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The Armenian Institute is dedicated to making Armenian culture and history a living experience through innovative programmes, educational resources, workshops, academic events, exhibits and performances.
CONTACT US
Our office and library are located on the lower floor of Nevart Gulbenkian Hall,
Iverna Gardens, London W8 6TP
(Nearest tube: HIgh Street Kensington)
Address for correspondence:
7 Hollingbourne Road
LONDON
SE24 9NB
Tel: 020 7978 9104
Email: info@armenianinstitute.org
UK Registered Charity No. 1088410
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Co-organiser (Iran) Nayer Qajar, Co-curator (diaspora artists) Nairi Sahakian and Anahid Abad (film-maker) at Layered Lives Opening
LAYERED LIVES
Iranian Armenian Contempoary Arts
Click here for
Layered Lives-FinalReport-web.pdf
Arts Workshops.pdf
Oral History Workshops.pdf
Generously funded by: Benlian Trust, Panos and Diana Katsouris,St Sarkis Trust, Awards for All, and Arts Council England
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LECTURE
Ece Temelkuran, columnist and author
The Deep Mountain
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 7:30 pm
SOAS, Room G3 (ground floor, main building)
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WCI
(Tube: Russell Square or Euston Square)
Ece Temelkuran is the most-read female political columnist in Turkey, writing regularly for Milliyet. She is also a contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique and writes about Kurdish issues, political Islam, political prisoners, and Armenian issues. The author of 9 books, including We are Making a Revolution Here, Senorita about Venezuela under Chavez, Ece Temelkuran is also concerned with issues of poverty and global politics. In spring 2008, she was awarded the Freedom of Thought prize by the Human Rights Association of Istanbul for her courageous articles and essays.
Her latest book, The Deep Mountain, published in Istanbul in May 2008, is currently being translated into English. Based on interviews with Armenians in Armenia, France and the U.S., Ece Temelkuran was encouraged by Hrant Dink to begin this complex project in which she questions nationalism on all sides while trying to redefine belonging and the concept of home. This evening, Ece Temelkuran will read short passages from the book (in English) and discuss the experience of thinking about Armenians as a Turkish writer. |
PUPPET CLUB
Saturday, May 10, 2008, 10:00-12:00
noon
Armenian Institute library, Nevart Gulbenkian Hall
Iverna Gardens, London W8
(Tube: High Street Kensington)
Following the very successful first workshop in April, we propose a monthly Saturday morning meeting of those interested in exploring the many ways in which we can use our new puppet stage. We welcome potential puppeteers and artists of all ages for this initial meeting to discuss future possibilities.
FILM CLUB
Swallows’ Nest: The story of the Tuzla Armenian Orphanage
Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Pushkin House, 2a Bloomsbury Square (Tube: Holborn)
This moving documentary film follows Hrant Dink as he walks around the summer camp of Tuzla and speaks of the meaning it carried for himself and the other orphans who stayed there. He talks also of the struggle he and his friends went through, trying to regain and restore the camp. For over 20 years, Tuzla was an integral part of Hrant Dink’s life and in this film he remembers having spent time there as a child and later meeting his wife Rakel. |