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RA GOVERNMENT ALLOCATES 117 U.S. DRAMS FOR HOLDING "ONE NATION, ONE
CULTURE" SECOND ALL ARMENIAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL
YEREVAN, JUNE 8, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The "One Nation, One
Culture" ("Mek Azg, Mek Mshakuyt") second all-Armenian cultural
festival will be held in Armenia on June 23-30 for strengthening and
deepening the Armenia-Diaspora cultural ties as well as for presenting
the Armenia culture jointly. More than 2000 artists from Armenia,
Artsakh, France, Austria, Great Britain, Switzerland, U.S., Syria,
Lebanon, Iran, Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan will participate in the
festival.
As Vigen Sargsian, the RA President's Assistant informed at the June 7
press-conference, the festival held in 2004 for the first time became
a national celebration and strengthened "consciousness and sense of
being one nation." According to V.Sargsian, if mainly amateurish
collectives were presented at the previous festival from Diaspora,
professionals are involved in the festival this year.
Tamar Poghosian, the Executive Director of the "One Nation, One
Culture" fund informed that the RA Government allocated 117 mln drams
(about 275 thousand U.S. dollars) for holding the
festival. T.Poghosian mentioned that the Government also undertook the
issue of providing conditions for Javakhk and Artsakh representatives.
The solemn opening ceremony of the festival will take place on June 23
at the Karen Demirchian Sports and Concert Complex. On the next day,
June 24, participants of the festival will visit Tsitsernakabert, then
will meet with Armenian cinematographers, and in the eventing, at
19:30, they will participate in the theatrical event to take place at
the Gabriel Sundukian National Academic Theater. June 25 will be
dedicated to literature: the participants will visit the Mother See of
Holy Etchmiadzin, then an exhibition-fair of book will open on the
Charles Aznavour square. Events dedicated to fine arts will be
organized on the same day. Concerts dedicated to people's, classic and
estrada music as well as a dancing march festival will be held in
concert halls of Yerevan on June 27-28.
Concerts will be organized within the framework of the festival not
only in Yerevan, but in different marzes of Armenia and in Nagorno
Karabakh as well.
The solemn opening ceremony of the festival will take place on June
30.
To recap, "Nare and Narek", the symbol of the "One Nation, One
Culture" festival has been kept.
CULTURE" SECOND ALL ARMENIAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL
YEREVAN, JUNE 8, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The "One Nation, One
Culture" ("Mek Azg, Mek Mshakuyt") second all-Armenian cultural
festival will be held in Armenia on June 23-30 for strengthening and
deepening the Armenia-Diaspora cultural ties as well as for presenting
the Armenia culture jointly. More than 2000 artists from Armenia,
Artsakh, France, Austria, Great Britain, Switzerland, U.S., Syria,
Lebanon, Iran, Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan will participate in the
festival.
As Vigen Sargsian, the RA President's Assistant informed at the June 7
press-conference, the festival held in 2004 for the first time became
a national celebration and strengthened "consciousness and sense of
being one nation." According to V.Sargsian, if mainly amateurish
collectives were presented at the previous festival from Diaspora,
professionals are involved in the festival this year.
Tamar Poghosian, the Executive Director of the "One Nation, One
Culture" fund informed that the RA Government allocated 117 mln drams
(about 275 thousand U.S. dollars) for holding the
festival. T.Poghosian mentioned that the Government also undertook the
issue of providing conditions for Javakhk and Artsakh representatives.
The solemn opening ceremony of the festival will take place on June 23
at the Karen Demirchian Sports and Concert Complex. On the next day,
June 24, participants of the festival will visit Tsitsernakabert, then
will meet with Armenian cinematographers, and in the eventing, at
19:30, they will participate in the theatrical event to take place at
the Gabriel Sundukian National Academic Theater. June 25 will be
dedicated to literature: the participants will visit the Mother See of
Holy Etchmiadzin, then an exhibition-fair of book will open on the
Charles Aznavour square. Events dedicated to fine arts will be
organized on the same day. Concerts dedicated to people's, classic and
estrada music as well as a dancing march festival will be held in
concert halls of Yerevan on June 27-28.
Concerts will be organized within the framework of the festival not
only in Yerevan, but in different marzes of Armenia and in Nagorno
Karabakh as well.
The solemn opening ceremony of the festival will take place on June
30.
To recap, "Nare and Narek", the symbol of the "One Nation, One
Culture" festival has been kept.