The Prague 4 district is organizing the fourth annual music event called Romský Bašavel. Roma Bashavel will take place on Friday, August 18, from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Novodvorská Cultural Center. The event is moderated by Czech Radio editor Iveta Demeterová and well-known musician and publicist Vojta Lavička.
The Roma culture festival “Djelem Djelem” is taking place in Dortmund for the tenth time in a row. Until September 26, 2023, visitors can get to know the culture of the Sinti and Roma through films, theatre performances, music, training and encounters. Most of the events are free of charge.
A festival in Terespol, Poland, right on the Belarus border by Brest starts on August 13 in Terespol under the slogan “Multicultural City”. The aim of the “Multicultural City of Terespol” event will be to present the history and traditions of the communities living in Terespol and its vicinity over the centuries: Poles, Jews, Ruthenians (Ukrainians, Belarusians), Germans, Tatars and Roma.
The international Roma festival Amaro Fest – open air gipsy festival offers musical, singing and dancing performances by local and foreign performers. This year’s seventh edition is taking place on July 22 and 23 in the Nitra amphitheatre.
The film festival in Palić, Serbia, amongst others will feature the movie “Three thousand numbered parts” by Adam Časi. The movie is based on a theatre play, directed by Časi, staged in Budapest and then moved to Berlin. Supported by the Open Society Foundation, the creative team composed exclusively of Roma has been working together for the sixth year in the desire to educate marginalized Roma through artistic activity. Roma boys and girls act, sing, dance, satirically referring to their own painful life stories, continuous traumas and experiences that left scars on their hands. Cruel, seasoned with dark humour, a political film against injustice, prejudice, discrimination and racism towards the Roma – the largest European minority.
Some images of the Gypsy Fest Festival, Slovakia.
On Sunday, July 9, 2023, the 19th edition of the Te prindžaras amen / Let’s get to know each other event will take place in the Martin Museum of the Slovak Village. It is being prepared by the Slovak National Museum in Martin – Museum of Roma Culture in Slovakia.
The program, which will last from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., will present the repertoires of Romani ensembles with an emphasis on the processes of maintenance and intergenerational transmission of traditional forms of Romani folklore.
A festival in Tarnow, Poland, is commemorating the old way of life of Roma and the summer travels they did until is was forbidden in Poland in 1961.
The festival Romane Dyvesa will start on July 7th in Gorzow Wielkopolski. Poland, with Roma musicians from Serbia, France, Poland and other countries.
The International Days of Roma Culture are celebrated in Krakow for the twelfth time with Roma from various parts of Europe came. Concerts and exhibitions will bring Krakow’s inhabitants closer to the culture that has become overgrown with many myths. To see what it really is like, it is worth visiting Nowa Huta on July 1 and 2.
Not much this week about Roma in France, which is not surprising in view of the riots that followed the killing of a young man by the police in the Paris suburbs.
A festival in Poitiers focusing on Roma tales, the paramisja, and an article about a “huge” Roma camp (with about 500 inhabitants) which apparently disturbs business.
The 12th International Days of Roma culture will take place in Krakow on July 1 and 2, in Łąki Nowohuckie. We will visit a former Roma camp, see museum wagons, ethnographic exhibits, an exhibition of paintings and photographs. On the outdoor stage, traditional dances will be presented by artists from Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Great Britain, Poland and France.
Unfortunately, some of the kitsch and stereotypes are presented here …
The children’s Roma festival “Open Heart” was held for the 18th time in a row and brought together children and young people from all over Bulgaria in V. Tarnovo. This edition was also a bit special for the organisers from the Amalipe Center for Inter-Ethnic Dialogue and Tolerance, as in 2023 the forum turns 20. Many songs, dances, poems, a theatrical production and a number of other side events entertained the spectators and the participants themselves in the festival, which traditionally gathered in “Marno Pole” park. It was attended by more than 1,000 students from over 70 schools across the country, included in the Folklore of Ethnicities, Roma Folklore and other activities of interest, girls and boys from the Youth Groups for Tolerance and Civic Participation, as well as educational mediators.
A video of the by now traditional parade of the artists of the Khamoro festival in Prague.
A video of the gala concert in the Khamoro festival in Prague.
A festival in a Roma settlement on June 9-11 at Šobov Estate in Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia).
The festival aims to unite people regardless of their nationality, religion, skin colour, education or anything else. The stage at Sídlisku Šobov will belong to Roma and non-Roma musicians. For example, Sendreiovci, Bez ladu a skladu, Barbora Botošová Band, Katarína Máliková and others will perform. Children’s creative workshops will also take place under the guidance of professional artists. Barriers will also be broken down at a football match between Roma and non-Roma artists or visitors.
The Khamoro festival has started in Prague with groups such as the Rosenberg Trio.
With the traditional greeting “Bibijako sastipe” (To the health of Auntie), the Days of Roma Culture began in Čačak, Serbia. These culture days will last from April 7 to 12,.
Bibija, Romani patron saint, healer and not yet canonized saint, is celebrated among Roma of the Orthodox faith. This celebration has been included in the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Serbia since 2019.
This year, Bibija will be commemorated in Čačak with a special program organized by Roma associations. The following will be organized: an exhibition, a traditional meal, performances by cultural and artistic societies and dance groups, film screenings and concerts by the bands Kal and Pretty Loud.
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.
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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