Mgr. Klara Kohoutová, PhD., Mgr. Jana Papcunová, PhD.: Hate Speech against Roma
created: 03. 05. 2023 15:39 modified: 03. 05. 2023 15:40
The third year of the conference titled The Current State of Romani Studies III; the organizer was the State Scientific Library in Prešov, a documentation and information center of Romani culture. The Center of Social and Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Roma Studies of the Prešov University in Prešov collaborated. It was held on 1-2 December 2022 at the University of Prešov. The hybrid form enabled the participation of scientists from abroad as well. There were 23 contributions in five panels.
In the panel Roma in the Digital Environment, a presentation called Hate Speech against Roma was given by Mgr. Klára Kohoutová, PhD. and Mgr. Jana Papcunová, PhD.,; The Institute of Social Sciences CSPV SAV, v.v.i. The topic is hate speech in the online space. The video was created on December 1, 2022.
category: speaking
tags: academic report monologue conference Slovak Klara Kohoutová Jana Papcunová academic audience internal
Ing. Anna Kalistová, PhD. - The Institute of Social Sciences SAS, CSPV v.v.i.
created: 03. 05. 2023 15:34 modified: 03. 05. 2023 15:37
The third year of the conference titled The Current State of Romani Studies III; the organizer was the State Scientific Library in Prešov, a documentation and information center of Romani culture. The Center of Social and Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Roma Studies of the Prešov University in Prešov collaborated. It was held on 1-2 December 2022 at the University of Prešov. The hybrid form enabled the participation of scientists from abroad as well. There were 23 contributions in five panels.
Ing. Anna Kalistová, PhD., head of the organizational branch of the SVÚ CSPV SAS, v.v.i., opened the conference and informed about the current research conducted by the SAS. The video is a recording of her contribution, recorded on December 1, 2022.
category: speaking
tags: academic report monologue conference Slovak Anna Kalistová academic audience internal
Miroslav Pokoš
created: 05. 04. 2023 13:52 modified: 27. 10. 2023 13:00
He comes from the village of Šumiac, from the family of musicians. His father's family are the Pokoš musicians from Šumiac, his mother's family the Harvans from Telgárt. These are the localities in which guitar or keyboard instruments never dominated. Instead, violin, accordion, double-bass and cimbalom were key instruments played there. He plays the double-bass, violin and accordion. He is a musical self-taught person. The Pokošovci Band plays both Slovak and Romani folklore music from the region of Horehronie.
His brothers Rado and Stano and him released the album Folk Band Pokošovci 2, which reached the 15th place in the World Music Chart Europe, in January 2020.
The photos were taken during documentation of the Pokošovci Band during implementation of the project focused on documenting the Romani family cimbalom bands.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Miroslav Pokoš general audience internal
Vladimír Slávik
created: 05. 04. 2023 13:45 modified: 30. 10. 2023 09:53
He comes from Banská Bystrica. He was taught about music by his grandfather, who himself played accordion and loved Romani music. He also is passionate about Romani music, he finds it his favourite. He plays in the bands from Horehronie Region - the Pokoš, the Haviars, the Gabriš.
He studied playing cimbalom in Elementary Music School in Banská Bystrica. He is a member of several folk groups. Currently, he is a student of the Jessenius Medical Faculty in Martin, Comenius University. If compared to Slovak folk music, the Romani folk music is more temperamental, more sensitive to music and harmony.
The photos were taken when documenting the band Pokošovci, during the project of documentation of the Romani family cimbalom bands.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Vladimír Slávik general audience internal
Ľubomír Gašpar
created: 05. 04. 2023 13:31 modified: 30. 10. 2023 09:57
Mgr. art Ľubomír Gašpar comes from Detva, currently lives and works in Bratislava. He studied cimbalom at the Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica, later at the Ján Albrecht Music and Art Academy in Banská Štiavnica. Currently, he is a student at JAMU in Brno. In addition to being a professional musician, he also works as a music teacher at the Dezider Kardoš Private Conservatory in Topoľčany. His musical direction is multi-genre, combining elements of folklore, classical music and jazz. He is part of several musical groups, e.g. SOLE, Ľubomír Gašpar Cimbal Project, with which he recorded two albums: The Point Of View, which won the Rádio Heads Award for the best album in the World Music category in 2017, and Ľubozvuk (2021). He is also a permanent member of the group Manuša, with whom they released an album of the same name in 2022.
