President Zuzana Čaputová awarded a state award to Eva Gašparová, who is dedicated to teaching Romanes. The ceremony took place on January 14th in the building of the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava.
The Independent Journalism Endowment Fund recently updated the ranking of the most trusted domestic media. Among those evaluated is the news server ROMEA.cz, which achieved the highest mark.
“It is the result of many years of work and efforts of our team, which tries to bring quality, objective and up-to-date information about events from the Roma world,” says Zdeněk Ryšavý, director of the ROMEA organisation.
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The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) has announced the five finalists for the prestigious Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2023, which honours outstanding individuals who are leaders in the contemporary Roma cultural movement. The award ceremony will take place on 30 November 2023 at 19:00 and will be broadcast online from the Gorki Theatre in Berlin.
The 2023 Roma Spirit award nominated its laureates on Saturday (November 25) evening. They were announced at the National Theater in Košice. The prize was awarded by an expert jury in eight categories.
Šukar Dživipen from Banská Štiavnica won in the NGO category.
Zdravé regióny – a state organization won in the category Company and employer.
The city district of Košice – Luník IX won in the the Town and City category.
Paulína Slepčíková from Košice won in the in the Personality category.
The project Stories without Borders won in the Media category.
Barbora Botošová from Bratislava won the award in the Culture category.
Natália Gažiová from Košice won the Act of the Year category.
The special prize of the jury was awarded in memoriam to Daniela Hivešová Šilanova, a Slovak writer, dramaturg and screenwriter, co-founder of Romathan Roma Theatre.
The director of the Filakovo school is a finalist in Roma Spirit. Ildikó Kotlárová, a Romni, has been working in education for 36 years. “When pupils see that the principal is a Roma woman, it can inspire and motivate them,” she says.
Folklorist, civic activist and community worker Marie Oláhová, sociologist Zuzana Kusá and mayor of Toporec Gustáv Pompa won the Luč z tmy (Ray of Darkness) award this year. The prize was awarded for the sixth time to people who have long been advocating for the improvement of the position of the Roma in various areas of life.
The Roma spirit finalists are announced. The Roma Spirit prizes are given to organisations and individuals who have contributed to the integration of Roma.
Among them are, for example, the non-governmental organizations Detstvo deťom from Dobšina, Šukar Dživipen from Banská Štiavnica and Spokojnost – a center of social services from Prievidza. The gala evening with the awards will be on November 25.
The Tajsa prize will be awarded to Franciska Farkas and Horvá Kristóf “Színész Bob
(aka “Actor Bob”), both award-winning actors from Budapest, are notable for their contributions to the world of theater, film, poetry, and talent education.
The Jury has nominated them together for their outstanding performance in the movie Three Thousand Numbered Pieces (2022) “a political, cruel and original film spiced with dark humour, which makes an urgently needed and impactful statement against injustice, prejudice, discrimination and racism against the Roma, the biggest European minority”.
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The Romani singer and activist Ida Kelarová eceived from the hands of Czech President Petr Pavel the state award, the Medal for services to the state in the field of culture, education and education.
She is the first Romni to get this award and only the third person of Romani heritage to do so.
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On Saturday, Czech President Petr Pavel will award state honours to more than 60 personalities. The Castle does not want to publish the specific names of the awardees until the ceremonyAccording to information from Lidové noviny, singer and guitarist Vladimír Mišík or Romani singer Ida Kelarová could be the next awardees.
Ida Kelarovà would thus be the third person of Romani origin and the first Romni to receive this distinction.
On Friday, October 20, 2023, the Museum of Roma Culture in Brno hosted the award ceremony of the Museum of Roma Culture Award, which is awarded annually by the museum to personalities who have contributed to the development and preservation of Roma culture. This year, the prize was awarded in memoriam to Robin Strio, director, cameraman, Roma activist and former curator of the museum’s video collection, who died in the spring at the premature age of 33.
The architect Daniel Libeskind was awarded the European Sinti and Roma Civil Rights Prize.
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