Our guest this week is Hasmik Movsisian, the creator of Music of Armenia. Hasmik talks to us about Music of Armenia, the music scene in Armenia and out and introduces us to Armenian rock band Dogma. Another band featured in this interview is The Beautified Project - love their music!
Enjoy and ’see you’ in a couple of weeks when we will be talking with my very talented sister Taline Haytayan.
Our guest this week is Madlene Minassian. Madlene has lived in Armenia for many years and is married to singer Arthur Ispirian who was our last interviewee. She has worked with Land and Culture and the Cafesjian Foundation and just this last summer Madlene led a team of surgeons in Armenia to change many children’s lives with the Smile Project.
Please join me to listen to Madlene’s journey and dedication. She is truly an inspiration to us all!
Our next interview on October 7 will be with Hasmik Movsesian from the Music of Armenia project.
After a short break, Hye-Eli is back for the Autumn season beginning with an interview with singer Arthur Ispirian. We spoke to Arthur while he was vacationing with his family in Nice, France. It was a pleasure to speak with him, he is a very sweet man with a sweet voice.
Arthur spoke to us about his journey to becoming a singer, the jazz legends he has worked with such as Elvina Makarian and Datevik Hovhanissyan and his albums including Colours of Stevieland, Three Candles and his latest album Inspiration.
Any comments or suggestions you may have are more than welcome. Stay tuned for our interview with Madlene Minassian on September 23!
Hye-Eli will be taking this month of sea, sand and siestas off. We will be back in August with great interviews with Arthur Ispiryan, Madlene Minassian, Taline Haytayan, Aris Sevag and much more…
Hye-Eli’s guest this week is Dr Alenoush Saroyan, a Full Professor at the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University. Alenoush will be talking about her work as well as her consultations with The World Bank and The World Bank Institute as well as UNESCO, The European Commission and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Alenoush also spent some time working in Armenia last year and she will be giving us her impression of the education system there.
Stay tuned for exciting interviews in the next few weeks with Taline Haytayan, Madlene Minassian, Arthur Ispiryan and many more.
Our guest this week is Dr Celeste Snowber, Ph.D. - a dancer, writer and educator, who is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC.
Celeste has focused her work in the area of embodiment, spirituality, ecology and arts-based inquiry. She has written numerous essays and poetry in the areas of the arts, holistic education and curriculum studies as well as is author of Embodied Prayer which is in its second edition. Her most recent work has been exploring a poetics of embodiment through her essays, performance and poetry (she introduces us to one of her poems in this interview). Much of Celeste’s poetry explores the connections between the inner and outer landscapes of the natural world. She has published these poems in various journals as well as created site-specific performances outside which include dance and poetry in sites near the ocean.
Celeste lives on the outskirts of Vancouver with her 3 equally artistic boys!
Our guest this week is Armenian rap artist R-Mean, Armin Hariri. R-Mean grew up in Amsterdam and returned to his birth place, Los Angeles, at the age of 18. He then met his current producer, Blind, and together they formed the crew Pentagon.
As an extremely talented lyricist and songwriter, he manages to put all his life experiences in his music, as he “speaks the bottom of his heart from the top of his lungs.” As an independent artist he has sold over 13,000 records, has had airplay on major radio stations and has shared the stage with some of the biggest names in Hip Hop.
Hye-Eli looks forward to hearing more of R-Mean’s music.
Our guest this week is Armenian children’s singer, Taline!
A former pre-school teacher, Taline produced her debut DVD “Let’s Sing & Dance” in 2003 followed by ‘Let’s Play Together’ (2004), ‘A Christmas Concert’ (2005) and ‘Let’s Sing in Armenian’ (2006).
Taline talks to us about her beginnings as a children’s singer and her focus to produce high quality entertaining and educational programs for children in Armenian. Taline has a concert in LA on Sunday June 7 - please go to www.talinemusic.com for more information.
We hope you enjoy the interview. Please join us on June 17 when we’ll be talking with Armenian rap artist, R-Mean.
Welcome to Hye-Eli. Our guest today is Aret Madilian from the group Deleyaman.
Deleyaman is comprised of Aret Madilian, Beatrice Valantin, Gerard Madilian and Mia Bjorlingsson. The band was formed in Normandy, France in 2000 by Aret Madilian, the American-Armenian member of the band born in Istanbul, who grew up in Los Angeles and who now resides in France. A former member of a band from the L.A. post-punk scene whose debut album was recorded and produced by Spot, the producer and engineer of the influential punk label SST records (Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth).
The three other band members of Deleyaman are of various cultures and nationalities - Beatrice is French, Mia is Swedish and Gerard, well…a trubadour from a no man’s land.
The band has released three studio albums to date and has toured in Europe and the States.
Hope you enjoy the interview - please join us on June 3 when we will be talking to children’s singer Taline!
Ara Norenzayan is a social psychologist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His areas of research interest include thought processes across cultures, the psychological foundations of culture and religion, issues of cultural variability and universality in human psychology, and relations between culture and evolution. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1999, where he did interdisciplinary graduate work in the Culture and Cognition Program of the Anthropology and Psychology Departments. Prior to UBC, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Épistemologie Appliquée (CREA), École Polytechnique, Paris, after which he served on the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. When not sailing, snowboarding, or plotting his next travel, he is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at UBC, and a Faculty Associate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. He teaches cultural psychology, culture and cognition, social psychology, and introductory psychology.
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Please join us on May 20 when we will be talking to Aret Madilian from the group Deleyaman.
