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As part of its 75th anniversary celebrations this year, the Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA) offers an evening of literature and music dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of the famous Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents on Thursday, December 1 at the TCA Beshgeturian Center at 1901 N. Allen Avenue, Altadena, Calif. at 7:30 p.m. […]
April traditionally marks the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. With the recent ethnic cleansing of Artsakh Armenians in September 2023 repeating a pattern of genocide, these Armenian writers, with roots stretching across Los Angeles, New England, Beirut, Artsakh, and Armenia, will reframe remembering, reading works that “member” the audience – to welcome, honor, […]
The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA), the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center are pleased to invite you to their next 2024 Literary Lights event, featuring Armen Davoudian, author of a Publishers Weekly & The Rumpus Most Anticipated Poetry Book of 2024, The Palace of Forty […]
Though there has always been a connection between songwriting and literature, the consideration of the former as the latter still comes as a surprise to some. In his acceptance speech for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan wrote, “If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the […]
Join us for the launch of our reading series, Literary Lights 2025, featuring Wasafiri Magazine’s special “Armenia(n)s – Elevation” issue editors and contributors. Editors Tatevik Ayvazyan and Naneh Hovhannisyan will be joined by contributors Dr. Jesse Arlen, Eddie Arnavoudian, Olivia Katrandjian, Lola Koundakjian, Nancy Kricorian, Christopher Millis, Margarit Ordukhanyan, Thomas Toghramadjian, Taline Voskeritchian, and guest reader […]
What is home to Armenians in literature? Which Armenians, you may ask? How does the idea of homeland manifest in the latest English-language literary anthology of Armenian writing? Where can the multitudes of symbolic, remembered, and actual homelands of Armenians be found? Join us for a thought-provoking conversation exploring these questions with contributors to Wasafiri […]
The International Armenian Literary Alliance's May edition of their Literary Lights 2025 reading series will feature Gregory Djanikian, award-winning author of Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems, in conversation with writer and New York Review Books editor, Susan Barba. The virtual event will take place on May 10, 2025, at 10:00 AM Pacific | 1:00 […]
During a time of global upheaval, war, genocide, and countless national crises and political injustices, writing can give us a means to express, document, defy, and/or attempt to make sense of the senseless – in other words, to put into words that which has been made silent. In this workshop, we will respond to a […]
The IALA Los Angeles Chapter presents a literary evening of writers in celebration of Aida Zilelian’s debut chapbook release DISSONANCE. The event hosted by the Lusanet Collective, featuring Lory Bedikian, Tina Demirdjian, Arthur Kayzakian, Cyrus Sepahbodi, Gina Srmabekian, Raffi Wartanian and Aida Zilelian, will take place on July 11, 2025, at 6:30 PM Pacific Time, […]
