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Reflecting their strong belief in scholarship and education, and their admiration and respect for a pillar in her field, Ani and Mark Gabrellian have launched the AGBU Helen C. Evans Scholarship to honor the curator of last year’s Armenia!...

The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) is hosting a day-long conference to give women a platform to connect, share ideas and be inspired by changemakers in diverse fields who have made transformative change, locally and globally, through their...

With the goal of strengthening the capacity of Armenia’s civil society organization (CSOs), The European Union (EU) funded the BRIDGE for CSOs project, implemented by the AGBU Armenia with Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF). A unique requirement...

Today President Berge Setrakian sent a congratulatory letter and well wishes to his Beatitude Archbishop Sahag II Mashalian, on the occasion of his enthronization to the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul. In the letter Mr. Setrakian expresses on...

Six powerful artists will receive funding, mentorship, and promotion Creative Armenia and Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) are delighted to announce the six recipients of the 2020 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellowships, a uniquely tailored...

To observe the United Nation’s official International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime on December 9th, AGBU New England District, Nicosia, and Europe held panel discussions...

On the sixth of December, a diverse audience of music lovers congregated at the Weill Recital Hall in the world-renowned Carnegie Hall to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the AGBU Performing Artists in Concert, organized by the AGBU New York...

As part of the delegation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s recent trip to the United States, Armenia’s newly appointed High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs Zareh Sinanyan visited the recently renovated AGBU Central Office on September 25th with...

The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at New York’s renowned Symphony Space was filled with applause as hundreds of Komitas enthusiasts, Armenian and non-Armenians alike, stood to their feet for an encore from the critically acclaimed Gurdjieff Ensemble on...

With the passing of Jacques Chirac on September 26, 2019, AGBU reflects on the legacy of this two-term French president, whose tenure from 1995 and 2007 coincided with the French Armenian people’s campaign for recognition of the Armenian...