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WORCESTER EXHIBIT CELEBRATES 500 YEARS OF ARMENIAN BOOK PRINTING
Armenian Weekly
October 29, 2012
In November, the Worcester Armenian Book Commemoration Committee
will host an exhibit at the Worcester Public Library to commemorate
the 500th anniversary of Armenian book printing. The United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has
designated Yerevan, Armenia, as the "World Capital of the Book for
the Year 2012" in honor of this milestone occasion in Armenian history.
The Worcester Public Library Various displays will explain, through
essays and pictorial images, the development by Saints Sahag and
Mesrob of the Armenian alphabet, which resulted in the immediate
availability of Western and Christian knowledge in Armenia. Also
featured will be the Armenian alphabet in its various forms, copies
of early illuminated manuscripts, and the advancement of Armenian
printed books and materials.
Worcester is the site of the first permanent Armenian community in
the New World and of the first Armenian church to be built in the
western hemisphere. The city also host to the Kaloosdian/Mugar Endowed
Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. Several texts
on the Armenian Genocide by the first two holders of the Armenian
Genocide Studies Chair, Prof. Simon Payaslian and Prof. Taner Akcam,
reinforce the exhibit's theme of the power of the published word.
Contributions of Armenian-American writers include William Saroyan
and Vrastad Kazanjian.
On Nov. 7, at 7 p.m., the committee will hold a Grand Opening Reception
with refreshments in the library's Saxe Room, with a lecture on
Armenian book printing-titled "The Power of the Printed Word: Successes
and Challenges, Past and Present"-by two Armenian newspaper editors,
Alin Gregorian of the Armenian Mirror-Spectator and Khatchig Mouradian
of the Armenian Weekly. The event is free and open to the public. Other
programs will follow throughout November. For more information, call
(508) 963-2076.
The Worcester Armenian Book Commemoration Committee is comprised of
representatives from the Worcester Armenian community with the support
of the Armenian Church of Saviour, the Armenian Church of the Martyrs,
and Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church. The cmmittee chairman is
Van M. Aroian and committee members are Hrair B. Aprahamian, Nevart
Asadoorian, Charles K. Der Kazarian, Frank S. Minasian, Sarah D.
Moradian, and Stephen J. Papazian.
Armenian Weekly
October 29, 2012
In November, the Worcester Armenian Book Commemoration Committee
will host an exhibit at the Worcester Public Library to commemorate
the 500th anniversary of Armenian book printing. The United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has
designated Yerevan, Armenia, as the "World Capital of the Book for
the Year 2012" in honor of this milestone occasion in Armenian history.
The Worcester Public Library Various displays will explain, through
essays and pictorial images, the development by Saints Sahag and
Mesrob of the Armenian alphabet, which resulted in the immediate
availability of Western and Christian knowledge in Armenia. Also
featured will be the Armenian alphabet in its various forms, copies
of early illuminated manuscripts, and the advancement of Armenian
printed books and materials.
Worcester is the site of the first permanent Armenian community in
the New World and of the first Armenian church to be built in the
western hemisphere. The city also host to the Kaloosdian/Mugar Endowed
Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. Several texts
on the Armenian Genocide by the first two holders of the Armenian
Genocide Studies Chair, Prof. Simon Payaslian and Prof. Taner Akcam,
reinforce the exhibit's theme of the power of the published word.
Contributions of Armenian-American writers include William Saroyan
and Vrastad Kazanjian.
On Nov. 7, at 7 p.m., the committee will hold a Grand Opening Reception
with refreshments in the library's Saxe Room, with a lecture on
Armenian book printing-titled "The Power of the Printed Word: Successes
and Challenges, Past and Present"-by two Armenian newspaper editors,
Alin Gregorian of the Armenian Mirror-Spectator and Khatchig Mouradian
of the Armenian Weekly. The event is free and open to the public. Other
programs will follow throughout November. For more information, call
(508) 963-2076.
The Worcester Armenian Book Commemoration Committee is comprised of
representatives from the Worcester Armenian community with the support
of the Armenian Church of Saviour, the Armenian Church of the Martyrs,
and Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church. The cmmittee chairman is
Van M. Aroian and committee members are Hrair B. Aprahamian, Nevart
Asadoorian, Charles K. Der Kazarian, Frank S. Minasian, Sarah D.
Moradian, and Stephen J. Papazian.