2022 Orran Gala

OUR PROGRAM

WELCOME - Hakop Barseghian Video Presentation On Orran REMARKS - Armine K. Hovannisian

Short film on families of Artsakh at Orran

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Ani Hovannisian Kevorkian LIVE AUCTION - Victoria Aslanian HONORING - Dr. Edward Samourjian Presenting the Award Sayat Oruncakciel and Armine K. Hovannisian FINANCIAL REPORT - Krikor Krikorian RAFFLE

MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDERS

Our Armenia needs us more than ever Raffi K. and Armine K. Hovannisian

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CONGRATULATIONS

Davana Law Firm is proud to support Orran for its unwavering and unconditional love to the children and families of Armenia. May Orran endure forevermore in its mission

PLATINUM SPONSOR

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WE LOVE TO SUPPORT THOSE THAT HELP OTHERS.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

You can help by taking part in the following activities

To help raise funds for Orran

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EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE TO WAR VICTIMS

Food basket, winter shoes, coat, milk for the children, formula milk for infants and other necessities

SPONSOR FOOD AT ORRAN

There are 13 items of food for your choosing from dolma to bananas

The list with amounts is in this booklet

SPONSOR NECESSITIES FOR A CHILD

Pay for an item a child needs such as a school bag, or a pair of shoes.

The list with amounts is in this booklet

RAFFLE

Win over a dozen items donated by our generous supporters including a gold necklace

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HAKOP BARSEGHIAN Master of Ceremonies

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Hakop Barseghian has been a long-time supporter and volunteer at Orran. He has been an active committee member for over ten years and has personally organized several successful fundraisers for the benefit of the children. Hakop holds a Juris Doctorate degree in law and is a successful businessman in the family business, Harry’s Auto Collision Group in Thousand Oaks. Born in Los Angeles, Hakop’s heart has always been in Hayastan. After completing his studies in college, he spent two years in Armenia establishing a successful business bringing many diasporans together. Hakop is also a founding board member of Creative Armenia, an arts foundation that discovers, develops, and promotes cutting-edge talent across the world. He is married to Brittany and they have two beautiful girls, six year old Nare and four year old Maia.

VICTORIA ASLANIAN

Auctioneer

Victoria Armen Aslanian was born in Yerevan in 1982, immigrating to the U.S. in 1990. She studied Art History in Florence, Italy, and continued her education at UC Berkeley where she received her BA degree. In 2009, she repatriated to Armenia with her two sons to partake in her father’s vision and venture which involved developments in the agricultural, wine & brandy, and tourism sectors. Victoria received the

Best Brand by a Woman Entrepreneur award from the prime minister of Armenia in 2014, and has parlayed the international success of their brand as a platform to promote The Renaissance of Armenian Wine, presenting Armenia’s revived wine legacy at The Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 2013, at The Davos du’Vin, Italy, in 2014 & 2015, at AGBU’s 88th General Assembly “Improving Armenians’ International Standing” in 2015, as a guest lecturer at AUA, “Starting Innovative Wineries in Armenia,” as well as at wine and tourism promotional events in the US, Europe, UK, Canada, Russia, China and Thailand. In 2015, Victoria was among the spokespersons for Teach for Armenia, and an ambassador for AYWA (Armenian Young Women’s Association). Along with team ArmAs, she continues to support the EVN Wine academy, where she taught wine marketing, among other educational programs. She was among the first Female Armenian Role Models named by the Embassy of Sweden, and in 2016 began to participate in the U.S. Embassy’s Women’s Mentoring Program, and was one of the speakers at TEDX Yerevan, with her humorous and engaging speech “BYGN, Breasts Guiding Your Navigation.” In 2017, Victoria was awarded the medal of honor from the prime minister of Armenia for contribution to the agricultural sector in Armenia, and received the “Agro-Product Female Hero” award from the Ministry of Agriculture during the same year.

Victoria completed her Executive MBA at Skolkovo, Russia in April 2018. In 2022, Victoria was featured in Wine Enthusiast Magazine as one of the women changing the Armenian wine industry. She is currently the CEO of both ArmAs Armenia and ArmAs USA.

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On behalf of the ArmAs team in Armenia, we would like to congratulate and thank Orran for the sincere and pertinent work that they do for the countless families in need. It is our pleasure to support such a wonderful cause which has both an immediate and long term effect on our country’s socio-economic condition by providing assistance today and hope for the future. Please raise your glass in a toast to Armenia, our children, and our future!

Sincerely,

Victoria Aslanian CEO, Golden Grape ArmAs

SPECIAL GRATITUDE

HONORING ORRAN’S ATHLETE DOCTOR Dr. Edward Samourjian

• Dr. Samourjian with his family

• The Doctor’ s friends cheering for him

Dr. Edward Samourjian is a double board certified vascular and general surgeon. He is a native of Los Angeles who is a member of the Glendale Adventist Medical Center where he provides exceptional vascular surgical care.

For the past two years, Dr. Samourjian has been on the front lines treating Covid-19 patients in the ICU as well as performing life saving surgeries. He is also an avid runner. Last year, he generously dedicated his Zion 100 marathon run to raise money and awareness for Orran.

