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On March 16, 2009, Serj Tankian and New Zealand’s 70-piece Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra took the stage at the Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand and delivered an exhilarating and unique performance of Tankian’s latest solo album, “Elect the Dead.”

Dr. Dikran Kaligian presented a lecture entitled “The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Under Ottoman Rule, 1908-14,” on Thursday, January 21, 2010, at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA. The lecture was the first of the year for NAASR.

There was magic in the air as more than 1100 Armenians boarded the Costa Cruise Lines extraordinarily beautiful ship, Costa Atlantica. The Costa Atlantica is a “Jewel Ship”, a well designed and elegantly decorated with antique Italian flair.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective June 6 through September 20, 2010, at MOCA Grand Avenue. This major traveling retrospective celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky, a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art in the middle of the 20th century.

The Armenian community of Burbank and the organizations, such as the Homenetmen “Sipan” chapter no longer have to look for and spend thousands of dollars to secure venues for their activities, since through a community-wide effort, plans to purchase of new center is underway.
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The Levon and Hasmig Tavlian Preschool and Kindergarten celebrated Christmas at its annual Christmas Pageant (hantes), on Sunday, December 20, at the Pasadena Armenian Center.

The Armenian Graduate Students Association at UCLA invites the public to the eighth annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies at UCLA on Friday, February 19, 2010. This day-long academic event will begin at 9:30 a.m. and be held in the famous Royce Hall, room 314.

The Armenian Bar Association is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its Fifth Annual Scholarship Program. The Program is designed to support meritorious students of Armenian descent attending, or accepted for admission to, an approved law school in the United States, Armenia or elsewhere.
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ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian urges Armenian American community and anti-genocide activists to rally for passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 4, 2010.
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The Board of Directors of the Charlie Keyan Armenian Community School announced the receipt of a $110,000 grant from the Lincy Foundation.

Armenian Caucus Co-Chair Congressman Mark Kirk posted a solid victory on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, in the Illinois Republican primary race for President Obama’s former Senate seat. Kirk, who was endorsed by the Armenian National Committee (ANC) of Illinois, will now go on to face Democrat Alexi Giannoulias in the general election in November.
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Leaders of the Armenian American community in Pasadena exchanged ideas with a leader of the Pasadena chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at a meeting held at the Pasadena Armenian Center on February 3.

Armenian and Jewish community leaders here launched an online petition urging people to sign a letter to President Obama and the Congress that calls for the immediate passage of H. Res. 252, the Armenian Genocide Resolution pending in Congress, announced the Armenian National Committee of Massachusetts.

-On January 20, 2010, four current and one former sworn officers of the Glendale Police Department Filed a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit in Federal Court alleging Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation on the basis of National Origin and Ancestry. The allegations made in the complaint are both disturbing and appalling. Even if a fraction of these allegations in the complaint are established in a court of law, the City of Glendale has a long way to go on the way to becoming the city that we all envision and deserve.
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