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1:00pm - Registration at the Art Museum steps. ~2:00pm - 1.5 mile walk starting at the Art Museum steps and continuing along Kelly Drive. 3:00pm - Everyone will gather in front of the Art Museum steps for a 45 minute commemorative program featuring local dignitaries, clergymen, various performances by Armenian youth, culminating in a requiem service ("Hokehankist") to remember those victims that perished in the Genocide. PROGRAM Musical Selection Prelude - Nareg Soghomonian Master of Ceremonies - Dr. Ara Chalian (Committee Co-Chairperson) National Anthems - Performed by Anahit Zargarian Committee Welcome - Vicken Bazarbashian (Committee Co-Chairperson) Address - Mr. Ibrahim Hamid, Treasurer, Darfur Alert Coalition Poetry Performance - Meredith Avakian (Committee Member) Address - Daylin Leach, Pennsylvania State Senator Keynote Address - John Marshall Evans, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia Armenian Dance Performance - Ararat Dance Ensemble of Philadelphia Message - Rev. L. Nishan Bakalian Requiem (Hokehankist) Service - His Eminence Archbishop Yeghishe Gizirian
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