http://www.ayfaustralia.com/ en-gb Designed by Kay Web Creations AYF Australia - admin@ayfaustralia.com admin@ayfaustralia.com Sun, 20 May 2012 21:20:09 +1000 Sun, 20 May 2012 21:20:09 +1000 http://backend.userland.com/rss e107 (http://e107.org) 60 http://ayfaustralia.org//images/button.png http://www.ayfaustralia.com/ 88 31 Search Armenian Youth Federation of Australia query http://ayfaustralia.org/search.php http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.334.2 SYDNEY: The rugby league State of Origin game I, between NSW and Queensland, will be screened at the Armenian Cultural Centre again, thanks to AYF Australia and Homenetmen Antranig. kayweb<maintenance@nospam.com> Sat, 19 May 2012 01:11:55 +1000 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.334.2 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.333.2 SYDNEY: The Armenian Youth Federation of Australia (AYF Australia) and AYF Australia Juniors commemorated the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.On Monday, 23 April, members laid a wreath and handed candles to the hundreds in attendance at the Armenian Genocide Monument within NSW Parliament House.On Tuesday, 24 April, AYF Australia assisted the Armenian Genocide Commemorative Committee at the National Commemoration Ceremony, attended by around 1,000 members of the Sydney Armenian community. kayweb<maintenance@nospam.com> Tue, 01 May 2012 08:24:36 +1000 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.333.2 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.332.2 SYDNEY: The Armenian Youth Federation of Australia (AYF Australia) has announced it will mark the 91st Anniversary of the famous February Revolt (Pedervaryan Abestampootyoon) with a Dinner Dance (khrakhjank).The event, which will take place at the Armenian Cultural Centre in Willoughby on Saturday 10th of March 2012, will feature a special program headed by singer Raffy Adourian, who recently moved to Sydney Australia from Aleppo Syria. Tony Akillian will accompany him on the keyboard.Ohanes Ohanessian and Sevag Varjabedian will follow Adourian onto the stage to lead attendees in revolutionary songs.For more information about the events, or to book your tickets, please click here.The February Revolt was a popular uprising against the Soviets in 1921, supported by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's Committee for the Salvation of the Fatherland and spearheaded in Zangezour by General Garegin Njdeh, who later founded the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) in the United States of America. For more information click through to this article by Haytoug Magazine. kayweb<maintenance@nospam.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:39:49 +1100 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.332.2 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.331.2 SYDNEY: The Armenian Youth Federation of Australia (AYF Australia) 2012 Calendar is now available for purchase.The Calendar Committee has worked hard to ensure the release of one of the organisation's most unique calendars in its history is available for audiences prior to key 2011 events.The calendar, available as a desktop and poster format, includes prints of 12 hand drawings by Armenian-Australian youth.Drawings of key figures and landmarks in Armenian history grace the calendar's pages. These include drawings of Hrant Dink, Soseh Mayrig, Soghomon Tehlirian, Dzidzernagapert, Sardarabad, Etchmiadzin, the Lisbon 5, Armen Karo and Papken Siuni, Mamig Babig, Mount Ararat, Khrimian Hayrig and an abstract of the 1988 earthquake.The young Armenian-Australian artists who contributed their skills and time included Yerevan Dilanchian, Ani Sarafian, Allin-Gayaneh Vartan-Boghossian, Sarin Zeitounian, Eduard Nalbandian and Arin Der Vartanian. Hrair Minassian provided his design expertise as part of the 2012 Calendar Committee.To purchase the calendar, please email executive@ayfaustralia.org or call 0409-572-958. kayweb<maintenance@nospam.com> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:45:29 +1100 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.331.2 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.330.2 SYDNEY: Armenian Genocide Commemorative Week in Australia wrapped up with a full house at Sydney's Macquarie University listening to US-based keynote speaker, Seto Boyadjian deliver a powerful message calling on the United States, Australian and Turkish governments to officially recognise the Armenian Genocide.Boyadjian, a guest of the Armenian Genocide Commemorative Committee, was joined on stage by Paul Fletcher MP (representing the leader of the Federal Opposition Tony Abbott MP), Matt Pulford (representing Maxine McKew MP) and Victor Dominello MP (representing the leader of the NSW Opposition Barry O'Farrell MP).All political guests who took the stage reaffirmed the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide, while committing to personally advocate for Federal government recognition of the Armenian Genocide. These commitments were appreciated by the 800-plus audience.Armenian Genocide Commemorative Week began with a 'Protest Against Denial' at the Sydney Turkish Consulate, organised by the Armenian Youth Federation of Australia (AYF Australia). Over 500 Armenians attended and were met by over 100 Turkish anti-protestors.Despite attempts to interrupt the Protest, mass media covered it as the Sydney Armenian community calling for Armenian Genocide recognition by the governments of Turkey and Australia.Tuesday 20 April saw over 100 Sydney Armenians attend an AYF Australia Panel Discussion called 'Recognition in Light of Protocols', where panellists including Boyadjian, Political Advisor Greg Soghomonian, Lawyer Khajaque Kortian and Vache Kahramanian of the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) discussed the latest happenings in Armenian issues advocacy since the start of Armenia-Turkey relations.The panellists agreed that the Protocols were dead, and days later Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan officially suspended the Protocols due to preconditions being placed upon his nation by Turkey.Over 250 Sydney Armenians attended the annual Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (AIHGS) Commemorative Lecture, where Boyadjian discussed 'The Legal Basis of the Armenian Genocide'. The lecture was preceded by a prayer and wreath laying at the NSW State Parliament House's Peace Garden, where an Armenian Genocide memorial stands.Boyadjian was joined by over 400 members of the Melbourne Armenian community in a Commemoration Evening on Friday 23 April.In