Ľudovít Didi
created: 19. 02. 2024 11:43 modified: 23. 02. 2024 07:42
Šarlota Bottová is a graduate of the Secondary Vocational School in Rimavská Sobota, cosmetologist. She started to study fine arts during her studies at high school, where the subject of aesthetics is taught. In aesthetics classes she got acquainted with portraiture, and extended her knowledge further as a self-taught artist, using resources available on the Internet and in professional literature. Her preferred technique is graphite pencil. In 2020, she also began working with colours and continues to pursue portraiture.
In 2020, she received a grant from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture of National Minorities of the Slovak Republic to create a collection of paintings - portraits of Roma writers and women writers.
The portrait depicts the writer Ľudovít Didi.
Ľudovít Didi was born in 1931 in Púchov. In the school year 1951/1952 he started to study at the University of Political and Economic Sciences in Prague, but he was expelled from his studies because of his uncommon views. In 1963 he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Nitra. In 1980 he signed Charter 77. He was rehabilitated by the District National Committee in 1990 and later became the director of the Children's Home in Koliňany. He began his literary activity in 2001. He published his first work, the novel Tales Hallowed by the Wind, at the age of seventy-three in 2004. In 2008, his next literary work, Gypsy's Omen, was published. His novel The Black Roma and White Love (2012), in which he depicts the life peripeties of the protagonist Gejza, a Roma man who falls in love with a non-Roma girl, Marika, presents a more composed narrative. His last novel with autobiographical elements, Rom Tardek and His Fate, was published after the author's death (2013).
The town of Vráble awarded Ľudovít Didi the 2014 Vráble Town Award In Memoriam, and in 2023 a memorial plaque was unveiled in the town. In 2023, President Zuzana Čaputová awarded him the Ľudovít Štúr Order of the Third Class In Memoriam for his extraordinary merits for democracy and its development, human rights and freedoms.
Khatar:
www.litcentrum.sk/autor/ludovit-didi
www.spolok-slovenskych-spisovatelov.sk/products/didi-ludovit/
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
Ján Šándor
created: 19. 02. 2024 10:50 modified: 19. 02. 2024 10:56
Šarlota Bottová is a graduate of the Secondary Vocational School in Rimavská Sobota, cosmetologist. She started to study fine arts during her studies at high school, where the subject of aesthetics is taught. In aesthetics classes she got acquainted with portraiture, and extended her knowledge further as a self-taught artist, using resources available on the Internet and in professional literature. Her preferred technique is graphite pencil. In 2020, she also began working with colours and continues to pursue portraiture.
In 2020, she received a grant from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture of National Minorities of the Slovak Republic to create a collection of paintings - portraits of Roma writers and women writers.
The portrait depicts the writer Ján Šándor.
Ján Šándor was born in 1948 in Brno (former Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic). From the age of 16 until his death he lived in Prievidza. He worked as a manual worker all his life. He published since 1979 in the magazines Železničiar, Bosorka, Smer dnes, Prieboj, Romano nevo ľil, Sam adaj, Romano džaniben. He made his book debut with a collection of short stories and tales called Roma Dream (2004). In 2008, the Jekhetane-Spolu association published a book of Romani fairy tales called Black Rose in Slovak and Romani. In total, he has published 10 books. He was a member of the Slovak Writers' Association. In 2017, he was awarded the Roma Spirit Award in memoriam for his lifetime of literary work and the development of Roma culture.
Sources of information:
ŠÁNDOR, Ján. Black Rose / E kaľi ruža. Prešov: Jekhetane-Spolu Prešov, 2008, 132 p. ISBN 978-80-968744-2-2
www.romaspirit.sk/rocniky/rocnik-2017/nominovani/jan-sandor-prievidza/
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
Dezider Banga
created: 19. 02. 2024 10:28 modified: 19. 02. 2024 10:30
Šarlota Bottová is a graduate of the Secondary Vocational School in Rimavská Sobota, cosmetologist. She started to study fine arts during her studies at high school, where the subject of aesthetics is taught. In aesthetics classes she got acquainted with portraiture, and extended her knowledge further as a self-taught artist, using resources available on the Internet and in professional literature. Her preferred technique is graphite pencil. In 2020, she also began working with colours and continues to pursue portraiture.
In 2020, she received a grant from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture of National Minorities of the Slovak Republic to create a collection of paintings - portraits of Roma writers and women writers.
The portrait depicts the writer Dezider Banga.
Dezider Banga was born on August 24, 1939 in Hradiště. He attended both primary and secondary schools in Uhorske, near Poltár. He received his teaching education at the Pedagogical School in Krupina. He studied Slovak language and History as his majors at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava. He worked as a high school professor at the gymnasium in Trebišov and for the next ten years worked as a playwright of the Literary Editorial Office of Slovak Television in Košice. In 1979 he went to Bratislava and became an editor, and from 1986 he was the editor-in-chief of the social monthly Nová cesta, where he worked until the periodical's stopped publishing in 1990. He was the chairman of the civic association Romaňi kultura and the editor-in-chief of the cultural and social monthly Roma as well as of the children's magazine Luluďi, both published by the above mentioned association. He is also the active businessman – the owner of a printing house.
In 2009, he received a high state award - the Order of Ľudovít Štúr III. Class for extraordinary merits for development in the field of culture, especially Romani literature.
