Epress.am News from Armenia
From different Yerevan administrative districts, 115 youth today laid 115 carnation flowers at the monument dedicated to Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents, who would’ve been 115 years old today.
“It would be good, of course, if all the boys were curly-haired [referring to a famous Charents’ poem] — they even joked that it’s now possible to get curls, but you wouldn’t take an Armenian boy to get a fake perm… whoever is curly-haired and whoever isn’t, it doesn’t matter, [all] will participate. Yerevan City Hall’s education department conceived [of the idea]. The selection was made among youth from different schools.
“Outfits with lines from Charent’s poems and caps with Charents 115 [inscribed on them] were ordered, but so the children don’t get cold [wearing just the caps and shirts], we thought to mark the day with ‘Curly-Haired Boy’ [the name of the poem]. Charents prescribed that we should keep our country strong, and we are following that message and affirming it with a march,” deputy chair of the Department of General Education at Yerevan City Hall Silva Achoyan told Epress.am.
Participating in the march which began from Charents’ house-museum were president of the Writers’ Union of Armenia Levon Ananyan, municipality representatives, and public school teachers and students.
Also joining the march of “curly-haired boys” to the monument were also female students.
“We told the girls to be seen as little as possible in the march, but, as you can see, they’ve joined their fellow curly-haired male classmates,” said Achoyan, adding that through such events Charents won’t be forgotten but will become alive for students.