Join us on March 29 for the launch of the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Imagining Alternative Futures with @okatrandjian.bsky.social! ✍️
Explore how fiction can help us imagine a better reality in this two-hour virtual workshop!
Get your tickets: armenianliterary.org/sws26-katran...
For I could wish to possess you forever so,
My darling, immobilised in the gesture
Of reaching toward me. Yet I know
That this is to desire your death.
#IrisMurdoch #OhIris
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
I've been so enlightened, moved, educated, inspired and enriched by this book. It also made me cry a lot. Not exaggerating at all.
#DerekJarman #Chroma
🎬 The Jukebox Film Club is proud to announce our next screening, the UK premiere of Married to the Music by Garo Berberian (Rebel Republic Films).
🕡 6:30 pm, Sat 25 Oct
📍 ICA
🔗 ica.art/films/jukebo...
Followed by an in-person Q&A hosted by music journalist Sophia Hill and a DJ set by Pinks ✨
There is a new and terrifying draft bill/project in Armenia 'on the Concept for Locating and Supporting the Aesthetic of Real Armenia'. www.e-draft.am/projects/910...
It doesn't mention the Diaspora or Artsakh at all. The 'Real Armenia', whatever it is, has erased them.
Sharing my brief blog on Adolescence after their absolute triumph at Emmy Awards yesterday - all very very well deserved, but most of all, Stephen Graham for acting. filmdispatches.substack.com/p/adolescenc...
In the chalky world of Dulux and the colour chart, you remember colour was once bright and precious. There is not a drop of vermilion or ultramarine, congealing today in these rusty cans.
Derek Jarman, Chroma: A Book of Colour
📢 Applications for our 2025 grants are open!
Whether you're a writer or translator passionate about Armenian literature, IALA's grants offer up to $3,000 in support plus promotional opportunities to share your work with the world.
Apply by September 30, 2025: armenianliterary.org/grants
Nothing more depressing and disheartening for a filmmaker than attending an event about film funding and realising this big, glorious country's main film body supports 6 feature films a year.
'Everyone helps the author. No one helps the translator.'
@antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social
I just finished this - probably his best book (I've read all of them). I loved how much it reminded me of Iris Murdoch's writing (and I know he's a fan of hers). There's so much I want to say but instead of my words, read his own:
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
#alanhollinghurst #booksky
A brilliant, thought-provoking, eye-opening essay by one of my favourite writers, Alan Hollinghurst.
#MosaicMonday
Detail from the 'Lion Hunt' mosaic. Late 4th century BCE, from the House of Dionysos. Pebble Mosaic.
Pella Archaeological Museum. Greece.
#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
My new blog, aka a love letter to Sinners. Read it, then go and see it please.
Thanks for inviting me to that Bafta screening, @garo1.bsky.social
filmdispatches.substack.com/p/sinners
Some thoughts and lots of feelings after watching Pink Floyd's remastered and glorious Pompeii set at IMAX
open.substack.com/pub/filmdisp...
Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣
I'm listening to @antonhur.com's impossibly beautiful Toward Eternity on the audiobook, reached Eve Delta's story and almost heard the click in my brain going from 'can't wait to see what happens next' to 'oh god, I don't want this to end'.
So proud of this screening
Screening this unhinged, spectacular, exciting film, paired with Dr Caligari this Saturday at ICA.
Chinchilla! Chinchilla!
Watch this exclusive clip from Dr Caligari, screening next week, followed by a Q&A with the director Stephen Sayadian, moderated by @elazic.bsky.social.
🗓️ Sat, March 29
⏰ 7:30 PM
📍Institute of Contemporary Arts
🎟️ Tickets www.ica.art/films/dr-cal...
vimeo.com/1061818638/7...
3 days left until Literary Lights 2025! 📖✨ Join @wasafirimag.bsky.social co-editors @tatevik.bsky.social & Naneh Hovhannisyan, Editor-in-Chief Sana Goyal & contributors for a panel discussion and stay after for a writing marathon celebrating IALA’s 4th anniversary!
📍 Register now: bit.ly/3XZ8FGE
Come and see this special, deranged, unhinged and absolutely wonderful Stephen Sayadian double bill and we are excited to have @elazic.bsky.social moderating the conversation. www.ica.art/films/fluore...
Elena - we can't wait!
Yes, we are screening it at the launch of our Jukebox Film Club - not only Cafe Flesh but also his equally fantastic Dr Caligari, please join us!
