Culture

The Armenian Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Vahram Dumanyan delivered a report at the UNESCO World Congress of Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development session on Heritage and Cultural Diversity in Crisis. Dumanyan said in his remarks that in the 2020 war in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), Azerbaijan captured m...

Armenian filmmaker Ara Mnatsakanyan’s The American Good Samaritans was named winner of the Best Humanitarian Feature Film category at the Cannes World Film Festival. Produced by Manvel Saribekyan in the United States of America, Lebanon, Greece and Iran, the film is his second documentary, the first of which was called “The Map ...

The 20th HIGH FEST International Performing Arts Festival will be held from October 1 to 8 in Yerevan, Armenia. The Festival will take place under the title “The next 20 years will be better!” HIGH FEST will host more than 250 participants and guests from 10 countries, particularly Romania, Russia, Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Eston...

French vocal ensemble SOLI-TUTTI will give concerts in Armenia, showing their support at this difficult period for Armenia. The first concert will kick off at Arno Babajanyan concert hall on September 29, the second will take place in the Mkhitar Sebastatsi educational complex on September 30, the third in Gyumri Technology Cent...

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Armenian Public Television (AMPTV) are pleased to announce the 16 countries participating at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Yerevan, Armenia on Sunday 11 December. Participating Countries (and Broadcaster) Albania (RTSH) Armenia (AMPTV) France (France TV) Georgia (GPB) Ireland ...

Louise Fletcher, whose Oscar-winning performance as the sadistic Nurse Ratched in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest gave Hollywood one of its greatest all-time villains and provided the culture with a portrait of bureaucratic evil so indelible that the character’s last name could carry a TV series 45 years later, died Frid...

The Cafesjian Center for the Arts (CCA) announces the launch of a new educational program, Spirit-Voice-Image, based on the exhibition, Nina Khemchyan: Echo, on display at CCA from September 23 until November 6, 2022. “The focus of the educational program is Paris-based Armenian artist Nina Khemchyan's sculptures, which she cre...

Netflix has dropped an official trailer for the French mini-series Notre-Dame which tells the story of the devastating cathedral fire in 2019. The series will be released on Netflix on October 19, 2022. The drama is directed by Hervé Hadmar with a screenplay he penned alongside Olivier Bocquet. The film stars French-Armenian...

The Cafesjian Center for the Arts (CCA) announces the private preview of the exhibition Nina Khemchyan: Echo in Eagle Gallery of the center on September 22, at 6:30pm. (entrance with invitations only). Collaboration between the Center and the Embassy of France in Armenia brought to life the idea of holding an exhibition of the...

Armenia’s Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Vahram Dumanyan sent an official letter to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, presenting the large-scale military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan against Armenia’s sovereign territory on September 13, 2022, as well as the consequences of that aggression. In the ...