Ready, set, run! Hundreds of runners and walkers across the globe will unite in support of AGBU Camp Nairi! We’re excited to partner with AGBU Silicon Valley Chapter to host the Northern California run/walk on Sunday, September 13th, part of the first-ever AGBU Global Run. In cities far and wide, team members will lace up and hit the pavement for a 10K run or 5K run/walk.
Our AGBU Global Run is dedicated to the youth of tomorrow – the children of Armenia and Artsakh who have endured years of war, loss, displacement, and uncertainty since 2020. Camp Nairi has offered an opportunity for healing, reflection, and mindful integration of children suffering from unthinkable traumas.
We’re honored to welcome His Eminence Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, along with Rev. Fr. Mardiros Chevian, Dean of St. Nersess, and other clergy and friends of the Seminary.
We hope you can join us as we celebrate this wonderful milestone together!
The Other Minds Festival turns 30! On Thursday–Sunday, October 8–11, 2026, our annual showcase for composers will be held at the Brava Theater in San Francisco’s Mission District.
The Festival opens with Joseph Bohigian’sI Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment, an evening-length multimedia work about the life of Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov performed by Khatchadour Khatchadourian and Ensemble Decipher. Tara Baghdassarian, art director; Karo Yagjian, costume designer.
On Night 2, the Swiss-born, New York-based Sylvie Courvoisier combines European chamber music and American avant-jazz in a performance for solo piano. Mahsa Vahdat performs original song settings of Persian poetry, accompanied by setar player Atabak Elyasi. Night 2 ends with string quartet music by Juri Seo performed by Friction Quartet.
Night 3 opens with Kristin Norderval and Elizabeth Gaver, who will present a program for voice, live electronics, Hardanger fiddle, and rebec that reflects on historical and contemporary Norwegian-American exchange. Foreign/Domestic – Zachary James Watkins and John Diaz presents a duo of guitar/electronics and drums. The evening ends with an enlivening set of “Blacktronika” from one of the world’s experts: King Britt on live electronics.
At the final concert of OM 30, Charlemagne Palestine, sovereign of embodied minimalism, graces us with a performance for solo piano.
About Other Minds:
Founded in 1993, Other Minds is a leading proponent for new and experimental music in all its forms, bringing together artists and audiences of diverse traditions, generations, and cultural backgrounds. By fostering cross- cultural exchange and creative dialogue, and by encouraging exploration of areas in new music seldom touched upon by mainstream music institutions, OM is committed to expanding and reshaping the definition of what constitutes “serious music.” From festival concerts, weekly radio broadcasts, and the commissioning of new works, to producing and releasing CDs, to archival preservation of thousands of concerts and composer interviews (which OM distributes free on the internet), OM has become one of the world’s major conservators of new music’s ecology.
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