Talking Vartan Podcast

David Medzorian

"Talking Vartan" focuses on the work of The Knights and Daughters of Vartan both in The United States and in Armenia and the humanitarian projects they are involved in on behalf of the Armenian community. Each episode will focus on a Tahlij or Otyag and feature conversations with the leadership and other members who are making a difference.

  1. Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 63: A Holiday Greeting

    12/23/2025

    Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 63: A Holiday Greeting

    The Talking Vartan Podcast Christmas Edition features conversations with Grand Commander Bob Avakian and Grand Chairwoman Lily Sarkissian. Both leaders look back at 2025 and the humanitarian efforts of the Knights and Daughters of Vartan in the year ahead. Father Aram Mirzoyan from Saint Hovhaness Armenian Church in Berd recalls the visit of the Knights and Daughters of Vartan to Tavush, Armenia in September of 2025 and also offers a Christmas prayer in Armenian. The program also includes two musical Christmas offerings by the Medzorian family.

    1 hr
  2. Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Ep. 61 Through an Armenian Lens

    08/31/2025

    Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Ep. 61 Through an Armenian Lens

    In Episode 61 - "Through an Armenian Lens", The Talking Vartan Podcast profiles Asbed Jean Mazmanian of the Knights of Vartan's Hayasdan Lodge in Boca Raton, Florida. As a filmmaker, composer, performer, and activist, Jean Mazmanian has used his skills to tell the story of the Armenian people through video and music, and also to focus on the work of The Knights of Vartan in helping our fellow Armenians who left their homes in Artsakh two years ago. He spoke with the host of the Talking Vartan Podcast, Asbed David Medzorian, from his home in Boca Raton, Florida. Here is a link to Jean Mazmanian's film, "People of the Ark." https://vimeo.com/163354075 Here is a link to the video profiling our Economic Sustainability Program families: https://youtu.be/0fPtA_DTz3k?si=mQhFL4eObIipSDXj Here is a link to Jean Mazmanian's "One World" album: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kMfrGKNpFetsA8WRb-ZNOFEKh8BbknU8Q&si=3NDDWM8F0nyN6a6X

    36 min
  3. Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 60 The Torch is Passed Part 2

    08/04/2025

    Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 60 The Torch is Passed Part 2

    Host and Producer David Medzorian introduces us to the new Grand Chairwoman of The Daughters of Vartan, Avak Dirouhie Lily Sarkissian in Episode 60 of the Talking Vartan Podcast. In Part two of "The Torch Has Been Passed", Avak Dirouhie Lily Sarkissian describes what she wants to accomplish as Grand Chairwoman and why the mission of The Daughters of Vartan has been so dear to her heart for nearly four decades.

    27 min
  4. Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 59: The Torch Is Passed Part 1

    08/03/2025

    Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 59: The Torch Is Passed Part 1

    In Episode 59 of Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast, Host and Producer David Medzorian introduces us to the new Grand Commander of The Knights of Vartan, Avak Sbarabed Bob Avakian of Ararat Lodge in Boston. In this conversation, recorded in Bedford, Massachusetts, Avak Sbarabed describes his goals and hopes for The Knights of Vartan during the next two years, and also why the mission of the Knights of Vartan is more important now than ever before. Our Grand Commander also discusses our Economic Sustainability Program and other projects that he feels are important to our brotherhood and those whom we serve.

    37 min
  5. Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 58 The Passing of the Torch

    07/21/2025

    Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 58 The Passing of the Torch

    In Episode 58 of Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast, we talk with Former Grand Commander of the Knights of Vartan Hunan Arshakian and Former Grand Chairwoman of the Daughters of Vartan Nancy Berberian Thompson. In a conversation with Host and Producer David Medzorian, they discuss their time as leaders of their respective fraternal organizations, their accomplishments, regrets, and their hopes for the future of the Knights and Daughters of Vartan. The Conversations were recorded just before the Knights and Daughters of Vartan Grand Convocation in Washington, DC.

    54 min
  6. Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 57: We Remember in Times Square

    04/17/2025

    Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 57: We Remember in Times Square

    Episode 57 of the Talking Vartan Podcast focuses on the upcoming Armenian Genocide Commemoration to be held in New York's Times Square on Sunday, April 27th. Host and Producer David Medzorian, Asbed of Ararat Lodge No. 1 in Boston, talks with Sbarabed Haig Gulian of Mamigonian Lodge No. 12 in Brooklyn, NY. Sbarabed Haig is Co-Chair of the Times Square Commemoration Committee. He describes how the Times Square Genocide Commemoration came to be forty years, and why it is more important than ever for people to attend and to remember the tragic events of 1915.

    27 min
  7. Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 56: Preserving Our Past

    02/05/2025

    Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Episode 56: Preserving Our Past

    The Knights of Vartan Archive is the focus of Episode 56 of the Talking Vartan Podcast. Host and Asbed David Medzorian of Ararat Lodge talks with Avaktivanabar and NS Arto Kurkjian, also of Ararat Lodge, about the archive and how he and others are preserving nearly 110 years of our fraternal organization's history. Avaktivanabar Arto will share some of the treasures to be found in the archive and also how you and your Talij can contribute to it.

    41 min
  8. Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Ep. 54 A Season of Giving Pt. 1

    12/22/2024

    Talking Vartan: The Knights and Daughters of Vartan Podcast - Ep. 54 A Season of Giving Pt. 1

    Here is Part 1 of a special two-part Talking Vartan Christmas podcast called "A Season of Giving." In this first episode, Host and Producer David Medzorian looks back at 2024 and ahead to 2025 with the Grand Chairwoman of the Daughters of Vartan, Avak Dirouhie Nancy Berberian Thompson. We also receive words of inspiration from Ararat Lodge NS Der Antranig Baljian, Pastor Emeritus of St. Stephen's Armenian Apostolic Church in Watertown, Massachusetts. The program concludes with a Christmas musical offering. Part 2 of "A Season of Giving" will be available on December 26th.

    45 min
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"Talking Vartan" focuses on the work of The Knights and Daughters of Vartan both in The United States and in Armenia and the humanitarian projects they are involved in on behalf of the Armenian community. Each episode will focus on a Tahlij or Otyag and feature conversations with the leadership and other members who are making a difference.

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  • Creator
    David Medzorian
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    59
  • Rating
    Clean
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