եկաւ ամպերով, Ամպերը եկան անձրեւով, Storytelling, Songs, and Games in Armenian ~ Sunday, April 30, 2023 ~ In-Person Event

NAASR's ԱԲԳ for Children, presents A Call for Rain / Գարունը եկաւ ամպերով, Ամպերը եկան անձրեւով, Storytelling, Songs, and Games in Armenian for children of all ages and their families.

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Literary Lights: We Are All Armenian ~ Saturday, April 29, 2023 ~ On Zoom

Literary Lights: We Are All Armenian ~ Saturday, April 29, 2023 ~ On Zoom

We Are All Armenian is a groundbreaking collection of personal essays–by established and emerging Armenian voices–exploring the multilayered realities of life in the Armenian diaspora.

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THE HORRORS OF ADANA: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century ~ Friday, April 28, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube

THE HORRORS OF ADANA: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century ~ Friday, April 28, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube

The Horrors of Adana offers one of the first close examinations of these events, analyzing sociopolitical and economic transformations that culminated in a cataclysm of violence. Drawing on primary sources in a dozen languages, he develops an interdisciplinary approach to understand the rumors and emotions, public spheres and humanitarian interventions that together informed this complex event.

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WITNESSING the ARMENIAN MASSACRES ~ The Story of a Physician, a Poet, an a Book of Poems: Dr. Diran Balakian, Siamanto, and Bloody News from My Friend ~ Thursday, April 27, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube

WITNESSING the ARMENIAN MASSACRES ~ The Story of a Physician, a Poet, an a Book of Poems: Dr. Diran Balakian, Siamanto, and Bloody News from My Friend ~ Thursday, April 27, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube

Peter Balakian will discuss the book of poems Bloody News from My Friend by Siamanto (1878-1915). Dr. Diran Balakian, Peter Balakian’s grandfather, at the time of the 1909 Adana massacres was working as a physician tending to the wounded and was also an eyewitness to the atrocities.

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FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS:" How Denial Turns Facts Into Opinions and Erodes Truth ~ Monday, April 24, 2023 ~ In-Person NY Area Event

FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS:" How Denial Turns Facts Into Opinions and Erodes Truth ~ Monday, April 24, 2023 ~ In-Person NY Area Event

This presentation will focus on several efforts since 2019 to continue and expand the long-running project of Armenian Genocide denial and will also discuss how it dovetails with the efforts of Azerbaijan to rewrite history as a means to dictate Armenia’s future but also its past.

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