On December 18, 2020, a yearend celebration and award ceremony was held for the seventh and tenth grade students of the Parsegh Ganachian Music School. The event, at the “K. and H. Armenian Hall” of the Levon Shant Cultural Center in Beirut, was sponsored by Hamazkayin’s Regional Executive Board for Lebanon and organized by the trustees of the Hamazkayin Schools of Fine Arts and the administration of the music school.
The event began with the national anthems of Lebanon and Armenia. The director of the school, Maral Harboyan. spoke. She stated that Hamazkayin, in line with its mission, continues to navigate in the ocean of culture, even in these extremely difficult circumstances. In the 2019–20 school year, we all experienced and are experiencing a difficult situation, exacerbated by Covid as well as the country’s economic crisis, the catastrophic August 4th blast at the port of Beirut, and the stream of emigration from Lebanon, she noted. These circumstances were challenges for the music school as well; however the defender of Armenian culture, Hamazkayin, fighting on the front lines, continues its struggle and its mission, believing that culture is the only way to secure future generations’ spiritual and intellectual stability and the maintenance of their Armenian character.