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SUMMARY:ALT B: MIXTAPE: Live with Perla Kantarjian & Olivia Melkonian
LOCATION:Bush Theatre\, W12 8LJ
DESCRIPTION:About Armenian Arts and Film London launches a new series of cross-disciplinary events at Bush Theatre — starting with poetry and sound. One of Perla Kantarjian’s poems is archived on the Moon\, sent up as part of the Lunar Codex. Lebanese-Armenian\, writing in her third language\, English\, she’s been racking up prizes — from the Bridport Prize to the National Poetry Competition — and was the sole Sonny Mehta Scholar chosen from the MENA region at UEA. Her debut\, You Must Become Field (Bad Betty Press)\, lands in the UK this September\, moving from 1915 Constantinople to a 2025 Beirut club bathroom — and from language to language\, the way memory does. “I come from an ancestral lineage that was already once made homeless by history\,” Kantarjian says. “Writing is how I hold the small and the vast in one hand.” Joining her: Olivia Melkonian\, sound artist and founder of Analog Armenia\, an open-access archive preserving Armenian cassette culture — endangered dialects\, folk songs\, revolutionary broadcasts\, sourced from Lebanon\, Armenia and community contributions. Melkonian traces her own fragmented Lebanese-Armenian heritage through the recordings she saves. Two archivists\, different...
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