Monday, November 11, 2002

FONATÓN, CULTURE AND FUTURE!!!

First of all, sorry about my absence.
This year is coming to its end. The rule says that the last parts are the great ones. So this months in Buenos Aires are going to be active for real.
We are ready to work for Armenia. The whole community in Argentina is interested in what is going to happen on next 14th to 17th November: The Armenian National Fund of Argentina organized a FONATÓN to collect money for the North-South Karabagh road. More than 10.000 armenians families are participating of this event!!! Lots of armenian youth volunteers are going to make the phone calls to make possible this collect. Maybe the amount would not be "the great amount" but the good attitude of the community deserves a congratulation.

Well, spanish readers the new Generación 3 offers new and great articles. You can find some good data about the life of Gomidas Vartabed. This magazine is also in a project of making a fluent bridge of comunication with those armenian communities in Argentina that are not settled in Buenos Aires. The first example is the city of Rosario. About Armenia there are two articles: one about the astrological and mystical stones of the Karahundj written by the super-hyper-professor and armenian ambassadoruhí Rosita Youssefian-Balian, and the other about the Natural Protected Areas written by Paula Sarafian, a talented student of geography. Ending about this magazine. it is interesting an article about the father of the Republic of Turkey: Kemal Attatürk and the Jewish heritage Of the Turkish Republic. It´s not a bad to read this article and then analyze about the triumph of Endorgan and the islamic party in Turkey on these last days. The work of this interesting article was product of the investigation of Carlos Vartkés Pozian, a member of the community of armenians in Venezuela. Thanks to him!!!

The dance troupes of Buenos Aires moved a lot their skeletons!!! The Nairí Group of Armenian Traditional Dances presented their annual performance with joyfully and strenghfull as ever they did. The Masis Group of Armenian Folk Dances offered a blasting show. Next weeks the oldest group of folk dances in Argentina that still remains their style, Kayané is going to be on stage for its 42° anniversary.

Muzika!!! That is what the Kindonners of Tiflis shout at the time to start their old traditional dance. Muzika here is making us shake our heads, arms and legs!!! (??? ;-) The Nor Arax Band is cellebrating its 30° anniversary with the music. They launched a new album called IAVUDÚ. The lead singer in the album is the legendary Arturo Kouyoumdjian that still deserves the title of The King among the Armenians Singers in Argentina.

Hamazkayin gave us an important conference to know the armenian rights in the Sainted Places in Jerusalem and Belen. It was really amazing the history of the freedom of Palestinians in 1918 told by Guillermo Karamanian, who described us how the armenians in the battle of Arará gave the point to start the palestinian freedom of that year. All the news about the Baron Der lands have been exposed. It was a nice conference.

Little by little, as Noel Gallaguer would sing now, argentineans are starting feel the terrible competition about the presidential voting on the begining of next year. I am ending my exams, so i think it will be difficult for me to log again during this month.
As a gift i will give you a link on an interesting topic: The Apocryphal of the Infancy (Armenian Gospel X, 10-23)

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