O poštaris avel, telegramos anel (The Postman Comes, He Brings the Telegram) - Gitana and Ďusi Band
created: 10. 10. 2022 10:00 modified: 10. 10. 2022 10:04
Adriana Drafiová, musical accompaniment by the Ďusi Band, the folk cimbalom orchestra. The video was recorded on November 19, 2021 in Prešov, The Center for Independent Culture Wave. Gitana (A. Drafiová) - vocals, Július Bandy - cimbalom, Samuel Bandy - violin, Roland Horváth - clarinet, saxophone, Kristián Bandy - viola, Július Bandy junior - double bass.
Gitana
Musical talent is her family heirloom. Gitana (Adriana Drafiová) used her gift and became an accomplished singer of mainly electro swing and gypsy swing. Already at the age of seventeen, she sang with various bands abroad, performed in Hungary with Jozef Szabo, a respected singer, and later on her years long collaboration with the Kmeťoband began. She also sang a duet with Juraj Benetin, the lead singer of Korben Dallas, which is the opening song of Pixar's animated short film Lava from 2015.
Ďusi Band
Romani family folk band from Prešov, led by the cimbalist Július Bandy. He and his three sons produce and preserve the best traditions of Romani dulcimer music in Slovakia. They perform independently or in collaboration with a wide range of Roma and non-Roma artists. The guest member is Roland Horváth (clarinet, saxophone) from Rimavská Sobota.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk quintet Slovak Romani Ďusi Band Gitana Adriana Drafiová general audience internal
Alexander Mušinka – The Svinia Project 3. Results and Closing of the Project.
created: 04. 10. 2022 09:01 modified: 04. 10. 2022 09:05
Alexander Mušinka is a cultural anthropologist, an expert in Ruthenian-Ukrainian as well as in Romani issues. He studied ethnology and history at Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. Since 1997, he has been working as a researcher at the University of Prešov in Prešov, currently at the Institute of Roma Studies, and is active in the non-governmental sector. He participated in many research, non-governmental and development projects related to Roma communities, especially in the Eastern Slovakia. He is the chairman of the Society for Research and Development of Minority Groups of the Slovak Republic - MINORITAS, the chairman of the Regional Center for Roma Issues in Prešov and he is also the vice-chairman of the Center for Anthropological Research in Prešov. His publishing activity, whether as author or co-author, is rich, resulting in dozens of publications, anthologies and scientific studies. The Svinia Project was a development project that began in 1998 in the Roma settlement of Svinia with Alexander Mušinka as its coordinator.The third part of the interview is focused on the changes and improvements of the environment within the settlement. What steps were taken towards solutions in the issues of drinking water, sewerage or housing.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective factual monologue guided Slovak Alexander Mušinka The Institute for Romani Studies general audience internal
Alexander Mušinka – The Svinia Project 2. Supporting Education and Employment.
created: 04. 10. 2022 08:53 modified: 04. 10. 2022 08:56
Alexander Mušinka is a cultural anthropologist, an expert in Ruthenian-Ukrainian as well as in Romani issues. He studied ethnology and history at Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. Since 1997, he has been working as a researcher at the University of Prešov in Prešov, currently at the Institute of Roma Studies, and is active in the non-governmental sector. He participated in many research, non-governmental and development projects related to Roma communities, especially in the Eastern Slovakia. He is the chairman of the Society for Research and Development of Minority Groups of the Slovak Republic - MINORITAS, the chairman of the Regional Center for Roma Issues in Prešov and he is also the vice-chairman of the Center for Anthropological Research in Prešov. His publishing activity, whether as author or co-author, is rich, resulting in dozens of publications, anthologies and scientific studies. The Svinia Project was a development project that began in 1998 in the Roma settlement of Svinia with Alexander Mušinka as its coordinator. In the second part of the interview, he talks in more detail about specific activities in the settlement, about civic participation of local Roma, about support for education and employment. Why it was necessary to build a kindergarten for local children, how they supported children's meals at school, up to extracurricular activities and establishment of various workshops for Roma adults in the settlement.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective factual monologue guided Slovak Alexander Mušinka The Institute for Romani Studies general audience internal
Alexander Mušinka – The Project Svinia 1. Starting points of the Project.
