Gejza Adam
created: 05. 12. 2023 13:41 modified: 05. 12. 2023 13:42
PaedDr. Gejza Adam, PhD. (born 1951 in Michalovce) is an important figure in the Roma emancipation movement in the former Czechoslovakia and subsequently, in the Slovak Republic. As a qualified teacher for the 1st grade of elementary schools (Faculty of Pedagogy, P.J. Šafárik University – a graduate), he participated in activities in the field of education of Romani children already around the mid-1980s. In the years 1989-1992, he was a member of the Public Against Violence (Verejnosť proti násiliu - VPN) movement, where he represented the Roma Citizens' Initiative platform (Rómska občianska iniciatíva – ROI). In the years 1990 – 1992, he was a member of the Federal Assembly of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (FZ ČSFR). In 1998, he became a member of the Government Council for National Minorities and Ethnic Groups in the Slovak Republic, in 2000-2004 he was Commissioner for Roma Education within the International Romani Union (IRU). He continued his political work as the chairman of the Roma Coalition Party (Strana rómskej koalície – SRK) until 2020.
What can be considered as the greatest achievements of his career is the cooperation in the process of granting the status of a national minority to the Roma, the establishment of a network of private secondary schools (Private Secondary Pedagogical and Social Academy, Private Secondary Art School) where Romani language is taught as well as taught in, the establishment of the Detached Workplace of the University of Health Services and Social Work of St. Elisabeth in Košice of which he acted as the headperson.
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tags: retrospective factual monologue guided Slovak Gejza Adam general audience internal
Csaba Horváth
created: 05. 12. 2023 09:09 modified: 27. 06. 2024 10:35
Csaba Horváth sa dostal do povedomia širšej rómskej, ako aj majoritnej verejnosti vďaka vedeniu platformy s názvom Opre Roma, ktorá ponúkala priestor pre sieťovanie samospráv, firiem a organizácií, prevažne z južných okresov Slovenskej republiky. Skúsenosti a zručnosti získané počas pôsobenia vo verejnej službe neskôr zužitkoval v aktivitách tretieho sektora. Csaba Horváth v rozhovore ozrejmuje jednotlivé aspekty svojho verejného života, čiastočne sa venuje aj detstvu, rodine a jej vplyvu na jeho súčasné pôsobenie.
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tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Csaba Horváth general audience internal
Viktor Teru: Generation
created: 04. 12. 2023 15:04 modified: 05. 12. 2023 07:34
Viktor Teru comes from Veľké Kapušiany. He graduated in social work and had several professions. Since 2014 he has been working at the Roma Education Fund (REF), currently as a national facilitator. He is also an advisor to President Zuzana Čaputová. In the fifth part of his memoir, he talks about the new generation of Roma intelligentsia, about mentoring and tutoring, and about the possibilities and opportunities for young Roma for self-realisation.
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tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Viktor Teru general audience internal
Viktor Teru: Advisor
created: 04. 12. 2023 08:24 modified: 05. 12. 2023 07:43
Viktor Teru comes from Veľké Kapušiany. He graduated in social work and had several professions. Since 2014 he has been working at the Roma Education Fund (REF), currently as a national facilitator. He is also an advisor to President Zuzana Čaputová. In the fourth part of his memoir, he talks about his work as an advisor to the President and also about his idea of mainstreaming the Roma issue.
category: speaking
tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Viktor Teru general audience internal
Viktor Teru: Discrimination
created: 01. 12. 2023 12:18 modified: 05. 12. 2023 07:52
Viktor Teru comes from Veľké Kapušiany. He graduated in social work and had several professions. Since 2014 he has been working at the Roma Education Fund (REF), currently as a national facilitator. He is also an advisor to President Zuzana Čaputová. In the third part of his memoir, he talks about discrimination and racism, about his personal experiences in his professional and private life.
category: speaking
tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Viktor Teru general audience internal
Viktor Teru: Studies
created: 01. 12. 2023 07:13 modified: 01. 12. 2023 07:14
Viktor Teru comes from Veľké Kapušiany. He graduated in social work and had several professions. Since 2014 he has been working at the Roma Education Fund (REF), currently as a national facilitator. He is also an advisor to President Zuzana Čaputová. In the second part of his memoir, he talks about his origins, his family, his childhood in Veľké Kapušany and his studies in social work.
category: speaking
tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Viktor Teru general audience internal
Viktor Teru: Identity
created: 30. 11. 2023 13:54 modified: 30. 11. 2023 13:56
Viktor Teru has been the head of the Roma Education Fund since 2019. He is an adviser to President Zuzana Čaputová. He speaks Hungarian, Slovak, English and Romani. Married, father of one son.
category: speaking
tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Viktor Teru general audience internal
Štefan Vansač
created: 30. 11. 2023 07:16 modified: 30. 11. 2023 07:18
Štefan Vansač comes from Spišská Nová Ves. He studied cimbalom at the Conservatory in Košice. Currently he teaches music at the Elementary School of Arts in Spišská Nová Ves as well as at the Elementary School of Arts in Smižany. He is a member of the Štefan Cína’s Folklore Band since 2015, the band recorded a CD called Ja chlapec chudobni/I am a Poor Guy. The band composed and recorded part of soundtrack of the Slovak film Loli paradička/Red Tomato. The band also recorded the CDs of the Folklore Ensemble Orgonina, and the Folklore Group Jamničan. Together with the band, they took part in several large TV programs, in 2017 it was the TV show Zem spieva/The Earth Sings, in 2018 Československo má talent/Czechoslovakia has Talent.
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tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Štefan Vansač general audience internal
Ján Jóny
created: 24. 11. 2023 10:15 modified: 24. 11. 2023 10:27
Ján Jóny lives and works in Michalovce. From an early age he was taught to play the violin, but he acquired his musical education in playing wind instruments, first at the Military Conservatory in Roudnice nad Labem in the Czech Republic, where he studied playing the tuba, later at the Conservatory in Košice. For several years he worked as a member of the Military Music of the Slovak Armed Forces. Later he returned to playing the violin and started playing with several folk ensembles. Since 2014, he has been working at the Jurošík Private Elementary Art School in Michalovce as a music teacher and is currently also a member of Štefan Cína's folk music.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Ján Jóny general audience internal
Alexander Daško
created: 22. 03. 2023 15:21 modified: 22. 04. 2024 07:35
Alexander Daško was born in the settlement in Čierny Balog, the youngest of 13 children. According to his words, it was music which became his ticket into the world; which he both studies and performes since his childhood, being able to do so thanks to a strong sense of responsibility of his parents. Nowadays a musician well known not only in Slovakia has his own band, three children and a Russian wife. The family si, therefore, multicultural, speaking Romani, Slovak, Russian and English languages. He graduated from conservatoire in Žilina, later on from the Faculty of Pedagogy of Matej Bel University. In Banská Bystrica he has organised already 15 years of the event – the festival Gypsy Fire; he established his private musical school for talented Romani and non-Romani children.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Alexander Daško general audience internal
