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.
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.
The Ake Dikhea Film festival closed. The award for the best film was given to “Pongo Calling” from director Tomáš Kratochvil; the movie “Auf Spurensuche” from Michael Telkmann got the Jury special mention; best short film was “9/8 fight 41” by Gizem Aksu.
The German Newpaper taz is giving away 2×2 free tickets for the 6th International Roma Film Festival “AKE DIKHEA?” for the film “Time of Silence and Darkness” on October 27th. at 7:30 p.m. AKE DIKHEA is an international festival with films by and with Roma and Sinti, which has been taking place in Berlin every year since 2017. It shows the world from their perspective and asks how they see themselves and how they want to be seen.
The movie festival will open on October 24th with the movie “People can die twice”.
After a one-year pandemic break, the international Roma festival Gypsy Fest is returning to the capital. Its 14th year in a row will continue to September 3rd on the Main Square in Bratislava.
After a one-year corona break, Gypsy Fest brings exclusive concerts of top Roma artists to the capital again. The 14th edition of the international festival will take place from September 2 to 3 on the Main Square in Bratislava.
Next weekend, September 4., Vilnius will be rocked by the most colourful music event – the Roma culture festival “Gypsy fest 2022”. The organizer of the event, a well-known Lithuanian Rom, head of the ensemble “Sare roma”, Ištvans Kvik says that this year’s festival, invites us to forget about the differences between nations and to remember respect for each other.
The Sevilla Flamenco Biennale will start next week. It had not taken place dur to the covid pandemic for a long while.
Here’s the program and all the information.
On August 18th, the Roma Bašavel event will take place in Prague. Tickets are no longer available, but the event can be watched via live broadcast on social networks “Romany Bashavel 2022”. The live broadcast is provided by ROMEA TV.
A new music festival brought Roma and non-Roma musicians to the stage this summer in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. The “Roma Song Day” aims not only to celebrate the music of the minority, but also aims to create a connection between cultures.
Hungary’s only Roma arts festival, TeatRom, closed with a deficit of about HUF two million. However, the series of cultural events – aimed at the Roma communities living in the segregated communities in Cserehát, a region in Northeastern Hungary close to the Slovak border – lasted only three days instead of the planned eight.
It took place in the village of Csenyéte, a village at the end or a desolate road. Life in Csenyeté is a dead end in many ways. There is nothing there. No shop, no clinic, no school, no pub, no bank, no post office. Even the mayor comes here only to go home after his work is done. Five hundred and fifty people live here today, almost exclusively Roma. Sixty percent of them are children.
Whether a festival in such a place, and whether the “romantic” view of Roma it presents are a good idea remain to be seen. But the problem of these isolated god-forsaken Roma communities in the poorest region of Hungary remains.
The “Gypsy Fest” Festival will take place on September 4th in the Lithuanian capital.
Sinti and Roma belong to Dortmund – and the city will celebrate their culture from August 3 to 21, 2022 at Djelem Djelem. For the ninth time, the festival invites you to workshop, lectures and family celebrations.
A Roma festival in the central Slovakian town of Nitra.
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