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Romania, the Church, and Roma Slavery

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The Romanian Orthodox Church is refusing to apologise for the Roma slavery in Romanian lands, a slavery that lasted until 1862. They were parts of the problems, as there were a whole category of Roma who were slaves of the church.

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Romania, the Church, and Roma Slavery

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The Romanian Orthodox Church should apologize for centuries of Roma slavery. It would be a long overdue symbolic gesture, historians, sociologists and representatives of the Roma community believe.

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Romania, the Church, and Slavery

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A leader of the Romanian Roma community, Dorin Cioaba, is planning to sue the Romanian church for its role in Roma slavery in Romania. This would be a good thing for the church to have to admit their involvement and guilt in the Romanian Roma Slavery.

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Interview with Alina Şerban

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An interview with the actress, screenwriter, director, and Romani activist Alina Şerban who wishes to have more time for travelling, more time for herself this coming year. She says “The biggest dream for this year would be to travel more, to give myself time to breathe and develop without work. Until now, I didn’t really know how to do this without work, because work saved me. But looking back, I don’t know how I spent my years, I just see a lot of work. I hope to enjoy life more this year.”

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Djelem Djelem

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Between November 10-12, the Days of Sinti and Roma Culture took place in Bucharest. The event was organized by the Goethe-Institut Bucharest and the French Institute in Romania. The organizers invited musicians from Germany and France to support a musical program of Sinti and gypsy jazz, curated by music producer and journalist Liviu von Braha.

According to Liviu von Braha , the initiative took place with the aim of strengthening the representation of Roma in the public space, disseminating Roma culture to the widest possible public.

As part of the musicians’ event, an intensive workshop was organized at the National University of Music, in the Auditorium hall, held by Florin Niculescu and Christian Escoude, where the participants will familiarize themselves with the instrumental style on unique rhythms of Sinti and gypsy jazz from Germany and France.

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Bucharest: Roma Culture Days

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From tomorrow, Thursday to November 12, the Days of Sinti and Roma Culture will take place in Bucharest. The organisers, namely the Bucharest Goethe Institute and the French Institute in Romania, invited musicians from Germany and France who will perform a musical program of Sinti and Gypsy jazz curated by music producer and journalist Liviu von Braha. The initiative of the two cultural institutes aims to strengthen the representation of Roma in public space and to present Roma culture to the widest possible audience.

Tomorrow, at 7 p.m. at the French Institute, the Sinti and Roma Culture Days will open with a roundtable on “Roma Music and Community Engagement”, which will bring together specialists in Roma culture and cultural managers who run projects on Roma culture or projects that aimed at the Roma minority, discussed socio-economic and cultural aspects of the Roma and Sinti ethnic group from Central Europe and Romania.

Guest speakers will be music producer Liviu von Braha, Simona Constantin, director and founder of the workshops “Raised on Music”, musician Andrei Dinescu, musician and activist Dotschy Reinhardt and Istvan Szakats, program director of Radio Pata, Klausenburg/Cluj Napoca.

Octav Avramescu from the association “Jumătatea Plină” and Joachim Runde, director of the Goethe-Institut Bucharest will share the moderation of the event.

On Saturday morning, November 12, a free intensive workshop for musicians specializing in guitar or violin will be held between 10 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. in the auditorium hall of the National Music University (Str. Știrbei Vodă No. 33) by Florin Niculescu and Christian Escoudé held. The participants will get to know the instrumental style to the unique rhythms of Sinti and Gypsy jazz from Germany and France.

The Culture Days of the Sinti and Roma will be held on Saturday evening from 7 p.m. in the ARCUB – Hanul Gabroveni (Str. Lipscani No. 84-90) with a gypsy and Sinti jazz concert performed by Dotschy Reinhardt, Sinteza, together with the French guitarist Christian Escoudé and the Romanian violinist Florin Niculescu will end.

