Marcel Courthiade
created: 16. 01. 2023 15:00 modified: 01. 02. 2023 10:54
The photos from the Jekhetane-Spolu Association archive, which picture Marcel Courthiade, a leading Romani figure, during the 5th Congress of the International Romani Union (IRU), which took place on 24.-28. July, 2000 in Prague.
One of the photos shows him together with the prominent Czech romologist Milena Hübschmannova (1933-2005). The photo was published in the Romano nevo ľil (the Romani newspaper) in 448-454/2000 on page 14.
Marcel Courthiade was a French linguist and scientist. He studied medicine at the University in Clermont-Ferrand, later he abandoned this field of studies. He started studying the Slavonic languages, later he gained strong expertise in the Romani language, thanks to his in-depth research of it.
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Ján Cibuľa
created: 16. 01. 2023 13:50 modified: 16. 01. 2023 13:51
The photos from the Jekhetane-Spolu Association, which capture Ján Cibuľa, one of the leading Romani figures, during the 5th Congress of the International Roma Union (IRU), which took place on July 24-28, 2000 in Prague.
The photo was published in the Romano nevo ľil (the Romani newspaper) no. 448-454/2000 on p. 14.
Ján Cibuľa, MD. (* January 7, 1932, Klenovec – † August 18, 2013, Bern) was a Slovak doctor of Romani origin. Co-founder of the Gypsies-Roma Union in Slovakia, participant of the first meeting of the International Romani Union in Orpington. He led a twelve-member delegation of Western and Eastern Roma to the UN headquarters in New York and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
He graduated from the gymnasium in Rimavská Sobota. His father was a violinist. In 1957, he became the first Roma in what was then Czechoslovakia to graduate from the Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In 1968, he became a co-founder of the Gypsies-Roma Union.
He was the first President of the IRU in 1971.
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Martin Kaleja-Januv
created: 10. 01. 2023 11:11 modified: 10. 01. 2023 11:12
Photos from art workshops organized by OZ Jekhetane-Spolu. Digitized analog camera film. The place, time and photographer were not mentioned for the analogue film.
The photograph was created as part of the project We Sing and Paint for Love during the workshops in Lipovce and Vyšné Ružbachy in 2001. Artworks and wooden sculptures were exhibited in several cities in Slovakia in that year and in the following years.
Martin Kaleja-Januv (1984-) was born in a Romani settlement in Jarovnice where he lives. His relation to fine arts was built during his years in elementary school, under the guidance of Art Education teacher, Jan Sajko. He continued his studies at the Secondary School of Arts in Prešov, in the field of art carving. Besides painting and drawing he keeps woodcarving, in which the religious motives dominate. Martin Kaleja-Januv works at the local elementary school in Jarovnice as a teacher's assistant.
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Július Lakatoš
created: 10. 01. 2023 10:45 modified: 10. 01. 2023 10:47
Photos from art workshops organized by the Civic Association Jekhetane-Spolu. Digitized analog camera film. The place,the time and photographer name were not mentioned with analog film.
The photograph was created as part of the project We Sing and Paint for Love during the workshops in Lipovce and Vyšné Ružbachy in 2001. Artworks and wooden sculptures were exhibited in several cities in Slovakia in that year and in the following years.
Július Lakatoš - an naive painter, came from the village of Selice. He started to draw the first pictures with pencil, later with tempera. Years later he started painting on canvas. Landscapes are the dominant motif of his works. He painted exclusively in the winter season and at night, when the ideas that emerged while fishing on the river Váh matured in him. He did not depict the Romani theme unless requested by the Roma museum. His dream was to paint an old Romani pero (a Romani street, ghetto) where he grew up.
Source:
RNĽ č. 384-391/1999, str.12, Róm s maliarskou paletou a štetcami
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Jaroslav Cicko
created: 10. 01. 2023 10:34 modified: 10. 01. 2023 10:34
Photos from art workshops organized by OZ Jekhetane-Spolu. Digitized analog camera film. The place, time and photographer were not mentioned for the analogue film.
The photograph was created as part of the project We Sing and Paint for Love during the workshops in Lipovce and Vyšné Ružbachy in 2001. Artworks and wooden sculptures were exhibited in several cities in Slovakia in that year and in the following years.
Jaroslav Cicko is a well-known Romani artist and sculptor who created his works mainly from wood, but also stone.
He was born on March 25, 1939 in Martin and died on November 18, 2010 in Horná Štubňa in the district of Turčianske Teplice.
He worked as a toolmaker at the Heavy Engineering Plant in Martin and as a carver at the Martin Studio of Non-Professional Artists. He was a lecturer at symposia of non-professional artists.