created: 03. 10. 2022 13:07 modified: 03. 10. 2022 15:27
Alexander Mušinka is a cultural anthropologist, an expert in Ruthenian-Ukrainian as well as in Romani issues. He studied ethnology and history at Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. Since 1997, he has been working as a researcher at the University of Prešov in Prešov, currently at the Institute of Roma Studies, and is active in the non-governmental sector. He participated in many research, non-governmental and development projects related to Roma communities, especially in the Eastern Slovakia. He is the chairman of the Society for Research and Development of Minority Groups of the Slovak Republic - MINORITAS, the chairman of the Regional Center for Roma Issues in Prešov and he is also the vice-chairman of the Center for Anthropological Research in Prešov. His publishing activity, whether as author or co-author, is rich, resulting in dozens of publications, anthologies and scientific studies. The Svinia Project was a development project that began in 1998 in the Roma settlement of Svinia with Alexander Mušinka as its coordinator. In the first part of the interview, he tells how the project was started, how it was financed and what were the consequence of the huge floods in 1998.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective factual monologue guided Slovak Alexander Mušinka The Institute for Romani Studies general audience internal
The Live Book - Lomnické čháve
created: 22. 09. 2022 09:38 modified: 24. 10. 2022 09:27
Lomnické čháve is the rom-pop band with Milan Polhoš as the lead musician and singer and managed by Tomáš Slebodník. Their repertoir includes mainly the Romani folk songs and songs from other nations. The band's performance is in pop style, using electronic music instruments. The video documents the interview with the members of the band and their manager which was recorden on July 8, 2020 in Prešov, in the Center for Independent Culture Wave.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue guided Slovak Romani Lomnické čháve general audience internal
Prisoners
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:52 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:55
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author adds the description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
“Men, exhausted from sleepless night and constant hunger struggled to line up; the procession of black heads set out marching through Prešov. Like a black snake it moved from the main square to the train station. Poor people expressed their sorry for Roma, some of them even having tears in their eyes. But there were others who began shouting: Look, Gypsies are coming! They already lead the Gypsies! They will make them into rubber and soap!
Such words etched deeply into the souls of the marching Romanies.“
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Forest
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:44 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:50
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author adds the description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
In the morning, the door opened and a gendarme was standing there wide stance, a pickaxe in his hand. With a smirk on his face he roars: “Get up, stinkers! Get up!“ Then he twisted his face in disgust and spat: “What a stench, dogs. Everyone out, in front of the barracks. Understood, bastards?”
Men were coming out of other barracks as well. Lajko’s heart was beating furiously. Not sure what to expect he looked around. The headman of the station stood before them and began: “You are convicts under the law. You’re to do forced labor. Meaning you’re to build the railway from Prešov to Strážske. The railway is the absolute must for the German army’s victorious fight! Whoever breaks the rules of work or try to escape the camp will be sent to a court. Rest assured, we are allowed to deliver severe punishments. That’s what the Slovak law says! To violate it is tantamount to suicide.”
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
The Escape
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:42 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:43
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author adds the description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
“Where to go? Lajko came to a decision: they must run so that they wouldn’t be caught right there. They started crossing the field, all the while keenly searching their surroundings. They ran to the tiny river. The water splashed calmly over the stones. Morning birdsong rang out from the willows and alders. They even heard a nightingale trilling. Oh, how they envied the little birds their freedom!
They managed to reach the forest, where their huts were visible on the hill."
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Concentration Camp
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:38 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:39
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author adds the description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
"A freight train was standing at the railway station. The last car was open and in front of it was an armed SS man. The policeman spoke to him, he knew German, and then moved Jenko and Šarika to him. The SS man saluted and shouted: Heil Hitler!
Jenko and Šarika got into the carriage and the door slammed shut behind them. The terrible stench of sweat and excrement hit them fully. Men, women and children were crowded together like animals."
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Death Sentence
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:30 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:33
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author adds the description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
"The SS soldiers began laughing and yelling: Banditen! Partisanen! They caught everyone who managed to run from the tight circle of soldiers. While one group drove the Roma into the huts, the other group doused them with gasoline and then set the settlement to fire. Oh, horror upon horror!
Feri shouted: Why shall we die like cattle? We are people! Aren’t you afraid of God? Taking so many lives! Flames erupted from the huts. Human roars and cries rang out from them. Men pounded on the doors, on the walls, pressed to the small windows and begged for mercy. All in vain.
As the smoke thickened with the smell of burnt flesh and bones, some of the guards’ stomachs churned. They vomited. The SS commander roared: This is how I will eliminate all inferior and degraded races! We, the Germans, have lit a cleansing fire and will rid the world of filth!"
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
