Khatchaturian Film Screening at SFPL - This Thursday!

Dear Friends,

Please join the San Francisco Public Library and the Bay Area ANC at the film screening of "Khachaturian" on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 6:00 pm in the Koret Auditorium located on the lower lever of the San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch at 200 Larkin Street.

Filmed in 2004, Peter Rosen's award-winning documentary pays tribute to famed Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, who was lauded for his patriotic music before being denounced in the late 1940s (along with Shostakovich and Prokofiev) for anti-Soviet "formalism." Archival film footage, interviews with family members, and readings by Eric Bogosian from Khachaturian's memoirs are featured. Musical segments include excerpts from the ballets "Spartacus" and "Gaynah" (with its memorable "Saber Dance"), and Mstislav Rostropovich performs "Cello Rhapsody."

This event is free and open to the public.

Below is a list of additional events we hope you will participate in.

April 17, 2012 - 5:30 pm
Aghet: A Genocide
Film Screening Co-Hosted by the University of San Francisco Masters of International Studies Program
University of San Francisco, Berman Room
2130 Fulton Street, Fromm Hall, San Francisco

April 19, 2012 - All Day Event
ANCA-WR Sacramento Advocacy Day
State Capitol, Sacramento

April 22, 2012 - 2:00 pm
97th Armenian Genocide Requiem
Mount Davidson Cross
125 Dalewood Way, San Francisco

April 24, 2012 - 7:30 pm
97th Annual Genocide Commemoration
Khatchaturian Center, Saroyan Hall
825 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco

April 29, 2012 - 12:00 noon
2nd Annual Bay Area Walk Against Genocide
Lake Merritt, Oakland
Register Here

April 30, 2012 - 8:00 pm
Confiscation and Colonization: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property
A Presentation by Prof. Ugur Üngör
Vaspouragan Hall at St.Gregory Armenian Church
51 Commonwealth Avenue, San Francisco

May 20, 2012 - 2:00 pm
ANCA Telethon 2012
Broadcast on KCNS Channel 38 in the Bay Area as well as via the Internet and satellite through ARTN Shant TV and USArmenia TV.
www.ancatelethon.org

For questions, please contact the Bay Area Armenian National Committee by sending an email to mail@ancsf.org.

Sincerely,
Armenian National Committee
San Francisco Bay Area
51 Commonwealth Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
mail@ancsf.org
www.ancsf.org