Culture

With cooperation between the French National Center for Music Creation, Grame, and Armenian Tumo Center for the Creative Technologies, new technologies meet art. Here is how it is going to happen.

Very often, we don’t pay proper attention to the things that are close by. We will never plan a visit by our own to a museum in our home country and enjoy it when we have enough time, enough options and enough possibilities. Why we should always hurry to visit a museum? The recent example. Crossing over the Victory Bridge in Yerevan in the hard day’s evening and I caught myself that I had never visited the Yerevan Brandy Company’s museum, one of the most visited tourist attractions in Armenia. After all, it is better late than never, right? The hour that I spent there was an hour of Revelations that what it was.

French-Armenian entrepreneur and philanthropist Manoug Pamokdjian and Italian doctor, the founder of Family Care Foundation Antonio Montalto met in 2009. Since then they have launched several large-scale and ambitious projects together, aimed at shedding new light and giving hope to the second largest city of Armenia, Gyumri. We talked to Mr. Pamokdjian and Mr. Montalto about the projects that have already been implemented and about the upcoming plans.

The COMUS (Community-Led Urban Strategies in Historic Towns) project is a joint Council of Europe and European Union initiative that is part of the second Eastern Partnership Culture Program. It aims to stimulate social and economic development by strengthening cultural heritage in nine historic towns in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. We spoke to the Project Officer and architect Sarhat Petrosyan about the project in Gyumri.

First of all, Gyumri is famous all over the country for its people – highly talented, incredibly witty, friendly and hospitable. There are so many things to do and see in Gyumri, that it’s quite hard to sum it all up in one article. Here is our list of 10 things one should do in the city first of all.

Regional Post talked to the Moscow based IT specialist Anton Merkurov, who is the great-grandson of prominent Soviet sculptor-monumentalist Sergey Merkurov. For several years Anton has been engaged in the promotion of The Merkurov House Museum located in Gyumri. Anton is sure that Gyumri can fully compete with Yerevan as the country’s touristic center.

All you have to know about Armenia’s second largest city’s history — from the first settlements founded 2800 years ago to the disastrous earthquake of 1988.

When the freight train entered the tunnel, the driver did not notice a short person of eastern appearance standing near the railroad. Nothing special happened. There were neither magical fireworks, nor solar eclipses, but the train did not come out of an empty tunnel. The person of eastern appearance cunningly smiled and left. This is one of numerous mystic stories from George Ivanovich Gurdjieff`s life. He was a mystic and philosopher. He was skilled in everything; a talented hustler and an energetic merchant. He began to work as a cleaner of decks on ships. Three decades later he became the owner of a castle in France and established the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. The most prominent personalities of the era attended this place for true knowledge.