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'GRANDMA'S TATTOOS' TO BE SCREENED AT GLENDALE LIBRARY
asbarez
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
"Grandma's Tattoos" screening at Glendale Library on April 18 The
forgotten women of the Armenian Genocide at the Glendale Public Library
GLENDALE-The film "Grandma's Tattoos" will screen on Wednesday, April
18 at 7 p.m, in the Glendale Public Library Auditorium, 222 East
Harvard Street, Glendale, CA 91205. Admission is free and seating
is limited. Attendees receive 3 hours FREE parking across Harvard
street at The Market Place parking structure with validation at the
library's loan desk.
The documentary film chronicles filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian's quest
to expose the extreme abuse suffered by her grandmother, a survivor
of the Armenian Genocide. "Grandma was abducted and held in slavery
for many years somewhere in Turkey. She was also forcibly marked,
- tattooed - as property, the same way you mark cattle. I share
the shame, the guilt and anger that infected my grandma's life",
states Khardalian. Grandma's Tattoos sheds light on the story of
thousands of forgotten female survivors of the Armenian Genocide,
many of them children and teenagers, who were raped, abducted, and
forced into prostitution.
Following the film, a discussion will take place with Ara
Khachatourian, the English editor of Asbarez daily newspaper, and
Paula Devine, Chair of the City of Glendale's Commission on the
Status of Women. The program is sponsored by the Glendale Public
Library and the Associates of Brand Library & Art Center. The film
is the first offering in a film series sponsored by The Associates
of Brand Library & Art Center.
From: Baghdasarian
asbarez
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
"Grandma's Tattoos" screening at Glendale Library on April 18 The
forgotten women of the Armenian Genocide at the Glendale Public Library
GLENDALE-The film "Grandma's Tattoos" will screen on Wednesday, April
18 at 7 p.m, in the Glendale Public Library Auditorium, 222 East
Harvard Street, Glendale, CA 91205. Admission is free and seating
is limited. Attendees receive 3 hours FREE parking across Harvard
street at The Market Place parking structure with validation at the
library's loan desk.
The documentary film chronicles filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian's quest
to expose the extreme abuse suffered by her grandmother, a survivor
of the Armenian Genocide. "Grandma was abducted and held in slavery
for many years somewhere in Turkey. She was also forcibly marked,
- tattooed - as property, the same way you mark cattle. I share
the shame, the guilt and anger that infected my grandma's life",
states Khardalian. Grandma's Tattoos sheds light on the story of
thousands of forgotten female survivors of the Armenian Genocide,
many of them children and teenagers, who were raped, abducted, and
forced into prostitution.
Following the film, a discussion will take place with Ara
Khachatourian, the English editor of Asbarez daily newspaper, and
Paula Devine, Chair of the City of Glendale's Commission on the
Status of Women. The program is sponsored by the Glendale Public
Library and the Associates of Brand Library & Art Center. The film
is the first offering in a film series sponsored by The Associates
of Brand Library & Art Center.
From: Baghdasarian