Poetry Workshop in London

Thursday, 3 October 2024, 6:30 pm  8:00 pm,  Lola Koundakjian will be teaching a poetry writing workshop at the Armenian Institute, London. This event is held in association with the Poetry Society. 

INVITATION The Untapped Archive: Poetry Writing Workshop Thursday, 03 October 2024, 6:30 PM  At the Armenian Institute  BOOK NOW As an accomplished New-York-based poet, editor and translator, Lola Koundakjian has led many poetry-writing workshops throughout her career. But never one quite like this, exclusively in London for the Armenian Institute, in which she will, for the first time, enable participants to take inspiration from the photographs of her father, the late photojournalist Harry Koundakjian. Harry Koundakjian (1930-2014) was an outstanding international photographer, who roamed the world during the golden years of photojournalism to document political upheavals and weather disasters for the world-renowned news agency AP. Today, the Koundakjian family is generously donating Harry’s archive to the Armenian Institute, who thus becomes the guardian of thousands of prints and documents by the late photographer. As his daughter and the instigator for this high-profile donation, Lola has a uniquely detailed knowledge of his career and vision. Come and engage in a completely unique way both with Harry’s pictures, through the eyes of his daughter, and with Lola’s skill as a writer and engagement for Armenian poetry. Lola will select pictures from her father’s archive and propose ways in which you can use them as points of departure for writing. This event is held in association with The Poetry Society. This event is part of Heritage of Displacement: Oral Histories from the UK Armenian Communities (2023–2026), funded by a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant, thanks to National Lottery players. Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it — Ralph Waldo Emerson   View this email in your browser Copyright © 2024 Armenian Institute. All Rights Reserved. You are signed up to receive updates from the Armenian Institute, London. Our mailing address is: Armenian Institute 1 Onslow St Farringdon London, EC1N 8AS United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Group reading in London CELEBRATING POETRY & FRIENDSHIP

 

Lola Koundakjian will be reading in London by invitation of Sudeep Sen who is visiting England



CELEBRATING POETRY & FRIENDSHIP
NOVEMBER 23, 2022 (WEDNESDAY) 6:00-8:30PM
38 Harmood Street, London NW1 8DP

Poetry Workshop (virtual) at London's Armenian Institute

Bringing the Emigrant Experience into Poetry: Resilience During Transition
Lola Koundakjian will be teaching next month a virtual poetry workshop (aka Studio). Organized by the Armenian Institute in London, it will be held Saturday, September 9, 3:00-5:00 PM local time.

Lola Koundakjian, born in Beirut, lives in New York City where she regularly reads her work. An invitee to international poetry festivals including Medellin, Lima, Ramallah, Trois-Rivières and Santiago, she appeared for a second time in Medellin’s thirtieth anniversary’s virtual celebration on August 19, 2020.

Lola co-curates a poetry reading series at the Zohrab Information Center in midtown Manhattan and since 2006, has promoted Armenian culture with texts, translations and audio for the Armenian Poetry Project. She is the author of The Accidental Observer (2011 USA), Advice to a Poet (2014 Peru; 2015 USA) and The Moon in the Cusp of My Hand (La luna en la cuspide de mi mano) Nueva York Poetry Press (2020).

Fees are
£12 pounds per person
£10 pounds concessions

All instruction will be done on Zoom.

Please pay and register here.