Karabakh Foundation organized a cultural programming at a heritage event at Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church, Virginia, which gave an opportunity to nearly 150 students, parents and teachers to know Azerbaijani culture, the Foundation sources told APA.
Participants of the 2012 Heritage Party, part of National Parent-Teacher Association’s (PTA) Take Your Family to School Week (February 12-19) showed great interest to the program organized by the Karabakh Foundation to popularize Azerbaijani cultural heritage.
US-based AXA Foundation donated a grant to Karabakh Foundation to organize this program. The event was opened by the representative of AXA Foundation. Karabakh Foundation Executive Director Diana Altman underlined the importance of the project.
Longfellow Middle School is one of the 45 schools selected by National PTA among 233 grant applicants for the project Take Your Family to School.
School Principal said representatives of 96 countries were studying at Longfellow and parent-teacher associations should involve the families in school and strengthen relations between the school and parents.
Following the opening ceremony, the participants received manuals about the Azerbaijani culture and saw Azerbaijani national dresses. The Heritage Party featured performances and lessons by the Karabakh Foundation Azerbaijani Dance Group. In the next phase of the project, Karabakh Foundation will open a webpage-based Azerbaijani Culture Center at Longfellow Middle School for the school’s community and local residents. It will offer multiple programs and various resources to the people and create opportunity to know the activity of organizations like Karabakh Foundation, which unites different cultures and people.
Karabakh Foundation is planning to popularize Azerbaijani culture within the framework of the project Take Your Family in School in 50 state schools of the United States. The Foundation is preparing proposals for school principals to include materials about the Azerbaijani and Caucasus culture in the school program.
The Karabakh Foundation is a U.S. 501(c)(3) cultural charity foundation that preserves and shares the culture, arts, and heritage of Azerbaijan and the rest of the Caucasus.
Foundation programs include exhibitions, discussions, concerts, publications, films, lectures, Web displays, and informal gatherings dedicated to the experience of Azerbaijani/Caucasus cultural topics. Partners include content experts, cultural organizations, museums, scholars, educators, students, and other relevant communities.
Dear Ani, first of all I would like to thank you for bringing this douncemt here. I was looking for it doing English search and failed. You’ve got it in Armenian and it’s great.It’s great douncemt and may become a good example of goodwill, if it was signed by NGO’s, or any other entity other than political party.When it comes to a political party it raises a lot of questions, and none of them was answered, at lest in Aram Manukyan’s (whose signature is representing armenian side) interview given to Lragir.Some of the questions I raised in reply to Onnik’s comment, the others will share with you.I will not buy your (and other ANC supporters) statements on existence of political prisoners in Armenia before the ICHR decision on their cases.But Dashnaks jailed in 1995 can’t appeal to ICHR. Because Armenia ran by a liberal party hadn’t signed corresponding douncemts.Votes of unified opposition in 1996 were stolen by political party, that today protests against usurpation of power. I’ll never mock liberal rhetoric from, for example, Heritage party. Just because I’ve never seen it’s representatives violating human rights. But when it comes to HHSh I feel myself mentally raped, trying to put together HHSh and liberal values.While reading your comment, I really wondered when I’ve read the following: word about Karabakh, territorial concessions, Turkey, or any international hot-button issues . Please show me the exact place where I have spoken on those issues. This declaration has nothing to do with all those points you listed. Why are you pointing this out commenting on my text is still an open question for me.Anyway thank you for your comment.
Uzogh-First -the segment you potesd does not side one way or the other. Rather, it carefully uses terms such as alleged’ and claiming’ to avoid a clear stance. I must admit, I have not yet read your entire link, and perhaps there is something of more substance there. Second- I cannot think of a single country in the world that would allow a political party with headquarters outside of its own borders to be registered as a political party within them. That is, imagine if Germany had a political party based in Turkey, Belize or Israel or if Russia had a political party based in the US or Japan Or if the US had a registered political party based in the UK? wasn’t that (more or less) why there was a revolution in the US because lives in the colonies were being dictated and controlled by politics and decision-makers in Great Britain?At that time, the ARF was based OUTSIDE of Armenia a reality which cannot be accepted by a truly independent state.And with regards to the document I would like to see Sargsyan deny that he indeed wrote that document.tzitzernak