Don't miss this exciting webinar for HyeConnect featuring IALA board member @tatevik.bsky.social and IALA 2025 Israelyan Western Armenian Translation Grant winner Rupen Janbazian! Learn more and register: hyeconnect.org

Join us on March 29 for the launch of the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Imagining Alternative Futures with @okatrandjian.bsky.social! ✍️ Explore how fiction can help us imagine a better reality in this two-hour virtual workshop! Get your tickets: armenianliterary.org/sws26-katran...

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Bridgerton Season 4

I am the tea that you are having.

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Lots of thoughts and lots of love for The Secret Agent substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Secret Agent

So many sharks!

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‘Can we have more comedies?’: Armenian cinema processes trauma as country wrangles EU membership – and Trump

The second year of London’s Armenian film festival reflects a country in flux as the legacy of recent conflict with Azerbaijan hangs over attempts to strengthen ties with the west

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For I could wish to possess you forever so, My darling, immobilised in the gesture Of reaching toward me. Yet I know That this is to desire your death. #IrisMurdoch #OhIris www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Iris Murdoch’s poems on bisexuality to be published – read one exclusively here

Drawn mostly from notebooks discovered in the attic of the late novelist and philosopher’s Oxford home, a new collection spans 60 years and touches on deeply personal themes

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I've been so enlightened, moved, educated, inspired and enriched by this book. It also made me cry a lot. Not exaggerating at all. #DerekJarman #Chroma

🎬 The Jukebox Film Club is proud to announce our next screening, the UK premiere of Married to the Music by Garo Berberian (Rebel Republic Films). 🕡 6:30 pm, Sat 25 Oct 📍 ICA 🔗 ica.art/films/jukebo... Followed by an in-person Q&A hosted by music journalist Sophia Hill and a DJ set by Pinks ✨

ICA | Married to the Music + Q&A

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There is a new and terrifying draft bill/project in Armenia 'on the Concept for Locating and Supporting the Aesthetic of Real Armenia'. www.e-draft.am/projects/910... It doesn't mention the Diaspora or Artsakh at all. The 'Real Armenia', whatever it is, has erased them.

Sharing my brief blog on Adolescence after their absolute triumph at Emmy Awards yesterday - all very very well deserved, but most of all, Stephen Graham for acting. filmdispatches.substack.com/p/adolescenc...

In the chalky world of Dulux and the colour chart, you remember colour was once bright and precious. There is not a drop of vermilion or ultramarine, congealing today in these rusty cans. Derek Jarman, Chroma: A Book of Colour

Some thoughts on Ginny and Georgia, which I loved filmdispatches.substack.com/p/ginny-and-...

Ginny and Georgia

You win more flies with honey, but if you get yourself a bee, sting first

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📢 Applications for our 2025 grants are open! Whether you're a writer or translator passionate about Armenian literature, IALA's grants offer up to $3,000 in support plus promotional opportunities to share your work with the world. Apply by September 30, 2025: armenianliterary.org/grants

Nothing more depressing and disheartening for a filmmaker than attending an event about film funding and realising this big, glorious country's main film body supports 6 feature films a year.

'Everyone helps the author. No one helps the translator.' @antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social

Wasafiri Magazine@wasafirimag.bsky.social · last yr.

Both a novelist and literary translator, @antonhur.com – Fiction judge for the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – discusses toggling between being an author and translator, and how each role is treated in the book production process.

I just finished this - probably his best book (I've read all of them). I loved how much it reminded me of Iris Murdoch's writing (and I know he's a fan of hers). There's so much I want to say but instead of my words, read his own: www.theguardian.com/books/articl... #alanhollinghurst #booksky

A brilliant, thought-provoking, eye-opening essay by one of my favourite writers, Alan Hollinghurst.

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‘The fear that with the right promotion homosexuality might really catch on implies an unconscious conviction that the “unnatural” is natural after all, merely awaiting, in everyone, the licence to blossom.’ Alan Hollinghurst on an anthology of mid-century gay London: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#MosaicMonday Detail from the 'Lion Hunt' mosaic. Late 4th century BCE, from the House of Dionysos. Pebble Mosaic. Pella Archaeological Museum. Greece. #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky

My new blog, aka a love letter to Sinners. Read it, then go and see it please. Thanks for inviting me to that Bafta screening, @garo1.bsky.social filmdispatches.substack.com/p/sinners

Sinners

You Keep Dancing With The Devil, One Day He's Gonna Follow You Home

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Some thoughts and lots of feelings after watching Pink Floyd's remastered and glorious Pompeii set at IMAX open.substack.com/pub/filmdisp...

Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII

One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces

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Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣

I'm listening to @antonhur.com's impossibly beautiful Toward Eternity on the audiobook, reached Eve Delta's story and almost heard the click in my brain going from 'can't wait to see what happens next' to 'oh god, I don't want this to end'.

So proud of this screening

Armenian Film Society London | Jukebox Film Club @afsl.bsky.social · 2y ago

We had an exciting evening at ICA, screening the inimitable Stephen Sayadian’s double bill (Dr Caligari & Café Flesh). Thanks to Daniel Bird for restoration & Elena Lazic (@elazic.bsky.social) for her moderation. We're also very grateful to @icalondon and to everyone who turned up yesterday.

Screening this unhinged, spectacular, exciting film, paired with Dr Caligari this Saturday at ICA.

Adolescence: One Shot Shock open.substack.com/pub/filmdisp... My thoughts on substack

Adolescence: One Shot Shock

Brilliant, brave, difficult to watch series, with phenomenal cast.

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Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Watch this exclusive clip from Dr Caligari, screening next week, followed by a Q&A with the director Stephen Sayadian, moderated by @elazic.bsky.social. 🗓️ Sat, March 29 ⏰ 7:30 PM 📍Institute of Contemporary Arts 🎟️ Tickets www.ica.art/films/dr-cal... vimeo.com/1061818638/7...

MIND YOUR NERVE ENDS LOVE BUNCH - DR. CALIGARI (1989) DIR. STEPHEN SAYADIAN

This is "MIND YOUR NERVE ENDS LOVE BUNCH - DR. CALIGARI (1989) DIR. STEPHEN SAYADIAN" by daniel bird on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the…

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3 days left until Literary Lights 2025! 📖✨ Join @wasafirimag.bsky.social co-editors @tatevik.bsky.social & Naneh Hovhannisyan, Editor-in-Chief Sana Goyal & contributors for a panel discussion and stay after for a writing marathon celebrating IALA’s 4th anniversary! 📍 Register now: bit.ly/3XZ8FGE

Come and see this special, deranged, unhinged and absolutely wonderful Stephen Sayadian double bill and we are excited to have @elazic.bsky.social moderating the conversation. www.ica.art/films/fluore...

ICA | Fluorescent Apocalypse: Dr. Caligari and Café Flesh

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Elena Lazic@elazic.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am very excited (in a non-sexual way!) to host a Q&A / masterclass with mad genius Stephen Sayadian after a rare 4K show of DR. CALIGARI, his sexually deranged and stylistically unhinged reworking of the 1920 German expressionist classic. Sat 29 March at the ICA. 🎟️: www.ica.art/films/dr-cal...

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A must-read piece from @tigartsakh.bsky.social Through the deliberate erasure of entire neighborhoods and villages, and the settlement of people with no connection to these places, the Aliyev regime seeks not only to seize physical space but also to manipulate the collective memory of the region.

Tigran Grigoryan@tigartsakh.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recently, Ilham Aliyev visited the Aygestan/Baluja village in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijan has settled over 100 families with no connection to the area. In this deeply personal piece, I reflect on what the village means for my identity.