Artists and Events

THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES

A enigmatic film, the opus magnum of the greates Armenian director, Sarkis Parajanian (in the USSR known as Sergei Parajanov, and experiencing hardships as a dissident), is a book of occult symbols. Its meaning remains inaccessible to us, coming from a different culture and time. Yet at the same time it...
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Grandma's Tattoos

Filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian makes a journey into her own family's history to investigate the terrible truth behind her grandmother's odd tattoos and, in the process, unveils the story of the Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World War. During the First World War, millions of Armenians were...
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SINGING IN EXILE

In order to pass on their ancestral endangered heritage, Aram and Virginia Kerovpyan, an Armenian couple from the diaspora, with Jarosław Fret and an international troupe of actors from Wrocław-based Teatr ZAR, travel on a journey to the places where this art was born, to Anatolia. On the way, their questions...
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EVENINGS OF MUSICAL IMPROVISATION

During the Szczecin’s Bonds of Culture Festival there will be two evenings of improvised music held in the Small Courtyard of the Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle. The event will be hosted by musicians associated with the ZAR Theatre and the project Armine, Sister and guests invited by them: Murat Içlinalça was born...
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„LAV LUR”

Lav Lur means Good News in Armenian. It is a call to stand up and move, to sit down and be. It arose from the encounter between a Portuguese actress and illustrator, and a Parisian-American-Armenian musician, who share the dream to be troubadours and to travel around the world spreading good...
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