Haghartsin Cultural Week

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Haghartsin Monastery, Dilijan

ARMENIA IS GREAT, TAVUSH IS EXCEPTIONAL!

You are warmly invited to the spiritual and cultural Week of Haghartsin (Haghartsin Week)! This event is aimed to showcase the Haghartsin Monastery’s (X-XII AD) rich spiritual legacy and its special role in Armenian history and culture.

The Haghartsin Week is a 7-day-and-night long celebration that will take place in the premises of the Haghartsin monastery and will embrace a series of cultural, educational and entertaining events such as open-air master classes on national arts, traditional bread-baking, sweet-making and local food-cooking demonstrations, national Armenian dance lessons, spiritual music concerts. To enhance your spiritual experiences the week will be complemented by services, liturgies and Bible studies.

For a week the Haghartsin Monastery will become a living city where everyone is welcome to be a part of its big family.

Here is the agenda of Cultural Week.

August 7 /Monday, day 1/

Solemn Opening of the Haghartsin Week

18:00 – Opening ceremony: Inserting the St. Mary’s historical relief sculpture of Haghartsin

18:30 – Concert: Armenian State Chamber Choir, artistic director – Robert Mlqeyan

August 8 /Tuesday, day 2/

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? (1 Corinthians 3.16)

And I tell you on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

(Matthew 16.18)

09:00 – Morning worship

11:00 – 18:00 – Masterclasses: pottery, carpetmaking, organic soap-making, cross stone carving workshop, iconography, silk painting Kitchen: local food making demonstrations and tasting: milk bread, nazuk, rosehip, cornel soups, jams, honey Armenian folk dance lessons

17:00 – Evening worship

18: 30 – Concert: State Jazz Orchestra of Armenia, artistic director –Armen Hyusnunts

21: 00 – Worship

August 9 /Wednesday, day 3/

Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 144.15)

09:00 – Morning worship

11:00 – 18:00 – Masterclasses Kitchen Armenian folk dance lessons

17:00 – Evening worship

18:30 – Concert: Little Singers of Armenia, artistic director – Tigran Heqeqyan

21: 00 –Worship

August 10 /Thursday, day 4/ Children’s Day

Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 19.14)

09:00 – Morning worship

11:00 – 18:00 – Masterclasses: pottery, carpetmaking, organic soap-making /13:00 – “The Light of the Land Tavush”: ecotourism development perspectives/, cross stone carving workshop, iconography, silk painting the works of the children of “Bridge of Hope” NGO, “Arevik” social-educational center Kitchen: Kitchen: local food making demonstrations and tasting: milk bread, nazuk, rosehip, cornel soups, jams, honey Armenian folk dance lessons

13:00 – Concert: Berd St. Hovhannes Church’s Children Choir

16: 00 – Puppet show: “Family and community” NGO’s “Palancho” puppet theatre

17:00 – Concert: “Tavush Children Choir”

18:00 – Evening worship

21: 00 – Worship

August 11 /Friday, day 5/ Soldiers’ day

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1.18)

09:00 – Morning worship

11:00 – 18:00 – Masterclasses Kitchen Armenian folk dance lessons

17:00 – Evening worship

18:30 – Concert: Luys Vocal Quintet

21: 00 – Worship