EXHIBITION: MY DEAR BROTHER IS IN FRANCE

CollectifVAN.org, France
May 23 2007

The exhibition, "My Dear Brother – Armenians in Turkey 100 Years Ago"
opens on May 26th in Valence, in France. The exhibition can be visited
at the Centre du Patrimoine Armenien until September 16th.

More than 500 postcards, selected among the 4000 postcards from the
collection of Orlando Carlo Calumeno and majorly issued between 1900 –
1914, will be shown at the exhibition which is prepared by Birzamanlar
Publishing.

On the postcards, there are the pictures of Armenian quarters,
churches, monastries, schools, orphanages in various cities; hotels,
trade companies and firms owned by Armenians; missionary schools and
hospitals founded for Armenians or used generally by Armenians. Some
of the postcards are also consisted of those produced by Armenian
editors, photographed by an Armenian or those posted to or by an
Armenian; and those written in Armenian and cachet of Armenians.

"My Dear Brother" is based on social, industrial, cultural and private
lifes of Armenians lived in Turkey, in the beginning of the 20th
century; and it founds a bridge between the two cultures pressured
between the past and the present.

Opening in January 2005, in Istanbul for the first time, it was shown
a great interest and visited by more than 7000 people during 10 days.

The international version of the exhibition, was displayed in Munich,
Koln, Frankfurt in Germany, in 2005 – 2006. In France, there will
be French text in addition to Turkish and Armenian ones. Researh and
text is carried out by Osman Koker; Armenian translation, reduction
, composition and copy reading is carried out by Pakrat Estukyan,
Rober Haddeciyan, Takuhi Tovmasyan Zaman and Melissa Bilal; French
translation is done by Haldun Bayri.