Prior Years — #NAASRevents

POSTPONEDCinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, New York, NYTHE 2020 ARMENIAN FILMS at The Socially Relevant Film Festival (SRFF), New YorkFEATURE FILMLORIK | New York Premiere Alexey Zlobin | Armenia | 2018 | 94'A lonely theater actor inhabits a world populated by his past characters as he unexpectedly he finds himself plunged into the realities of the people around him. Experiencing the pain and suffering of others, transforms him from a cynical narcissist into a compassionate and selfless person. When he inhabits the role of a rich oligarch, he exploits this new situation to reach an unexpected outcome. DOCUMENTARY SHORT...

POSTPONEDNAASR Vartan Gregorian Building, Batmasian Hall (3rd Floor), 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478Join us for a report by the Armenia Tree Project on the outcomes of the October 2019 "Forest Summit Global Action and Armenia," which brought local and international experts together for the first time for networking and dialogues about the challenges and opportunities of Armenia's ambitious pledge to double its forest cover by 2050 as part of its commitment to the Paris Agreement. And, hear about next steps for Armenia's future forests. Moderated by: Anna Ohanyan Featuring Panelists Guy Hydrick and Jeanmarie Papelian CO-SPONSORSArmenia Tree ProjectAYF Greater Boston...

POSTPONED to Fall 2020 ISLAM IN ARMENIAN LITERARY CULTURE 7th to 21st Centuries, with Seta Dadoyan Unique patterns of interaction and development distinguished the Armenian experience in the world of Islam from the beginning, yet a large body of the record in the entire Armenian literature remains not only barely studied but also unavailable to scholars in Near/Middle Eastern and interfaith studies. Based on the primary and secondary material from the 660s to the present she has gathered and made available (in her translations), professor Seta B. Dadoyan traces novel paradigms of mutual perceptions and interactions in dynamic historical development...

Sunday, March 8, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. Ararat-Eskijian Museum, Sheen Chapel15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 Between 1885 and 1915, roughly eighty thousand Armenians migrated between the Ottoman Empire and North America. For much of this period, Ottoman state authorities viewed Armenian migrants, particularly those who returned to the empire after sojourns abroad, as a political threat to the empire’s security. In response, Istanbul worked vigorously to prevent Armenians both from migrating to and returning from North America. In response dense smuggling networks emerged to assist migrants in bypassing this migration ban. The dynamics that shaped the evolution...

Thursday, March 5, 2020 AT 7:45 pmSt. Leon Armenian Church / Abajian Hall 12-61 Saddle River Road, Fair Lawn, NJ MOTHERLAND: Film Screening & Discussion with Filmmaker Jesse Soursourian and Activist Mary Matosian What if healing your country meant that you had to combat traditional gender roles? MOTHERLAND is a short documentary about the women of Artsakh who put themselves at risk to save lives of countless people that use the land to farm, collect wood and attend school.Individually outcast; together, a collective – the deminers support each other as they take on the dangerous role of breaking stereotypes and...