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50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN ARGENTINE DANCE ENSEMBLE "GAYANE" TO BE CELEBRATED IN ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
June 15, 2009
YEREVAN, JUNE 15, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The 50th anniversary
of "Gayane" dance ensemble of Argentina's Armenian community will be
celebrated in Armenia and Arstakh in August and September, 2010. The
Armenian Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobian and the Chairman of
the Armenian Cultural Union of Agentina Adrian Lomlomjian reached this
agreement on June 13. The dance ensemble was founded in 1960. During
its visit to Armenia, it will take part in "One Nation, One Culture"
festival and give performances in Gyumri, Vanadzor and Stepanakert. The
40th anniversary of the ensemble was also marked in Yerevan in 2000.
A. Lomlomjian expressed a willingness to host representatives of
Armenian culture in Argentina next year where they will participate
in the cultural events to be held in Buenos Aires in September, 2010.
H. Hakobian and A. Lomlomjian also discussed in detail the assistance
program on solution of educational and cultural problems of Armenian
communities in Latin America. The minister expressed her readiness
to assist Armenian schools in Argentina with the purchase of the
necessary textbooks and manuals.
An agreement, under which groups of Armenian Argentinian schoolchildren
will visit Armenia within the framework of "Come Home" Program in 2010,
was also reached.
Noyan Tapan
June 15, 2009
YEREVAN, JUNE 15, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The 50th anniversary
of "Gayane" dance ensemble of Argentina's Armenian community will be
celebrated in Armenia and Arstakh in August and September, 2010. The
Armenian Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobian and the Chairman of
the Armenian Cultural Union of Agentina Adrian Lomlomjian reached this
agreement on June 13. The dance ensemble was founded in 1960. During
its visit to Armenia, it will take part in "One Nation, One Culture"
festival and give performances in Gyumri, Vanadzor and Stepanakert. The
40th anniversary of the ensemble was also marked in Yerevan in 2000.
A. Lomlomjian expressed a willingness to host representatives of
Armenian culture in Argentina next year where they will participate
in the cultural events to be held in Buenos Aires in September, 2010.
H. Hakobian and A. Lomlomjian also discussed in detail the assistance
program on solution of educational and cultural problems of Armenian
communities in Latin America. The minister expressed her readiness
to assist Armenian schools in Argentina with the purchase of the
necessary textbooks and manuals.
An agreement, under which groups of Armenian Argentinian schoolchildren
will visit Armenia within the framework of "Come Home" Program in 2010,
was also reached.