Western Armenian Yerevan

Duration

2 to 3 hours

Overview

This tour takes you to the story of Western Armenians in Yerevan. Get ready to go back in time to the era of founding Republic of Armenian in the turn of 20th century, to the Soviet and Cold War eras and come back to the contemporary Yerevan. To touch issues like gender, refugees, migration, national identity, literature, music, art, film, religion and much more. We will experience times when churches were being destroyed and academicians were being accused of espionage. We will see how the Syrian civil war reached right to the heart of Yerevan and how an Anatolian musicologist got himself a mythical statue in Caucasus.