Balvalfest (The Wind Festival)
created: 25. 03. 2019 08:20 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The video recording of the 13th Romani festival, recorded in 2013 in Kokava upon Rimavica. The festival presents traditional Romani music as well as modern musical genres. Every year the organisers of the festival invite the performers both from Slovakia and other countries. The video is the cut of the live performances presenting traditional and popular Romani music, the interview with the festival organisor Vladimir Sendrei is added to the final edition.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern mix original borrowed Slovak Romani Hungarian Vladimír Sendrei general audience internal
Roman Goroľ - Cold Touch of Lost Morning
created: 14. 12. 2018 13:23 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Roman Gorol was born on 15th of August, 1969, in Vranov nad Toplou. He is married, has three sons, works as a teaching assistant at the Elementary School in the village Caklov, where he lives. Roman Gorol graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty of the Presov University in Presov, as the bachelor of pedagogy. Roman Gorol loves literature, both poetry and prose. In his young years he began writing short poems about life, emotions, love. His art of word is present in the book of poems titled “Cold Touch of Lost Morning”, published by the State Research Library in Presov, 2016, illustrated by Martin Kaleja Januv. Four poems of the collection were translated in Romani and English languages by Erika Godlova. The video recorded on December 1st, 2016, introduces the author of the book of poems, some of his poems as well as the illustrator Martin Kaleja Januv, whose talent in fine arts is also pictured in the video. Frantisek Godla and Dusan Onody as the Duo Farsa provided the music for the event. (source: Roman Gorol, Cold Touch of Lost Morning, own research).
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue general Slovak Romani Roman Goroľ František Godla Dušan Onody general audience internal
Stanislav Cina - The Wood-curver
created: 11. 12. 2018 11:58 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Stanislav Cina's short talk about carving in a pastoral center in the village of Čičava. The Roma Pastoral Center covers the formation and missionary service in the Roma communities, especially in the Vranov district. Through the Civic Association Hot Team, they implemented a project of a protected workshop in 2012, employing handicapped Roma from Vranov nad Topľou. Within the sheltered workshops, they have been devoting themselves to the works of wood-curving under the direction of Milan Krajniak. Their main inspiration was taken from the religious themes.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic wood carving Slovak Stanislav Cina - The Wood-curver general audience internal
Šarlota Bottová - The Portrait of the Painter
created: 11. 12. 2018 10:29 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Šarlota Bottová (1989-) is an artist from Rimavská Baňa in Hnúšťa. She graduated from the Secondary Technical School in Rimavska Sobota, in the cosmetics department. In the field of fine arts, her main focus is drawing the portraits. Šarlota Bottová exhibited her works in Prague (2016) in the gallery Phundrado vudar (Open Doors), at the exhibition of amateur Roma artists AraArt, in Košice (2017) in the Važecká Exchanger, in Hnúšta (2017) at the Library of Prof. Štefan Pasiar and in Rimavská Baňa. The drawing depicts the portrait of the British actor, musician and writer James Hugh Calum Laurie.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic in persona drawing Slovak Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
Adela Orgovánová - Reminiscence
created: 09. 12. 2018 16:29 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Adela Orgovánová (1936-) was born in Presov, a town she lived in all her lifetime. At 8 years old she survived the bombing of Presov by the Soviet Army. The bombardment happened on 20th of December, 1944 and took more than 70 minutes. There's no exact number of victims known, officially 140 persons were buried in Presov. She speaks about life in Presov during the WWII and after the war - speaks about her family, childhood, her youth and work, as well as about her efforts, poverty, friendships and values.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak general audience internal
Michal Bársony - Fine Arts
created: 05. 12. 2018 20:18 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Born in the village Kunova Teplica, the district of Roznava. The family spoke Hungarian, and kept the tradition of smithery and music. He graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty of Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, specialzed in fine arts and Russian language. The post-gradual studies completed at the Pedagogical Faculty of University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, awarded with the title PeadDr. His main creation is painting and drawing, with prevailing themes of the sacral nature, as well as some women portraits and landscapes. As a pedagogue worked at several elementary and secondary schools, as well as at universities. He also worked for the State Institute Of Pedagogy.
category: speaking
tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Michal Bársony general audience internal
Tomáš Botló - „I am Fine“
created: 22. 10. 2018 10:15 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomas mixis Romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. The song sung by Tomáš Botló "I am fine" is a cover version /Zámbó Jimmy/. Lyrics by Tomáš Botló. The song is sung with guitar playing, at the social hall of the cultural house in Hubice, district of Dunajská Streda.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern rom-funk solo borrowed Slovak Tomáš Botló general audience internal
Michal Bársony - A Pedagogue and Painter
created: 12. 10. 2018 09:15 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Born in the village of Kunova Teplica, in the Rožňava district. The mother tongue in the family was Hungarian, traditionally the family carried on blacksmithing and music. He studied Fine Arts and Russian language at the Faculty of Education at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. He took the post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Pedagogy at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra and received the title PaedDr. He does paintings and drawings, thematically is his work predominated by sacral themes, to a lesser extent by the female portraits and landscapes. As a pedagogue, he worked at primary, secondary and higher education institutions, some time he also spent at the State Educational Institute in Bratislava. In the video, he describes an image-making process called Angel, the technique used, material, and how the idea about the theme came to him, and what was the visualization of it.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Michal Bársony general audience internal
Michal Bársony - A Girl in the Window
created: 05. 10. 2018 12:02 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Born in the village Kunova Teplica, the district of Roznava. The family spoke Hungarian, and kept the tradition of smithery and music. He graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty of Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, specialzed in fine arts and Russian language. The post-gradual studies completed at the Pedagogical Faculty of University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, awarded with the title PeadDr. His main creation is painting and drawing, with prevailing themes of the sacral nature, as well as some women portraits and landscapes. As a pedagogue worked at several elementary and secondary schools, as well as at universities. He also worked for the State Institute Of Pedagogy. In the video he describes the creative process of painting the picture named A Girl in the Window, the technique used, the material, and the idea behind the selection and presentation of the theme.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Slovak Michal Bársony general audience internal
Michal Bársony - The Women
created: 05. 10. 2018 08:23 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Born in the village Kunova Teplica, the district of Roznava. The family spoke Hungarian, and kept the tradition of smithery and music. He graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty of Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, specialzed in fine arts and Russian language. The post-gradual studies completed at the Pedagogical Faculty of University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, awarded with the title PeadDr. His main creation is painting and drawing, with prevailing themes of the sacral nature, as well as some women portraits and landscapes. As a pedagogue worked at several elementary and secondary schools, as well as at universities. He also worked for the State Institute Of Pedagogy. The video shows him describing the process of painting the concrete painting titled The Waggon, the technique and material used for it, as well as the background of how the theme and form were chosen. In the video he describes the process of creating a collection of paintings, the technique used, the material, and the idea behind the selection and presentation of the theme.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Slovak Michal Bársony general audience internal