Sinteza, artist and human rights activist Dotschy Reinhardt is the youngest relative of jazz legend Django Reinhardt, the founder of gypsy jazz. Inspired by Django Reinhardt’s distinctive language and the cultural heritage of the Sinti, their music reflects the origin and history of their people. Also influenced by Django Reinhardt’s swing style, the exceptional French guitarist Christian Escoudé will perform alongside her in Bucharest. The Roma-born jazz artist has played with jazz and rock greats such as John McLaughlin, Stan Getz and Pierre Michelot and is known for his contemporary interpretations of Django Reinhardt’s songs. Together with the two, Florin Niculescu, one of the best gypsy jazz violinists of today, will enter the ARCUB stage. The Roma artist of Romanian origin, a close collaborator of Christian Escoudé, transitioned from a career as a classical violinist to a gypsy jazz musician and performer of traditional Roma music.

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Bucharest Festival

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Musicians from Germany and France are invited to the Days of Sinti and Roma Culture that will take place in Bucharest, between November 10 and 12, as part of an event organized by the Goethe-Institut Bucharest and the French Institute in Romania. According to a press release sent to AGERPRES on Friday, the initiative of the two cultural institutes aims to strengthen the representation of the Roma in the public space, by disseminating their culture.

Sinti and Roma Culture Days will open with the “Roma Music and Community Engagement” round table. Cultural specialists and managers who have carried out projects about Roma culture or projects aimed at this minority will debate socio-economic and cultural aspects of the Roma and Sinti ethnic group in Central Europe and Romania, the press release states.

On November 12, musicians specializing in guitar or violin are expected at the National University of Music, in the Auditorium Hall, for an intensive workshop held by Florin Niculescu and Christian Escoude, where the participants will familiarize themselves with the instrumental style on original Sinti and Gypsy rhythms jazz from Germany and France. The workshop is free and takes place between 10:00 and 14:30.

On the same day, from 19:00, at ARCUB – Hanul Gabroveni, the public is invited to listen to a gypsy and sinti jazz concert, performed by Dotschy Reinhardt Sinteza, a descendant of the jazz legend Django Reinhardt, together with the French guitarist Christian Escoude and the Romanian violinist Florin Niculescu.

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Romania and Racism

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The movie “N.M.R. » : welcome to Transylvania from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu stages a village in the depths of Romania to evoke community tensions and racism. A Romanian returns to his village in Transylvania, with Romanians, Hungarians, and Roma. Hungarians and Romanians are united to to chase Roma from the village. And almost all are determined do the same to three Sri Lankan workers, “low cost” employees who have just been hired in the factory.

To be seen!

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Ukrainian Roma Refugees

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Testimonies from Ukrainian Roma refugees in Europe. The article focuses on Moldova and Romania. What is good, is that this is being reported in the Ukrainian press, which usually tends only to report on stealing and begging Roma. Hope this will continue.

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Ukrainian Roma Refugees

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Well, it is not good it you are a Rom. A reportage in the Czech Republic, in Moldova and in Romania. It is not better in Hungary, that we know…

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Romania commemorates the Holocaust against the Roma

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“Today we pay a pious tribute to the memory of the Roma, the almost 500,000 children, women and men victims of the Holocaust. Entire families perished in this genocide, being subjected to horrific brutalities. Our thoughts also go out to those who survived the horrors and their descendants. This year, in Romania, we commemorate 80 years since the first deportations of Roma to Transnistria by the Antonescu regime. About 25,000 Roma were deported to Transnistria and condemned to live in inhuman and unsanitary conditions, deprived of food and forced to do forced labour. Of these, not more than half had the strength to survive. The Romanian state has assumed responsibility for this crime, a dark episode of our history,” states a message sent by President Klaus Iohannis.

Bravo, that is a real first.

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Beating in Romania

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Bruises on the face, swollen eye, scared and crying children. A video is being spread on social networks among Roma in Romania. A 37-year-old Rom from Piatra Neamt north of Bucharest was beaten by police. The reason was that he refused to provide an ID when the taxi in which he was driving as a passenger was stopped. Information from the Romanian newspaper Libertatea was published by the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC).

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