Viken L.Attarian
Chairman
AGBU Montreal chapter
805 Manoogian street
Ville St-Laurent, QC H4N 1Z5
Tel: 514 748-2428
Fax: 514 748 6307
PRESS RELEASE
AGBU MONTREAL ANNOUNCES
NEW PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
FIRST GUEST OF IDEAS @ AGBU
IS DAVID BARSAMIAN ON OCTOBER 2nd 2005.
MONTREAL, September 20, 2005 –
AGBU Montreal announced today a new series of public lectures called Ideas @
AGBU. These series of public lectures will follow a completely new format
and are open to the Montreal public at large.
The series will be delivered in the format of a one-hour interview with a
leading intellectual or expert in his/her field. This person may or may not
be of Armenian descent. All interviews will be videotaped for archival
purposes only. At the end of every program the audience will be given the
opportunity to engage the guest in a 10 minute question and answer session.
“We are very excited to start this new series”, said Viken L. Attarian,
Chairman of AGBU Montreal.” Ideas @ AGBU will be an opportunity to meet
exciting individuals and through them to have an in depth understanding of
the world we live in. The guests of this program will come from a variety of
fields such as media, the arts, politics, literature, philosophy, business,
science, medicine, law, government and public policy etc.”
“This series will intellectually challenge the attendees” added Mr.
Attarian.” AGBU is the only Armenian organization that is capable of
delivering such a unique and different program. It is also unique in the
languages of its delivery as it will be up to the guest to choose from the
languages of their choice, Armenian, English or French. The series will
also be open to the non-Armenian public so it will be an opportunity to
create a very interesting dialog among participants, guests and audiences
alike.”
The first guest of Ideas @ AGBU is Mr. David Barsamian, founder and director
of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in
Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer.
He has been working in radio since 1978. He is the author of several books,
including Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky;
Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and The Fall of Public
Broadcasting. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its
“Top Ten Media Heroes.” Barsamian lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the
media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India
and Europe. He is the winner of the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for
independent journalism and of a Democracy Media Award.
“Mr. Barsamian is familiar to the Montreal Armenian community as he has
appeared 2 years ago at the AGBU Montreal Distinguished Speakers series on
the topic of the Armenian Genocide. He will be delivering several lectures
in Montreal during that weekend and we are thrilled that he has accepted to
launch our series”, said Mr. Attarian.
Ideas @ AGBU is scheduled to debut on Sunday October 2nd, 2005 at 7:30 p.m.
at the Demirdjian Hall of the AGBU Montreal Alex Manoogian Center on 805
Manoogian Street in St. Laurent. The interview will be conducted by AGBU
Montreal chairman Mr. Viken L. Attarian. The topics covered will include
media literacy, as well as Mr. Barsamian’s latest trip to several countries
in the Middle East and his observations. Attendance is free of charge, but
seating is limited, so the audience is encouraged to be on time.
For more information about the series please contact AGBU Montreal at
514-748-2428 or via email at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> . Further information about Mr. Barsamian,
his speaking schedule and other lectures in MOntreal is available at
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