ARMENIAN ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE HELD IN GOTEBORG
GOTEBORG, MAY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. On the initiative of Union of Armenian
Associations in Sweden (UAAS) and the Armenian Church and Cultural
Organization of Goteborg, the second city of Sweden, launched on
May 10-13 an exhibition dedicated to the 90-th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide. Beside the several Armenians, who participated in
the opening ceremony, Counsellors for Swedish and Catholic, as well
as representatives of Orthodox, Serbian and Armenian Churches and
members of Swedish local authorities were among the guests, told Katrin
Hakopian, the Representative of Armenians in Goteborg. The main focus
of the exhibition which is titled Armenian Architecture Heritage in the
South Caucasus is on Armenian architectural monuments scattered across
Turkey, a great majority of which was also subjected to “genocide”
alongside with annihilation of Armenians in 1915 and later. The major
objective of the exhibition is to draw European’ attention to what
a country desires to join their ranks. The exhibition has first
displayed in European Parliament, Oslo in Norway, in Swedish cities,
and is scheduled to display in Riga, capital of Latvia at the end
of May. The opening ceremony which introduced by Kevork Artin and
Katrin Hakopian was followed by speech of Bertil Bengtsson, the
author of newly published book, The Year of The Sword. He concluded
his speech with the absolute necessity of pressure applied by the
international public opinion on the Turkish government in order to
achieve recognition. The cultural events of the program consisted
of spiritual Armenian music performed by Lena Vartanian, piano,
and Hrant Mardirosian, violin, who played work of Comitas and Aram
Khachatouryan. The exhibition was co-organised by Assembly of Armenians
of Europe (AAE), prepared by Research on Armenian Architecture
(RAA) and assisted by Swedish educational organisation of “BILDA”
and Orthodox co-operation committees.