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JUNE 27-JULY 1;JULY 4-8, 2018 LOG SHEET #4 SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL AUDIO/VIDEO LOG SHEET LOGGER NAME:Alison Karfeld RECORDER 1 NAME: FILE NAME:089.wav RECORDER 2 NAME: FILE NAME:412.wav PRESENTER: Mary Linn DATE/TIME: 7/1 PROGRAM: Armenia STAGE: Hyurasenyak GROUP NAME: SESSION TITlE: On the move: Giving Voice PARTICIPANTS Armenian & Mayan League INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION See attached sheet Intro of each participant and what languages mean to them. Alejandro Santiago Discussion of the importance if[[of]] his language which gives his identities Mayan Ixil (guatemala); grandparents made sure to teach me my language + roots, identifies what I am and what is mine, if it didn't exist, I wouldn't Mercedes Ai Levon His ancestors From Maya Q'iche in guatemala, thank you for invitation! Level of Armenian speaking ability depends on where you were raised, the age, the time in history;came to us POST Hermedian Massacre 1896-genocide 191's; he was wreached from R1 to 1950 Florida. W/in a year he had only 10-15 words. In 1972 studied in Eastern armenian, but his ancestors spoke western There are 2 versions, garapa (sp?) is oldest version. He came home speaking Fastern fluently, but was told this dialect was impure. Armenian lady From Marash to Haleb, mostly combined w/Turkey genocide=great grandparents spoke Turkish but encouraged kids to speak Armenian influence. Her generation started learning Armenian, Multilanguage generation, govt gave no problem to those speaking Arm, Arabic, etc. Moved to Armenia 6 years ago b/c of war in Haleb. Was an Arm teache [[teacher]] in Haleb, but diff dialects, so in Yereva began teaching embroidery Arm, Arabic, little Eng