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1ST KOREAN-ARMENIAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL COMES TO LA CRESCENTA
By Ruxandra Guidi
89.3 KPCC
Sept 14 2012
CA
Festival organizer Arick Gevorkian says some of his neighbors doubted
that a small local event focused on Asian and European immigrants
would take off.
"Why not?" he asks. "Why not down the road Armenian and Mexican and
Korean? Why not Armenian and Mexican and Korean and Irish?"
Gevorkian is Armenian - born and raised in Iran, and educated in
England. He moved to the United States in 1981, and got his small
business off the ground with the help of other Armenian neighbors.
Now, he says, the festival has become an incubator for other
immigrant-owned small businesses that will be selling their prepared
foods, crafts and other wares this weekend.
"For our kids that go to local public schools, or the community that
shops at the local grocery stores, they understand that the Koreans
and Armenians, yeah, they might speak differently, they might eat
differently," explains Gevorkian. "But we have to bring harmony to
the neighborhood in order for us to be able to truly to call our
neighborhood our home."
The festival takes place both days this weekend from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The offerings include Korean Pop music, or K-Pop, Armenian church
choirs, Armenian shish kebob and Korean barbecue stands.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/09/14/34289/first-korean-armenian-cultural-festival-comes-la-c/
By Ruxandra Guidi
89.3 KPCC
Sept 14 2012
CA
Festival organizer Arick Gevorkian says some of his neighbors doubted
that a small local event focused on Asian and European immigrants
would take off.
"Why not?" he asks. "Why not down the road Armenian and Mexican and
Korean? Why not Armenian and Mexican and Korean and Irish?"
Gevorkian is Armenian - born and raised in Iran, and educated in
England. He moved to the United States in 1981, and got his small
business off the ground with the help of other Armenian neighbors.
Now, he says, the festival has become an incubator for other
immigrant-owned small businesses that will be selling their prepared
foods, crafts and other wares this weekend.
"For our kids that go to local public schools, or the community that
shops at the local grocery stores, they understand that the Koreans
and Armenians, yeah, they might speak differently, they might eat
differently," explains Gevorkian. "But we have to bring harmony to
the neighborhood in order for us to be able to truly to call our
neighborhood our home."
The festival takes place both days this weekend from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The offerings include Korean Pop music, or K-Pop, Armenian church
choirs, Armenian shish kebob and Korean barbecue stands.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/09/14/34289/first-korean-armenian-cultural-festival-comes-la-c/