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Via Aysor.am and edited for clarity:

Today in the Union of Armenian Writers (UAW) was opened a new publishing house after Levon Zaven Surmelian. Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) has covered the expenses of the publishing house, which was provided from the Levon Zaven Surmelian Fund.

On the opening ceremony of the publishing house, UAW president Levon Ananyan, AGBU president Berge Setrakian, writers and guests were present.

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“First of all the books of the members of the Union that are under the governmental order will be published,” said Vahagn Mughnetsyan, the director of the new publishing house, and he informed the journalists that the publishing house has been filled with the needed personnel and machines and is ready to publish books this year.

UAW president Levon Ananyan attached importance to UAW having its own publishing house and mentioned that still they have a lot to do.

“We have many projects; to enlarge the publishing house and the publishing institution,” mentioned the UAW president…Besides all these events Levon Ananyan touched upon the project of opening a bookstore in the UAW publishing house, which, as L. Ananyan mentioned, is their biggest dream.

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In the last few years AGBU’s Young Professionals (YP) network has been growing in leaps and bounds.

Today, there are 26 YP committees (complete list) and soon there will be 27, as a new YP committee has begun to form in Chicago.

In a month of preparations, this new group has already compiled a list of 250 Chicagoland YPs!

If you or anyone you know would like to join the YP Chicago mailing list and receive notices about upcoming events, including their inaugural activity on November 21 at NAHA restauarant, visit:

http://yp.agbuchicago.org

Also, if you reserve your tickets online for the kick-off event you will save $10. We’re looking forward to great things from YP Chicago, perhaps they will follow in the footsteps of their YP brethren in New York  and the Bay Area, which recently celebrated 10 years of amazing success.

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For those of you that may have missed the following item in one of the AGBU Armenia News Bulletin’s from last week….happy birthday Karabakh Chamber Orchestra! The text is edited for clarity:

On October 16, at 7:00 pm, a concert dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Karabakh Chamber Orchestra (KCO) took place at the Stepanakert culture palace. The hall was full as always. Guests from Armenia, including mezzo-soprano Lilit Grikorian, soprano Irina Zakian, composer Eduard Sadoyan, as well as the “Mrakats” choir from Karabakh participated in the concert.

Congratulatory messages from the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU), Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) General Assembly, NKR Culture Ministry, Republic of Armenia’s Culture Ministry, Yerevan State Conservatory, Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian Chamber Orchestra, Armenian State Academic Choir, and other organizations and individuals were presented during an official ceremony before the concert.

During the jubilee concert, KCO performed the works of Handel, Aram Khachaturian, Rossini, Verdi, Sayat Nova, Arno Babajanian, and Piazzolla.

The concert was followed by a reception attended by NKR Culture Minister Narine Aghabalian, the whole KCO staff, musicians, cultural figures, guests.

The idea of establishing a chamber orchestra in Karabakh was born during the meeting of former NKR President Arkady Ghoukassian and AGBU President Berge Setrakian in the spring of 2004. KCO started operating in September of that same year under the sponsorship of AGBU, which continues until today. In the beginning the majority of the musicians in the orchestra were from Armenia. Today, the proportion has changed in favor of Karabakh performers. Besides performing in the Orchestra, KCO musicians also teaches music at music schools in Shoushi and Stepanakert, which will help sustain the Orchestra into the future. Headed by General Manager and Principal Conductor Gevork Muradian during the five years of its existence, KCO has garnered a reputation of being one of the best chamber orchestras in the South Caucasus. Among a number of successes the biggest achievement of the Orchestra has been the rebirth of cultural life in the war-torn Karabakh.

Maestro Gevork Muradian has also been granted a title of NKR Honored Artist by NKR President Bako Sahakian.

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