Abel Ravasz - Office of the Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Romani Communities
created: 02. 07. 2024 09:44 modified: 02. 07. 2024 09:45
Ábel Ravasz is a sociologist and politician who specializes in minorities and regions. He graduated from universities in Hungary and USA with the degrees in political science, economics and sociology. He was one of the advisors in the Most-Híd – the political party after what he became the party nominee for the post of the Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Romani Communities. He held the post from 2016 to 2020. He is a co-founder of the Purt organization, the one which organises the Romani, Hungarian and Slovak activists. He also served as the Executive Director of the Matej Bel Institute. In the interview, he talks about his work at the Office of the Slovak Republic Government Plenipotentiary for the Romani Communities, about his activities and priorities, as well as about the achievments and failures.
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tags: retrospective academic biographical factual monologue guided Slovak Ábel Ravasz general audience internal
Ábel Ravasz
created: 02. 07. 2024 09:27 modified: 02. 07. 2024 09:27
Ábel Ravasz is a sociologist and politician who specializes in minorities and regions. He graduated from universities in Hungary and USA with the degrees in political science, economics and sociology. He was one of the advisors in the Most-Híd – the political party after what he became the party nominee for the post of the Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Romani Communities. He held the post from 2016 to 2020. He is a co-founder of the Purt organization, the one which organises the Romani, Hungarian and Slovak activists. He also served as the Executive Director of the Matej Bel Institute. In the interview he speaks about the topics of extremism, poverty, segregation or inter-ethnical relations. He speaks about the active participation of the minorities in Slovakia, as well as about the mission and work of Matej Bel Institute.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective academic biographical factual monologue guided Slovak Ábel Ravasz general audience internal
Júlia Kozáková
created: 27. 06. 2024 13:08 modified: 27. 06. 2024 13:10
The members of the band Manusha (People) are professional musicians. The music project had been initiated by the Slovak singer Julia Kozakova; the musicians are Lubomir Gaspar on cimbalom, Viliam Didias on violin, Vojtech “Belu” Botos on viola and Jan Rigo on double-bass. In 2022, with the support of the Fund for Development of the National Minorities’ Culture in SR, and The Bratislava Self-Governing Region, the band released the album with the same name. The album presents 10 songs – all of them are the traditional Romani songs, played in arrangements by Manusha.
In 2022, the Documentation and Information Centre of the Romani Culture began to document the Romani cimbalom bands, especially those which carry on the family musical tradition.
Júlia Kozáková is a singer and a leading person of the musical project Manusha. She studied ethnomusicology and social anthropology. She is also active in the education of youth in the field of music and singing. The profile interview.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Júlia Kozáková internal general audience
Ľubomír Gašpar
created: 26. 06. 2024 09:46 modified: 26. 06. 2024 10:55
Mgr. art Ľubomír Gašpar comes from Detva, currently lives and works in Bratislava. He studied cimbalom at the Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica, later at the Ján Albrecht Music and Art Academy in Banská Štiavnica. Currently, he is a student at JAMU in Brno. In addition to being a professional musician, he also works as a music teacher at the Dezider Kardoš Private Conservatory in Topoľčany. His musical direction is multi-genre, combining elements of folklore, classical music and jazz. He is part of several musical groups, e.g. SOLE, Ľubomír Gašpar Cimbal Project, with which he recorded two albums: The Point Of View, which won the Rádio Heads Award for the best album in the World Music category in 2017, and Ľubozvuk (2021). He is also a permanent member of the group Manuša, with whom they released an album of the same name in 2022.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Ľubomír Gašpar general audience internal
Július Bandy
created: 19. 06. 2024 06:33 modified: 19. 06. 2024 06:35
Július Bandy st. comes from a family in which musicianship has been handed down from generation to generation. The interview focuses on his family and personal history, his career as a professional dulcimer player, passing on his artistic legacy to his sons, and finally, reflections on the present and future of Roma music production.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective monologue guided Slovak Romani Július Bandy general audience internal
Štefan Cína / Martina Ďuriková Cínová
created: 31. 05. 2024 07:44 modified: 31. 05. 2024 07:46
Mgr. et Mgr.art. Štefan Cína comes from the village of Hnilec, where he was born into the family of musicians. He studied accordion at the Jozef Adamovič Conservatory in Košice, later went on the Prešov University in Prešov where he studied Teaching of Music Art and Technology, he achieved the bachelor’s degree. He received his master's degree at the Catholic University in Ružomberok in the field of Music and Church Music, and later studied the accordion at the Ternopil National University of Volodymyr Hniatuk in Ukraine. He currently works as a music teacher at the Private Elementary School of Arts in Odorín.
In 2007 he started the Štefan Cína's Folk Music, 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.
Martina Ďuriková Cínová, DiS.art. comes from the village of Hnilec, from the family of musicians.
