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ARMENIANS GOING TO NEW YORK FOR SHOAH GALA HONORING GEORGE CLOONEY
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Friday, September 6th, 2013
The event will honor actor George Clooney
LOS ANGELES-The USC Shoah Foundation, whose digital archives soon will
include the filmed testimonies of 400 Armenian Genocide eyewitnesses
and survivors, will honor actor George Clooney at a gala dinner on
October 3, in New York City - and significant Armenian attendance
at the event is expected. The gala, chaired by Shoah founder Steven
Spielberg, also will feature special guest Sandra Bullock and a
musical performance by Norah Jones.
Armenian Film Foundation Chairman Jerry Papazian said, "We are
thrilled to be participating in this event, paving the way for the
inclusion of these Armenian Genocide eyewitness testimonies into
the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation. We are
encouraging a large Armenian presence at the event in support of
the project." Papazian confirmed that former U.S. Ambassador to the
Republic of Armenia John Marshall Evans will attend the banquet as
part of the Armenian contingent.
Jon Stewart will emcee the gala honoring Clooney for his humanitarian
work. The gala committee includes a broad spectrum of celebrities and
influential people, including Matt Damon, Ralph Lauren, Jerry Seinfeld,
William P. Lauder and Andrew Tisch. All of them are committed to
helping raise money for the USC Shoah Foundation, whose mission is
to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry - and the suffering
they cause - through the educational use of the Foundation's visual
history testimonies.
Shoah is actively engaged in an international fund-raising campaign
to ensure completion of the integration of the Armenian testimonies so
that they can be presented to the world in time for the commemoration
of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in April 2015.
"It's crucial that we take the vital and precious words of those
who went through the Armenian Genocide and make their testimonies
available for students, educators and scholars so that they can learn
directly from these eyewitnesses of history," said Stephen Smith,
executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation.
In April 2010, the Armenian Film Foundation and founder J. Michael
Hagopian, along with his wife, Antoinette, entered into an agreement
with the USC Shoah Foundation to license the 400 Armenian Genocide
testimonies filmed by Hagopian to Shoah's Visual History Archive. Next
month, Shoah will receive the digitized interviews from The Armenian
Film Foundation. Upon delivery, these eyewitness accounts will be
incorporated into the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive.
Shoah's Visual History Archive is the largest digital collection of
its kind in the world, with 105,000 hours of video testimony. The
collection is available at 44 institutions around the world, and
approximately one million students, researchers, teachers and lay
people view the testimonies every year. In addition, thousands of
high school students across the country can view the testimonies
through IWitness, the Shoah Foundation Institute's educational
website that makes 1,300 full life histories and testimonies of
survivors of genocides from the Visual History Archive available to
secondary students so they can create multimedia projects and complete
interactive activities.
http://asbarez.com/113617/armenians-going-to-new-york-for-shoah-gala-honoring-george-clooney/
Friday, September 6th, 2013
The event will honor actor George Clooney
LOS ANGELES-The USC Shoah Foundation, whose digital archives soon will
include the filmed testimonies of 400 Armenian Genocide eyewitnesses
and survivors, will honor actor George Clooney at a gala dinner on
October 3, in New York City - and significant Armenian attendance
at the event is expected. The gala, chaired by Shoah founder Steven
Spielberg, also will feature special guest Sandra Bullock and a
musical performance by Norah Jones.
Armenian Film Foundation Chairman Jerry Papazian said, "We are
thrilled to be participating in this event, paving the way for the
inclusion of these Armenian Genocide eyewitness testimonies into
the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation. We are
encouraging a large Armenian presence at the event in support of
the project." Papazian confirmed that former U.S. Ambassador to the
Republic of Armenia John Marshall Evans will attend the banquet as
part of the Armenian contingent.
Jon Stewart will emcee the gala honoring Clooney for his humanitarian
work. The gala committee includes a broad spectrum of celebrities and
influential people, including Matt Damon, Ralph Lauren, Jerry Seinfeld,
William P. Lauder and Andrew Tisch. All of them are committed to
helping raise money for the USC Shoah Foundation, whose mission is
to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry - and the suffering
they cause - through the educational use of the Foundation's visual
history testimonies.
Shoah is actively engaged in an international fund-raising campaign
to ensure completion of the integration of the Armenian testimonies so
that they can be presented to the world in time for the commemoration
of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in April 2015.
"It's crucial that we take the vital and precious words of those
who went through the Armenian Genocide and make their testimonies
available for students, educators and scholars so that they can learn
directly from these eyewitnesses of history," said Stephen Smith,
executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation.
In April 2010, the Armenian Film Foundation and founder J. Michael
Hagopian, along with his wife, Antoinette, entered into an agreement
with the USC Shoah Foundation to license the 400 Armenian Genocide
testimonies filmed by Hagopian to Shoah's Visual History Archive. Next
month, Shoah will receive the digitized interviews from The Armenian
Film Foundation. Upon delivery, these eyewitness accounts will be
incorporated into the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive.
Shoah's Visual History Archive is the largest digital collection of
its kind in the world, with 105,000 hours of video testimony. The
collection is available at 44 institutions around the world, and
approximately one million students, researchers, teachers and lay
people view the testimonies every year. In addition, thousands of
high school students across the country can view the testimonies
through IWitness, the Shoah Foundation Institute's educational
website that makes 1,300 full life histories and testimonies of
survivors of genocides from the Visual History Archive available to
secondary students so they can create multimedia projects and complete
interactive activities.