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
Romani Stars
created: 25. 11. 2022 14:06 modified: 25. 11. 2022 14:14
Video from the exhibition entitled Romani Stars, which took place on March 12, 2014 in the premises of the Zemplín Enlightenment Center in Michalovce. The exhibition was organized by the civic association Nová cesta from Michalovce.
In the video, Jozef Fečo presents and describes his exhibited drawings and paintings, with humor typical for him.
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, Department of Design and Artistic Wood Shaping. He is mainly interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting drawing Slovak Jozef Fečo 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
Miroslava Kiňová - Lacemaking
created: 08. 11. 2022 09:16 modified: 08. 11. 2022 09:20
Miroslava Kiňová's from Prešov hobby is making lace. She learnt lacemaking from the well-known lacemaker Barbora Šimková, who specialized in Soľnobanská lace type and founded The Guild of Soľnobanská Lacemakers. There also Miroslava Kiňová learnt her technique of lacemaking. She prefers to create the coloured lace with the motifs that are most often associated with Christmas. Betlehem, stars and small fish made of lace, they are both decorations for the Christmas table as well as a nice gift.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic textiles bobbin lace Slovak Miroslava Kiňová 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.
category: speaking
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
O poštaris avel, telegramos anel (The Postman Comes, He Brings the Telegram) - Gitana and Ďusi Band
created: 10. 10. 2022 10:00 modified: 10. 10. 2022 10:04
Adriana Drafiová, musical accompaniment by the Ďusi Band, the folk cimbalom orchestra. The video was recorded on November 19, 2021 in Prešov, The Center for Independent Culture Wave. Gitana (A. Drafiová) - vocals, Július Bandy - cimbalom, Samuel Bandy - violin, Roland Horváth - clarinet, saxophone, Kristián Bandy - viola, Július Bandy junior - double bass.
Gitana
Musical talent is her family heirloom. Gitana (Adriana Drafiová) used her gift and became an accomplished singer of mainly electro swing and gypsy swing. Already at the age of seventeen, she sang with various bands abroad, performed in Hungary with Jozef Szabo, a respected singer, and later on her years long collaboration with the Kmeťoband began. She also sang a duet with Juraj Benetin, the lead singer of Korben Dallas, which is the opening song of Pixar's animated short film Lava from 2015.
Ďusi Band
Romani family folk band from Prešov, led by the cimbalist Július Bandy. He and his three sons produce and preserve the best traditions of Romani dulcimer music in Slovakia. They perform independently or in collaboration with a wide range of Roma and non-Roma artists. The guest member is Roland Horváth (clarinet, saxophone) from Rimavská Sobota.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk quintet Slovak Romani Ďusi Band Gitana Adriana Drafiová 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