Calendar of Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

Advance Notice: Ruth Thomasian will be in the San Francisco Area the last week of August, 2008.

RECENT EVENTS

Project SAVE Archives in New Jersey and New York, March 14-March 18, 2008

Sunday, March 16, ACYOA and St. Leon Parish Council held their annual Palm Sunday Dinner and Program at St. Leon Armenian Church Fair Lawn, NJ. Special Guest Speaker Ruth Thomasian presented a Photo Lecture “East meets West” (see description of March 6) immediately following the church service.

Project SAVE Archives in California, February 27-March 9

Ruth Thomasian, founder and executive director of Project SAVE Archives, was in California to collect and document photographs and to participate in the following events:
Thursday,Feb. 28 Photo lecture at Ferahian School, “East Meets West”
Friday, Feb. 29 Talk at AGBU Marie Manoogian School
Saturday, March 1 Lecture at UCLA (see details below)
Sunday, March 2 Fundraising house party in Palos Verdes, to support and celebrate the work of Project SAVE Archives.

Thursday, March 6, 7:00 pm Photo Lecture “East meets West” the first in a series of photo lectures sponsored by the Fresno Historical Society. Ms. Thomasian led the audience on a journey where East and West meet in many dimensions, connecting with Armenians in the homeland and the Diaspora. Participants discovered the many meanings of East Meets West as they traveled with Project SAVE through history, revealed through precious family photographs of:

Armenians in the homeland dressed in a combination of eastern and western styles

the French admiral attending the Musa Dagh commemoration

a Bitlistzi family relocated in Yerevan

William Saroyan in Istanbul and Gen. Antranig in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fig Garden Woman’s Club, Old Fig Garden, Fresno, at 7 PM. For more information please contact Carol Lester at the Fresno Historical Society, 559-441-0862 or fhspr@aol.com

Friday, March 7 Fundraising house party in Fresno, to support and celebrate the work of Project SAVE Archives.
Saturday, March 8 Breakfast talk at Men’s Forum, Armenian Pilgrim Church, Fresno
Sunday, March 9 Lecture “East meets West” at the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, Los Angeles. (see description above, March 6)

Photo lecture at UCLA

Saturday, March 1, 2008, Broad Art Center 2160E (formerly Dickson Auditorium), UCLA. Photo lecture by Ruth Thomasian, Project SAVE Archives′ founder and executive director. Ruth was among several speakers participating in “The Armenian Communities of the Northeastern Mediterranean: Kesab, Musa Dagh, Dort-Yol,” the 17th in the UCLA series on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, sponsored by AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA, Richard Hovannisian. Ruth gave the first presentation Saturday at 10:00, showing Project SAVE Archives′ images from the three locations.

Exhibit on the Armenian Genocide and Jewish Holocaust

Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008, Watertown, Massachusetts, 2-4 P.M.. One-day joint exhibit on the Armenian Genocide and Jewish Holocaust at the Armenian Library and Museum of America, co-sponsored by Project SAVE Archives. Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives′ display included Armenian Genocide-related photographs as well as images of a German concentration camp at the end of World War II taken by an Armenian-American U.S. Army Air Force photographer.

Project SAVE Archives at Fair on the Square

Saturday , Sept. 29 10-4, near Watertown Square, in the area behind the Library and Town Hall. Faire on the Square is an annual Gala event for the whole family. Project SAVE Archives had a table display this year to present the activities of the archives, collect photographs and recruit volunteers from comminity.

Project SAVE Archives in Chicago area

Ruth Thomasian, founder and executive director of Project SAVE Archives, was in the Chicago area from August 25 to August 31 to collect and document photographs and to participate in the following events:

Sunday, August 26, 2007, Evanston, Illinois. Ruth Thomasian hosted an information booth with a photo display and sold Project SAVE calendars at the St. James Armenian Church street fair. A video portraying Project SAVE�s work and mission was on view inside the church.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007, 7:15-9:00 PM, Evanston, Illinois. Fundraising house party at the home of Mariam Tatosian, to support and celebrate the work of Project SAVE Archives. Ruth Thomasian and her assistant, Suzanne Adams, displayed vintage photographs, presented a short program sharing information about the photographs and the challenging work of Project SAVE Archives, and answered questions from the guests.

Thursday, August 30 to Saturday, September 1, 2007. Ruth and Suzanne attended the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Chicago.

Project SAVE Archives in California

Saturday, June 9, 2007, San Francisco, California, home of Ed and Elo Aslanian. At a house party held in her honor, Ruth Thomasian displayed reproductions of photographs from the Project SAVE Archives collections, and spoke of the stories behind them. Like the event in Los Angeles, the party�s purpose was to celebrate and support the work of Project SAVE Archives. Donors contributed $7,516 to continue Project SAVE Archives mission.

While in San Francisco, Ruth visited the K.Z.V. Armenian School where she presented her �Reading Photographs� program for 7th and 8th graders. Both students and teachers were spellbound by the photographs and the stories Ruth revealed.

Sunday June 3, 2007 La Canada-Flintridge, CA. Ruth Thomasian, founder and executive director of Project SAVE Archives, was the honored guest at a fundraiser house party hosted by community activist and attorney Mark Geragos and his wife Paulette, who pledged to match the amount raised that evening. Mark Geragos reminded the guests of the New York Life insurance case that required the company to compensate descendants of Armenian policy holders killed between 1875 and 1915. He underscored the importance of photographs as evidence in linking descendants to ancestors who were policy holders.

Among the 50 or more guests was former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Quentin Kopp, a stalwart supporter of Project SAVE Archives. Kopp is himself a Project SAVE Photo donor, having donated photographs of his father Shepherd Kopp�s diplomatic mission to Armenia in 1918..

During her visit to southern California, Ruth also gave two �Reading Photographs� classroom presentations at the Marie Manoogian AGBU School in Pasadena; exhibited photographs at the Ararat-Eskijian Museum; gave a photo presentation to a group of seniors at Ararat Home, and collected and documented photos with two residents there.