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Creative Writing | The Sunset
During Between Truth and Fiction, a creative writing lab led by Anna Schwartzman of Columbia University at the TUMO Center in Yerevan, teenagers examined deception in all its forms — from Armenian trickster tales to global myths, modern literature, and the illusions of today’s technologies. Through reading, discussion, and handwritten storytelling, they discovered how lies can harm, protect, or illuminate, and how fiction itself is a kind of artful trickery.
Read Karine Hovhannisyan's creative piece, The Sunset, below, and explore other students' pieces on h-pem.
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Creative Writing | 1915
During Between Truth and Fiction, a creative writing lab led by Anna Schwartzman of Columbia University at the TUMO Center in Yerevan, teenagers examined deception in all its forms — from Armenian trickster tales to global myths, modern literature, and the illusions of today’s technologies. Through reading, discussion, and handwritten storytelling, they discovered how lies can harm, protect, or illuminate, and how fiction itself is a kind of artful trickery.
Read Harutyun Makichyan's creative piece, 1915, below, and explore other students' pieces on h-pem.
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Creative Writing | Thomas Cherié, the French Painter
During Between Truth and Fiction, a creative writing lab led by Anna Schwartzman of Columbia University at the TUMO Center in Yerevan, teenagers examined deception in all its forms — from Armenian trickster tales to global myths, modern literature, and the illusions of today’s technologies. Through reading, discussion, and handwritten storytelling, they discovered how lies can harm, protect, or illuminate, and how fiction itself is a kind of artful trickery.
Read Gayane Danagulyan's creative piece, Thomas Cherié, the French Painter, below, and explore other students' pieces on h-pem.
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Creative Writing | CARD BLUES
During Between Truth and Fiction, a creative writing lab led by Anna Schwartzman of Columbia University at the TUMO Center in Yerevan, teenagers examined deception in all its forms — from Armenian trickster tales to global myths, modern literature, and the illusions of today’s technologies. Through reading, discussion, and handwritten storytelling, they discovered how lies can harm, protect, or illuminate, and how fiction itself is a kind of artful trickery.
Read Anna Danielyan's creative piece, CARD BLUES, below, and explore other students' pieces on h-pem.
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Creative Writing | Sky Shepherd
During Between Truth and Fiction, a creative writing lab led by Anna Schwartzman of Columbia University at the TUMO Center in Yerevan, teenagers examined deception in all its forms — from Armenian trickster tales to global myths, modern literature, and the illusions of today’s technologies. Through reading, discussion, and handwritten storytelling, they discovered how lies can harm, protect, or illuminate, and how fiction itself is a kind of artful trickery.
Read Karine Martirosyan's creative piece, Sky Shepherd, below, and explore other students' pieces on h-pem.
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Creative Writing | ‘Metro commuter shorts': 'Welcome to the Red Line’ by Harout Dedeyan
Architectural designer, photographer, and now writer Harout Dedeyan’s daily commute once involved a stroll on the Los Angeles metro, where he would often jot down notes and snap photos of the happenings along his journey. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, commutes have been put on hold, but his project has shifted into gear. In this h-pem exclusive series, titled “Metro commuter shorts,” Harout shares some of the wild stories overheard during these rides. Check out the first installment, “Welcome to the Red Line,” below!
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#IsolateWithHPem episode 10: Journalist Avedis Hadjian
Running out of juice during these trying times? Well, we've got you covered! On April 6, h-pem kicked-off its social connection initiative #IsolateWithHPem. For the foreseeable future, we will periodically post exclusive videos from our talented friends, who are professionals in their respective fields—from cooking and dance to comedy, journalism, and beyond. Their snappy tutorials will help us all combat the challenges posed by physical isolation through a virtual learning hub. Stay tuned!
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#IsolateWithHPem episode 1: NYT best-selling author Chris Bohjalian
Running out of juice during these trying times? Well, we've got you covered! On April 6, h-pem kicked-off its social connection initiative #IsolateWithHPem. For the foreseeable future, we will periodically post exclusive videos from our talented friends, who are professionals in their respective fields—from cooking and dance to comedy, journalism, and beyond. Their snappy tutorials will help us all combat the challenges posed by physical isolation through a virtual learning hub. Stay tuned!
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Creative writing | 'Tales of a volunteer firefighter' by Ani Arzoumanian (Chapter I)
Ever wondered what it takes to become a volunteer firefighter? Full-time premed student and part-time volunteer firefighter, Ani Arzoumanian, shows us the ropes. Check out chapter one of her journey below!
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TUMO x h-pem | 'NaOCl solution' by Artavazd Ganjalyan
Artavazd Ganjalyan is a teenage writer, who experiments with literature. Inspired by post- modernism, paganism, anarchism, and writers like Kafka and Dostoevsky, he creates his own style of writing and tries to break free of formal rules.
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TUMO x h-pem | 'A story written by the earthquake' by Arus Melkonyan
Arus Armen Melkonyan is a girl with endless energy and dreams. She loves to write, draw, sing, and listen to stories from old times. Her biggest goal is to become a human rights activist and lawyer and make the world just a little bit better...
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