Exhibition A view of the Mount Ararat. Life of Armenians in Poland

at the Ethnographical Museum. Branch of the National Museum in WROCŁAW 17 June 2011 – 31 July 2011

Organisers: Foundation of Culture and Heritage of Polish Armenians and the History Meeting House Exhibition Curator: Monika Agopsowicz Design and Arrangement of Exhibition: Kłaput Poject Exhibition Organisers in WROCŁAW: The Ethnographical Museum. Branch of the National Museum in WROCŁAW Association of Polish Armenians of Lower Silesia Cooperation: Kalejdoskop Kultur (The Kaleidoscope of Cultures). Festival of National and Ethnical Minorities in WROCŁAW Honorary Patronage Aleksander Marek Skorupa – Governor of the Lower Silesia Province Rafał Jurkowlaniec – Marshal of the Lower Silesia Province Rafał Dutkiewicz – Mayor of the city of WROCŁAW

Programme of the Armenian Days in WROCŁAW

17 June 2011 (Friday), 6 p.m. Opening of the Exhibition, Ethnographical Museum (ul. Traugutta 111/113)  Ceremony of opening, with the participation of Lusine Jarahyan (singer)  Armenians in Poland, lecture of Prof. Krzysztof Stopka, PhD (Jagiellonian University)  Armenian Knight's Armour during the Kingdom of Cilicia, lecture of Michał Chlipała with a presentation of knights' fight. Adam Domanasiewicz – a knight turning out for the Kingdom of Cilicia, participant of a reconstruction of the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald. Actor Sambor Dudziński will play duduk

18 June 2011 (Saturday), 12:00 – 4 p.m. Armenian Day I, Ethnographical Museum (ul. Traugutta 111/113)  Concert of Lusine Jarahyan from Armenia  Ewa Abgarowicz, Chairman of the Foundation of Culture and Heritage of Polish Armenians, will talk about the Foundation's collections  Lecture with a multimedia presentation Renovation of the Armenian Minster in Lviv Joanna Czernichowska and Agnieszka Pawlak (The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw) Actor Sambor Dudziński will play duduk

19 June 2011 (Sunday), 2 p.m. Holy Mass – Armenian Catholic rite Officiated by Rev. Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, Dominican Order Church (Plac Dominikański 2)

26 June 2011 (Sunday) Kaleidoscope of Cultures. Festival of National and Ethnical Minorities Armenian House on the Słodowa Isle 10 July 2011 (Sunday), 10:00 – 2 p.m. Armenian Day II, Ethnographical Museum  Hybrid Armenian Texts. Specific Armenian Manuscripts in the Collection of the Ossolineum - The National Ossoliński Institute. Piruza Mnacakanian (researcher from Erevan, doctoral student of Prof. Krzyszrof Stopka of the Jagiellonian University)  Old Prints in the Ossolineum Collection of Archbishop Teodorowicz. Grażyna Rolak, Teresa Sokół (The National Ossoliński Institute in WROCŁAW). Actor Sambor Dudziński will play duduk

31 July 2011 (Sunday), 10:00 – 2 p.m. Closure of the Exhibition, Armenian Day III, Ethnographical Museum  Hand Made Books. Workshop with a lecture conducted by Klaudia Maślej, designer of publications associated with liturgical music of Polish Armenians. Actor Sambor Dudziński will play duduk

Recurring activities during the Armenian Days Armenian cuisine and recipes; games for children; Armenian language classes; fair of books, newspapers and records associated with Armenia; presentations of films; music; guided tours of the exhibition; souvenir bookmarks with names of buyers inscribed in Armenian letters; collectors' postcards with the event's occasional stamp.

The Ethnographical Museum. Kalejdoskop Kultur. Festiwal Mniejszości Branch of the National Museum Narodowych i Etnicznych, WROCŁAW ul. Generała Romualda Traugutta 111/113, www.kalejdoskopkultur.pl 50-419 WROCŁAW www.muzeumetnograficzne.pl

Towarzystwo Ormian Polskich Fundacja Kultury i Dziedzictwa Ormian Polskich ul. Krzycka 7a/1, 53-019 WROCŁAW ul. Zgody 4, 00-018 WARSZAWA Chairman: Adam Domanasiewicz tel.: +48 606 784928 Tel.: +48 71 3128018 (evenings) www.dziedzictwo.ormianie.pl www.top.ormianie.pl