The photos were taken during the documentation of the Manuša music project in August 2022 in Prešov.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Ľubomír Gašpar general audience internal
A Rom from Feather-Bed or Enter Majority
created: 23. 03. 2023 11:57 modified: 23. 03. 2023 12:08
A monodrama, the author is František Balog who also plays the title role, is based on his own life story. Jovial and witty, with large dose of sarcasm, the scenes from the life of the Romani boy growing in orphanage are accompanied by songs sung by the actor who also plays piano. The drama illustrates the principal events and meetings, successes and failures which shaped the protagonist from his childhood to adulthood. The autobiographic elements make the monodrama an extremely personal statement of the most sensitive talented artist who inspite of his social handicap is able to find his own place in life and achieve his goals without losing his compassion and optimism. The under title of the drama – Enter Majority insinuates – according to its author – his own coming of age and becoming adult; in the same time it speaks about acts of people who smuggled him into the mainstream society, something what first seemed next to impossible. The monodrama is performed in RS9 Színház in Budapest, Hungary, during the program of the theater festival Roma Heroes.
Screenplay - František Balog; Director - Juraj Bielik; Performer – František Balog
Frantisek Balog was born on November 9, 1982 to underage Romani mother in a Romani settlement. He grew up in the orphanage SLON (An Elephant) in Šarišské Michaľany, he sang in their choir and became a well-known child TV star. Later, he studed acting in the Secondary School of Arts in Košice (2002 – 2005), after graduation he went on College for Musical Arts where he specialized in musical acting (2005 – 2008). He was a member of various theaters: The Arena Theater, The International Theater Meteorit, The L+S Theater, The Bolek Polivka’s Theater, Studio 12, The Theater a.ha, The Bibiana Theater, The State Theater in Košice (since 2010 on). His roles on the stage include dozens of smaller as well as bigger roles. In several TV series he managed to secure several smaller roles as well. He also works at the Actor Theater in Košice, for which he plays, writes and produces his own plays.
category: drama
tags: theater comedy spoken drama stage original Slovak František Balog Juraj Bielik general audience internal
Zuzana Andrejová - Collectibles documenting Roma culture in the Regional Museum in Prešov
created: 23. 03. 2023 11:24 modified: 31. 03. 2023 13:57
Expert paper presentation on the collectibles documenting the Romani culture in the Regional Museum in Prešov, presented at the conference titled Romani Culture in the Digital Environment, the speech delivered by Mgr. Zuzana Andrejová, PhD.
The event with international participation was organised by the State Scientific Library in Prešov, its documentation and information center of Romani culture, in cooperation with the Methodological and Pedagogical Center in Prešov on November 20, 2019.
category: speaking
tags: academic presentation monologue conference Slovak Zuzana Andrejová academic audience internal
Alexander Daško
created: 22. 03. 2023 15:21 modified: 22. 04. 2024 07:35
Alexander Daško was born in the settlement in Čierny Balog, the youngest of 13 children. According to his words, it was music which became his ticket into the world; which he both studies and performes since his childhood, being able to do so thanks to a strong sense of responsibility of his parents. Nowadays a musician well known not only in Slovakia has his own band, three children and a Russian wife. The family si, therefore, multicultural, speaking Romani, Slovak, Russian and English languages. He graduated from conservatoire in Žilina, later on from the Faculty of Pedagogy of Matej Bel University. In Banská Bystrica he has organised already 15 years of the event – the festival Gypsy Fire; he established his private musical school for talented Romani and non-Romani children.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Alexander Daško general audience internal
Magdaléna Rothová - Roma Spirit in Kežmarok
created: 21. 03. 2023 13:11 modified: 21. 03. 2023 13:14
Magdaléna Rothová is the director of the Association for Culture, Education and Communication (ACEC), she is also the senior lecturer of the Platform for Better Health of Vulnerable Groups and participates at the trainings of the health asistants. Currently, she works full time for the Roma Spirit project as its organiser and producer. She is also actively participating at the projects of health education for the socially weak groups Together for Better Health, Lunik IX, The Healthy Communities. In the interview she provides information about the Roma Spirit Project and its beginning, its uniqueness, the mission and significance for the society as well as its vision for its future development.
category: speaking
tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Magdaléna Rothová Roma spirit general audience internal
Vojtech Botoš
created: 13. 03. 2023 09:19 modified: 13. 03. 2023 09:19
Mgr. art. Vojtech „Bélu“ Botoš comes from Blhovce in the district of Rimavská Sobota, currently lives and works in Bratislava. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, majoring in playing the viola. At present, he plays professionally in the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of various musical groups performing various musical genres, both at home as well as in abroad. He is a member of the violin virtuoso Pavel Šporcl's band, he also plays in the group Géza Hosszú-Legocky & The5DeViLs, but also in the SND drama group and is also a permanent member of the group Manuša, with which they released an album of the same name in 2022.
The photos were taken during the documentation of the Manuš music project in August 2022 in Prešov.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Vojtech Botoš general audience internal
