“The voice of the Der Zor”… is the title of the four-day series of events organized by the Ministry of SE of the RA “Endanik” youth creative center of Gyumri, which was united over 70 smart schoolchildren from Artsakh, Dzavakhk and Shirak region.
The teenagers from Dzavakh and Artsakh had been accepted with great love in “Endanik” center of Gyumri.
During the program great attention was given to the participation of those teenagers in the classes of chess, song and dance, ceramics, painting, carpet weaving and in another educational groups of the center. The relations between these teenagers and the pupils of the center became warm and friendly in short time. Most of participants visited the monastery of Marmashen, Echmiadzin, Tsitsernakaberd, the museum of Minas Avetisyan, the museum of the History of Armenia and Genocide and another historical and cultural sights for the first time. The round table discussion organized in “Endanik” center, on the following theme “The customs and culture of Western Armenia” was very impressive. The presentation of the poem Danteakan during the recollection evening dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Hovhannes Shiraz, the teenagers were also dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Genocide, thus reinventing the reclaiming of the Armenian cause.
The program ended with summerizing the competition of the team creative works under the following title “The flower forget me not in my imagination” .
The National Assembly of the Republic of the Mountainious Karabakh awarded the Ministry of SE of the RA “Endanik” youth creative center with the diploma for supporting the friendly ties between Davakhk, Artsakh and Armenia.
We are full of hope, that the center will make traditional the events supporting the unity and cooperation of Armenia-Artsakh-Diaspora, which will give an opportunity to expand the perceptions and knowledge of teenagers about wars and genocides and will make younger generation more consolidated and unified.
S. Petrosyan