The third `One nation, one culture’ festival will open in Armenia

The third `One nation, one culture’ festival will be opened in Armenia

armradio.am
16.08.2008 17:29

The third Panarmenian cultural festival `One nation, one culture’ will
be organized in August 17-23 in Armenia. Cultural delegacies from
Armenia and other 16 countries will take part in it. During the
conference the RA Minister of Culture David Muradyan noted that the
chief aim of the festival is to gather the creative potential both from
Armenia and from Diaspora.

The executive director of `One nation, one culture’ foundation Tamar
Pokhosyan thinks that this festival is politically, nationally and
culturally great event which has been able to achieve its aim since
1999. The festival is being financed by the state from 2003. To remind,
there are delegacies from 16 countries to take part in the festival.
The greatest delegacy is from Russian Federation (239 participants),
then Georgia (199) and Iran (172). Cultural groups from NKR, Turkey,
Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Macedonia, Syria, Holland, Hungary,
Serbia, Bulgaria and the USA will also take part in the festival. The
main genre directions are the music, dance and theatre. In the scopes
of the festival `Dprats das’ choir from Turkey will have private
concert. Today 350 people have already entered Armenia from Turkey,
Georgia and the USA. The festival will be opened in the National
Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. The=2
0solemn ceremony of closing
will take place in the Republic Square. The organizers hope that the
festival will be passed with great attention and care.

To remind, the festival `One nation, one culture’ is being organized
under the high favor of RA President Serzh Sargsyan, RA Ministry of
Culture, RA Foreign Affairs Ministry and `One nation, one culture’
foundation.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS