Armenian News

Atom Egoyan's Adoration awarded the 34th Ecumenical Jury Prize
29.05.2008 19:02 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Canadian director of Armenian origin
Atom Egoyan was awarded the 34th Ecumenical Jury Prize
for the humanistic values they discovered in
Adoration, a film that explores cultural intolerance
and misinformation.

"I am so overwhelmed by this prize because it places
this film in another context," Egoyan said of his
award. The Toronto filmmaker won the same prize 11
years ago for his masterwork, The Sweet Hereafter,
jam.canoe.ca reports.

-Adoration is an intimate film. It's very much rooted
in this culture and I'm so proud to represent the
country at this level," Egoyan said.

Adoration focuses on one young man's fascination with
the possibility he's the spawn of two historical
figures - and how his personal obsession is both
enabled, and threatened, by technology.

The film also stars Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard,
Kenneth Welsh, and Arsinée Khanjian (Egoyan's wife).

The director says his screenplay grew out of a
true-life story he'd heard 20 years ago about a young
man who convinced his pregnant Irish girlfriend to
board a flight, carrying a bomb that she didn't know
had been planted on her. "This story - or a version of
it - is read in the main character's high school and
it triggers his imagination," Egoyan explained.

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Panorama.am
19:22 29/05/2008
ARMENIAN YOUTH IN TURKEY AND OPPOSITE

Armenian and Turkish youth have repaired the secondary
school of Arpachay village by their own will. Such
events are organized in the frameworks of -the role of
youth in social work- project leaded by -Young Women
Association of Armenia-, in 16-19 May.

The project has been conducted together with Volunteer
Foundation of Turkey. 40 Turkish and 20 Armenian youth
in Kars took part in the project. Armenian youth has
also visited Ani and witnessed the cultural values of
it, said Lilit Asatryan the president of -Young Women
Association of Armenia-.

According to Asatryan the mission of the project is to
break the stereotypes formed among Armenia and Turkish
youth and to contribute to their close relationship
through culture.

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Panorama.am
19:23 29/05/2008
EXPANDING CULTURAL BORDERS: -ONE NATION - ONE CULTURE-


In 17-23 August -One Nation - One Culture- pan
Armenian cultural third festival will take place in
Armenia and Artsakh, said Gayane Durgaryan, the head
of public relations department of the Ministry of
Culture to Panorama.am reporter. -We hope that the
festival will give a chance not only to present our
cultural values but to discuss them, too,- said G.
Durgaryan.

-It is planned to organize trainings for dance and
song professionals in the frameworks of the festival,-
she said. She said that dance and song groups, solo
singers and dancers can take part in the festival.

The Government has disposed 170mln 434 thousands drams
from its reserve budget to organize -One Nation - one
culture- pan Armenian festival. Note that the
organizers of the festival are the ministries of
culture and foreign affairs, and -One nation - one
culture- foundation. The festival takes place since
1999 every two years.

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Young Armenian scores top piano prize Best of 23 musicians in Montreal contest ARTHUR KAPTAINIS The Gazette Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Youth might not be much of an advantage in the Stanley Cup final this year, but it did not hurt last night in the finals of the Montreal International Musical Competition as Nareh Arghamanyan, who turned 19 last Jan. 21, easily took the $30,000 Grand Prize. The slim and long-tressed Armenian, currently studying in Vienna, was not only the youngest of the six finalists playing over two evenings in Place des Arts but the youngest of the 23 pianists from around the world who gathered in Montreal last week for the annual contest. Dramatically enough, Arghamanyan was the final candidate last night and delivered a songful and fresh-sounding performance of Tchaikovsky's familiar Piano Concerto No. 1. Her fingerwork, if not fault-free, was brilliant, and the Orchestre Métropolitain under Jean-Marie Zeitouni - a less-than-great combo on Monday - made a positive contribution. Second prize was shared by Alexandre Moutouzkine, 27, of Russia, for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, and Masataka Takada, 30, of Japan, who played Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 on Monday. Both offered exciting if sometimes percussive accounts of these virtuoso scores. They each take home $11,250 - half the combined second- and third-prize purses. There was no third prize and non-finishers won $4,000 simply for being finalists. Other honours, including the $5,000 award for the best performance of the Canadian piece and ballot-driven $2,500 Prix du Public, will be announced tomorrow night at the gala winners' concert in Salle Wilfrid Pelletier. The finals this year were not so hotly contested. Sergei Saratovsky, 26, a Russian-born Canadian resident, started the session Monday with a bland and faulty Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5. He was followed by Sara Daneshpour, 21, of the United States, who applied some interesting ideas and varied dynamics to the same Tchaikovsky score that led Arghamanyan to victory. Elizabeth Schumann, 26, also of the U.S., brought a lyrical style last night to Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, but put herself out of the running with a memory lapse in the finale. All six finalists chose the same Hamburg Steinway, which needed frequent retuning in the Théâtre Maisonneuve. The sold-out night was carried live on both CBC Radio 2 and Espace musique, the FM music network of Radio-Canada.

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ARMENIA 0 - GREECE 0
armradio.am
02.06.2008 13:01

The Armenian national football team played a 0-0 draw with the team
of Greece - the current European Champion - in a friendly match held
in the German city of Offenbach.

Armenia started brightly and had a good chance to go in front on 15
minutes when Levon Pachajyan, after taking advantage of an error by
Sotiris Kyrgiakos, shot from the edge of the box only for Greece
goalkeeper Antonis Nikopolidis to save well at full stretch. Five
minutes later, Nikopolidis was called on again to block Marcos Piseli's
long-range effort.

Greece had their best chance on 30 minutes, when Giorgos Karagounis
worked space for himself and sent over a pin-point cross to Dimitris
Salpingidis, who headed just over. Two minutes later, Armenian
goalkeeper Gevorg Kasparov turned away Angelos Basinas's powerful
drive, then was thankful to see Angelos Charisteas shoot wide after
failing to properly deal with a Giourkas Seitaridis cross.

The teams played with the following squads. Greece: Nikopolidis,
Seitaridis, Kyrgiakos, Dellas (Antzas 46), Spiropoulos (Torosidis
46), Basinas, Katsouranis, Karagounis (Patsatzoglou 46), Charisteas,
Salpingidis (Gekas 46), Amanatidis (Samaras 46).

Armenia: Kasparov, Hovsepyan, Arzumanyan, Arakelyan, Voskanian,
Hamlet Mkhitaryan (A Minasyan 65), Ghazaryan (Melkonyan 60), Piseli
(Hakobyan 54), Pachajyan, Mkrtchyan, Tadevosyan.

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