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Staff Report Art and painting have always played a big part in Armenian life. One can still see in  Armenia examples of ancient and medieval architecture and art.  As in the past,  so now   also a new generation of architects, painters, and artists are leaving their heritage of art. There is a saying in Armenia, “All children are ready-made artists,” ...

Staff Article Speaking to an audience of community members and students, Houri Berberian  presented her topic in the Alice Peters Auditorium.  Berberian received her Bachelor degree   in History at University of California, Berkeley and completed her Master degree at UCLA.    She is currently working towards her doctorate at UCLA.  Her lecture came out of her   doctorate thesis.  She has been ...

Crissi Jelladian A.S.O. is an organization on campus that allows Armenian students and others that   are interested in the Armenian heritage  to join together for a variety of activities.  The   Armenian Students’ Organization consists of Armenians from all over the world, anywhere   from Fresno to Armenia.  The variation in the students’ background makes the club in one   sense diverse, but ...

Jacklin Gharibian Armenians–they have such strange names and facial features, an aberrant language   (with peculiar-looking alphabets), and a distinctly odd culture.  I always felt this   strangeness within myself, and I reckoned that we were, somehow, different from others.    However, I later learned that Armenians are, instead, distinctly unique.  I also presumed   that I knew enough about these “strangers”–about the Genocide, ...

Special to Hye Sharzhoom by Bill Erysian Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Armenia launched one of the most   ambitious land privatization programs of any of the former Soviet states.  By 1992, nearly   all of the 800 state and collective farms were broken up and more than 300,000 private   farms were created. Building on the potential that now lies ...

A Treasury of Armenian Chants, compiled and annotated by Shahan Arzruni, NewYork: St. Vartan’s Press, 1994, 169 pages with a bibliography of Armenian music,produced by Harold G. Hagopian, Traditional Crossroads. donated by John Garabedian of Fresno, California. Blood, Esta, Five Armenian Folksongs, 1995, sheet music scored for piano, fluteand guitar, published by Frank E. Warren, P. O. Box 650006, W. ...

By Barlow Der Mugrdechian The world of music is being enriched by the release of a new CD series called The Music of Armenia, produced and recorded by David and Kay Parsons of Celestial Harmonies. Volume Two: Sharakan/Medieval Music is part of a projected six-volume series on one of the most ancient musical traditions, the Armenian. Volume One, Sacred Choral ...

The Armenian Studies Program, its Sahatdjian Library and Avedian Archives, would like to thank the following individuals for their generous donations. Armena Russian of Fresno has donated a collection of Armenian and English languages books on Armenian subjects. Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut of San Francisco sent a number of items from the estate of Anna Akilian Terzian of Yettem and San ...

By Ara Jabagchourian The executive director of the Armenian Assembly of America, Ross Vartian, and the regional director of the Los Angles chapter of the Armenian Assembly, Peter Abajian, converged to Fresno on April 28-29 to bring attention to our community the activities of this productive organization. The Armenian Assembly is a 25 year old pro-Armenian lobby group located in ...

By Jacqueline Arikian We must grieve. We have been told to do so; we have been told to do it with passion…a grieving passion. A passion of hatred perhaps, one that lurks within the depths of our souls against the very people who corrupted our nature, the very people who exterminated our ancestors. A passion of sadness perhaps, for all ...