In 2000, he exhibited his works and demonstrated various methods of creating his works in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, France and Italy.
The most common motif of his works is a woman in all her forms.
Source:
RNĽ č. 688-694/2005
RNĽ č.468-485/2001
RNĽ č.496-502/2001
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Alexander Bohó
created: 10. 01. 2023 10:23 modified: 10. 01. 2023 10:24
Photos from art workshops organized by OZ Jekhetane-Spolu. Digitized analog camera film. The place, time and photographer were not mentioned for the analogue film.
The photograph was created as part of the project We Sing and Paint for Love during the workshops in Lipovce and Vyšné Ružbachy in 2001. Artworks and wooden sculptures were exhibited in several cities in Slovakia in that year and in the following years.
The photo shows a professional Romani artist Alexander Bohó. He was born in Brezno and comes from five siblings. He studied with doc. J. Jánoška and professor F. Ondra free graphics and graphic design. He studied painting with the academic painter F. Kráľ in the years 1979-1985. In 1996 he graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava, Department of History of Art.
Sources of information:
RNĽ č.738-741/2006
RNĽ č.468-485/2001
RNĽ č.496-502/2001
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Vojtech Kökény
created: 10. 01. 2023 09:30 modified: 10. 01. 2023 10:02
Photos from art workshops organized by the Civic Association Jekhetane-Spolu. Digitized analog camera film. The place,thetime and photographernamewere not mentioned with analog film.
The photograph was created as part of the project WeSing andPaint forLove during the workshops in Lipovceand Vyšné Ružbachy in 2001. Artworks and wooden sculptures were exhibited in several cities in Slovakia in that year and in the following years.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.
Sources of information:
RNĽ č.738-741/2006
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Arne Mann and Elena Lacková
created: 10. 01. 2023 09:19 modified: 10. 01. 2023 09:20
Archival photo shows the Romani writer Elena Lacková and the romologist Arne Mann. The analog photograph was taken on June 12, 1998 in Košice in front of the Dargov department store in Košice. The author of the photo is not listed.
PhDr. Arne B. Mann, CSc. is a leading Slovak ethnologist-Romanist, lives in Bratislava. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University in Bratislava, majoring in ethnography (1978), PhDr. obtained in 1980 and CSc. in 1997.
He worked as a researcher at the Department of Ethnology of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Bratislava and from 1983 at the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
His scientific research is focused on the history of the Roma, including the Romani Holocaust, religious ideas of the Roma, social and spiritual culture, crafts and employment, and others.
He works as an external pedagogue at the Faculty of Arts of the Komenský University in Bratislava (1995 – present), the Faculty of Arts of the Constantin the Philosopher University in Nitra (2001 – 2009) and the Faculty of Humanities (formerly the Institute of Basic Education) of the Charles University in Prague (1998 – 2016).
Elena Lacková was born on March 22, 1921 in Veľký Šariš. She is one of the most important Romani writers. Her works were intended for both the children and adult readers. She graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague (1970). She wrote both prosaic and dramatic works. She was a lifelong activist and Romani activist. She died on January 1, 2003 in Košice.
Source:
amariluma.romanokher.sk/encyclopedia/mann-arne-b-phdr-csc/
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Dezider Banga
created: 19. 12. 2022 14:31 modified: 19. 12. 2022 14:32
Archival photo shows the Romani writer, screenwriter and producer Dezider Banga. The analogue photograph was taken on August 22, 1998 during the Roma festival. The venue of the festival was not mentioned with the analogue film, nor was the author of the photo. The photo was published in the Romani newspaper Romano nevo ľil no. 416-423/2000 on p. 8 under the article titled New Collection of Romani Poet.
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/
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Elena Lacková and the Romani Band
created: 19. 12. 2022 14:10 modified: 19. 12. 2022 14:10
The photo shows the Romani writer Elena Lacková with a Romani band (the name of the band is not given) in the village of Svinia. The photo was published in issue 340-347/1998 on p. 8 for the article entitled Messengers.
The band members Ján Čikala, Alexander Polák, Daniel Bendík and Miroslav Červeňák were on the way to the village of Liptovské Sliače, where they performed at the event called Liptov Days of Mother, Sliače 98. Elena Lacková also gave a lecture at the event.
The photo was taken shortly after the devastating flood that affected the villages of Jarovnice and Svinia.
The author of the photo is not mentioned in the newspaper. Analogue photography was created in 1998 in the village of Svinia for the purpose of publication in the Romani newspaper Romano nevo ľil.
Source:
Šilanova, Daniela. 1998. Messengers. Romano nevo ľil no. 340-347/1998, p. 8.
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