14:00 30/07/2010

UNESCO World Heritage: No Armenian monument included this term

  Brazils ’ capital city hosted UNESCO 34 th session of World Heritage. Panorama.am requested Armenian Minsitry of Culture to be informed if any Armenian monument is nominated to be listed in the World Heritage.   According to the source no Armenian monument is nominated in UNESCO World Heritage List. It’s almost several years the cultural landscape of Gnishakadzor’s valley is declined.   It was told earlier that “there are things to ...

13:14 30/07/2010

Armenian-Canadian director Egoyan considers film in Turkey

World-renowned Armenian-Canadian director Atom Egoyan wants to make a film in Turkey, a joint project with Turkish directors “would be a good step toward dialogue,” Egoyan told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review during a recent interview in Yerevan, where he was in the sidelines of Golden Apricot film festival, and was celebrating his 50th birthday along with his wife, Armenian-Canadian actress Arsinée Khanjian. Inviting Turks and Armenians to engage ...

11:16 30/07/2010

“New Wave 2010” Sona Shahgeldyan the third

  The overall results of “New Wave 2010” are published and Armenian representative Sona Shahgeldyan shares the third horizontal with Israeli Hila Ben David since both of them scored 189. According to the results Ukrainian singer Tatiana Shirko scored 191 and is the leader, Estonian singer Uku Suviste has 190 scores and got the second horizontal. “New Wave 2010” got under way on July 27 in Jurmala.

18:50 27/07/2010

Artsakh President attends opening of Paravon Mirzoyan’s personal exhibition

On 27 July President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan in capital Stepanakert partook at a solemn opening ceremony of the personal exhibition of Paravon Mirzoyan, painter, Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia, the central information department of Artsakh President’s office reported.

14:04 26/07/2010

“New wave 2010”: Sona Shahgeldyan to represent Armenia

  “New wave 2010” international song festival will get under way in Latvian Yurmala tomorrow. Armenia will be represented to the festival by Armenian singer Sona Shahgeldyan. The vision of the contest is to unveil young talented singers. The committee received 12000 participation applications from 31 countries. 17 singers from 12 countries will perform in the finals – Russia and Ukraine (3 participants), Belarus, Estonia and Latvia (2 participants), ...

12:50 19/07/2010

7th Golden Apricot Film Festival over: who took Golden Apricot home

The 7th Golden Apricot Film Festival is over, the closing ceremony of which was held in the Moscow Cinema. The Festival received 500 applications, at about 120 films have been selected and showcased, 45 of which were in the 3 sections of the international competition, and there were 5 international juries. So: International Feature Competition 1. Golden Apricot for the Best Feature Film to the Turkish director Reha Erdem for the film Kosmos 2. Silver Apricot Special Prize for ...

14:13 17/07/2010

Pan-Armenian Forum of Armenian Artists due in Yerevan September 6-7

Pan-Armenian Forum of Armenian Artists (painting, sculpture, design, graphics, etc.) is due in Yerevan, September 6-7, Diaspora Ministry reported. About 500 artists will participate in the forum. The invitations are being sent already.  

17:24 15/07/2010

Association of Armenian Cinematographers to be established

At the offer of the French-Armenian renowned cinematographer, producer Alen Terzyan, Association of Armenian Cinematographers worldwide will be established. The suggestion will be discussed Thursday evening by all the Armenian cinematographers who have arrived in Armenia in the frames of Golden Apricot 7th International Film Festival, the director of the festival Harutyun Khanchatryan said today. According to him, the initiative aims at supporting all the Armenians worldwide, who want ...

14:51 15/07/2010

Armenian monuments better preserved in Muslim Iran than in Christian Georgia

Armenian monuments are better preserved in Muslim Iran than in Christian Georgia, historian, Armenian architecture specialist Samvel Karapetyan told reporters today. Recently S. Karapetyan headed a group of Armenian specialists to old Armenian villages in Iran and found that only 20% of the Armenian monuments have been preserved. However, according to him, the destruction has been not deliberate, but rather it was caused mostly by brick, the material the churches are constructed of, ...

18:18 14/07/2010

Golden Apricot: tribute to Henrik Malyan - 85

In the sidelines of Golden Apricot 7th International Film Festival, tribute will be paid to the memories of the Armenian cinemaographers. A jubilee evening on the 85th anniversary of the outstanding film director Henrik Malyan  is scheduled today in Arno Babajanyan concert hall. The film "We and Our Mountains" ("Menk Enk Mer Sarere”) will be screened during the evening. His films “Ktor Me Yerkinq” and “Triangle” ...