Nant Peris Concert - Snowdonia North Wales 30.03.2012

Dear All

We have organised a bus to take those intending to go for the fund raising Concert for Orphan's in Armenia at: Nant Peris, Snowdonia, North Wales

On: Friday 30th March, the event starts at 7pm.

We will also have the honour of His Grace Bishop Vahan attending the Hokihankist service.

The bus will set off at 4 pm from the Holy Trinity Armenian Church - Manchester.

We need 20 people, to cover the cost of hiring the bus. This is £425 it will cost £21.50 per person, otherwise the trip may be cancelled.

Please let us know ASAP, at The LATEST by Monday 26th March.

Please pass this to any friend who may not be on the email.

Many Thanks

Ara Nahabedian

Wales-Armenia Solidarity

eilian@talktalk.net

Concert in aid of Orran

(to aid homeless children in Armenia)

It is hoped that Armenians from over the UK will flock to the tiny village of Nant Peris at the foot of Mount Snowdon on Friday, 30th March.. Rehoboth Presbyterian Chapel, which collected £6 to help the Armenians during the 1894-96 massacres (equivalent to over £2000 today) is facing closure, and a Concert to Save (or close ) the Chapel is organised at 7 p.m. that evening.

The link with Armenia continued in 2004 when Anna Hovhannissian , a sunday school teacher at the chapel, helped to persuade Gwynedd Council to vote unanimously torecognize the Genocide, and to condemn Turkey's economic blockade of Armenis. The vote was taken on 4th March 2004. Turkish organizations in the UK exherted strong pressure on the council , (without success) tin an attempt to reverse the vote.. Gwynedd this became the first municipality in the UK to do this

There is a strong folk memory in Gwynedd, (the most Welsh and indepently-minded region of Wales,) of the 1896 Massacres. These were widely reported in the Welsh newspapers, and protest meetings were held across Wales. Wesh poets wrote passionately eg

" Ti fwyn Gymru Gristionogol,

Dros Yr Iawn bob amser gaed

Cod fy lais at Dduw a dynion

Dros Armenia yn ei gwaed"

trans.

" Sweet Christian Wales

Who stood up always for that is Just

Lift your voice towards God and towards men

For Armenia bathed in blood"

The Victims of the 1894-96 Massacres (referred to as a Holocaust in the New York Times)

and of the 1915 Genocide will be remembered as well as the 3,000 local Welsh people who were massacred by the army of Edward 1in Snowdonia in 1283 when Wales was conquerred, and lost her independence

His Grace Bishop Vahan and HE Mrs Kazinian have been invited. The Leader of Gwynedd Council will be present

Our proposals for the future include a twinning of Gwynedd with a region of Armenia or Artsakh and the establishment of a Genocide Museum in the Chapel building

Any profit from the concert will go to the charity ORRAN

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I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO MAKE THIS CONTRIBUTION.

In honour of their memory

'Sweet Christian Welsh'

You stood up for us -

Your hearts are so true and so just.

We lift up our voice towards God,

Wales and mankind!

For Armenian's bathed in blood,

Still, worldly unrecognised.

Seta