It’s incredible how much happens in such a short time. I haven’t been around for about 2 weeks and there has been lots on cilicia.org.
I was away on a “professional development” training for about a week and the rest of the time was busy with my school work. I am also organising a street fair in my neighborhood that is taking up a good portion of my time. The fair’s theme will be the environmental concept of “reuse”. I’m sure that many of you know about the three Rs… reduce, reuse, recycle. Well, the idea is to organise a collective garage sale of all the residents. They’ll actually be giving objects a second life. For instance, you are re-decorating or moving into a smaller/bigger apartment. You don’t want to bring along this or that (curtains, lamps, books, cloths) so you sell them for a cheap price and you know that whoever buys it will use it for the purpose it was produced for. Whereas recycling involves an entire not so environmentally friendly process (pick up of items = use of gas = pollution; decomposing the recyclable objects = use of heavy machinery…) Anyhow, the big event happens this Sunday. My parents will come over and we’ll celebrate Father’s day at the same time.
The reason I am working on this project is simply to get our (Lara’s and my) newly founded organisation known. It’s call CREaction. It’s mission is to build bridges between the Quebec and Armenian societies. During this fair for instance, Lara and I will be promoting Armenia and its culture. I will teach some “shurchbar” steps and we will promote Armenian Art and artists. The audience for this organisation is not the Armenian community of Montreal but other ethnic groups and especially the French-Canadians who know very little about Armenia. Eventually we would like to see some fair trade business happening. We believe that Armenia has a lot to share with the world and we are going to be the agents that deliver its knowledge.
Other than that, Oh yes! Ara Gevorkian… it was a great show. There were more than 35 musicians on stage with a video backdrop and the local dance group. It was the first time that I was a spectator rather than a dancer. I guess that’s why I am a little more critical of the dance performance. Regardless, I think the Armenian community of Laval put on a kick a- - show. Apparently, this event was a fundraiser to establish a new social service center in the community center. They also announced that Laval and Gumri will become sister cities in 2003… BRAVO!
I was away on a “professional development” training for about a week and the rest of the time was busy with my school work. I am also organising a street fair in my neighborhood that is taking up a good portion of my time. The fair’s theme will be the environmental concept of “reuse”. I’m sure that many of you know about the three Rs… reduce, reuse, recycle. Well, the idea is to organise a collective garage sale of all the residents. They’ll actually be giving objects a second life. For instance, you are re-decorating or moving into a smaller/bigger apartment. You don’t want to bring along this or that (curtains, lamps, books, cloths) so you sell them for a cheap price and you know that whoever buys it will use it for the purpose it was produced for. Whereas recycling involves an entire not so environmentally friendly process (pick up of items = use of gas = pollution; decomposing the recyclable objects = use of heavy machinery…) Anyhow, the big event happens this Sunday. My parents will come over and we’ll celebrate Father’s day at the same time.
The reason I am working on this project is simply to get our (Lara’s and my) newly founded organisation known. It’s call CREaction. It’s mission is to build bridges between the Quebec and Armenian societies. During this fair for instance, Lara and I will be promoting Armenia and its culture. I will teach some “shurchbar” steps and we will promote Armenian Art and artists. The audience for this organisation is not the Armenian community of Montreal but other ethnic groups and especially the French-Canadians who know very little about Armenia. Eventually we would like to see some fair trade business happening. We believe that Armenia has a lot to share with the world and we are going to be the agents that deliver its knowledge.
Other than that, Oh yes! Ara Gevorkian… it was a great show. There were more than 35 musicians on stage with a video backdrop and the local dance group. It was the first time that I was a spectator rather than a dancer. I guess that’s why I am a little more critical of the dance performance. Regardless, I think the Armenian community of Laval put on a kick a- - show. Apparently, this event was a fundraiser to establish a new social service center in the community center. They also announced that Laval and Gumri will become sister cities in 2003… BRAVO!
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