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WORCESTER EXHIBIT CELEBRATES 500 YEARS OF ARMENIAN BOOK PRINTING


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Posted 30 October 2012 - 01:32 PM

WORCESTER EXHIBIT CELEBRATES 500 YEARS OF ARMENIAN BOOK PRINTING

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12:34 30.10.2012

In November, the Worcester Armenian Book Commemoration Committee
will host an exhibit at the Worcester Public Library to commemorate
the 500th anniversary of Armenian book printing and the proclamation
of Yerevan as World Capital of the Book for the Year 2012 by UNESCO,
the Armenian Weekly reports.

Various displays will explain, through essays and pictorial images,
the development of the Armenian alphabet, which resulted in the
immediate availability of Western and Christian knowledge in Armenia.

Also featured will be the Armenian alphabet in its various forms,
copies of early illuminated manuscripts, and the advancement of
Armenian printed books and materials.

Worcester is the site of the first permanent Armenian community in
the New World and of the first Armenian church to be built in the
western hemisphere. The city also host to the Kaloosdian/Mugar Endowed
Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. Several texts
on the Armenian Genocide by the first two holders of the Armenian
Genocide Studies Chair, Prof. Simon Payaslian and Prof. Taner Akcam,
reinforce the exhibit's theme of the power of the published word.

Contributions of Armenian-American writers include William Saroyan
and Vrastad Kazanjian.

On Nov. the committee will hold a Grand Opening Reception with
refreshments in the library's Saxe Room, with a lecture on Armenian
book printing - titled "The Power of the Printed Word: Successes and
Challenges, Past and Present" - by two Armenian newspaper editors,
Alin Gregorian of the Armenian Mirror-Spectator and Khatchig Mouradian
of the Armenian Weekly. The event is free and open to the public.
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