On April 10, 2021, Dr. Samourjian ran the Zion 100 marathon in Utah (USA) and completed it in 36 hours, to raise $50,000 for the children of Orran and Artsakh.

We also thank Dr. Samourjian’s wife, Dr. Lara Samourjian , a primary care physician, for her support and encouragement.

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CHILDREN OF ORRAN: ARMENIAN ALPHABET

STARTING BID: $1000

Orran offers the children painting and ceramic classes under the guidance and instruction of Eva Martirosyan. This art work is the creation of six Orran children. It depicts the 38 letters of the Armenian alphabet with pictures of objects for each letter. The children have worked on it for one full month.

Eva Martirosyan with the children

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His work has been exhibited worldwide; he has represented Armenia in numerous international art exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale. As Ararat says: “I have always believed that a crossstone is a living thing. I went on to painstakingly recreate cross-stones that were razed to the ground in Nakhichevan, attempting to give these vanished monuments a new lease on life through paint and hand-made paper.”

Ararat Sarkissian is a well-known artist, recognized as an Honoured Artist of Armenia and known as a recreator of Armenian print-making traditions. Twenty-five years ago, he decided to learn papermaking for one of his projects, and hence went to Jordan to develop his skills. Recognizing that this is a dying craft, he has since passed on his skill to many people, mostly of the younger generation. Using a combination of print-making techniques, recycled paper, painting, and okra, Ararat’s work is suffused with age-old symbols, both worldly and Armenia- specific. He is fascinated with old maps and alphabets but his most famous series is The Cross, reflecting the unique Armenian design of this church symbol. This prolific artist has also produced a large number of hand-made books and catalogues to illustrate his ideas.

Ararat is concerned about the identity and memory of nations and always strives to preserve something of value, such as destroyed Armenian cross-stones. Measurement:

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• Ararat Sarkissian

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Henrikh Mkhitaryan is a world-class professional soccer player who stars as an attacking midfielder or winger for Serie A club Inter Milan. He is the first Armenian ever to play in the English Premier League and the first to win a major European trophy, the UEFA Europe League 2017, when he scored the winning goal for Manchester United FC in the finals in Stockholm. In January 2018, he joined Arsenal FC and in 2019 transferred to Roma, thereafter to Milan. Henrikh has played in over 425 games and has scored over 146 goals. Henrikh Mkhitaryan was born on January 21, 1980, in Yerevan Armenia. His father was a prominent striker for FC Ararat Yerevan during the 1980s. Henrikh has also captained his National Team and has won the Armenian Footballer of the Year award more than any other player. More money has been paid for his transfer than for any other player from the former Soviet countries.

• Henrikh Mkhitaryan

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date. Somewhere between the mist of Turner and the drips and splashes of Rauschenberg, Vera stands tall on today’s contemporary art scene for her reinvigoration and renewal not only of a painting style, but also a frame of mind.” (By: Simone Cappa, NY ARTS)

• V era Arutyunyan

Los Angeles based artist Vera Arutyunyan combines primary colors and an aggressive brushstroke style to ward a decidedly contemporary version of Abstract Expressionism. Although the masters of the 50s like Pollack and de Kooning created similar aesthetic 40 years prior, Vera’s emotionally charged paintings appear forever in the moment. The artist’s vigorous and defined brushstrokes are filled to the brim with the very energy of her technique - the very motions of her wrist. In total, they are primary color-infused visions of action painting forever frozen in time. If every element of the artist’s application process is clearly readable upon her finished canvas, Vera means it that way. Highly conscious of all the masters who have tried their hand at the blank canvas before her, Vera paints on, and with a vengeance that brings the viewer up to-

As Vera says: “The world of painting is the primary plane on which I live. Though I may not be physically in front of a canvas, in my mind I am always surrounded by a play of colors. I have no control over which color the eye of my mind sees. If anything, the predominant incorporation of the red-based palette has chosen me. It is the same with a musician who writes notes with which he plays, but only hears the melody.” Vera has earned international acclaim. She has participated in a variety of solo and group shows, biennales, galleries and museums in the United States and throughout the world.

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AREV PETROSYAN: FAIRY SPIRIT 2019

STARTING BID: $3500

Measurement: 31” X 71”

Plexglass.Gold and silver leaves. Mixed technique

Arev (Arevik) Petrosyan was born in a family of artists in Yerevan, Armenia. With her unique, bright, colorful and powerful creativity, she has occupied her own place in the world of art. Arev has taken part in numerous international and global biennales and expositions, including Beijing International Art Biennale, Art Monaco and Dubai Art Fair. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Beirut, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, and in a number of cities in the United States.

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In 2015, Arev received the Honored Artist of Armenia Medal from the president of Armenia. In 2013, her monumental (22sqm) stained-glass painting, The Power of Unity, was presented by then president of Armenia to the Council of Europe as a gift and then displayed in the Assembly Hall of the Council. In the same year, Arev’s Mother Armenia was included in Women in Art, a catalogue of masterpieces of great female artists from the Middle Ages to the modern era. In 2014, she presented a huge panel (12x2,5 meters) painting titled Inspiration of the Century to the Fresno Holy Trinity Church on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the church.

