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Day of Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture: Dance Workshop & Film Screening

June 1, 2024 | 4:30PM - 8:00PM

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Full schedule of the day’s events, 12–8 pm, linked here
Dance Workshop at the Fowler: 4:30–5:30pm
Film screening at the Fowler: 5:30–8 pm


As part of the fourth annual Day of Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture at UCLA, the Fowler will host an outdoor community dance workshop highlighting azgagrakan (ethnographic) shourchbar’s in the amphitheater. The day will conclude with a screening of two films, followed by a panel discussion moderated by professor Zareh Arevshatian, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television.

Conversations with Armenian Woodwind Makers (2020, 20 min) directed by Armen Adamian, director of the UCLA Armenian Music Ensemble.
Academy Award-winning documentary The Last Repair Shop (2023; 39 min), directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers.

This event is co-sponsored by the Fowler Museum and made possible thanks to a generous group of donors who support the Armenian Music Program at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.



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