Sun Oct 27 2019
Art and Social Change: Mughdusyan’s Mission of Emancipating Women and Empowering Youth
By Gayane Ghazaryan
Mariam Mughdusyan had a dream and a goal - to bring about social change through the power of art and music and give children what she was once deprived of and help them to overcome poverty.
Tue Sep 10 2019
From Censorship to State Sponsorship: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union and Armenia
By Gayane Ghazaryan
Jazz and Armenia have a complicated history. From its early beginnings under Soviet rule to contemporary interpretations of jazz, the genre is part of the fabric of Armenian cultural life.
Sun Aug 04 2019
Zones of Entrapment: Yerevan’s 2800th Anniversary Park and the Tyranny of Taste-Fullness
By Vigen Galstyan
In the context of autocratic, oligarchic or committedly neo-liberal regimes which continually propagate a coercive and incarcerating model of urban planning, the multiplication of such spaces as the 2800th Anniversary Park of Yerevan is organic, writes Vigen Galstyan.
