Armenian Coffee and Conversations
Be the Change Series
Saturday, April 30
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Join us for a special event featuring an Armenian Coffee tasting, presented by Urartu Coffee, followed by a discussion of coffee in Armenian culture and coffee reading with Ani Carla Kalafian
Join us for a special event, featuring Armenian Coffee tasting and discussions on coffee reading. From 1pm-2pm, join us for an Armenian coffee tasting presented by Urartu Coffee, a local family operated business. Small cups of Armenian coffee will be prepared and served on location. Available while supplies last. http://urartucoffee.com/
From 2pm-3pm, sit back and watch a conversation style interview with Ani Carla Kalafian, who will discuss traditions of coffee in Armenian culture and the craft of coffee reading. Topics will include how Armenian coffee is prepared and served, coffee reading as an energy based intuitive form of healing, and how communal and intimate spaces are created for the exchange of thoughts and ideas, especially for women. The significance of the ritual and intention behind coffee making will be discussed and how it is often a family tradition passed down more often than not to girls. Some background will be shared about the symbols in the natural patterns of the coffee, and how coffee reading is a divination practice familiar to Armenians as well as others in the region.
Afterwards, winners from the opportunity drawing to win an Armenian coffee mug will be announced. To enter the opportunity drawing, take the survey linked here.
Glendale Central Library
Established in 1906.
Library services in Glendale were first provided in 1906. The women of the Tuesday Afternoon Club, a social and philanthropic organization, raised money through a series of lectures to fund a library collection. The library opened in a renovated pool room at Third and E (Wilson and Everett) Streets with seventy books, soon supplemented by a State Traveling Library of fifty more, and served a population of 1,186.
In 1907, the City Trustees passed Ordinance 53 which established and supported a library which "...shall be forever free to the inhabitants and nonresident taxpayers of the City of Glendale..." The first year the library had 251 books, 165 registered patrons, and a budget of $248.88.
In 1913, a Carnegie grant of $12,500 made possible the construction of the main library at Kenwood and Fifth (Harvard Street). The building was completed and dedicated November 13, 1914.
