Now Kay is a film producer, too. She and director Mark Friedman have created My Mother's Voice, a documentary based on Kay's book. I've been eager to see the film ever since I knew Kay was involved in the project.
The book, A Gift in the Sunlight, is a novel based on her mother's experience of the Armenian Genocide, when a million or more Turkish Armenians were expelled from their homes by the Ottoman government. (Wikipedia labels it as "deportation, mass murder.") Young Flora and her sister were the only members of their once-thriving family to survive. Flora eventually made her way to America to marry a man she had only seen in a photograph, Kay's father.
From the looks of the flyer, we'll have an opportunity to learn about these events that many Americans know little about.
6pm, April 7th, Free
at the AGBU Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Center, 2495 E. Washington Blvd at Altadena Drive across from Victory Park. (The entrance on Washington is pictured.)
From Kay's website: "Flora’s voice is that of all the victims and survivors of the Armenian Genocide, a story that must not be forgotten. 'I am my mother’s voice,' says Dr. Mouradian, 'and this is her story.'"
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I know this looks weird, but in the next smaller size the flyer wasn't readable.
The Turkish government is still shamefully trying to pretend it never happened, so it's good to see people standing up to remind us. We'll never learn from the past if such things are suppressed. Many thanks to Kay, and to you, Petrea.
Thanks Patrea for posting this. I think it is going to be a very interesting event on Sunday eve.
Hope some of your readers will be able to attend!
I think so, too.
Have any of us seen this film? is it on youtube? I may have seen it there.
Ditto on what Dive said.
The trailer is on Youtube, and I've seen that, but I haven't seen the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kad0VzWzxgA
Looks like an amazing story. One that should be told; not forgotten. If only we humans could learn from our past....
It's a very touchy subject with the Turkish government, Ms M, but I'd like to know how the Turkish people feel about it. I don't think every government necessarily represents its people.
I saw the entire film -- it's a short -- and it's very good. I recommend it.
Thanks, Pamela, an excellent recommendation.
I really wish I could go to this and learn more.
You always see posters about the genocide glued to the walls in Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter. Every year some Knesset members try to get the government to recognize the genocide, but still Israel must be careful with Turkey.
Hope you will tell us how the evening went, Petrea.
"History is written by the victors," they say, and apparently their allies as well.
I know what you mean, Dina. Is the US not in this position, too? It's strange how history changes as power changes hands. What's true is not necessarily what's real.
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