*** Please Forward to Armenian Friends *** (About painter Rufino Tamayo) "He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw." (William Saroyan, I Used to Believe I Had Forever, But Now I'm Not So Sure, 1969) 1 FIFTH ANNUAL CELEBRATING SAROYAN EVENT 2 New web site "William Saroyan's House on the Hill of the Internet" 1 FIFTH ANNUAL CELEBRATING SAROYAN EVENT Location: San Francisco Main Public Library, Civic Center Dessert Reception: 12:30 PM Latino Hispanic Room (lower level across the hall from the Koret Auditorium) Program: 2:00 PM KORET AUDITORIUM (lower level) * San Francisco Main Public Library, Civic Center, Grove at Larkin * Open Limited Seating * Varied Program * There is No Charge * Information: Jacqueline Papazian Kazarian coordinator (jkazarian@earthlink.net) directions and details - see on the web site below 2 New web site "William Saroyan's House on the Hill of the Internet" http://armenianworld.mine.nu/saroyan2 Is based on the William Saroyan Resources online database. More than 200 photos, 300 quotes, bibliography, webliography (links to other Saroyan related web sites), chronology of his writings and publications, links to the texts of some of writings of Saroyan and about him, his paintings, real voice of Saroyan, critics, information about "House on the Hill" and William Saroyan Literary Foundation Int'l, he Guest-book of the House/museum, web forum, soon interactive multimedia web training system for children and schools, list of projects, etc. All - with easy search service. There are nearly 100 links from the home page. The web site is continually being updated. Web site is located on the web server in San Francisco Bay Area, CA, dedicated to Armenians (see root link). The detailed information about August 25 Event will be presented on the web site the next day after event. In September Saroyan's web site will be accessible also in Armenian (West and East) and Russian. He died 20 years ago. In few years we'll celebrate 100th anniversary of great writer. "Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective" (W.Saroyan, Memories of the Depression) Our not-for-profit goal is to create e-community of famous Armenian writer. To create a model of establishing e-communities of great Armenians. Historical personalities, dates, spiritual values. We will highly appreciate any participation in Saroyan related discussions through our forum and/or email (see contacts below if there would be technical problems). Collecting any details related to famous writer we welcome any opinions, suggestions and critics. Contacts: Forum - http://armenianworld.mine.nu/forum/ (link to Saroyan related discussion) Chat - http://armenianworld.mine.nu/~abyss/x/ (rooms WS_writings and WS_projects) Email - vbabakhan@hotmail.com (Vahan) Icq UIN # 109950162 Another contact in Yerevan: Email - arian@freenet.am (Naira) Icq UIN # 116182559 "Nothing good ever ends." (W.Saroyan)