Source:
www.litcentrum.sk/autor/dezider-banga/zivotopis-autora
amariluma.romanokher.sk/encyclopedia/banga-dezider/
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
Zdenka Mahajová
created: 19. 02. 2024 09:44 modified: 19. 02. 2024 09:46
Šarlota Bottová is a graduate of the Secondary Vocational School in Rimavská Sobota, cosmetologist. She started to study fine arts during her studies at high school, where the subject of aesthetics is taught. In aesthetics classes she got acquainted with portraiture, and extended her knowledge further as a self-taught artist, using resources available on the Internet and in professional literature. Her preferred technique is graphite pencil. In 2020, she also began working with colours and continues to pursue portraiture.
In 2020, she received a grant from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture of National Minorities of the Slovak Republic to create a collection of paintings - portraits of Roma writers and women writers.
The portrait depicts the writer Zdenka Mahajová.
Zdenka Mahajová is one of the Roma writers, she lives in Myjava, for many years she worked as a cook in a school canteen. She debuted in 2009 with the autobiographical novel Eclipse, in which the author offers a coming-of-age story of a Roma woman, based on her own experience and real events. In 2011, she published a collection of poems entitled Question Marks. In her poetry, she offers the reader the opportunity to understand her own journey towards herself, a journey from her head to her heart. The collection includes a CD where the author has recorded some of the poems to the sounds of the accompanying music by MAOKA.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
Viliam Didiáš
created: 01. 02. 2024 12:54 modified: 01. 02. 2024 12:55
Viliam Didiáš comes from Zvolen, from a family of musicians. He was gifted his first violin when he was three years old. After graduating from the then Folk School of Arts, he continued his studies at the Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica. After graduation in 1998, he started performing as a freelance artist. He completed several master’s art courses, significantly improving his mastery of playing the violin as well as more mature interpretation of music. He played in various musical groups, at the time of the recording he was a permanent member of the group Manuša, with which he released an album of the same name in 2022.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Viliam Didiáš internal general audience
Júlia Kozáková
created: 01. 02. 2024 06:28 modified: 01. 02. 2024 06:29
The members of the band Manusha (People) are professional musicians. The music project had been initiated by the Slovak singer Julia Kozakova; the musicians are Lubomir Gaspar on cimbalom, Viliam Didias on violin, Vojtech “Belu” Botos on viola and Jan Rigo on double-bass. In 2022, with the support of the Fund for Development of the National Minorities’ Culture in SR, and The Bratislava Self-Governing Region, the band released the album with the same name. The album presents 10 songs – all of them are the traditional Romani songs, played in arrangements by Manusha.
In 2022, the Documentation and Information Centre of the Romani Culture began to document the Romani cimbalom bands, especially those which carry on the family musical tradition.
Júlia Kozáková is a singer and a leading person of the musical project Manusha. She studied ethnomusicology and social anthropology. She is also active in the education of youth in the field of music and singing. The profile interview.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Júlia Kozáková internal general audience
Denisa Havrlova - Speaking
created: 22. 01. 2024 16:20 modified: 22. 01. 2024 16:21
Mgr. art Denisa Havrlova (1971-) is the Romani activist and journalist, born in the village Ocova. She graduated from the Fine Arts College in Bratislava, specialization as a director of documentary film, as well as from the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica, where she studied the documentary film making. She was active in the field of journalism, since 1998 she started to work for the Romani newspaper Romano nevo lil, in Presov. Later on, in 2008, she became its editor-in-chief. For the Slovak Press Agency (TASR) she worked as the visual editor, she also tried the work for the Office of Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Government for the Romani Communities. In her speaking she mentions her first steps in journalism and the following professional growth. She speaks about the Romani topic in the media, the picture of Roma in the media and the Romani media. She speaks about the people who helped her in professional and personal development, and she expresses her gratitude.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Denisa Havrľová general audience internal
Miroslav Pokoš
created: 16. 01. 2024 06:25 modified: 16. 01. 2024 06:26
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.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Romani Miroslav Pokoš internal general audience
Daniel Pokoš
created: 15. 01. 2024 13:41 modified: 15. 01. 2024 14:10
Daniel Pokoš comes from a family with a strong musical tradition. He was taught to play the violin by his father and grandfather, he also learned by listening to violinists from Horehronie. He works in the Pokošovci family cimbalom band. In the interview, he talks about his family and personal history and his perception of music, both traditional and contemporary.
The video recording of the interview was made on August 26, 2022 in Prešov, as part of the cycle of documentation of Roma cimbalom bands in Slovakia.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Romani Daniel Pokoš internal general audience
Living Book Holocaust Ďusi Band Jewish Songs
created: 12. 01. 2024 10:30 modified: 12. 01. 2024 10:34
The family band called Ďusi Band consists of Július Bandy Sr. and his three sons Kristián, Július, and the youngest Samuel. The cimbalom band from Prešov presents the best tradition of the Romani cimbalom groups with the high interpretive art of their members as well as the scope and genre richness of their repertoire. It consists of folklore typically Romani but also Slovak and other nations‘ and nationalities‘, the band also plays classical music and does well in playing music of the genres such as jazz, pop or film tunes.
The performance of two Jewish melodies (the first with unknown name and origin, the second named Foolisch Freilich Dance) was recorded during the Living Book on the Holocaust event, in Prešov, on September 27, 2018.
Musical instruments and musicians who play them
Violin (primas) - Samuel Bandy
Double bass - Július Bandy Jr.
Viola - Kristián Bandy
Dulcimer - Julius Bandy Sr.
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk quartet borrowed Ďusi Band general audience internal
