How Yeghiazarian established Golden Thread is, in itself, a part of her journey of adaptation and innovation, and her early exposure to performing arts. As a child in Iran, Yeghiazarian was around artists, performers, and musicians from the moment she was born. Her parents met and fell in love as teenagers and married despite their families’ oppositions to it – ostensibly because of their religious differences: her father was from an Armenian Christian family and her mother was from a Muslim family. Yeghiazarian’s mother began performing in films when she was seventeen and continued to do so after marrying her father. “Initially, my father joined the Iranian Royal Air Force but soon left it to open a café gallery, “Monde” on Hafiz Street.”
