Marco Pillo - Soledad
created: 05. 12. 2018 20:15 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The performance of the composer, singer, guitar player and cymbalist Marco Pillo was documented during the presentation of the poetry collection by Dusan Onody titled ToYou, Only You, in March 31, 2014 at the Small Stage of the Jonas Zaborsky Theater in Presov. The song Soledad - Solitude is the Spanish song. The song's genre is the slow flamenco compositions.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern flamenco trio Marco Pillo Duo Farsa general audience internal
The Dead Rose
created: 29. 11. 2018 16:26 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The theatre bulletin was published by Cultural Centre of Abov - Romathan Theatre Košice. The cover contains an illustration (without the author´s name). The bulletin offfers the basic informations about the ballad called Zvädnutá ruža (The Dead Rose - 15th premiere), about the authors, the actors. The season 1996/1997. The technical specifications: height: 210 mm, width: 149 mm, material: glossy paper, number of pages: 10, colours: black and white, bond: stapled with 2 paper clips.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material utility 2D artifact graphics Slovak Jekhetane-Spolu general audience internal
The Children´s Cultural Day
created: 29. 11. 2018 16:23 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The invitation for the 5th National Competition of the Children´s Romani Folk Ensembles. The organizers: Romani Culture Bratislava, Podtatranské Cultural Centre Poprad, city of Kežmarok, City Cultural Centre Kežmarok. The invitation contains an introductory illustration (without the author´s name) and a poem (without the author´s name). Technical specifications: height: 200 mm, width: 105 mm, material: paper, number of pages: 4, colours: violet colour on a white background.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material utility 2D artifact graphics Slovak Jekhetane-Spolu general audience internal
I. National Festival of Romani Culture
created: 29. 11. 2018 16:16 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The invitation for the 1st National Festival of Romani Culture (Prešov, 3rd - 4th August 1991) was published by the Cultural Union of Romani nationality citizens of Slovakia, Prešov-based. It contains the speech of the organizing committee in Slovak and Romani language, the photographs, the illustrations, the poems, a fairy-tale, the event program and a Romani proverbs. Technical specifications: height: 205 mm, width: 102 mm, material: glossy paper, 13 pages, black and white.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material utility 2D artifact graphics Slovak Jekhetane-Spolu general audience internal
Tomáš Botló - „I am Fine“
created: 22. 10. 2018 10:15 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomas mixis Romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. The song sung by Tomáš Botló "I am fine" is a cover version /Zámbó Jimmy/. Lyrics by Tomáš Botló. The song is sung with guitar playing, at the social hall of the cultural house in Hubice, district of Dunajská Streda.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern rom-funk solo borrowed Slovak Tomáš Botló general audience internal
Miroslav Rác - "Magic"
created: 22. 10. 2018 10:07 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Miroslav Rác is a graduate of Music Conservatory in Topolcany, where he studied piano. He uses a stage name B.G. and he plays so called gangster romano hip-hop style. He plays the piano since he was 13 years old. Nowadays he acts as a singer, rapper, songs composer, also as a composer of an instrumental compositions for piano. The song was played on a Jazz concert, which was documented in a Cultural Center Hall in a Želiezovce village. Instrumental composition "Magic" is a self composed creation of Miroslav Rác. The drum solo played by Miroslav Talpáš and bass guitar solo played by Anton Bukai.
category: music
tags: instrumental modern rom-jazz trio original Miroslav Rác Anton Bukai Miroslav Talpáš general audience internal
Michal Bársony - A Pedagogue and Painter
created: 12. 10. 2018 09:15 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Born in the village of Kunova Teplica, in the Rožňava district. The mother tongue in the family was Hungarian, traditionally the family carried on blacksmithing and music. He studied Fine Arts and Russian language at the Faculty of Education at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. He took the post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Pedagogy at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra and received the title PaedDr. He does paintings and drawings, thematically is his work predominated by sacral themes, to a lesser extent by the female portraits and landscapes. As a pedagogue, he worked at primary, secondary and higher education institutions, some time he also spent at the State Educational Institute in Bratislava. In the video, he describes an image-making process called Angel, the technique used, material, and how the idea about the theme came to him, and what was the visualization of it.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Michal Bársony general audience internal
Jozef Ferko and Dasha Pollakova
created: 08. 10. 2018 16:54 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The performance was documented on the Small Stage of the Theatre of Alexander Duchnovič in Prešov. The performance contains Romani songs traditional, as well as self-composed by Ondrej Ferko, Jozef Ferko and by the band Kmeťoband. The songs, both solo and duets, are sung by Dáša Polláková and Jozef Ferko. Author and performer of a guitar accompaniment is Jozef Ferko. Both of the interprets belong among the active members of the Romathan Theatre in Košice.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern mix duet borrowed Romani Jozef Ferko Dáša Polláková general audience internal
The Devilish Violin and Guests
created: 08. 10. 2018 15:46 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
A special concert of The Devilish Violin Orchestra and the guests dedicated to the late 75th birthday of Ján Berky Mrenica Sn. (11.5.1939, Očová, † 12.10.2008) took place in Bratislava on 18.11.2014. Ján Berky Mrenica Sn. was a violinist and composer. He founded The Devilish Violin Orchestra, whose chief representative after his death became his son, Ján Berky Mrenica Jr. Ján Berky Mrenica Sn. was widely respected as a representative of the Slovak folk music and a leading member of the SĽUK (Slovak People's Artistic Group) musical ensemble; he participated in the creation of many television music programs. He was also a collector of Roma songs, which he published in 1993 in the book named Nane oda lavutaris. He has worked with many Slovak singers (Martin Babjak, Jana Kocianová and others) and musicians, as part of his musical work. He has received awards for his outstanding cultural achievements in Slovakia: 1995 - The Slovakia's Messenge, 1997 - The Pribina's Cross, 1997- Slovak Gold, 2003 - The Crystal Wing for the year 2002, 2003 - The Award of the City of Zvolen for his life work, 2004 - The Prize of the Decade Slovak Gold, 2006 - The Award of Banska Bystrica Self-Governing Region, the golden CD for the album The Primash Dream, 5 000 pieces sold. In honor of this musician, a concert led by Ján Berky Jr. and The Devilish Violin Orchestra was held, with guests like Jana Hubinska, Jana Orlicka, Marián Čekovský, Martin Valihora, Milan Godla, Ondrej Ferko and others. The recording provides a view of the musical performances of the guests.
category: music
The Bethlehem
created: 05. 10. 2018 14:35 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The artifact was made in 2006, during the project titled Feder dzivipe - Lepsi zivot (Better Life), implemented by the Civic Association for Support and Regional Development and the Office of the Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Government for Romani Communities, supported by the European Social Fund. In cooperation with the Office for Labour, Social Affairs and Family there were 33 unemployed Roma selected who received training; the Association then started searching for permanent jobs for them, in various professions. Some of the worked in crafts and arts workshop lead by the lecturere, the fine arts pedagogue Mgr. Miriam Kavulicova-Tomasiakova, where, besides many other aesthetic and practically used objects the above-mentioned artifact was made. The artifact's author is unknown.
Technique: lace
category: fine arts
tags: sacral material artistic 2D artifact lace general audience internal
