Tuesday, May 01, 2018
Sunday, April 22, 2018
ՅԻՇԷՔ Hishek: Armenian Writers on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Tuesday, April 24 at 7 PM - 9 PM
Babycastles, 145 W 14th St, New York, New York 10011
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Alina Gregorian
Christopher Atamian
Aida Zilelian
Lola Koundakjian
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Alina Gregorian is a poet and artist, and author of the chapbooks Flags for Adjectives (Diez) and Navigational Clouds (Monk Books). Some poems can be found in Boston Review, Prelude, BOMB Magazine, among others. Alina lives in Brooklyn, NY and can be found here alinagregorian.com.
Christopher Atamian is a writer and creative producer of Armenian and Italian background and the grandson of Armenian Genocide survivors. He studied comparative literature as an undergrad at Harvard; television and film production at USC Film School and international marketing at Columbia Business School. Apart from creative endeavors and professional activities as a senior executive in leading media companies and consultancies (ABC, Ogilvy & Mather, Hill + Knowlton Strategies), Atamian has concentrated on community activism. He is the former President and a current board member of AGLA New York, and in 2004 founded Nor Alik, a non-profit cultural organization responsible for producing the First New York Armenian International Film Festival. Atamian also co-produced the OBIE Award-winning play Trouble in Paradise in 2006, as well as several music videos and short films. He was selected for the 2009 Venice Biennale on the basis of his video Sarafian’s Desire and received a 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He continues to contribute critical pieces to leading publications such as The New York Times Book Review, The Huffington Post, SCENES Media and The Weekly Standard. His first book of poetry A Poet in Washington Heights was published this year by Nauset Press and awarded the 2017 Tölölyan Literary Prize. He was born and still resides in New York City with his dog Chip.
Aida Zilelian is a New York City writer. Her novel THE LEGACY OF LOST THINGS was released in March 2015 (Bleeding Heart Publications) and was the recipient of the 2014 Tololyan Literary Award. Her stories have been published in over twenty-five journals and several anthologies. She has been featured on NPR, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Kirkus Reviews, among other radio and print platforms. She is also the curator of Boundless Tales, the longest-running reading series in Queens, NY. She recently completed her second novel, The Last Echo Through the Plains. Her short story collection These Hills Were Meant for You was shortlisted in the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Prize.
Lola Koundakjian is a regular reader in New York City and has appeared in four international poetry festivals. She curates a poetry reading series at the Zohrab Information Center in midtown Manhattan, and since 2006, has promoted Armenian culture with texts, translations and audio for the Armenian Poetry Project. She is the author of The Accidental Observer (2011 USA) and Advice to a Poet (2014 Peru; 2015 USA). Her work has also appeared in journals and anthologies on three continents. www.lolakoundakjian.com
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Labels: Aida Zilelian, Alina Gregorian, Christopher Atamian, Lola Koundakjian, reading, USA
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
Monday, March 12, 2018
Esther Heboyan reading in Florida, March 14, 2018
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Labels: Contemporary, Esther Heboyan, reading, USA
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
Varujan Vosganian reading in New York
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Labels: Contemporary, reading, Romania, Varujan Vosganian
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Lory Bedikian's upcoming reading at Claremont Libray, Claremont, California
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Labels: Contemporary, Lory Bedikian, reading, USA
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Celebrating the poetry of Zareh Khrakhouni
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Labels: reading, USA, Zareh Khrakhouni
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Upcoming reading at the Zohrab Information Center
Dana Walrath, a writer, artist and anthropologist, likes to cross borders and disciplines with her work. After years of using stories and art to teach medical students at University of Vermont’s College of Medicine, she spent 2012-2013 as a Fulbright Scholar in Armenia where she completed her first book, Like Water on Stone a verse novel about the Armenian genocide of 1915. Loosely based on the story of her grandmother, Like Water on Stone is a Notable Book for a Global Society Award Winner, a Bank Street Best Book of 2015, a Vermont Book Award finalist, and more. Her just released graphic memoir, Aliceheimer’s about life with her mother, Alice, before and during dementia, has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has spoken extensively about the role of comics in healing throughout North America and Eurasia including two TEDx talks. She has also shown her artwork in a variety of venues throughout North America and Eurasia.
