Magdaléna Rothová - Roma Spirit in Kežmarok
created: 21. 03. 2023 13:11 modified: 21. 03. 2023 13:14
Magdaléna Rothová is the director of the Association for Culture, Education and Communication (ACEC), she is also the senior lecturer of the Platform for Better Health of Vulnerable Groups and participates at the trainings of the health asistants. Currently, she works full time for the Roma Spirit project as its organiser and producer. She is also actively participating at the projects of health education for the socially weak groups Together for Better Health, Lunik IX, The Healthy Communities. In the interview she provides information about the Roma Spirit Project and its beginning, its uniqueness, the mission and significance for the society as well as its vision for its future development.
category: speaking
tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Magdaléna Rothová Roma spirit general audience internal
Jozef Červeňák
created: 23. 02. 2023 11:13 modified: 16. 03. 2023 08:12
PhDr. Jozef Červeňák was born in Dobšiná, the Rožňava district. He graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Konstantin the Philosopher in Nitra. In 1993 he started to work at the Roma Community Center in Rožňava, from 1998 to 2004 he lead the cultural and educational organization Roma-Gemer. Later, he also worked as the Headperson of the Municipal District Luník IX in Košice (2006 – 2007) and national coordinator of national projects financed from the sources of the European Union (Methodological and Pedagogical Center in Prešov). He passed away during the Covid-19 pandemic, in November 2021 in the village of Roštár, where he is also buried. The interview was produced by the Art Society Ltd. Project titled Roma, 30 years after... supported by the Fund for Development of Culture of National Minorities, in 2018.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Jozef Červeňák general audience internal
Alexander Daško a Vladimír Sendrei
created: 15. 02. 2023 14:59 modified: 16. 02. 2023 15:04
Vladimír Sendrei, a singer and frontman of the music group Sendreiovci and Kokavakere lavutara. He is the chairman of the Civic Association Latcho Drom and the main organizer of the music festival Balval Fest.
Alexander Daško comes from Čierny Balog. He is a musician, together with his band became well-known not only in Slovakia. He attended the Conservatory in Žilina, later graduated from the Pedagogical Fakulty of Matej Bel University. In Banská Bystrica, for many years already, he has been organising the festival Cigánsky oheň (Gypsy Fire); he established and manages his own music school.
The main topic of the interview is their experience gathered in cooperation with foreign musicians. Vladimír Sendrei cooperated with Hans Zimmer who picked him and the band to play his music in the film Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows.
Alexander Daško speaks about Goran Bregovič and their common performance at the concert in Banská Bystrica. The other topics are contemporary Romani music in Slovakia, music inspirations and plans for future.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue guided Slovak Alexander Daško Vladimír Sendrei Hans Zimmer Goran Bregovič general audience
Lenka Goroľová
created: 15. 02. 2023 14:48 modified: 31. 03. 2023 13:52
Lenka Goroľová lives in the village of Hlinné, district of Vranov nad Topľou. She attended the elementary school in Hlinné, late in the neighbouring village Soľ. She received her secondary education at the State Grammar School (currently renamed as The Cyril Daxner Secondary Grammar School) in Vranov nad Topľou. She graduated from the Catholic University in Ružomberok as a teacher of the Slovak language and literature and Philosophy. After that she started working as the field social worker in Hlinné, then the teacher assistant in Soľ, later on she spent some years teaching Slovak and Romani languages at the Private Secondary Pedagogical and Social Academy in Košice. Currently, she is a teacher of the Romani language at Prešov University in Prešov, The Institute of the Romani Studies.
