Elena Lacková
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:14 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:14
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 portrait of Elena Lacková (March 22, 1921, Veľký Šariš - January 1, 2003, Košice), one of the most important representatives of the Romani social and political emancipation movement during the second half of the 20th century in Slovakia. She was the founder of the modern Romani literature in Slovakia, she assisted with founding of the first post-war Romani organisation in Slovakia (The Association of Gypsies-Romanies, 1969 – 1973), she was one of the founders of the first Romani newspaper issued after 1989, Romano ľil. Elena Lacková became the leader and the symbol of the Romani movement in Slovakia.
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 13:12 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:13
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 provides description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
"When they found out that Jenko was blind, they tore off his clothes and dragged him into the so-called bathroom. Men, women and children entered with him. There were so many of them that Jenko couldn't even move. Foreign bodies rubbed against him, he felt fear, the children began to cry.
Suddenly everything went quiet. The door slammed. Instead of water, there was a hiss from the showers above their heads. The SS let off the gas. In a moment, only the desperate moans of suffocating people, calls for help and banging on the door could be heard inside. Jenko was crying until the last moment: Sarika, my dear, where are you, call me! But his cries and sobs were choked by the gas in his throat.
When all was quiet in the chamber, the death squad ventilated the room and the cleaners came to drag the corpses to the crematorium."
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
Jozef Kozma and the Band – Songs
created: 09. 08. 2022 14:26 modified: 09. 08. 2022 14:31
The concert of the Romani folk bands organised by the Folk group Ďusi Band from Prešov provided a chance for the Jozef Kozma and his band to present their art. The video presents their performance of several dance songs.
Violin: Jozef Kozma Jr.
Cimbalom: Jozef Kozma Sr.
Viola: Jozef Kotlár
Double-bass: Janko Kozma
The video was recorded on November 14, 2019 in The Center for Independent Culture Wave in Prešov.
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk quartet borrowed Jozef Kozma and the Band general audience internal
Magdaléna Kmeťková - The Position of the Author's Documentaries in the Romani Theme
created: 09. 08. 2022 09:38 modified: 09. 08. 2022 09:41
Paper on creation of the author's documentaries about the Romani theme presented at the professional event titled Romani Culture in the Digital Environment, delivered by Mgr. art. Magdaléna Kmeťková.
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 Magdaléna Kmeťková general audience internal
Aktuálny stav rómskych štúdií na Slovensku II.
created: 02. 08. 2022 10:20 modified: 02. 08. 2022 10:44
Druhý ročník konferencie Aktuálny stav rómskych štúdií na Slovensku sa realizoval 3. decembra 2021 v online priestore a v spolupráci s Centrom spoločenských a psychologických vied Slovenskej akadémie vied a Ústavom rómskych štúdií Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove. Cieľom konferencie bolo priniesť nové, aktuálne a aktualizované výstupy vedeckého bádania vedkýň a vedcov, ku ktorým dospeli v priebehu roka 2021.
V troch paneloch bolo prezentovaných dovedna 18 odborných príspevkov, z nich 11 je publikovaných v našom zborníku. Každá štúdia v zborníku má stanovených dvoch recenzentov, ktorých vnímame ako odborných garantov jednotlivých výstupov. Pevne veríme, že štúdie budú prínosné aj pre čitateľov, obohatia ich o nové poznatky, prípadne ich budú motivovať k ďalšiemu poznávaniu.
category: literature
Kristián Bandy and the Band – I am Sick, My Old Mother
created: 19. 07. 2022 12:18 modified: 09. 11. 2022 14:44
The concert of the Romani folk bands organised by the Folk group Ďusi Band from Prešov provided a chance for the Kristián Bandy and his band to present their art. The video presents their performance of several slow songs – halgató.
Violin: Kristián Bandy
Cimbalom: Július Bandy ml.
Double-bass: Adrián Szajko
Acordeon: Lacika Krištof
The video was recorded on November 14, 2019 in The Center for Independent Culture Wave in Prešov.
