Tweet
PASADENA CITY COUNCIL APPROVES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MONUMENT
Los Angeles Times, CA
Sept 11 2013
By Joe Piasecki
September 11, 2013, 7:31 a.m.
The Pasadena City Council has given unanimous approval for a public
memorial commemorating the Armenian genocide of 1915 in Memorial Park.
The central feature of the design -- a carved-stone basin of water
straddled by a tripod arrangement of three columns leaning into one
another -- is a single drop of water that falls from the highest
point every three seconds, each "teardrop" representing one life lost.
Over the course of one year, 1.5 million "tears" will fall into the
pool, representing the estimated number of people who died during the
Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1918, which occurred under the Ottoman
Empire, what is now the modern republic of Turkey.
The Turkish government disputes that a genocide occurred, claiming
the victims were killed in the chaos of World War I.
Organizers of the nonprofit Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial
Committee are raising funds to erect the monument at Memorial Park
in central Pasadena before the centennial observance of the genocide
on April 24, 2015, the Glendale News-Press reported.
Garo Ghazarian, chair of the Armenian Bar Assn. and a member of the
Glendale Civil Service Commission, said Pasadena is a fitting home
for the tribute because the city was the first in Southern California
to embrace Armenian American immigrants before and after the genocide.
That a city council without Armenian American members united behind
the proposal is "all the more reason to be encouraged that there is
hope for greater understanding and acceptance of what history has
documented so well," said Ghazarian, who was among more than 150
supporters who attended the meeting Monday night at Pasadena City Hall.
More than 1,000 people signed a petition in favor of the Pasadena
monument, which was designed by Catherine Menard, a student at the
Art Center College of Design.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pasadena-city-council-approves-armenian-genocide-momunment-20130911,0,4768119.story
Los Angeles Times, CA
Sept 11 2013
By Joe Piasecki
September 11, 2013, 7:31 a.m.
The Pasadena City Council has given unanimous approval for a public
memorial commemorating the Armenian genocide of 1915 in Memorial Park.
The central feature of the design -- a carved-stone basin of water
straddled by a tripod arrangement of three columns leaning into one
another -- is a single drop of water that falls from the highest
point every three seconds, each "teardrop" representing one life lost.
Over the course of one year, 1.5 million "tears" will fall into the
pool, representing the estimated number of people who died during the
Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1918, which occurred under the Ottoman
Empire, what is now the modern republic of Turkey.
The Turkish government disputes that a genocide occurred, claiming
the victims were killed in the chaos of World War I.
Organizers of the nonprofit Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial
Committee are raising funds to erect the monument at Memorial Park
in central Pasadena before the centennial observance of the genocide
on April 24, 2015, the Glendale News-Press reported.
Garo Ghazarian, chair of the Armenian Bar Assn. and a member of the
Glendale Civil Service Commission, said Pasadena is a fitting home
for the tribute because the city was the first in Southern California
to embrace Armenian American immigrants before and after the genocide.
That a city council without Armenian American members united behind
the proposal is "all the more reason to be encouraged that there is
hope for greater understanding and acceptance of what history has
documented so well," said Ghazarian, who was among more than 150
supporters who attended the meeting Monday night at Pasadena City Hall.
More than 1,000 people signed a petition in favor of the Pasadena
monument, which was designed by Catherine Menard, a student at the
Art Center College of Design.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pasadena-city-council-approves-armenian-genocide-momunment-20130911,0,4768119.story