A woman’s magical, multi-generational, healing journey from the Armenian Genocide to the Syrian war in the tradition of Hakawati storytelling.

Azad (“free” in Armenian, Farsi, and Kurdish) is a kaleidoscopic story within a story within a story, centered on a storyteller’s discovery of her great-great-grandfather’s shadow puppets in Aleppo during the Syrian war.

Reception to follow.

This event is made possible through a grant from the Simonian Charitable Trust

Sponsored by the Armenian Church of Our Saviour and the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University