Arev Petrosyan has participated in numerous charity exhibitions and events in order to help children and elderly in need.

• Arev Petrosyan

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A BARREL OF BRANDY WITH AN EXPERIENCE

BY ArmAs

DESCRIPTION: 225 liters of brandy of 2020

STARTING BID: $4000

You are invited to an experience that honors nature, artistry and history. An experience that will be part of your history in making, or a truly unique gift for anyone with refined taste and for those who value the extraordinary. Your acquired barrel of spirit will age mature and be cared for at the world class ArmAs Winery and Distillery in Armenia. Your singularly numbered barrel will bare your inscription in the aging room, and you are welcomed to visit the ArmAs Estate and sample your spirit at your convenience. When you are ready or you want a special blend of your private label brandy for a special occasion, the ArmAs team will guide you in selecting the perfect packaging and putting the finishing touches on your exclusive single cask brandy.

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Born in Armenia, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan lives between Yerevan and New York. He holds Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais in Switzerland

Tigran had his first solo local and international exhibits by the age of ten. In 2012, the artist began a series titled Mirrors. In September 2014, Mirror V, one of Tigran’s works from the Mirrors series, was sold at the Phillips Auction in New York.

In 2018, the documentary American Mirror: Intimations of Immortality, directed by Arthur Balder was released. Tigran Tsitoghdzyan and his paintings are included in the film.

In May 2021, Cube Art Fair, the world’s largest public art fair, featured Tigran’s works in a billboard in Times Square as part of an initiative to highlight art that was conceived during the lockdown.

In 2015, for the first time since his departure from the Homeland, Tigran returned to Yerevan for a solo exhibition. The show at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts, exhibited six of the artist’s 100” X 70”

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paintings which included his Armenian Mirror — a portrait of an elderly Armenian woman hiding her face with her hands while grieving. The portrait was to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

In 2018, Tigran had his first solo exhibit Tigran Tsitoghdzyan: Uncanny in New York’s Allouche Gallery featuring an array of the artist’s recent works. A year later, his works were shown at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery as Tigran Tsi: Mirrors Reimagined exhibition. Later that same year, Tigran’s works were included in the 25th anniversary of Opera Gallery’s Monaco Master’s Show, a contemporary art show sponsored by Prince Albert II of Monaco. In 2021, during Singapore Art Week, the Opera Gallery in Singapore exhibited an exclusive body of work created by the artist for this exhibit. Tigran is a long-time supporter and friend of Orran as evidenced by the photos below with our children as well as the laureates of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity.

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Tigran Tsitoghdzyan’s exhibition in New York’s Times Square at the Cube Art Fair

Tigran Tsitoghdzyan with the children of Orran and the laureates of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity

CONGRATULATIONS

Dr. Alain and Mrs. Tamar Karaguezian

GOLD SPONSOR

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We wish Orran to continue its fine work of helping children of Armenia who need our care

We extend our warmest wishes, congratulate and thank Orran for the great work they have done for the children of Armenia.

-Benjamin Charchian, Esq.

CONGRATULATIONS

We

love you our

friends Lyla, Alexa and Talia

Armenia

By Isabel, age 4By Lyla, age 6By Alexa, age 4By Talia, age 2

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We want to come to Armenia to meet you Isabel and George

CONGRATULATIONS

We support you Orran

Andy and HaykuhieTorosyan

SILVER SPONSOR

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CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations Orran on a job well done

Serge and Suzy Sinanian SILVER SPONSOR

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CONGRATULATIONS

All our best wishes to Orran Apik and Rima Minassian

SILVER SPONSOR

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CONGRATULATIONS

We wish peace and prosperity for the children of Armenia

Aram and Aida Shorvoghlian

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CONGRATULATIONS

Thank you for always being by the children of Armenia

Nick and Marissa Nadjarian SILVER SPONSOR

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CONGRATULATIONS

SILVER SPONSOR

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We are always happy to support Orran’s cause of helping the children of our Homeland Steve and Christina Yazeji

CONGRATULATIONS

SILVER SPONSOR

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We are very proud to support you in your mission of helping the children and elderly of Armenia

Mr. and Mrs. Aret Shahnazoglu

CONGRATULATIONS

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We wish Orran well in all of its endeavors Serge and Aline Ekizian

Happy to help the children of Armenia Sam and Karen Karaguezian

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CONGRATULATIONS

Thank you Orran for helping our children and senior citizens in Armenia

Dr. Vahram and Mrs. Savanna Ornekian

SPONSOR

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We are proud to support your fantastic job Orran Assadour and Alex Ashjian

CONGRATULATIONS

Gustavo Assatourians

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We want to see an Armenia with happy children

We congratulate Orran on 22 years of love for the children who need our help

Sako and Ani Vakian

CONGRATULATIONS

BRONZE SPONSOR

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George Sukhunyan

Fisher Manager

Amalia Khachikian

Keith

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