It’s been a full summer.
I finished my classes last week… Yahoooo!
We celebrated Varanta’s 1st month yesterday and I’ll be leaving for parental leave in September. I must admit it’s a little frightening. Did I tell you that I was planning to work on my film proposal and put more time in painting during my leave. Well, that’s the plan. I will be around the house very often to feed and take care of my 2 daughters (and my beautiful wife) but I will also spend many hours working on a film that I have scripted for a while. My main goal is to find some funding that will pay for my research and then the tournage. I can’t tell you much about this yet but if it’s a go, I can assure that Armenia is where I’ll be shooting the film. Besides that, I paint. I will be working on a few projects where I will hopefully be able to exhibit some of my work.
So much about what I am doing. Here are some interesting things happening in my community. This coming weekend Aram Assatrian and his brother will be in town for the annual Kermess. This fest is organised by the Armenian school (Sourp Hagop) that is affiliated with the Tashnak community. It’s usually a huge success. This is where you can find lost Armo friends or maybe a future wife/husband. Last year Tata was the performer. I missed this event because I was in Karabagh with LCO. I don’t like Aram’s music all that much but I will definitely go to the Kermess on Saturday. I’ll let you know what I thought of Aram after I see him live for the first time. This’ll be Aram 2nd visit to Montreal.
Speaking of which, we don’t get many celebrities in Montreal that often. Nune has been here once, Roupen Haghvertian; once, Arthur Mesjian; once, Tata; once. The ones we get often are Harout Pamboukjian, Paul (I really don’t like his music… a la turka), Adiss, and the likes. I don’t know why that is? Is it because the community here doesn’t know or like these artists? Is it because we are too cheap to pay their fee? Or is it simply that we are not enough in the community to support their shows? I think the value of the CAN$ is very low and that the community is cheap too. OK, We’ll not go into this now.
System of a Down was in town 2 weeks ago. They rocked! I saw them perform and boy do they make me proud. They are unique in what they do and the quality of their music is up there.
One last important thing happening in Canada. The Armenian Embassy has flown in 8,5 tons of Armenian orange tufa and has commissioned the Armenian Tokmajian sculpter to make one of the largest sculptures outside of Armenia to be carved out of this monolith tufa. They are looking for contributions to make this happen. The location is perfect for the general public to see… and it is in the capital city of Canada (that is Ottawa). If you want more info or wish to help them visit www.armembassycanada.ca
PS: it's great to hear about the Armenian communities around the world (or at least there where the loggers are writing from.) Keep it up!
I finished my classes last week… Yahoooo!
We celebrated Varanta’s 1st month yesterday and I’ll be leaving for parental leave in September. I must admit it’s a little frightening. Did I tell you that I was planning to work on my film proposal and put more time in painting during my leave. Well, that’s the plan. I will be around the house very often to feed and take care of my 2 daughters (and my beautiful wife) but I will also spend many hours working on a film that I have scripted for a while. My main goal is to find some funding that will pay for my research and then the tournage. I can’t tell you much about this yet but if it’s a go, I can assure that Armenia is where I’ll be shooting the film. Besides that, I paint. I will be working on a few projects where I will hopefully be able to exhibit some of my work.
So much about what I am doing. Here are some interesting things happening in my community. This coming weekend Aram Assatrian and his brother will be in town for the annual Kermess. This fest is organised by the Armenian school (Sourp Hagop) that is affiliated with the Tashnak community. It’s usually a huge success. This is where you can find lost Armo friends or maybe a future wife/husband. Last year Tata was the performer. I missed this event because I was in Karabagh with LCO. I don’t like Aram’s music all that much but I will definitely go to the Kermess on Saturday. I’ll let you know what I thought of Aram after I see him live for the first time. This’ll be Aram 2nd visit to Montreal.
Speaking of which, we don’t get many celebrities in Montreal that often. Nune has been here once, Roupen Haghvertian; once, Arthur Mesjian; once, Tata; once. The ones we get often are Harout Pamboukjian, Paul (I really don’t like his music… a la turka), Adiss, and the likes. I don’t know why that is? Is it because the community here doesn’t know or like these artists? Is it because we are too cheap to pay their fee? Or is it simply that we are not enough in the community to support their shows? I think the value of the CAN$ is very low and that the community is cheap too. OK, We’ll not go into this now.
System of a Down was in town 2 weeks ago. They rocked! I saw them perform and boy do they make me proud. They are unique in what they do and the quality of their music is up there.
One last important thing happening in Canada. The Armenian Embassy has flown in 8,5 tons of Armenian orange tufa and has commissioned the Armenian Tokmajian sculpter to make one of the largest sculptures outside of Armenia to be carved out of this monolith tufa. They are looking for contributions to make this happen. The location is perfect for the general public to see… and it is in the capital city of Canada (that is Ottawa). If you want more info or wish to help them visit www.armembassycanada.ca
PS: it's great to hear about the Armenian communities around the world (or at least there where the loggers are writing from.) Keep it up!
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