Cameraman Artur Manucharyan

Ulikhanyan sisters

Victoria and Liana Ulikhanyan have been engaged in classical music since childhood. They have already managed to perform on international platforms, participate in festivals, competitions, and have concerts on international stages. In addition to performing arts, the violinist and cellist sisters also create, and a video clip of Victoria Ulikhanyan's piano trio composition "Mechanics of the Sun" was recently shot, with which the girls are trying to popularize classical music.

Ler Kamsar

The next program in the series "In the Pavilion: Around Literature and Art" is dedicated to the famous satirist Ler Kamsar. Prose writer Hovhannes Yeranyan tries to answer the question of why his works and literary identity do not gain wide recognition among reading circles.

Hrant Matevosyan and Armenian theater

Prose writer Hovhannes Yeranyan talks about the performances staged based on the works of Hrant Matevosyan. Why did the writer have a reserved attitude even towards those performances that were admired by the audience and critics?

Hrant Matevosyan and the Armenian movie

The first program of the series “In the Pavilion: About Literature and Art” is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Hrant Matevosyan. Prose writer Hovhannes Yeranyan talks about the films shot based on the writer’s scripts, and tries to answer the question of why Matevosyan did not share the admiring opinions and attitudes of the public and critics even about successful films.

Life after the war: Gevorg Hambardzumyan

23-year-old Gevorg Hambardzumyan, who suffered a severe brain injury, speaks with great difficulty, his hand does not work due to the brain injury, and walking has become difficult. After the war, during the rehabilitation phase, at the suggestion of a friend, he decided to continue training, but not in boxing, but in the field of para-arm wrestling. The former boxer returns to Armenia with laurels. He has more than 10 medals, which he won at the world and European para-arm wrestling championships.

Grigor Ghapantsyan

Just three years after the closure of the Gevorgyan Seminary, the first state university of Armenia was opened. The vast majority of the teaching staff were former teachers of the seminary, and one of them was the linguist and Armenologist Grigor Ghapantsyan. In 1913, having rejected Nikoghayos Mar's offer to stay at the University of Saint Petersburg and work together, he returned to his homeland and entered the teaching staff of the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary. He immediately joined the group of Stepanos Malkhasyants, who was appointed Dean of the seminary, who was called upon to reform the educational programs of the seminary and write a new charter. He conducted his first serious studies at the seminary and published them in the journal "Ararat" of the Mother See. In 1918, with weapons in hand, he fought with Armenian clergy and scientists in the Battle of Sardarapat. He was the head of the Department of Linguistics of the newly opened State University, and the director of the Institute of Language of the newly established NAS. Some of the works written in Russian by the linguist who left behind a great scientific legacy have not been translated into Armenian to this day.

Sebastian Teachers' Choir

The "Sebastatians" teacher's choir has been operating since 2012. The founder of the Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Honored Artist Harutyun Topikyan, was the conductor at the foundation of its formation. It is a four-part, open choir, composed of educators from the educational complex. The choir performs Komitas' spiritual and secular songs, medieval hymns, works by modern Armenian composers, and disseminates them through educational, cultural, and patriotic campaigns-concerts, educational liturgies, and organizing and participating in national rituals-festivals.

The Right Hand of Saint Aristakes, the Relic-Bearing Patriarch, was brought out to the Ecumenical Conference

The inter-church conference entitled “Living the Faith Today: Commemorating the 1700th Anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea” that began in the Mother See has concluded. A Sunday liturgy was held in the Mother Cathedral under the presiding authority of His Holiness the Catholicos of All Armenians. In celebration of the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, the relic-bearing Right Hand of Saint Aristakes, who participated in the Council on behalf of the Armenian Church, was brought out.

Aghitu Monument and Tanahat Monastery

The Tanahat Monastery, or as the locals call it, the Red Monastery, is located 25 km southwest of Sisian, near the village of Arevis. Stepanos Orbelyan called the monastery a “great monastery of virtues,” where numerous legends about the holy life of ascetics and lay clergy were woven. During our trip, we also presented the unique monument of the 6th-7th centuries in the village of Aghitu.

Arevis