Inaugural Aurora Prize Held In Yerevan

Aurora Prize Ceremony held on April 24, 2016 in Yerevan. (Photo: Aurora Prize)

YEREVAN (Aurora Prize)””The inaugural Aurora Prize Ceremony took place on April 24 at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Starting with the foyer, the venue was exquisitely decorated with images of ancient manuscripts. The guests were welcomed with refreshments and musical entertainment from a sextet.

The ceremony began with a heart-wrenching film about Aurora Mardiganian, after whom the prize is named. The film, a powerful combination of still images, archival footage from a century ago, when Ottoman authorities perpetrated a Genocide against their Armenian subjects, sketches, drawings and animations presented a poignant narrative of Aurora’s survival and her subsequent quest to inform the world of the plight of the Armenians through the film “Ravished Armenia.”