Cultural Issues in the Border Settlements of Tavush: Discussion on Tavush TV

In the Tavush TV air, Ernest Khanumyan, with Lilit Ghalumyan, Head of the Education, Culture and Youth Department of the Ijevan Municipality, Armen Melikyan, Director of the Berd Community Culture House, and Artur Melkonyan, Director of the Voskevan Cultural Center, explore the challenges hindering the development of culture in the border settlements of Tavush, as well as the ways and prospects for overcoming them.

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The video presents the problems of the village of Berdavan and the villagers, with their daily lives, struggles and creations.

Author: Hranush Ananyan, a correspondent for Tavush Media from the Noyemberyan community.

The project was implemented with the financial support of the Center for Media Initiatives within the framework of the “Creation of Independent Media Content” grant program.

The other day in Yerevan, the exhibition of carpets was held in the center of the People’s Art Hub Foundation, which was attended by 11 cultural centers participating in the “Adopt a loom” program, including the Noyemberyan Culture Center from Tavush region and the “Telik” center from Ijevan.

Since 2016, “Adopt a loom” project has been carried out to develop carpet making in different regions and communities of Armenia.

After the exhibition, many professional issues were discussed, consultations were held, mutual cooperation was strengthened with the expectation of implementing a number of projects in the future.

Tavush Media reporter, Hranush Ananyan tells about the exhibition.

On June 22, at 13:57 p.m., the National Center for Crisis Management received an emergency call that an accident occurred on the Yerevan-Noyemberyan highway near the village of Nerkin Tsaghkavan. There are casualties.

There are no enclaves in Noyemberyan community, the people of Noyemberyan live in their Armenian land. Arsen Aghababyan, head of the Noyemberyan community, member of the political council of the “Country to live in” party, said this in an interview with Tert.am, referring to the statement of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, according to which Tigranashen and the six villages of Tavush are not included in the territorial integrity of Armenia.

“The entire administrative territory of Noyemberyan community is the territory of the Republic of Armenia.The “enclaves” you mentioned are our homeland.We have no villages and lands to surrender to the enemy, and the people of Noyemberyan are not going to hand over the territories to anyone for the simple reason that our arable lands in the neighborhood of that so-called enclave are under the control of the enemy.By the way, our territory under their control has more important strategic importance,” announced Arsen Aghababyan.

According to the information of his relatives, Zorik Hayrapet Davtyan lived in Ijevan on rent before going to the Russian Federation to work, the place of registration of the residence is Noyemberyan, and the place of registration of his son is Vanadzor (Kirovakan).

Above is a photo of Zhorik Davtyan urging his relatives to contact us.

On the occasion of the Theater Day, our cultural “Tavush talk” is with artist, director, actor, writer Samvel Beglaryan. He tells about his life linked to the Noyemberyan Culture Center and the perspectives of culture in the region.

And although, as he says, Noyemberyan is the “last Mohican”, “even if there is one, it will be a spark that will keep the light of this stage burning”.

Tavush Media was again crowded. The representatives of the Noyemberyan territorial center of the Tavush regional branch of the World Vision Armenia charity organization, and the children of the media literacy group, about 30 young people from Ayrum and Haghtanak settlements came to get acquainted with the works of Tavush TV.

The staff of Tavush Media introduced them the stages of creating television products, presented the process of preparing, editing, and airing TV programs.

Children also learnt the stages of preparation of booth programs. They worked with the cameras, applying the knowledge gained beforehand.

During this period, we also talked about the work of Tavush Media and further activities.

We are happy to announce that the Adobe Academy-Noyemberyan project is starting. In cooperation with Whiz Code Academy, a 6-month online training program sponsored by Adobe is launched for Noyemberyan girls who are interested in the field of Information Technology.

If you

•  are 10-16 years old
•  live in Noyemberyan
• are interested in Information Technologies
• have basic computer skills
• study English at school

then, this program is for you.

To participate in the program you need

👉to submit the application by March 2 https://forms.office.com/r/VgWimk8jE0

👉pass the pre-selection stage

👉Willing to study and work with other girls your age for 6 months on a project that inspires you 6-month online study program Noyemberyan

The courses will be 2 or 3 times a week, lasting 1 hour.The courses will be conducted by experienced specialists of Whiz Code Academy.The classes will be online, but the teams will work together from Noyemberyan High School (address: 13 Dprotsakanner).

Within the framework of the “Moral and Psychological Resistant Tavush” project implemented by Emergency Channel Information NGO and Tavush Media, on January 31, the last meeting was held with Emergency Channel Information NGO, Tavush Media and representatives of political society, local and state institutions operating in Berd community.

The purpose of the meeting was to highlight the main problems and needs of vulnerable groups with state, international, private and non-governmental organizations providing support to vulnerable groups of the population.t the beginning of the meeting, Nikolay Grigoryan, chairman of the Board of Tavush Media and Emergency Channel Information NGO, welcomed the attendees and spoke about the importance of the project.

The representatives of the public institutions presented their activities, talked about the work done and to be done.  The main problems and needs of vulnerable groups were also highlighted at the meeting.

The purpose of the “Moral and Psychological Resilient Tavush” program is to raise awareness of the organizations supporting the victims of the 2020 war and Covid-19, their activities, and target groups in Tavush region.

The “Moral and Psychological Resilient Tavush” program is implemented within the framework of the “Striving for a better future. communities and civil society resilience in Armenia” program, co-financed by the European Union and implemented by NEF Belgium in partnership with “AGATE” Rights Defense Center for Women with Disabilities NGO, “Blejan” Ecological, Social, Business Support NGO, “YCCD” Youth Cooperation Center of Dilijan NGO, and Women’s Development Resource Center Foundation.