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St. Leon Church (Fair Lawn, NJ) is hosting a hybrid live and online discussion on Thursday, April 7, at 7:45 p.m. EDT. Join legal counsel Ömer Kantik, a member of the Turkey’s Armenian community, as he discusses Restitution of Property in Turkey After 100 Years—live in the church’s Abajian Hall (12-61 Saddle River Rd., Fair Lawn) and broadcast over the Zoom platform and YouTube. A Q&A session will follow. Registration for both live and online sessions is required. Click the following links to view a flyer with info and to register in advance. For questions contact Ara Araz at (917) 837-1297 or ara@edrcorp.net. To view the Youtube broadcast, click here.

St. Gregory the Enlightener Church of White Plains, NY, will hold its 20th annual “Lionel Galstaun Memorial Concert” on Sunday, May 1, at 1:30 p.m. (following badarak) at the church (1131 North St., White Plains). Featured artists are Anoush Pogossian on clarinet, Jonathan Wang Hou on piano. Presented by the parish cultural committee. Free and open to the public. RSVP (by Apr. 24) to (914) 428-2595, saintgregorychurchwp@gmail.com, or ohan90@yahoo.com. For information, click on the following links to view a flyer and access the parish website.

St. Sahag & St. Mesrob (Wynnewood, PA) is holding a lecture series during the Season of Great Lent. On Wednesday, Mar. 23, at 7:30 p.m., Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan, Director of Ministries for the Eastern Diocese, will hold a presentation by Zoom titled, “From the Depths of the Heart: The Practice of Armenian Christian Meditation.” To obtain a link to join the presentation, please call the church office at (610) 642-4212. For a schedule of the Lent Lectures, click here.

Kean University’s Holocaust Resource Center will present an online talk on the “Refugee and Humanitarian Crisis during the Great War and the Armenian Genocide,“ on Tuesday, Apr. 12, at 7 p.m., over the Zoom conference platform. Dr. Asya Darbinyan of the Martin-Springer Institute will speak. Click her to register in advance. Click the links for information on the Kean U. website, and to view a flyer.

The Armenian Church Diocese of Australia & New Zealand will host an online recital of organ and vocal music, titled “Sacred Armenian Music, Part 2,” featuring organist Fr. Mamigon Kiledjian (Sacred Music Instructor fo the Eastern Diocese), on Wednesday, Mar. 30. For viewers in the United States, the concert will take place at 5 a.m. EDT (which, please note, corresponds to 8 p.m. AEDT in Sydney, Australia), over the Zoom conference platform. To receive a registration link, e-mail Nishan Basmajian by Mar. 28, at diocese@armenian.come.au. Click the links to access the Australian Diocese’s Facebook page, and to view a flyer.