workshop leader
the workshop’s website ↑
visual & textual documentation
Zarmanazan is a creative and interactive Western Armenian language immersion program, where children, youth, teachers and facilitators of the Diaspora join together in a common aim: to revitalize the Armenian language by nourishing a creative and playful world, aimed at encouraging the practice of Western Armenian.
For 25 days, children and teenagers coming from different armenian diasporas, reside together with a team of 15 experienced facilitators and artists. While totally immersed in Western Armenian, they create, discover, learn, and have fun through engaging workshops in music, arts, theater, dance, as well as various sports and games. Through these activities, language will become a natural means of communication and creation.
I had the chance to participate in the 2018th edition of the immersion program and created with kids videos and the camp’s journal as well as did ...
Official video of the workshop ↑
excerpts of our projects
Group photo of the participants + facilitators ↑
in Upper Savoy, 2018