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New Year and Christmas
How do we celebrate the holidays and how can we celebrate them? How should the sacraments of the New Year and Christmas be perceived? What do we expect from this New Year 2016? Within the scope of the series “Topic”, Hayk Hambardzumyan talks about these issues and the specifics, sacrament, meaning of these church holidays and how we should celebrate those with Father Nshan Alaverdyan.
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Image and Text: the Art of Illustration
Illustrations are a vital component of fiction, especially for children’s literature. The images accompanying the texts often impress the consciousness of the reader more than the text itself and without illustrations it is now impossible to imagine this or that composition. This link that exists between the text, the image and the reader’s imagination makes the responsibility of the illustrator even heavier and complicates his/her work. How the image should be brought closer to the text, what is the relation between animations and illustrations? Hayk Hambardzumyan talks about these issues with painter, animation director Naira Muradyan.
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Encyclopedia “Armenian Typography and Book Art”“Armenian Encyclopedia” Publishing House published the Encyclopedia called “Armenian Typography and Book Art”, which includes 500 years history of Armenian typography, and as the second part of the title refers, it addresses also the art of book. Hayk Hambardzumyan talks about the need, compilation principles of this encyclopedia with the editor-in-chief and director of Armenian Encyclopedia Publishing House Hovhannes Ayvazyan. |
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Modern AnimationThis week saw the 7th opening of ReAnimania International Animation Film and Comics Art Festival in Yerevan was held. The festival makes around 200 animation films available for watching in the cinema-theatres of Yerevan, to participate in different events and master classes. Hayk Hambardzumyan spoke about the specifics of the festival and modern animation with animator Charlie Sansonetti. |
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National Music TreasuryOver 500 folk, spiritual and ashugh songs; respective notes and lyrics not only Armenian, but in other languages too. Specialized music books and auxiliary materials. All of these in the initiative “National Armenian Music Treasury”. Hayk Hambardzumyan spoke about this unique intiative and the presentation and publicity of Armenian folk music with composer, Komitas studies expert Artur Shahnazaryan. |
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National Music TreasuryMetalurgical center in B.C IV-II millenniums. A blossoming city with observatories, palaces and holy places in B.C XI-IX centuries, and later in the period of Van Kingdom. Lively commercial cross-road in medieval period. Metsamor ancient castle-settlements, which is now a reserve-museum, is one of the unrepeated monuments in the world culture, still giving place for excavations and promising more findings. Hayk Hambardzumyan spoke about the significance and secrets of Metsamor with the Deputy Director of the "Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum Reservations", PhD in History and professor Ashot Piliposyan. |
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Ethnographic FilmNational traditions and rites, exotic places and people, daily routine, urban life: all these are in the focus of one of the unique types of films – ethno film. A festival of ethnographic films called “Apricot Tree” was held in Yerevan. Hayk Hambardzumyan spoke with the focal point of the festival, film critic Garegin Zakoyan. |
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Poetry: functions or mission?Where are the contemporary art and literature looking to, when and how did the poetry deviate from its true path, if such? Who is the poem created for, does it bear obligations for the language, people or reality? Hayk Hambardzumyan spoke about these issues with poet, translator Hakob Movses. |
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From the Dust of Past to Challenges of Present CivilizationHow did the formation of Armenians proceed, are Armenians indiginous or incomers, what was their role in the Armenian Highland? Will the answers to these questions help confront the challenges of current civilization? Hayk Hambardzumyan spoke with Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, corresponding member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (ANAS).
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Armenian Archaeology and International Archaeology5500 years old shoe found in Areni, successful excavations of Tigranakert, Artsakh, examinations of the pictographs of Syunik, Tirinkatar’s vishap stelae. Despute the concerns on the state of humanitarian science in Armenia, the area of archaeology does move ahead. What is the secret? How do our archaeologists manage to work with such scarce financial resources and make new discoveries? What do these discoveries mean in terms of international archaeology? Hayk Hambardzumyan spoke about these issues with the Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, corresponding member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (ANAS). |
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Poetry within and beyond the LanguageWho doe the Diaspora Armenian poetry live through the current state of Western Armenian, is it possible to create a classic poem in Western Armenian presently? What does the conceptual poetry enable in terms of searching for a new poetic language and the relationship between form and content? Hayk Hambardzumyan spoke about these issues with literary critic, poet Tamar Boyadjian. |
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The Art of Speaking and Writing CorrectlyHow to construct verbal and written speech skillfully, based on this or that situation, how to express oneself in a beautiful, yet not overly high-flown style, simple yet not overly simplistic? How can we express our thoughts more appropriately, what syntactic and and language expressions should we use to make the speech more emphatic, impressive, logical and influential?
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