Friends,

Please attend the upcoming presentation on “The Naghash
Ensemble: “Songs of Exile” — Armenian Music in Contemporary Culture” by John Hodian, on May 16 at 7:30 pm in Merdinian. Come and enjoy traditional folk and spiritual music in a totally new format! Please view the details in the flier below.

Also,
please find the ARPA Institute annual Newsletter/Report link. Please
read it and let us know what you think and if you have any suggestions
or criticisms, we would like to learn about them:

http://arpainstitute.org/public_archives/Newsletters/Newsletter_18.pdf

Please also view the videos of the latest ARPA presentations on: 1. “The 1862 Zeytun Rebellion and the Armenian Press”, 2. “Transforming Identity or the case of Musa Dagh after 1915” and 3. “The Azgagrakan Movement: An Embodied form of Armenian Nationalism” by Aram Ghoogasian, Khoren Grigoryan and Armen Adamian in the following links:

https://youtu.be/NPgmFsT1J-Y

https://youtu.be/2WczPCP_gLw

https://youtu.be/dOUt_QwHNbE

Please also view the video on “How Armenia Can Cycle and Scoot Its Way To Prosperity” By Terenig Topjian,  in the link: https://youtu.be/itpTuXRIS7Q

THERE WILL BE REFRESHMENTS & DESSERT

Please
also view the link below and see how you can help ARPA Institute raise
more funds. See how you can add to the close to $20000 that have been
raised thus far. 

https://www.goodsearch.com/nonprofit/arpa-institute

Here is how it works: You can help us by doing some searches on Goodsearch yourself. Just make Goodsearch.com your
default search engine and do a few searches a day for ARPA Institute
(select ARPA Institute as your cause). If 1000 people do one search per
day, we can earn close to $4000 per year. So, please use GOODSEARCH for
all your searches and help!