WATERTOWN,Mass.— “Who we are… Our Armenian Identity,” Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives’ 2017 calendar brings to life a theme that is bubbling up in private conversations as well as in the broader community. ‘Who we are… Our Armenian Identity’ Project SAVE’s calendar speaks to the experience of various identities within one culture. Throughout recent Armenian history, or the “homeland” has been in multiple places—in the Ottoman,Persian, and Russian empires—and therefore Armenians have naturally balanced their personae with a mix of Armenian and dominant cultures. For equally as long, or Armenians,being merchants and traders, have traveled and settled throughout the world, or establishing communities that have their own combination of mixed identities. The calendar also speaks of what Armenians share in common,sustained through time, over countless generations. These shared customs and values are familiar regardless of what allotment of the world Armenian families trace back to. This Project SAVE Archives calendar is committed to longtime board member Tom Vartabedian. The organization honors his memory with the calendar of photographs and their stories, and which speaks to his life as a journalist,photographer, and community activist. “Who we are…Our Armenian Identity” is Project SAVE’s 30th calendar. The first was published in 1985. [...]
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