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk quartet borrowed Kristián Bandy and the Band general audience internal
Milo Suchomel Orchestra - Gypsy Jazz Festival 2015
created: 19. 07. 2022 09:19 modified: 19. 07. 2022 09:34
The 4th year of the Gypsy Jazz Festival, which main organizer is a well-known musician - saxofon player, composer, band leader and promoter Miloslav Suchomel was held on February 2, 2015 in Bratislava at the theater Nová Scéna. Suchomel left behind the original festival form of individual concerts and the visitors were offered a comprehensive performance of his 30 members orchestra with jazz and string sections (the latter led by the concert master of the Slovak National Theater, Arpád Patkoló), which gave place to several guest stars: the American singer Gail Anderson and the Romani singer Dotschy Reinhardt as the singing stars, followed by another American, a saxofon player Bill Evans. The styled Romani dance was performed by the dancers' group of Simona Horváthová. Music of the festival oscilated between the genres, mainly those of jazz, latino, oriental music and creations growing from the traditional Romani jazz. The festival was accompanied by the exhibition of fine art produced by academic painters Vladislav Zabel, Pavel Pokorný and Jozef Srna jr. The paintings were offered to the visitors for possible purchase.
The video offers the shortened version of the original concert broadcasted on RTVS in 2021.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern rom-jazz orchestra borrowed multilingual Milo Suchomel general audience internal
Maristella - About Family and Elena Lacková
created: 18. 07. 2022 13:48 modified: 18. 07. 2022 13:55
Sister Maristella, by civic name Mária Kačová, is a nun of the Congregatio Jesu, the catholic female congregation known by popular name as „The English Virgins“. Sister Maristella lives in Prešov, helping the abused women, mothers with children and homeless people. She organizes charity where people donate food and clothing. For decades she has been an organist in the concathedral of St. Nicholas in Prešov. In 2009 she received the City of Prešov Award. Her father was a musician, a member of The Dukla Folk Art Ensemble (PUĽS). She is the niece of the first Romani writer in Slovakia, Elena Lacková.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Maristella general audience internal
Vojtech Kӧkény - The Settlement Podhorany
created: 30. 06. 2022 13:07 modified: 18. 07. 2022 08:59
The 61 cm x 43 cm drawing shows a portrait of a man from a Romani settlement in Podhorany. The technique used is red chalk on paper. The author is Vojtech Kökény. The image is signed in the lower right corner of the drawing, the drawing was created in 2001. The painting was part of the collection built by the civic association Jekhetane-Spolu, which supported the work of Romani artists.
PhDr. Vojtech Kökény (Kökény Kotyer Béla) was born in 1956 in a Romani settlement in the village of Cakov near Rimavská Seč. He came from a musical family. For many years he worked as a worker on various construction sites in Slovakia and abroad. He devoted himself to fine arts, politics and local activism. As he himself mentions in one of the interviews, he was not a prolific painter. He worked with pencils, water and oil paints. He exhibited his works mainly in the Romani Traveling Gallery, organized by the Civic Association Jekhetane-Spolu under the leadership of Daniela Hivešová-Šilanová. From 1995 to 2005 he worked at the District Office in Rimavská Sobota as a social worker.
He was a member of the Roma Civic Initiative (ROI) party, later joined the Roma Intelligence for Coexistence (RIS) party, and ended his political career in the Roma Coalition Party (SRK). In 2005, he ran for Headperson of the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact drawing Vojtech Kӧkény general audience internal
Vojtech Kӧkény - Pegasus
created: 30. 06. 2022 12:54 modified: 18. 07. 2022 08:59
The drawing measuring 61 cm x 43 cm shows a portrait of a horse - Pegasus. The technique used is red chalk on paper. The author is Vojtech Kökény. The image is signed in the lower right corner of the drawing, the drawing was created in 2001. The painting was part of the collection built by the civic association Jekhetane-Spolu, which supported the work of Romani artists.
PhDr. Vojtech Kökény (Kökény Kotyer Béla) was born in 1956 in a Romani settlement in the village of Cakov near Rimavská Seč. He came from a musical family. For many years he worked as a worker on various construction sites in Slovakia and abroad. He devoted himself to fine arts, politics and local activism. As he himself mentions in one of the interviews, he was not a prolific painter. He worked with pencils, water and oil paints. He exhibited his works mainly in the Romani Traveling Gallery, organized by the Civic Association Jekhetane-Spolu under the leadership of Daniela Hivešová-Šilanová. From 1995 to 2005 he worked at the District Office in Rimavská Sobota as a social worker.
He was a member of the Roma Civic Initiative (ROI) party, later joined the Roma Intelligence for Coexistence (RIS) party, and ended his political career in the Roma Coalition Party (SRK). In 2005, he ran for Headperson of the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact drawing Vojtech Kӧkény general audience internal
