L.A. Central Library to Celebrate Armenian Heritage Month with Film Screenings

Keeping Artsakh Alive in Los Angeles

Displaced populations often face multiple layers of erasure—in the actual experience of dispossession and in the telling and shaping of their narratives. That compounded loss is made even more complicated for peoples exiled from their homeland. This has been the experience, for the past 18 months, of ethnic Armenians from Artsakh, who until recently were part of a self-governing democracy in the South Caucasus. Against the backdrop of a broken i…

L.A. Central Library to Celebrate Armenian Heritage Month with Film Screenings

The Los Angeles Central Library is celebrating Armenian Heritage Month with an afternoon of screenings, conversations, and a special presentation by filmmaker Eric Nazarian. The event will be held on Saturday, April 12, at 2 p.m., at the Los Angeles Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium. The program will consist of a screening of the short films, “My Dearest Artsakh” and “What Can I Tell You? We Lost Everything,” followed by a conversation wit…