HOLIDAYS AND CULTURE CELEBRATIONS IN ARMENIA BOOK TO BE OUT IN FALL

ARKA
Aug 14, 2009

YEREVAN, August 14. /ARKA /. The book called Holidays and Culture
Celebrations in Armenia will be issued in October-November 2009,
the author and an ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan said.

"I hope that this book will make culture celebrations in Armenia
easier, as it includes proposals and scenarios of individual holidays,
but in no way inhibits the freedom of creative possibilities,"
Kharatyan said on Friday at the Novosti International Press Center.

The issue contains details on five holidays, some of which one way
or the other, are still celebrated in modern Armenia.

One of them is an official holiday, the Independence Day, and in this
regard, the book suggests various scenarios on how the celebration
could be on national or local levels.

Another holiday is the Barekendan (Maslenitsa). The book has different
contemporary forms of celebration of carnival celebrations in various
countries, especially Europe.

The author also noted that she outlined the modern tradition of
celebrating holidays and ceremonies such as the Easter, St. Sarkis’s
day and the Candlemas on the pages of her book.

The book will be published with financial assistance from the Ministry
of Culture of Armenia.