20-22 Nov: Golden Gate Armenian Film Festival

🎬🇦🇲 Join us November 20–22, 2026, at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco for the Third Golden Gate Armenian Film Festival!

Dear Bay Area Armenian Community,

Mark your calendars and buy your tickets for the Third Annual Golden Gate Armenian Film Festival! This year’s exciting lineup features The Land of Arto by Tamara Stepanyan, Armenia’s official submission to the 99th Academy Awards and Poqr Mher, Armenia’s first feature AI generated film. 

Get ready for an unforgettable celebration of Armenian cinema, culture, and storytelling! This is an incredible opportunity to experience the talent and creativity of Armenian filmmakers. Let’s fill the theaters, rally our community, and show up in full force to support Armenian cinema! Bring your family and friends and be part of a celebration that puts Armenian stories in the spotlight!

Experience an unforgettable weekend celebrating Armenian cinema, featuring films from around the world, special guests, and opportunities to connect with our vibrant community.

🍿 Bring your friends and family and join us as we celebrate Armenian culture, creativity, and storytelling on the big screen!

🎟️ DON’T MISS OUT! GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! Secure your seats now and be part of an incredible weekend celebrating Armenian cinema on the big screen!

🎫 Purchase your tickets here: https://ggaff.art/

🔗 Stay connected and learn more: https://linktr.ee/goldengatearmenianfilmfestival

We can’t wait to see you there! 🇦🇲

1 Dec: Reading: Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead,

Join us on Tuesday, December 1 when we welcome Jen Siraganian for the release of her debut poetry collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, at 9th Ave
Featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin, Nancy Miller Gomez, and Christin Rice 
Presented in partnership with Litquake

https://greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-12-01/9th-ave-jen-siraganian-feat-tongo-eisen-martin-nancy-miller-gomez-and-christin

About Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead
In her debut collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, Jen Siraganian traces a self shaped by history, fragmentation, and memory as she weaves her family’s past in the Middle East with her identity as an Armenian-American woman and mother. Whether portraying a grandparent’s survival during the Armenian Genocide, a father’s childhood in 1940s Palestine, or a son’s birth when “death is a neighbor,” Siraganian’s poems interrogate concepts of home, origins, belonging, and displacement. Using a docupoetic lens, the poet braids narratives with archival photographs and artifacts to chart cycles of cultural and historic erasure while enacting an intertextual conversation with artists of the diaspora, and with art itself. Through poems that seed each other with recurring images of pomegranates, mushrooms, and fire, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead pushes against annihilation with a voice that resists silence.

About Jen Siraganian
Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer, educator, and former poet laureate of Los Gatos, California. Her poetry has appeared in AGNI, Best New Poets 2016 and 2025, The Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, the anthology Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, and elsewhere, and she is a winner of the New Ohio Review Poetry Prize and The Writing Salon’s Jane Underwood Poetry Prize, She served as managing director of Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival, and she is a Lucas Artist Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California. Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead is her first book.

Accessibility
The event is located on the ground level, and there are no stairs between the entrance and event space. 

Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, winner of the 2026 Perugia Press Prize

https://www.jensiraganian.com

3 Dec: Formidable Aznavour

FORMIDABLE ! AZNAVOUR

THE STORY OF A LEGEND

The creators of the mega-hit “Piaf! The Show” return with FORMIDABLE! Anzavour, the story of Charles Aznavour and his exceptional worldwide career, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the singer who personified post-war Parisian Bohemia.

Far more than a tribute, this musical performance is an emotional journey through the life and extraordinary career of Charles Aznavour. Starring the internationally acclaimed Jules Grison, FORMIDABLE! Anzavour is a heartfelt ode to the legendary artist, who left an indelible mark on music history, whose voice still resonates with intensity, and who continues to touch hearts and inspire new generations of admirers.

An inaudible voice and a difficult physique,” that’s how ruthless critics tried to disparage Charles Aznavour’s early career, but the audiences were never wrong. Success after success, the public’s unfailing support brought him to the top of the bill. While on the road to fame, Aznavour became friends with Charles Trenet and Edith Piaf, who took him to the United States before performing in Montreal. 

A keen interpreter of love, an author of more than 800 songs, Aznavour’s legacy spans worldwide. From Ray Charles to Fred Astaire and Shirley Bassey to Bing Crosby, great American artists covered his hits, giving them international fame.

*The duration of the show is 90 minutes without intermission.

https://cherryorchardfestival.org/2026_formidable_aznavour