shed a light on how we navigate traumaMs. Tatoyan is interested in the intersection of the power of storytelling and Eastern teachings to shed a light on how we navigate trauma and sublimate the very calcified and damaging narratives that keep us entrenched in identity politics and disempowerment.
Pictured, Sona visits her beloved Aleppo in the Summer of 2019. Photo credit: Antoine Makdis |
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The Hrant Dink Lecture Series at Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies presentation with Sona Tatoyan and Puppet Master Ayhan HülagüOn September 16, 2019, CMES welcomed Syrian-Armenian-American stage and film actress Sona Tatoyan and artist and puppet master Ayhan Hülagü to speak about finding her Armenian grandfather's Karagöz puppets in the abandoned family home in Aleppo, Syria. Ayhan then presented some of Sona's family's puppets in a short puppet show to close the event.
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A Response to the Armenian Genocide and the Syrian Refugee Crisis Arnheim Lecture - July 3, 2017
We look around the world today and see more clearly than ever the power of narrative. Whomever controls the narrative, maintains the power. Storytelling is something that is inherently human, and inherently shapes the world we live in. Which stories we subscribe to and how we use them to dominate or be dominated create our reality. Tragedies, like the Armenian Genocide and the current catastrophe in Syria, have certain dominant narratives attached to them which in many ways do not allow for a shift in perspective nor transcendence of the wounds they have created. |
Photo Credits: Barbara Herrenkind
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