Artlabyerevan creative group has been implementing “Art activism course in Ijevan” project in Innovation Knowledge HUB in Ijevan since October 2021, the aim of which is to create open platforms for young people interested in contemporary art.

According to Nara Mnatsakanyan, the coordinator of Innovation HUB: “The project also has an importance in the sense that it develops new skills of young people, which is important to us in the framework of this project.”

The participants of the project gain knowledge of contemporary art history and theory, practical trainings of modern street art, urban performance, installation and other disciplines, as well as they get acquainted with the use of simple digital tools: video art, web poster, photo installation, etc.

Cultural anthropologist Aghas Tadevosyan, artist Gagik Charchyan, art critic Vardan Jaloyan, artist Marine Khachatryan, and the others delivered speeches during this project.

The trainings are free. The project will end on February 25 and the participants will get certificates at the end of the project.

The main substantive change in the field of comprehensive education in 2021 was the approval and testing of a new standard of comprehensive education in the schools of Tavush region.

On February 2, Zhanna Andreasyan, the Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of RA, paid a working visit to Tavush region: “Today we are here to see how the process of introducing new subject standards takes place in schools, what problems, issues, points there are, that need to be amended, because it’s important for us that the tests are effective, and as a result, we can really get the best standard.”

The first stop of the Deputy Minister was at Khashtarak. Secondary School. Accompanied by the school principal, the Deputy Minister, Arsen Baghdasaryan, the Head of the Department of Comprehensive Education of the Ministry of ESCS, and Artashes Torosyan, Executive Director of the “National Center for Education Development and Innovation” Foundation, got acquainted with the process of application of the state standard of comprehensive education and answered the teachers’ and students’ questions. The Deputy Minister also visited Lusadzor Basic School, toured the classrooms, got acquainted with the educational process.

The visit ended at Ijevan Basic School N1, where a session of the pedagogical council took place. The Deputy Minister summed up the visit to the region in Tavush regional administration, with a meeting with the regional governor Hayk Ghalumyan.

According to Ms. Andreasyan especially the meetings with the teachers “were very important and they were meaningful discussions, where the good was talked about well, but the issues were also pointed out, very specific observations were made.”

It should be reminded that the new subject standards and programs have been introduced for experimental purposes in the 2nd, 5th, 7th and 10th grades of the state secondary schools of Tavush region. Subject standards have passed the stage of public and professional discussions with teaching communities and professionals of the field.

”Entrepreneurship Promotion in Ijevan” program launched on the initiative of the “Restart Ijevan” NGO, is in progress. Within the framework of the program, 5 girls from the community, who don’t get higher education, will get specialized in the field of confectionery. After receiving the necessary qualification as a result of the trainings, the participants of the program will get the opportunity to work in the confectionery industry.

“The idea of the program arose, when we as a team, started to notice that there are many women and girls in Ijevan, who have a great love and passion for confectionery but do not have appropriate resources and opportunities to get professional knowledge. We decided to give them the opportunity to become skilled professionals in this field within the framework of the community development program, to have their small productions, probably to work in factories or become bigger entrepreneurs in the future.” Says Vika Kharatyan, one of the initiators of the program.

The idea is implemented within the framework of the “Youth for Community Development” program, which includes about 50 young people from Tavush. In parallel with the “Entrepreneurship Promotion in Ijevan” initiative, 5 youth programs are currently being implemented in different communities of Tavush region.

Medora Asilyan, one of the participants of the programs tells, “More than 7 programs were selected, which had both educational and community nature. Through this program, we have tried to give an opportunity to young people and make them ambassadors of change. They have developed these programs by themselves looking at the problems around them. The goal was for them to start contributing to the development of their communities by themselves.”

The fourth topic of the ongoing discussions on Tavush TV is culture. We are presenting our compatriots’ ideas about the topic, and this opening program will be followed by a roundtable discussion.

The poor condition of the culture houses, the problem of the youth involvement, availability of the resources and environment… our interlocutors are highlighting the challenges facing the cultural development in Tavush, how to overcome them and their ideas about their roots.

Considering the peculiarities of the dialect of Tavush region, we want to warn that to understand the whole meaning of the expressions used in the video and the below-mentioned text, you need to get acquainted with the culture of Tavush.

“I think if we stayed pagan, the people of Ijevaan would have a deity for coffee named Bambas(gossip). ”

Ijevan coffee, various traditions, and customs revolving around it, many “they say”-s and “I have heard”-s or Hrant Ghazumyan tells about the big complexes of his small town.

Considering the peculiarities of the dialect of Tavush region, we want to warn that to understand the whole meaning of the expressions used in the video and the below-mentioned text, you need to get acquainted with the culture of Tavush.

We are one of the unique nations that had a god of hospitality; we are speaking about Vanatur. And since we really like visiting others, we will start from that topic today.

 

You will learn about getting somothing for the hosts, traditional crying, and many other legendary traditions in the new issue of the Our Dialect and Customs program.

Considering the peculiarities of the dialect of Tavush region, we want to warn that to understand the whole meaning of the expressions used in the video and the below-mentioned text, you need to get acquainted with the culture of Tavush.

Backstage. The reportage on Tavush TV about “HayBuis” festival by Hrant Ghazumyan.