The October 24th was one of the rarely sunny and warm October Sundays that I have ever seen. The day was particularly colorful thanks to the already 3rd Pan-Armenian painting day event organized by the FPWC, my former job place. This event is particularly important for me as I used to the part of the organizing team of previous 2 painting day events. It’s a truly festive and creative event designed for kids… but after attending it as an Event Attendee I actually started thinking that it’s a colorful and festive event for adults as well :))
The event took place in the Lovers Park, Yerevan… not my most favorite park but a very special one for me …some people would know why … ;)))
As I entered the park I came across the most colorful bus I have ever seen in Yerevan… and this was the SunChild bus all covered with beautiful paintings of young artists.
The Event venue was beautifully designed and full of people of all ages… painting, walking around, singing, dancing, etc :)
The young artists were painting on the tables, papers, buses, artificial trees... shortly saying everywhere :)
The most touching scene I have ever seen in any of the painting day events...
As I was walking around and enjoying the event I saw my beloved Fiancée Tigran with his Niece Anahit... They were also painting... to be more precise Anyutik was painting and Tik was just watching or passing her various colors and brushes.
I joined them and despite all the rules I joined Anutik in paintings :)))) I was directing the little artist in choosing the theme for paintings and using the colors.
The table Art piece Anutik has created :)))
After all the art pieces were created the little artist was chilling out on the grass with her uncle :))))
It was a truly funny and joyful day :))) WE HAD FUN!! :)))
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The backstage of the Painting day event from the positive side :)))
Special thanks goes to all the organizers for making the happiest Sunday for hundreds of kinds, their parents and me :)))) A particular round of applause goes to all those special guys who stayed up there late and cleaned the environment :)))) YOU GUYS ARE GREAT :))))
The September 30 was a remarkable day for me: I was honored to be a delegate at the TEDx Yerevan event, the first TED event officially licensed and organized in Caucasus. YES, WE GOT THE LICENSE!!!! which means that from now on ideas will not only be generated in great person’s great minds but also will be shared forward.
The event was particularly remarkable not only because of the fact that I got to know to so many outstanding people whom I had the opportunity to meet after the event and network a bit more, but also I heard bunch of cool ideas which actually made me think.
So here I would like to share my impressions on some of the TEDx Yerevan Talks that really put a certain spot on my memory… (this is to avoid using the expression "had an impact" on me ;))
So I would like to start with Alexis Ohanyan and his talk on losing control in other words the role of social media. The main thing that impressed me immensely in his speech was the amount of money raised for the Rally organization, some $280.000 USD raised by the Social media, within 8 days. This was such a "woow" amount for me, I was wondering why not applying this tool to supporting kids with disabilities for surgeries and other issues? There are so~so many kids who actually suffer from certain diseases and in most cases these surgeries actually determines their lives. So my idea was to create a certain community so as to be able to raise money for those purposes. Still don’t want to promise you anything… this is just an idea that didn’t occur to me but just hit my mind…
The other talk that I would like to share my impressions about is “All I know about management is Music” the speaker is my dearest and beloved friend Sona Hovhannisyan. I was soooo nervous, excited, thrilled and happy throughout her entire speech that at the end of talk I got the feeling as if it was me delivering the speech ;)
She was telling about the communicating vessels the fundamental law of physics and its application of our daily life and all this she explained by setting herself as an example, i.e. her being a musician by professional background but successfully involved in management.
The truth be told, I never thought about this very law of physics and its any possible interrelation with my life system. Now when I think about that speech and my diverse life I come to think that this does have a point. Enjoy her talk.
Never seen DONKEYmentary movies though have to admit always liked donkeys…:)))) I was soo excited to sea the segment of the movie made by Vardan about the small village in Kenya, people living there and of course DONKEYs…
This talk really just made me think that one can be happy irrespective of any other external factors.
Planning to visit their studio once to take the cope of the movie and make a DONKEYmentary movie screening with friends.
What is Europe, What is Asia, What is Eurasia? Is that a value, is that an aspiration? Great speech delivered by Sir Timothy Straight.
One of the speeches that truly made me ask myself “ok, now so where am I from”? To be truly honest I have always been telling to all my foreign friends that Armenia is neither fully Europe, nor fully Asia, it’s something in the middle… Some part of the population of Armenia have nothing to do with Asia neither in their world outlooks nor in their value systems. Whereas some other more conservative part of the Armenian population is still clanged to Asia again due to the world outlooks and values. To speak more specifically, this is also true about my personality… Some part of it being pure European, the other one more or less Asian… Am I a Eurasian? … no idea maybe just of unknown origin
The story that really made an impact on my was the one of Hrair Hawk. I had the pleasure to meet him after the event and talk to him more and also be photographed by him:))) He is a great photographer… he made me feel so gorgeous every time I look at the pics he took of me. I was just overwhelmed with the serenity, calmness and positive attitude he was telling everything he has gone through the person he has transformed into…
What would you do if you only had 10 days to live?
Hagop EMRAZYAN… I can’t help writing the surname of this guy in CAPITAL letters… adorable person, great leader and knowledgeable individual, and also the guy with TERRIFIC sense of humor. I was sooo lucky to meet him the day after TEDx Yerevan event and get to know him a bit more. The funniest part of our meeting was when were saying goodnight to each other he shook my hand goodnight, I said “Yes, but I would like to hug you”.. and he said yeah no problem, then turned to my fiancée and said “no jealousy man” :))) we hugged and my fiancée said “oh, no problem want to hug you as well” :D… pretty funny at that particular moment :)) anyway…
The talk that I have heard was about learning and about the ways of learning things. One of Best TEDx Yerevan event talk I really enjoyed listening.
Last but not the least. Ktrij (Armen) Devejian just killed me with his "What are you worth?" talk. One of those great talks that I can not even write any comment about, can't help having the keen desire to be a better individual and live a life worth living ;))))
Surely there are a lot of other talks that I would always remember I will covered them in my upcoming posts. Once again I would like to thank all the entire organizing committee team for bring TED to Yerevan and making it come true :)))))
I would recommend everyone to watch all the TEDx Yerevan event talks and of course et you insights on them!
I am excited to write this post as this is the First Post published on my First Blog. As this is the first post in my blog let me tell you a little bit more about myself rather than the info displayed in the profile ;)
Besides all this serious/official part of the my life I am keenly interested in Arts and particularly in graphics, photography, etc and I was lucky enough to attend graphic design courses few months ago in the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Arts and run 3 exhibitions within 2 months. I am also interested in film making so my next goal is to have a short documentary movie in my portfolio to submit to various national, regional and international film festivals.
Though seemingly quite well settled in Career I still have got the feeling that I still need to find out my life role. So now I am in a so called Exploring stage in my life, doing all absolutely diverse things simply to find out who I am.
The reason why I started blogging is that whatever I do, I need to share It with people… because I am an open person. So being a little bit tired to talking to myself whenever the time wouldn’t permit me contact my friends via other channels I decided to share it all with you :)
My posts will mainly cover my daily discoveries, new ideas, artworks, various digests, news and some very funny episodes of my life which I am facing since childhood. Oh, and by the way, I am planning to combine them all in 1 film script and make a fun movie BASED ON REAL FACTS :)
So I will be happy to see you comments, feedback and any other thing you would like to ask me.