She studied violin at the conservatory in Košice, and since 2020 she is a student at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Department of Music and Church Music. From 2014, she worked as a music teacher at the Elementary Art School in Smižany. Since 2007, she has been a member of Štefan Cína's Folk Music, 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.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Štefan Cína Martina Ďuriková Cínová general audience internal
Roland Horváth
created: 23. 05. 2024 07:46 modified: 23. 05. 2024 07:47
B.Sc. Roland Horváth, Dis.art was born in Rimavská Sobota. He comes from a musical family. He plays wind instruments. He received his first-level university degree at the Ján Albrecht Music and Art Academy in Banská Štiavnica. Since 2019, he has been the director of the Basic Art School in the village of Jesenské. He started his career as a musician in Hungary, where he played in several bands and with several important primas. After returning to Slovakia, he worked in the Romathan Theater in Košice. With the band Sendreiovci, he recorded the music for the film Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows, which was released in 2012. As a clarinetist in Slovakia, he works in several cimbalom bands, and collaborates with the family band of Július Bandy from Prešov.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue general Slovak Roland Horváth general audience internal
Michal Mižigár
created: 16. 04. 2024 07:34 modified: 16. 04. 2024 07:34
Michal "Mižu" Mižigár is a descendant of a Romani family from Slovakia, which moved to Czech Republic from the villages of Upper Spiš after World War II. He graduated from the Bussiness Academy in Pisek, and continued his studies at the Charles University in Prague at the Faculty of Arts, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Roma Studies.
Currently, he is studying at the Central European University (formerly in Budapest, Hungary, later in Vienna, Austria) for a master's degree in comparative history. At the time of the interview, he worked in Great Britain in the team of the Roma of Great Abilities project, where he worked with teachers of Roma children from Czech Republic and Slovakia. The interview is abour his life, work and knowledge received so far.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue general Romani Michal Mižigár general audience internal
Live Book – Gitana – Adriana Drafiová
created: 12. 04. 2024 09:10 modified: 12. 04. 2024 09:11
The "Live Book" format presents the well-known Romani singer Adriana Drafiová, who performs under the stage name Gitana. The recording was made in November 2021 and was broadcasted by RTVS in an exclusive premiere. From a dramaturgical point of view, Gitana is presented as a "living book" that tells the viewer her life story in the field of music, and also about music as a family tradition. In the recording, she interprets traditional Romani and Hungarian songs accompanied by the family cimbalom band Ďusi Band from Prešov.
She inherited great musical talent from her father and grandfather, who were sought-after Romani musicians. She took inspiration by singers such as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Barbra Streisand. At the age of seventeen, the first offer to perform abroad came. It started in Switzerland and gradually she traveled a large part of Europe as a singer. She also sang in front of world-class celebrities, such as Tina Turner, Claudia Schiffer, David Copperfield and Boris Becker. In Hungary, she performed with the well-known singer Jozef Szabo, and a little later her long-term collaboration with the group Kmeťoband began.
Later, she became more focused on a new musical style, i.e. electro swing and gypsy swing, while using support of her music producer Slavo Solovič. Her other musical achievements include recording of the title song in Slovak for the animated fairy tale Lava produced by the Disney film studio. The song is a duet with Juraj Benetin, singer of the band Korben Dallas.
She performs both solo and with a band.
The video was documented on 19/11/2021 in Prešov in the center of independent culture Wave on Hlavná Street. Adriana Drafiová - Gitana - vocals, Július Bandy - cimbalom, Samuel Bandy - violin, Roland Horváth - clarinet, saxophone, Kristián Bandy - viola, Július Bandy, Jr. - double bass, text: Eduard Čonka.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Adriana Drafiová Gitana general audience internal
Live Book - The Folk Band of Július Žiga
created: 12. 04. 2024 07:47 modified: 12. 04. 2024 07:48
The „Live book“ presents the well-known Romani band Žigovci from Gelnica. The recording was made in December 2021 and is created for the purpose of RTVS television broadcasting. From a dramaturgical point of view, the founder of the band Július Žiga is presented as a "living book", who tells the viewer his life story and the story of the band in the field of music, but also about music as a family tradition.
The core members of the family cimbalom band are the Žigas from Gelnica: father Július, his daughter Bohdana and son Filip. Guest members are Vladimír Plachetka, Kristián Bandy and Július Bandy. All of them are graduates of conservatories and are engaged in music production professionally. Bohdana Žigová and Filip Žiga were scholarship recipients of the Divé maky organization.
The song Ajsi terňi džuvľi (The Young Woman) is a slow, sentimental composition.
Instruments and players: Július Žiga - double bass, Bohdana Žigová - cello, vocals, Filip Žiga - violin, Július Bandy - cimbalom, Kristián Bandy - viola, Vladimír Plachetka - accordion.
The record was created on December 11, 2021, at the Center for Independent Culture Wave in Prešov.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Július Žiga general audience internal
