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Balakian and Egoyan to Speak at Center for Jewish History

Balakian and Egoyan to Speak at Center for Jewish History
By Armenian Weekly Staff
January 4, 2010

NEW YORK – Peter Balakian and Atom Egoyan will be featured artists at a
symposium, titled `Imagination and Catastrophe: The Aftermath of
Genocide,’ which will be held at the Center for Jewish History, 15
West 16th Street, New York, on Jan. 10. The symposium will include
filmmakers, writers, and musicians who will explore the complexity of
creating art that deals with genocide and its aftermath. The artists
and critics will discuss how the imagination wrestles with
historically catastrophic events. The program will include segments of
films, readings of fiction and poetry, and poetry set to music. In the
creation of art out of catastrophe, genocide can be understood in more
complex ways.

Participants include: Atom Egoyan, internationally acclaimed director,
writer, producer and Academy Award nominee (Where the Truth Lies, The
Sweet Hereafter, Ararat); Peter Balakian, poet and acclaimed author
(June-tree: New and Selected Poems, Black Dog of Fate, The Burning
Tigris); Marcie Hershman, novelist (Safe in America [researched at
AJHS], Tales of the Master Race); R. Clifton Spargo, fiction writer,
critic, and co-editor (After Representation: The Holocaust, Literature
and Culture); Donna-Lee Frieze (moderator), scholar in genocide
studies, philosophy, and film; Emily Duncan-Brown, soprano; and Laura
Leon, pianist.

The event is on Sunday, January 10th at 11:00 a.m. Tickets are $20,
$15 for CJH members. For tickets, call Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or
visit

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

www.smarttix.com.
Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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