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2006 Billboards commemorating the 91st Anniversary by: Rosario Teixeira Watertown, MA - This year marks the ninetieth first anniversary of the Armenian Genocide... The Boston Globe Billboard messages promote peace by: Christina Pazzanese Two colorful billboards loom large over Mt. Auburn and Arsenal streets in Watertown with a simple message: ''Join US: Recognize the Armenian Genocide."... The Watertown Tab & Press Armenian Genocide billboard crumbles from water damage Watertown Tab & Press By Christopher Loh Monday, April 24, 2006 -A billboard at 160 Arsenal St., promoting awareness of the April 1915 Armenian Genocide, looked as though it had been vandalized... Ripped Armenian Genocide Billboard on Arsenal Street in Watertown, MA, is Up Again! Peace of Art, Inc., the organization that sponsored the billboard, replaced the poster on April 27th with a new one that reads "A poster may be ripped but history remains."... |
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2006 Billboards commemorating the 91st Anniversary
of The Armenian Genocide
by: Rosario Teixeira
Watertown, MA - This year marks the ninetieth first anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Each year, with the passing of Genocide survivors, who can testify to what they witnessed in 1915, arguments of denial are renewed.
In the last ten years, Daniel Varoujan Hejinian has created and sponsored the commemorative billboards calling for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. This year's billboards located on Mount Auburn and Arsenal Streets, in Watertown, display the flags of the countries, which officially recognized the Armenian Genocide. The message is an open invitation "Join Us, Recognize the Armenian Genocide."
The billboards are sponsored by Peace of Art, Inc., and the space donated by Clear Channel Outdoor. Peace of Art, Inc., www.PeaceofArt.org, is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 2003 by Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, which uses art as an educational tool to bring awareness to the universal human condition. In 2004 the commemorative billboard displayed an image from the Peace of Art collection, which addressed the issue of deportation. In 2005, the billboard displayed the flame in the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.
In reference to recent arguments of denial of the genocide, the artist Daniel Varoujan Hejinian said that he wished they were right. "I wish it was true that the Genocide never took place. I wish that it was just a nightmare from which we would wake up safe in our land, in our country, in our homes, tending to our fields, working our crafts. I wish the fishermen were returning home to their families from lake Van at the end of the day. I wish the bells were ringing every Sunday at the Aghtamar Church, and our intellectuals and poets had gown old to fulfill their potential for the benefit of humanity, instead of having their lives cut short as victims of the first Genocide of the twentieth century. I wish we were breaking bread together in peace and harmony. I wish 1.5 million Armenians had not been massacred and there were no orphanages for Armenian children around the world... but this is just a wish. The Genocide continues as long as denial continues."
Hejinian believes that it is of the utmost importance to make the community at large aware of the Armenian Genocide and he calls for its recognition.
