NAASR presents / présente samedi / saturday 19 Mai / May , 12 à / to 1:45 pm

You're Invited to a Luncheon and Program

featuring

Dr. Lisa Gulesserian

Lecturer on Armenian

Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

discussing

What Happens After This Story?

Postmemory in Micheline Aharonian Marcom's "Three Apples Fell from Heaven"  (An elegant memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide—from the award-winning author of The Brick House.

The New York Times Notable Book that Junot Díaz calls “a fabulous and powerful work," Three Apples Fell From Heaven imagines the lives of several sufferers of the twentieth century’s first genocide. Anaguil, an Armenian girl taken in by Turkish neighbors after the death of her parents who now views the remains of her world through a Muslim veil; Sargis, a poet hidden away in his mother’s attic, dressed in women’s clothing, and steadily going mad; Lucine, a servant and lover of the American consul; Maritsa, a rage-filled Muslim wife who becomes a whore; and Dickran, an infant left behind under a tree on the long exodus from an Armenian village, who reaches with tiny hands to touch the stars and dies with his name unrecorded.
 
Through the lives depicted in Three Apples Fell From Heaven, we witness the vanishing of a people. Together, the stories of these lives form a narrative mosaic—faceted, complex, richly textured, a devastating tableau. source : NY Times )

Saturday, May 19, 2018

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

 First Armenian Church, Nahigian Hall, 380 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA

followed by

NAASR's 64th Annual Assembly of Members

1:45 pm – 3:30 pm

Guests are welcome to attend the Assembly as observers during the business session, although only current members are allowed to vote.

These are very exciting times for NAASR! We hope you will join us for

the luncheon, program, and Assembly.

 

Please let us know by May 10, 2018.

The cost for lunch is $15 per person.

You can reply by mailing this registration form, to our current address: 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478; or by emailing us at hq@naasr.org; or call us at 617-489-1610.

 

We hope to see you there!

 

SMMA rendering of the new NAASR headquarters

 

NAASR is holding the luncheon, program, and Assembly across the street from our headquarters, because site work for our new building will have begun by then. The design incorporates numerous Armenian features and will create a beautiful three-story building with a soaring glass wall extending the full three floors in front and illuminating the interior with natural light.