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Chad Evans Wyatt, 1990 - 2017, pho_00275

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Sarita Jasarova

...Czech Republic: Yagori Festival, Goran Zoric and Khamoro Festival Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros Transylvania, Romafest Dance Company and Attila Szalto Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros United Kingdom: The Blake and Cisneros Collections Isaac Blake and Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros United Kingdom: Clog Dancing, Howel Wood, Riley Smith and Damian Le Bas Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros Turkey: The Dr Adrian Marsh Collection Adrian Richard Marsh and Rosamaria Cisneros The Eastern Narrative and Filmic Represen...

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Roma Civil Rights movement

...Czech Lands (abstract) Jana Horváthová Canada and the USA (abstract) Ronald Lee Romania (abstract) Ciprian Necula and Valentin Negoi Argentina and Latin America (abstract) Jorge Bernal Sweden – narrative essay Jan Selling Seven Ages of the Roma Civil Rights Movement in Great Britain Thomas Acton Norway (abstract) Vidar Fagerheim Kalsås Austria (abstract) Erika Thurner Team (15) Adrian Richard Marsh Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka Curator-in-Chief Angéla Kóczé Curator-in-Chief Jan Selling Curator-in-Ch...

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Romani Rose

Chad Evans Wyatt, July 19, 2017, pho_00055

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Viola Parente-Čapkova

...Czech (in ‘Romano džaniben’ 2/2015: http://www.dzaniben.cz/publication.html?t=201502; Multiethnica, forthcoming). Viola Parente-Čapková is teammember for the presentation of the literary work of Kiba Lumberg in the literature section of RomArchive. 2019 Related Articles (1) Artist Kiba Lumberg: defender of human rights, dignity and equality Viola Parente-Čapkova

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Michael Baute

...Czech and Slovak Republics Helena Sadílková The figure of the writing Romni Sofiya Zahova Literature in the Balkans Sofiya Zahova

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Pavlína Matiová

...Czech Republic). Her parents and grandparents were active musicians. Pavlína’s grandmother, for example, was a saxophonist who travelled with her father’s band in order to play at dance events. Pavlína and her sister Jitka graduated as vocalists from International Conservatory of Prague and are both professional musicians. Inka Jurková 2018 Archive (7) Gul'i Daj Recording David Tišer, 2013, the_00451 Gul'i Daj Trailer David Tišer, 2013, the_00452 Short Recording David Tišer, 2013, the_00453 Pavl...

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Norica Costache

Chad Evans Wyatt, 1990 - 2017, pho_00271

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Andrej Blada

...Czech Republic in 2006. Blada spoke the so-called East Slovak or Servika dialect of Romani. During a recording session with the Prague-based researcher Milena Hübschmannová in May 1976, he told a that he had learnt from his father. On this occasion, Andrej Blada also talked about his deceased mother, who had been a popular storyteller who at weekends had been visited by the Roma of her alone for this reason. He remembered all the tales she told him, especially ‘Tündérszép Ilona’ [Beautiful Fay I...

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Milena Hübschmannová

...Czech and Slovak Republics Helena Sadílková

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Martin Gális

...Czech and Slovak Republics Helena Sadílková

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Jana Habrovcová

...Czech Republic), studied Romani studies at the Indology Institute of the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University in Prague and wrote her undergraduate dissertation on the Second World War as remembered by Romani contemporary witnesses (2003). From 2001 to 2003 she was active in assisting Romani victims gain compensation; during that work, she collected testimony by Romani survivors from Slovakia. She co-published Vzpomínky Romů na válku a život po válce (‘Memories of Roma about the war and life...

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Iveta Kokyová

...Czech, but her teacher of Romani from college introduced her to the idea of writing in her mother tongue. She has worked for Romea TV as a Romani presenter and recently became involved in social work helping people suffering from profound hearing loss. She is currently in her first year at the Department of Romani Studies at Charles University in Prague. She lives in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Text samples in RomArchive Kokyová, Iveta. 2014. ‘E daj / Máma’. In: Slunce zapadá už ráno: sborn...

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‘Voices of the Victims’

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With One’s Own Voice

...Czech Republic), which has been collecting interviews since the 1990s. Moreover, Roma and Sinti organisations worldwide have collected accounts by and interviews with survivors; these documents number in their hundreds but have barely been made available to the general public – there is no portal for making such testimonies accessible. An institution comparable to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. (US) or ‘Yad Vashem’ in Jerusalem (Israel) does not exist and is urgen...

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Věra Bílá

Věra Bílá Věra Bílá The group known as Věra Bílá and Kale was an entirely unique phenomenon that originated in Rokycany, a town in the western part of the Czech Republic. In 1995 a group of young men all related to one another (Emil “Bišu” Miko, Emil “Pupa” Miko, Jan Dužda, Deziderius Lučka and Milan Kroka, who e was later replaced by Marek Miko) joined forces with the vocalist Věra Bílá from the Giňa clan of musicians. A genre is born From their parents, all the band members had learned traditi...

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Tera Fabiánová

...Czechoslovakia (Hübschmannova 2015: 349). Her texts, together with the activities of the Romani studies specialist Milena Hübschmannová, influenced and encouraged many Roma in today’s Czech Republic and Slovakia to start writing. For a detailed biography, see ‘Tera Fabiánová’ by Hübschmannova (2003); a list of her works can be found in Steklá (2007). (Philipp Sperner) Literature Fabiánová, Tera. 2000. Tera Fabiánová II: Miro dživipen – Můj život. In: Romano džaniben 3/2000, 72–79 (= http://www...

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Ira Wilhelm

...Czech Republic: Yagori Festival, Goran Zoric and Khamoro Festival Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros Transylvania, Romafest Dance Company and Attila Szalto Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros ‘Life on Wheels’ (1931) at Moscow’s State Gypsy Theatre Romen Brigid O’Keeffe Theatre Romathan Erika Godlová Roma Slave Jesters Mihai Lukács Artist Kiba Lumberg: defender of human rights, dignity and equality Viola Parente-Čapkova Romani authors going digital Sofiya Zahova Romani Literature in Germany Marianne Zwicker H...

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„Raya – Million Alyh Roz“ performs at Yagori 10th Anniversary.

Raya, 2008, dan_00267

...Czech Republic: Yagori Festival, Goran Zoric and Khamoro Festival Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros RomArchive Contact Supporters Imprint Privacy statement Related Articles (1) Norway and Czech Republic: Yagori Festival, Goran Zoric and Khamoro Festival Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros

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Bohumira Smidakova

...Czech Republic, she grew up in northern Spain, a country that very much marked her upbringing. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Spanish and English philology at the University of Oviedo, and then continued her graduate studies in the United States, receiving a master’s from Miami University, Ohio, and a PhD at Georgetown University with a dissertation on ‘The spectral figure of the Gypsy in Spanish cinema’ (2016). In 2015 she participated in the summer course ‘Performing Romani Identities’...