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| AGBU/Chicago Center 7248 North Harlem Avenue Chicago IL 60631 TEL: 773-792-0344 FAX: 773-792-2040 agbuchicago@yahoo.com AGBU/Chicago hosts Armenian cultural and social events during the year. The Center is home to the Sissag Varjabedian Armenian School, a Saturday program with classes from September to May for children ages 3-12. Class hours are 9:30-1pm. |
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| Learning Armenian can be fun! Enroll your child at AGBU ARMENIAN SCHOOL! AGBU/Chicago now offers Eastern & Western Armenian classes for adults! For more info call 847-864-9572 or email: agbuchicago@yahoo.com |
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| SUNDAY JUNE 7 3PM PAREV THEATRE "Honest to God" one-woman performance in English by Ouhi Uluhogian! TICKETS $25 email /call 847-965-4537 Summer BBQs @ AGBU Ctr : 5:30pm 6/26, 7/10 & 7/24 AGBU FOCUS CHICAGO JULY 16-19, 2009 ... a weekend of culture and personal connections anticipated to draw more than 700 Armenian young professionals from across the country. For more info: see www.agbu.org/focus or email focus@agbu.org PAST EVENTS: THURS SEPT 11, 6:30pm : MER DOON: Saving women from the streets Prominent humanitarian Julie Ashikian and Dikranouhi Garabedian, director of Yerevan's Mer Doon Center, speak about the organization's efforts to shelter women who 'age out' of living in orphanages and to give them occupational training. FRI SEPT 19, 6:00pm : WORLD FAMOUS OUD PLAYER RICHARD HAGOPIAN IN CONCERT The World Music Festival in Millennium Park Chicago opens an evening of Middle Eastern music & dance with a performance by Richard Hagopian and his Kef Time band. SAT SEPT 20, 7:30pm: AUTUMN HARVEST DANCE featuring RICHARD HAGOPIAN! Kick up your heels to the sounds of Richard Hagopian's Kef Time band! SAT NOV 8, 8:00pm: COMEDIAN KRIKOR SATAMIAN Sponsored by PAREV, Chicago's Armenian Newspaper. [at AGBU/Chicago Center. Call Missak Galian at 847-965-4537 or email parevmonthly@comcast.net] RESCHEDULED:::SUN OCT 12, 4:00pm: 'The changing landscape of historic Western Armenia' by Prof Richard Hovannisian One of America's pre-eminent scholars of modern Armenian history gives an illustrated talk on our imagined homeland and the existing landscape, based on his travels through legendary towns including Trebizond, Kharpert, Bitlis and Van. SUN OCT 26, 3:00pm: "MURDER at the ALTAR / AGBU COMMUNITY MEETING Book talk by Terry Phillips, veteran journalist and author of a new historial novel on the assassination of Abp Tourian in New York in 1933. SAT NOV 22, 7:00pm: MONTE CARLO NIGHT fundraiser Try your hand at blackjack, roulette, craps and poker, and use your fun-money winnings to bid on auction items. Proceeds to benefit the AGBU/Chicago Center and its community cultural/social programs throughout the year. |