In the interview she speaks about her personal and professional life and studies since her childhood until present days.The interview was recorded on July 6, 2021 in the Romani Studies Room of the State Sciencetific Library in Prešov.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Romani Lenka Goroľová general audience internal
Marco Pillo
created: 11. 11. 2022 08:46 modified: 11. 11. 2022 08:51
Marco Pillo - musician, singer, composer. At the Prague Conservatory he studied cimbalom, later guitar. During his studies in Barcelona, Spain, he met with the local Romani flamenco music culture, what later became highly influential factor in his creative work in the field of music. The digital cultural object records his talk about himself, about his studies, about his relationship to music, specifically to Romani music.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Marco Pillo general audience internal
Teri Čikoš
created: 08. 11. 2022 14:16 modified: 08. 11. 2022 14:16
Teri Čikoš comes from Bratislava based family of musician dedicated to music for generations already. She carries on and continues the tradition successfully. She plays the piano, guitar, she is a student of Music and Dramatic Arts at the Conservatory. In the same time she is a teacher of singing at the Elementary School of Arts. Her single titled Pozri (Look) achieved a place among top ten most played songs on Slovak radio stations. She gives concerts with her own music group, moderates and keeps making a well designed place for herself in the field of pop culture in Slovakia. In the video interview, she talks about her family, her beginnings as a singer, the discovery of her Roma identity, and plans for the future.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Teri Čikoš general audience internal
Adriana Drafiová
created: 07. 11. 2022 11:56 modified: 07. 11. 2022 12:03
Adriana Drafiová, known under the stage name Gitana, is a singer of Roma origin. As a performer, she has a strong vocal expression, performing mainly thedance and rom-pop music; currently expanding her profile as a music composer. In recent years, she recorded several successful collaborations with well-known artists of the mainstream Slovak and Czech music scene. In the interview she shares information about her family background, first steps of her carreer, music and sources of inspiration for her own works, and the topics of romipen and the Romani language as well.The interview was recorded on November 19, 2021 in Prešov, at the Wave Club - Center for Independent Culture.
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tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Adriana Drafiová Gitana scientific discussion academic audience internal
Štefan Vavrek
created: 24. 10. 2022 11:13 modified: 24. 10. 2022 11:24
Štefan Vavrek is a teacher by profession (mathematics and ethical education), a graduate of the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. He taught in the town of Tornaľa. In 2007, he co-founded an association of mentors for Romani pupils called Tanoda, later he continued the educational activities in the Ternipe organization based in Rimavská Seč.
He started in politics at the local level as the mayor of Rimavská Seč, in 2018 he became a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (The Slovak Parliament) for the political party Most-Híd. His main agenda was education and regional development. In the interview, he talks about political, national and personal topics.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Štefan Vavrek general audience internal
Ľudovít Petík
created: 24. 10. 2022 10:01 modified: 24. 10. 2022 10:31
Ľudovít Petík comes from well-known musical family, the members of which used to play and, simultaneously, do certain crafts. This stays with the family even today. Ľudovít himself played and all 45 years of his productive live worked as a driver; the last 30 of them as a bus driver of MHD (The City Mass Transportation Enterprise) in Prešov.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Ľudovít Petík general audience internal
Alexander Mušinka – The Svinia Project 3. Results and Closing of the Project.
created: 04. 10. 2022 09:01 modified: 04. 10. 2022 09:05
Alexander Mušinka is a cultural anthropologist, an expert in Ruthenian-Ukrainian as well as in Romani issues. He studied ethnology and history at Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. Since 1997, he has been working as a researcher at the University of Prešov in Prešov, currently at the Institute of Roma Studies, and is active in the non-governmental sector. He participated in many research, non-governmental and development projects related to Roma communities, especially in the Eastern Slovakia. He is the chairman of the Society for Research and Development of Minority Groups of the Slovak Republic - MINORITAS, the chairman of the Regional Center for Roma Issues in Prešov and he is also the vice-chairman of the Center for Anthropological Research in Prešov. His publishing activity, whether as author or co-author, is rich, resulting in dozens of publications, anthologies and scientific studies. The Svinia Project was a development project that began in 1998 in the Roma settlement of Svinia with Alexander Mušinka as its coordinator.The third part of the interview is focused on the changes and improvements of the environment within the settlement. What steps were taken towards solutions in the issues of drinking water, sewerage or housing.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective factual monologue guided Slovak Alexander Mušinka The Institute for Romani Studies general audience internal
