  Seed of Pomegranate child-youth theater festival to start in YerevanOctober 19, 2009 - 20:53 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The second stage of the ninth child-youth theater festival "Nran Hatik" (Seed of Pomegranate) will start in Armenia October 24 and will last until November 1. As the chairman of the festival Hasmik Ter-Karapetyan informed, this year's festival will be devoted to 140th anniversary of the great Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan. The festival opening ceremony will be held in the house-museum of Hovhannes Tumanyan, then the festival be continued in the "Metro" theater, where the troupe named after Avetik Isahakyan will present the play "Staging Tumanyan": all tales of Hovhannes Tumanyan in one performance. 23 child- youth theatre troupes, including 12 debutants will take part in the "Seed of Pomegranate" festival.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Related sections Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |
