With Della mia dolce Armenia D.I.M.A. has initiated a series of events which contents, while maintaining the centrality of music, are interwoven with history, poetry and literature. In a deeper and more conscious human vision, the language of music and images combined with storytelling become a key to a living reading of the same music and stories near and far that help us understand the world in which we live.

Photography exhibition, curated by Andrea Ulivi. Opening Saturday, December 7, 4:30 pm, Petrarch House.
A series of black-and-white images, those of Andrea Ulivi, whose theme is Armenia. The exhibition includes about fourty photographs taken from 2009 to 2014. His goal is to investigate those places and offer himself to the soul of that people. Two major themes are touched upon: the life of a very ancient population and the places sacred to that people, the places that constituted their identity, their Armenian-ness, their spirituality: "Photographing places so that these same places do not forget us. I do not photograph places to remember them, but to be - there where we leave our traces as in a desert."

The event also involved the students of the Liceo Scientifico Statale "F. Redi" high school in Arezzo in a school-work alternation project: in fact, the young students, following an in-depth training,were the guides of the photographic exhibition.


Lecture and introduction to the concert, by Carlo Coppola 5:30 p.m., Casa Petrarca.
Ph.D. in Italianistics from the University of Bari, Carlo Coppola works on the History of the Armenian Diaspora in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Genocide of 1915. With the "Hrand Nazariantz" Study Center, which he chairs, he routinely gives presentations and lectures on ancient and contemporary Armenian culture. Main publications: Hrand Nazantz: traces of a dutiful biography (2012), Armenian refugees in Bari between philanthropic institutions and the Catholic Church in the crisis of the 1930s (2014) the critical edition of In the Land of Terror the Martyrdom of Armenia by Henri Barby (2016). On September 3, 2018, President of the Republic of Armenia Armen Sarkissian granted him Citizenship of the Republic of Armenia. He will deepen and contextualize the figure of Komitas not only as a musician, intellectual and ethnomusicologist but also from a socio-historical perspective.

Concert
A musical journey into Armenian culture to discover Komitas' repertoire for voice and piano. A concert to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth by offering a representative selection of his secular work. Father Komitas, an emblem of Armenian culture but a figure unknown to the Western world, carried out extremely important ethnomusicological work by handing down folk music through a series of recordings and transcriptions made by himself. He collected an immense heritage that included songs related to the cultivation of the fields, patriotic songs, love songs, ritual wedding songs, dances and even lullabies.
Agnessa Gyurdzhyan soprano and Lilit Khachatryan pianist, both of Armenian descent, lead the audience on this fascinating journey through the music of Komitas.