ArmenPress
Aug 23 2004

ONE NATION, ONE CULTURE FESTIVAL OVER

YEREVAN, AUGUST 23, ARMENPRESS: First pan Armenian festival “One
Nation, One Culture” which launched on Aug 14 under the high auspices
of president Kocharian concluded yesterday at Republic Square with
festivities.
Symphonic band of National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet
after Al Spendarian, different groups from Armenia and Diaspora,
individual players performed during the closing ceremony. Armenian
prime minister Andranik Margarian greeted the present and underscored
the role of festival in deepening Armenian-Diaspora ties in his
speech. Assistant to Armenian president Vigen Sargssian said that it
is expected to hold such festivals once in four or even two years.
The festival was sponsored by Hayastan All Armenian fund and One
Nation, One Culture fund. More than 1500 people of art from USA,
Australia, Turkey, Iran, Israel, Italy, Poland, Canada, Lebanon,
Russia, Syria, Georgia, France, Ukraine as well as Nagorno Karabagh
and Armenia participated. As special guests, some 500 well known
people of art were in Armenia during the days of the festival.
Dozens of performances, poetry evening days, exhibition and
exhibition sales, concerts and other events were held on the
sidelines of the festival. Each day of the festival was marked by
some symbolic name – My Armenia, Day of Armenian Song, Day of
Armenian Writing and Literature, Day of Theater, Day of Armenian
Dance, Day of Armenian Classical Music and so on.