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Yeranuhi Soghoyan

International Young Painters' Symposium Once Again Held in Armenia's Shirak Province

An international art symposium dedicated to famous Armenian artist Minas Avetisyan has been taking place for 3 years in Armenia's northern province of Shirak.

An initiative of the NGO Art for Peace and with the support of the Armenian Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, the International Symposium of Young Painters was held this year under the rubric "With Minas's Colors" from August 25–30. Though in previous years, the number of participants fluctuated from 40–50, this year 60 participants from all of Armenia's provinces, as well as from Artsakh, Javakhq, Russia, Belarus, and Georgia, gathered in Shirak Province. 

The venue of the symposium was the same as in previous years: at the Ereknuk ("shamrock") holiday resort about 2 km away from the village of Toros, which belongs to head of the education, culture, and sports department of Shirak provincial administration Sahak Minasyan. 

Asked by Hetq why the cultural event is not being held in Minas Avetisyan's hometown of Jajur in Shirak Province, as it would boost the life of the village and ensure some investment, head of Art for Peace NGO Gor Margaryan said when choosing the location of the event, taken into account were infrastructure and the convenience and comfort of participants, which are absent in Jajur. "We consider Minas a Shirak native — he doesn't belong only to Jajur or Jajur natives — and the venue was selected purely in terms of convenience," he said. "And there were symposium participants in Jajur: they painted, trying to feel and understand the secret of Minas's colors."

Unlike previous years, this year participants were selected on a competitive basis and apart from painting, participants also worked in sculpture. One example of each of the works created during the symposium participants will be donated to the symposium. Margaryan says they don't have a permanent venue to display the work, but when there are exhibits, they try to include works from previous symposiums. 

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