Adelaide, the South Australian Armenian community unveiled a memorial plaque dedicated to the memory of victims of the Armenian Genocide.Another 150 members of the Armenian Community attended the City of Ryde memorial at the plaque erected by the Council in Meadowbank. The Sydney Western Region commemoration was held with over 300 guests on 17 April.Saturday's audience of over 800 at the Sydney commemoration meant a combined audience of over 2,000 helped commemorate the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in events throughout Australia.Media coverage of the Armenian-Australian community's drive for recognition of the Armenian Genocide was at a record level. The drive for Armenian Genocide recognition by the government of Australia and the government of Turkey was covered on national radio, national television, online media and in print.Most recently, leading breakfast radio presenter Alan Jones covered the topic of the Armenian Genocide in an interview with scholar Dr. Panayiotis Diamadis (Click here to listen). And, The Australian newspaper covered the community's call for Federal Australian recognition of the Armenian Genocide (Click here to read). kayweb<maintenance@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:57:54 +1000 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.330.2 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.329.2 SYDNEY: Sydney filmmaker Shahane Bekarian has released a short documentary covering last week's community Protest against Armenian Genocide denial, held at the NSW Turkish Consulate.Bekarian interviews Armenian National Committee of Australia Communications Officer Haig Kayserian, Armenian protestors and Turkish anti-protestors in the 10-minute clip.The Protest, which was organised by the Armenian Youth Federation of Australia, attracted over 500 Sydney Armenians and 100 Sydney Turks.PLEASE SEE VIDEO BELOW, or by clicking here. kayweb<maintenance@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:50:52 +1000 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.329.2 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.328.2 SYDNEY: National television networks Channel 7 and SBS, along with national radio networks, the ABC, Triple J and SBS covered the Sydney Armenian community's protest against Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide at the NSW Turkish Consulate on Sunday.The Protest of over 500 Armenians, which also drew 100 members of the Sydney Turkish community, was on the eve of Armenian Genocide commemoration week, which commemorates the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which saw 1.5million Christian Armenian civilians living inside Ottoman Turkey murdered in a coordinated attempt to exterminate the Armenian race.Kevork Tufenkjian of the organising Armenian Youth Federation of Australia said: "Despite over 20 legislatures around the world, including the governments of New South Wales and South Australia, recognising the Armenian Genocide, Turkey has failed to do so, and holds on to 90% of land that is historically Armenia's."Armenians, joined by Sydney Assyrians and Sydney Greeks, chanted "1915 Never Again", "Turkey Is Guilty, Turkey Must Pay", "We Want Justice", "Turkey Denies, Turkey Lies" and "Genocide Is Fact".Nearly 100 Police were in attendance to stop the crowd of Turks from clashing with the Armenian protestors.A speaker at the protest, Haig Kayserian announced: "Dear members of the Sydney Turkish community, we are not here to protest you, we are here to protest against the Consulate you stand before. The government it represents denies the Armenian Genocide. This is unacceptable to us."There were live radio crosses between organisers and media, while Channel 7 and SBS ran footage and details of the protest in their respective prime time news coverage.Channel 7 newsreader Mark Ferguson said: "The protestors were demanding that the Australian and Turkish governments officially recognise the Armenian Genocide, when 1.5million people were killed after World War I."VIDEO HIGHLIGHTSPlease click here for Video HighlightsTV NEWS COVERAGE LINKSClick here for Channel 7 coverageClick here for SBS Coverage kayweb<maintenance@nospam.com> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:33:26 +1000 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.328.2 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.327.2 SYDNEY: Over 50 Sydney Armenian youth responded to a Facebook call to action by the Armenian Youth Federation of Australia (AYF Australia), gathering to prepare banners for THIS SUNDAY'S PROTEST against the denial of the Armenian Genocide.AYF Australia organised the protest, to be held Sunday 18th of April at the NSW Turkish Consulate (66 Ocean Street, Woollahra), to kick off Armenian Genocide Commemoration Week.AYF Australia Chairperson Kevork Tufenkjian said the show of support from Armenian youth at large was an encouraging sign for the community."The memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide is safe as the response from our youth in faraway Australia shows we will not rest until justice is delivered and Turkey recognises the Armenian Genocide," Tufenkjian said.BUSES FROM RYDE (ARARAT SCOUT HALL, SANTA ROSA PARK) and WILLOUGHBY (ARMENIAN CULTURAL CENTRE, 259 PENSHURST STREET) will depart at 12noon and return at 3pm.A BUS FROM BONNYRIGG (PANOYAN CENTRE,  682 CABRAMATTA ROAD) will depart at 11:30am and return at 3:30pm. kayweb<maintenance@nospam.com> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:14:16 +1000 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.327.2 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.326.2 SYDNEY: The Armenian Youth Federation of Australia (AYF Australia) has revealed details of All-Armenian Youth Camp 2010 - the third instalment of the summer camp that is open to all Armenian high school age children.The All-Armenian Youth Camp will be held from 22-24 January, at YMCA Camp Yarramundi, and is expected to draw a large number of participants once again."For one weekend, all Armenian-Australians in the high school age group are able to come together, take part in activities, form friendships and listen to entertaining educational speeches," said AYF Australia Chairperson, Kevork Tufenkjian."This will be the third All-Armenian Youth Camp, and we expect it will be the most successful one yet."Those who wish to participate can fill in an application form by clicking here.Please see flyer below for further details: ayf<executive@nospam.com> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:37:10 +1100 http://ayfaustralia.org/news.php?item.326.2