The Live Library Project: Roma Music in Slovakia with Eugen Vizváry
created: 19. 05. 2017 16:04 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The Live Libraries, as a method, offer an opportunity to know the personal stories of interesting people, who are almost unknown to the majority audience. The purpose is to promote the identity of Romani national minority and on the other side to introduce the Romani people as an national minority with a rich cultural tradition. The second of a series "Live Books 2015" organized by State Scientific Library in Prešov, held on 22. June 2015 in Wave Club in Prešov, this time discussing about the Romani music in Slovakia. The main guest was music producer, composer, pianist Eugen Vizváry, one of the most requested Slovak musician, who devotes to the music genres of Jazz, Funky, Fusion Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, Country, Classic. The event was accompanied by the Cimbalom folk Ensemble - Ďusi Band from Prešov (Július Bandy Sr., Július Bandy Jr., Peter Ferko, Kristián Bandy + Samko Bandy) and singers Žaneta Štipáková and Vanessa Siváková.
category: speaking
Your Story
created: 19. 05. 2017 16:01 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The project A Good Start 2 arose from the iniciative of Equalization of chances Civic Assotiation with a financial support of Roma Education fund (REF, Budapest). Implemented since 2010 as a pilot project aimed at strengthening and promoting preschool education of children from socially disadvantaged groups in locations with Roma population. Zborov is one of the three locations, where activities are taking place, focused mostly on strengthening pre-school institutions attendance, also so called family education of children, which do not attend the kindergarten, because of lack of capacity and activation of parents for the purpose of their non-formal education and greater participation in these processes. Project Your Story belongs among the activities of work with parents based on improving the language skills of mothers by reading the books and working wiith texts of fairy tales on regular meetings.
category: speaking
The Live Library Project: Jozef Banyák
created: 19. 05. 2017 15:57 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The Live Libraries, as a method, offer an opportunity to know the personal stories of an interesting people, who are almost unknown to the majority audience. The purpose is to promote the identity of Romani national minority and on the other side to introduce the Romani people as a national minority with a rich cultural tradition. The first of a series "Live Books 2015" organized by State Scientific Library in Prešov, held on 20. April 2015 in Wave Club in Prešov. The guest was the film director and producer Jozef Banyák. The interviewers were Erika Godlová and Zuzana Paľuchová. The musical guest was the band Gypsy Kings Revival.
category: speaking
Ondrej Ruszó - The Portrait
created: 19. 05. 2017 15:53 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Ondrej Ruszó is an amateur artist, living and working in a Plešivec village. He was born in Revúca. He´s running his own atelier together with artist Tibor Oláh. He´s involved into the fine arts since his childhood since elementary school. There were periods of time, when he didn´t do art at all. He says, that talented person will always have talent, even though he won´t paint for years. While he was working on construction sites in Bratislava, he improved his skills, attending the art course after the work. His first works were published in Romano Nevo Ľil newspapers in the early 90s. He illustrated poems. His prefered themes are religion, he draws portraits and he´s also interested in building architecture.
category: fine arts
tags: Ondrej Ruszó
Viliam Sarközy - The Blacksmith
created: 19. 05. 2017 15:47 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Viliam Sarközy comes from the blacksmith´ family. The portrait about him was made during the European Roma Blacksmiths´ Symposioum, organized by civic organization Chartikano. In the portrait he talks about the smith tradition in the village and his family and about the future of this craft.
category: crafts
Babula
created: 18. 05. 2017 12:43 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Emília Kissová, alias Babula, speaks about the habits and traditions, about the differences and specifications of the life of Vlachika Roma in Slovakia. In the six chapters she speaks about the importance of the family, about the coexistence in the families, about the engagement and wedding traditions, about the children, motherhood, about the kids´s nicknames and birth gifts, about the traditions after someone´s death and during the funeral, abou the fortune telling and about the Romani language.
category: speaking
Romathan - The mysterious world and the Fuzzies
created: 12. 05. 2017 18:04 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The premiere of the children´s performance "The mysterious world and the Fuzzies" was played by Romathan theatre. The fairy-tale inscenation offers to the audience the look into the imaginative world of the forest kingdom, reigned by the queen "Bachtaľori". In a fairy tale a young spectator reveals the secrets of a good and love on a background of an evil and intrigues being enacted both in a Mysterious world, as well as in a world of humans. The genre: a fairy-tale with a songs;The language of performance: Slovak primary, Romani secondary; The scenery: classical stage properties, the play is not interactive, but performative. Cast: Karel Adam, Oto Bunda, Milan Godla, Marián Balog, and others.
category: drama
tags: Romathan
The Live Library Project: The Romani Language
created: 12. 05. 2017 17:54 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The Live Libraries, as a method, offer an opportunity to know the personal stories of interesting people, who are almost unknown to the majority audience. The purpose is to promote the identity of Romani national minority and on the other side to introduce the Romani people as an national minority with a rich cultural tradition. The fourth in a series "Live Books 2015" organized by State Scientific Library in Prešov, held on 7. Novembre 2015 in Wave Club in Prešov and the theme was Romani language. The guests of the event were Jarmila Vaňová and Stanislav Cina. The musical guest was the violinist Barbora Botošová with the band Bohémiens.
category: speaking
The Authors' Reading - Erika Hornakova, Roman Gorol
created: 26. 04. 2017 23:17 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The event of authors' reading organized by State Scientific Library in Prešov took place at Double Tiffany Restaurant in Prešov, on October 30th, 2013 . The main guests were Erika Hornáková, the novelist, and Roman Goroľ, the poet. They spoke about themselves, about their works and they read from their works to the audience. The musical guest was the guitar duo - Duo Farsa.
category: speaking
tags: Erika Hornáková
Romathan - Star
created: 26. 04. 2017 23:11 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:54
Romathan - the song "A Star". The Romathan Theatre with its 65th premiere of the music - dance show, called Romathan in the new dress, offers the various performance of the dance and music character. One of the program components is also a song Cherkhen, presented by Ondrej Ferko and Dáša Polláková.
category: music
tags: Romathan Dáša Polláková