“Herbs of Armenia” Festival in Yenokavan Community of Tavush Region on July 2, 2016 (Video)

“Herbs of Armenia” Festival in Yenokavan Community of Tavush Region on July 2, 2016 (Video)

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On July 2, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Yenokavan community of Tavush Region took place the festival “Herbs of Armenia”.

The organizers have succeeded to organize a very interesting festival and to present to the audience different events. They carried out the festival in four different platforms – “near the lakes”, “in the field”, “near the hunting houses”, “in the hippodrome”.

The opening ceremonytook place at 10:30, on the platform “near the lakes”.

After that, the announcer approached the table of the Republic of Lithuania.

Then the announcer approached the participants of the exhibition-sale and with their help presented the suggested assortment to the audience.

After that, the attendees participated in the events, which were closer to their interests. There were really many events and it was physically impossible to simultaneously take part in all of them.

From 11:00 to 12:00 o’clock, in one part of the platform “in the field” took place Armenian and Chinese tea-drinking ceremony organized by “Aeon Tea Club”. The announcer of this ceremony was Hrant Dandurov.

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From 12:00 to 13:00 o’clock, in one part of the platform “in the field” Anna Kolozyan conducted a master class of making sandals from herbs.

From 14:00 to 15:00 o’clock, in one part of the platform “in the field” took place an open-air class of Yoga, which was again conducted by the vice-president of Yoga Federation of Armenia Hrant Dandurov.

At the same time, from 13:00 to 15:00 o’clock, in one part of the platform “near the hunting houses” took place a master class of making carpets for the audience, who had other hobbies.

From 12:00 to 15:00 o’clock in another part of the same platform took place a preparation of balls from seeds and clay.  From 14:30 to 15:00 o’clock in another part took place a puppet theater performance presented by children’s theatrical troupe.

From 14:00 to 17:00 o’clock in another part took place a master class of making traditional Armenian puppets, which was conducted by Srbuhi Movsisyan, with the assistance of a folk master of decorative applied arts, historian, psychologist Varduhi Simonyan.

During that day, in another part of the same platform took place preparation of pannos from herbs, in another place took place a master class of painting on hands with natural henna, where they used the Armenian ornaments. There was also children’s playground, which was full of happy playing children.

In one part of the platform “near the hunting houses” took place a meeting with the Candidate of Biological Sciences Nina Stepanyan-Ghandilyan. The talk was about the herbs.

For the audience, who liked campaigns, “ATP” (Armenian Tree-Planting Project) had organized group campaigns of watching birds.

At 15:00 o’clock on the platform “near the lakes” took place an exhibition of clothes organized by Teryan Culture Center and a talk about the plant ornaments of the Armenian national clothing (taraz).

And at 16:00 o’clock on the same platform took place the main event of the festival – the preparation of 25 meters long “peace brduch (peace burger)”, which was accompanied by the national songs.

It was made with the Armenian traditional lavash, cheese assortment and greens.

During the festival there also performed “Liberta” string quartet.

And at 16:30 o’clock in the hippodrome took place “Yenokavan rugby” horse show.

Author: H. Muradyan

translated from Armenian into English by M.Vardanyan