Here are a few events and activities that I am very proud and excited to share with you:
I will be singing the punk-folk song “Victim” (which I composed with Ann Perich during our Guitar Boy days), and reading an essay about the time I performed it in Yerevan for a day long symposium, “Second Thoughts on the Memory Industry” at the New York Institute for the Humanities: http://nyihumanities.org/event/second-thoughts-on-the-memory-industry-a-symposium
I will be performing during a segment with Eric Bogosian on the Armenian genocide. I’m very honored to be sharing a stage with him, as well as with the other participants, like Art Spiegelman, Francine Prose, and Philip Gourevitch, who will be questioning the reconciliation and memorialization of genocide and holocaust.
Sunday, May 7
6:30 pm
Cantor Film Center
36 E. 8th Street
Free
Also, I’m happy to announce that I have been accepted into the Macondo Writer’s Workshop in San Antonio, TX, founded by Sandra Cisneros. This is a week-long residency for writers working with issues of social justice. It’s also a wider network of writers who have participated previously in the workshop. I’m excited to join this community for the first time, to share my work about Armenia with them, and to meet and learn from others. http://www.macondofoundation.org/home.html
Finally, the collective Queering Yerevan is moving forward with our book project, “Two Years in Correspondence” which will be ready this summer. This project has been two years in the making and will include correspondence, art and interviews from the women artists and activists of QY, from various countries and differing sensibilities, as we formed as a collective and joined forces to produce groundbreaking art events in Yerevan. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aglany/two-years-in-correspondence-from-the-wow-collect/posts
I wanted to let you know about these kinds of unique activities, at a time when arts and education are under attack; here are heartening examples that there are organizations and creative leaders continuing to forge ahead.
I am grateful for your encouragement and support, and send you good wishes for inspiration, collective power, and peace.