Regione Veneto
20.04-15.05.2022 - 24th of April Memorial Day dedicated to remembering the Genocide in Armenia
The day of the 24th of April of every year it is the memeory of the massacre of the Armenian people in the Ottoman empire during the years of the First World War. This terrible events are remembered in the Armienian languages as Medz yeghern, which means "the great crime". The killings started during the night between the 23rd and the 24th of April of 1915, when the firsts arrest were being happening between the Armenian èlite in Constantinople. The operation kept going for the next days with numerous deportation towards inside Anatolia.
In occasion of the Memorial Day dedicated to the memory of the Armenian genocide, the Municipality of Venice organize for the first time, with the initiative of the Presidenceny of the Municipality COuncil, a series of events between April and May 2022 in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the Armenian Union in Italy and the Europe Direct Venezia Veneto of the same Municipality.
Regardless of the words we use to describe awful events that took place in 1915, there can be no denial of their historical reality. The European Commission (while recognising that there continue to be different views amongst the EU's Member States on how to name the events in 1915), seeks ways to advance and support reconciliation. Reconciliation is a core foundation of the European project and its underlying values. It is essential that, in a spirit of reconciliation, countries are able to face their past through open and frank debates. The EU encourages further, meaningful steps paving the way towards full reconciliation between Turkish and Armenian civil societies.
Followed the calendar with meetings, exhibitions, conference and screenings of movies to keep alive the memory of this event with the opening ceremony for the citizens held the 20th of April.
Program:
- WEDNESDAY APRIL 20TH, 11.00
Auditorium Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro, 3689, Campo Santa Margherita, Venezia
Ceremony for the citizens for the memory of the genocide of the Armenian people
Institutional greetings by Marco Ceresa, Director of the Department of Asian and Mediterrean African Studies -Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Ermelinda Damiano, President of the Council of the Municipality of Venice.With them Baykar Sivazliyan, president of the Armenian Union in Italy, and Aldo Ferrari, teacher of Armenian languages and literature in Ca' Foscari. The event will be moderated by Germana Daneluzzi, president of the vivi association Lido Pellestrina.
There were present also Gagik Sarucanian, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Armenia in Venice and Setrak Tokatzian, Venitian-Armenian.
To follow:
Reading musical "In memory of the Armenian population"
Reading of poems of the Armenian poet Daniel Varujan curated by the association Voci di Carta, siding them with music from folk Armenian songs played by the duduk, ancient popolar music instrument, played by Giuseppe Dal Bianco.
Free seats until they are all taken, in respect if the current sanitary policy of the event.
Info: servizio.produzioni.culturali@comune.venezia.it
- WEDNESDAY APRIL 20TH, 17.00
Ca' Vendramin dei Carmini, Dorsoduro 3462, Fondamenta Foscarini, Venezia
ConferenCE: "Writing the Armenian Genocide"
PresentAldo Ferrari, Professor of Armenian language and literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and, from the United States, Antonia Arslan, writer.
Free admission subject to availability.
Info: aldoferrari@unive.it
- FROM WEDNESDAY 20TH TO SATURDAY 30TH OF APRIL
Biblioteca Civica VEZ, P.le Donatori di Sangue 10, Mestre
Exposition of books about Armenian history
Info: Rete Biblioteche Venezia
Free entrance during the opening times of the library
- TUESDAY APRIL 26TH, 10.30
Special guided visit at San Lazzaro of the Armenian.
50 seats available divided in two groups of 25 people each. Visit available for residents only.
To register is necessary send an email to: servizio.produzioni.culturali@comune.venezia.it writing name, last name, telephone number, email address. The price of the vaporetto is up to the participants.
- TUESDAY APRIL 26TH, 17.00
Biblioteca Hugo Pratt, via S.Gallo 136/b, Lido
Conference: "Telling about the genocide: Dante and the Armenian poets"
With the partecipation of Ermelinda Damiano, President of the Council of the Municipality of Venice. Introducing Germana Daneluzzi, President of the Civi Association Lido Pellestrina.
Followed by a short musical interlude by a duksuk, ancient musical traditional and popolar instrument, played by Narek Frangulyian.
- TUESDAY APRIL 28TH, 16.30
Circolo "Cornoldi", Riva degli Schiavoni 4142
Meeting: "The power of memory"
With Avedis Hadjian and Alberto Peratoner. Curated by Daniele Spero.
Musical introduction by Cecilia Vendraasco.
Screening of the movie "Hushèr" by Avedis Ohanian (1995, 45')
Reading of poems by Roberta Morassi from Daniel Varujan.
- THURSDAY MAY 5TH, 18.00
Biblioteca Civica VEZ, P.le Donatori di Sangue 10, Mestre
"Not only genocide. Armenian history and culture through centuries"
With Aldo Ferrari, Professor of Armenian language and culture from Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Free admission subject to availability, according to the current sanitary policy at the date of the event.
Info: 041 2746740-6741 - biblioteca.civicavez@comune.venezia.it
- TUESDAY MAY 10TH, 9.30
Casa del Cinema, Palazzo Mocenigo, San Stae 1990, Venezia
Day dedicated to Armenian cinema
Screening of the movie "Hushèr" by Avedis Ohanian (1995, 45') for schools
With the partecipacion of Davide Terrin, Responsible of the House of the Cinema, Baykar Sivazliyan, President of the Armenian Union in Italy and Germana Daneluzzi, President of the Civic Association Lido Pellestrina.
- WEDNESDAY MAY 11TH, 9.20
Liceo Marco Foscarini, Venezia
Meeting with students. "Sharing the memoru of the Armenian Genocide"
Speaker Baykar Sivazliyan, President of the Armenian Union in Italy.
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