Her anthropological work on childbirth, genocide, and the end of life has appeared in edited volumes and anthropological journals and she is a co-author of one of the leading college textbook series in anthropology. Her recent essays have appeared in Slate, Somatosphere and Foreign Policy. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a BA in visual arts and biology from Barnard College. She lives in the mountains of Vermont.
Co-curator Lola Koundakjian enjoys her poetry diplomacy, touring the world to read at poetry festivals, and, promoting Armenian culture through the Armenian Poetry Project. This fall she is reading in three venues around New York City: in September as part of National Translation Month in the Inkwell series at the KGB Bar, a literary institution in the East Village neighborhood of New York City; in October, in the Americas Poetry Festival; and in November at the ZIC. She is the author of The Accidental Observer (2011 USA) and Advice to a Poet (2014 Peru; 2015 USA)
Shahé Mankerian is the principal of St. Gregory Alfred and Marguerite Hovsepian School in Pasadena and the co-director of the Los Angeles Writing Project. As an educator, he has been honored with the Los Angeles Music Center's BRAVO Award, which recognizes teachers for innovation and excellence in arts education.
His poems have won Honorable Mentions in 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award and Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture. Shahé was a Semi-Finalist for the Knightville Poetry Contest. He was the first place winner of 2012 "Black and White" anthology series from Outrider Press.
Mankerian's most recent manuscript, History of Forgetfulness, has been a finalist at four prestigious competitions: the 2013 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, the 2103 Bibby First Book Competition, the Quercus Review Press, Fall Poetry Book Award, 2013, and the 2014 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His poems have been published in numerous literary magazines.
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Labels: Contemporary, Dana Walrath, Lola Koundakjian, reading, Shahé Mankerian, USA
Friday, November 11, 2016
Poetry and Music Presentation in San Francisco
An Armenian Poetry and Music Presentation
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Labels: Contemporary, James Baloian, reading, USA
Monday, October 10, 2016
Village Poets of Sunland Tujunga monthly event features poet Shahé Mankerian
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Labels: Contemporary, reading, Shahé Mankerian, USA
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Shahe Mankerian in Poetry Within Reach
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Labels: reading, Shahé Mankerian, USA
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
One Hundred Plus Words
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Labels: Alec Ekmekji, Alina Gharabegian, Contemporary, reading, Shahé Mankerian, USA
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Literary evening in Toronto - Գրասէրներու Խմբակ - May 1, 2016
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Labels: Canada, Hamazkayin, reading
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Lory Bedikian to participate in a A Celebration of Feminist Poets Who Span a Generation
A Celebration of Feminist Poets Who Span a Generation
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Labels: Lory Bedikian, reading, USA
Friday, April 08, 2016
A reading in Montreal, Canada
Դանիէլ Վարուժան՝ Հեթանոսական Բանաստեղծութիւն, Գ. Պըլտեան՝ «Կրակէ շրջանակը Դ. Վարուժանի շուրջ»
Տեղի կ’ունենայ 17 Ապրիլ 2016ին, երեկոյեան ժամը 7:00ին
Սուրբ Յակոբ Ազգային վարժարանի
«Բաստրմաճեան» սրահ
3400 RUE NADON, MONTREAL, QC, H4J 1P6
Դիմել՝
Համիկ Ղազարեան 514-582-8233
Թամար Փանոսեան 514-892-0363
Մուտքի նուէր՝ 20$
Ուսանողներու համար՝ 10$
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
Reading in New York City
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Labels: Albert Kapikian, Lola Koundakjian, reading, Sarah Giragosian, USA
Saturday, December 05, 2015
Les oeuvres de Nigoghos Sarafian lu à Genève
Valentina Calzolari
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Labels: reading, Switzerland
Thursday, November 05, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
A reading in New York City, November 19, 2015
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Labels: Contemporary, reading, USA
Sunday, September 20, 2015
‘Poetry of Memory,’ an Evening in Solidarity with Armenia
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