What do rock music and a puppet theater
have in common? In Yerevan last Monday "Mind
Power" rock festival gave an answer
to that question. Simply, the hall was free
for use, so rockers took the place of puppets.
Six Armenian groups sought to slake the
thirst of their young rock music addicts,
who rarely get live concerts. Since independence,
few Western rock groups have visited Yerevan
and only occasionally have there been concerts
by Armenian rock bands.
Film Future?: Movie
studio resumes action after years of silence
By Gayane
Mkrtchyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Since 1976 Hayfilm movie studio (named after
Hamo Beknazaryan) has maintained its place
on 33.4 hectares just outside Yerevan.
But since 1990, little has gone on there.
This year, though, six films have been shot
at the studio and are now being edited.
"If during the past 12 years we've
been in the abyss then today we've reached
the surface and now are climbing up,"
says director of the film studio Gevorg
Gevorgyan.
With the Lincy Foundation-funded renovation
of Armenia's major houses of culture coming
to an end, the neglect of those places not
fortunate enough to be included in the $17.5
million project becomes more obvious.
The miserable condition of the home of
writer Khachatur Abovyan, located in Yerevan's
Qanaqer district, is an example. Relics
of the founder of Modern Armenian literature,
the pioneer of educating people in Ashkharhabar
(New Armenian) are on the edge of extinction.
No. In fact Yerevan's first snow Monday
only lasted about as long as it took to shoot this photo.
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