Middle East
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A group of musicians representing Hamazkayin’s schools of fine arts on August 31, 2018, went to Ba’albek in Lebanon’s Beka’a Valley to present an evening of Armenian music. The group was accompanied by the schools’ director, Tamar Snabian-Sourjian.
The event was part of a celebration organized by the Lebanese Association of Artists, Painters, and Sculptors (LAABS). The celebration included painters and sculptors from France, Italy, Brazil, Syria, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, China, and Armenia. The participants from Armenia were painter Ara Shahumyan and sculptor Rafael Manukyan.