High Fest festival completes in Yerevan October 9, 2011 - 15:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - High Fest International Performing Arts Festival has completed in Armenia. During the closing ceremony, Festival president Arthur Ghukasyan thanked all for the attendance and handed over certificates to all participants, volunteers and media representatives who covered the event. PanARMENIAN.Net received 2 certificates for information support and coverage of the festival. The 9th High Fest International Performing Arts Festival was held in Yerevan from October 1 to 8. This year's event featured theatre companies and VIP guests from 16 countries (Russia, UK, France, USA, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Israel, Belgium, Kazakhstan, India, Japan, Singapore). 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 | 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. |