Photograph by Kristofer
Buckle
-Read a recent interview with Diamanda, done at the Central Park Zoo, from the Sydney Morning Herald by clicking here.
-Diamanda
will be featured in video artist Joe Rees'"California Video"
exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. This exhibit, which
features footage of Diamanda performing "The Litanies of Satan"
opens March 15, 2008. To learn more about this landmark underground
music event, click here.
-On January 19, 2008, writer/genocide scholar Desmond
Fernandes presented a text written by Diamanda at a memorial event
for Hrant Dink, the Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian
newspaper, Agos, who was assassinated in Istanbul one year ago by
a Turkish nationalist. The tribute was held outside the Houses of
Parliament in London. Diamanda's speech was subsequently read during
a brief presentation Desmond Fernandes made for a Hrant Dink Memorial
lecture at London's House of Commons on January 21, 2008. The Kurdish
press covered this last event with a positive and emotional response.
Click here to read Diamanda's
speech. Click here to
read two articles from the Kurdish press.
-Diamanda's music and activism are referenced in
author Desmond Fernandes' new book The Kurdish and Armenian
Genocides - From Censorship and Denial to Recognition?
(Stockholm, 2007). For
more information on this new book, click
here
- To read about Diamanda's five favorite revenge films, as featured in Film In Focus, click here.
