Day 5 continued with the last topic for creative writing training, which was Writing for Peace. The excercize for this topic was based on a piece of writing by an Armenian outstanding writer Hovhannes Tumanyan. His piece entitles A Drop of Honey was representing a conflict situation around sparing a drop of honey. The students were asked to rewrite the piece of review it based on the current realities.
The special guest for the day was Asya Darbiyan, a Georgian-Armenian translator who had a talk about the difficulties and specifities of translating from and into these two languages
See the photo report of the day’s activities.
The last day of the camp activities was marked by an outstanding event which participation of the project participants. An open mic night was organized and the floor was offered to all students and mentors to read out loud their own pieces in English and in the original languages. You can see all readings on ARI Literature Foundation’s Facebook page.
