Tag Archives: Theatre

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Roma Partisan

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Roma Partisan

Czech Television reporter and presenter Richard Samko arrived at the Junior Radio Club. He talked to presenter Eva Sinkovičová about his work and the new Minor Theatre performance, in which he portrays a Roma hero, Josef Serenko. He fought in both world wars and he later became a partisan commander nicknamed Černý and worked in the Highlands.

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French Chronicle …

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In Paris on March 26th, Alina Şerban will present her new theatre piece titled “the big shame”. Near Nantes in Western France, Roma who live on a site called “la Montagne” talk to the press. On the same site, an initiative invited the Roma and neighbours for two events.

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Moravian Theatre

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Moravian Theatre
The Moravian Theatre Olomouc will present a Romani fairy tale inspired by a story recorded by Milena Hübschmannová, a prominent romologist in Czechia. It is a unique music and dance production called The Fairy Tale Enchanted by the Cimbalom. The project is directed by Dana Račková in collaboration with Romani musician Michal Taragoš and connects children’s imagination with the rich tradition of Romani music. The premiere of the production is scheduled for January 26, 2025.
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Romano Feminist Theatre

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Romano Feminist Theatre

An interview with Mihaela Dragan, founder of a feminist Roma theatre. She says “My grandmother was a matriarch, so I always had feminism first-hand, although I didn’t know that such a word existed. At home, I saw that women are born leaders.”

The manifesto “Roma Futurismi” written by Mihaela Dragan, was translated into Polish by Marta Orczykowska for the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival.

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August 2nd

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The Museum of Roma Culture in Brno will present the play The Gypsy Boxer – as a reminder of the 80th anniversary of the murder of all Roma prisoners of the so-called family camp in the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

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Theatre and Sterilisation

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The theater group Ara Art decided to help women who were victims of involuntary illegal sterilizations in the past. Their new project combines a theatrical production, an information campaign and personal support for compensation claims.

The law on the provision of a one-time financial sum to persons sterilized in violation of the law entered into force at the beginning of 2022. Since then, over 500 women, mainly of Roma origin, have received compensation. “Hundreds more have submitted applications that have not yet been approved, and many other women do not know how to deal with the administrative process or do not trust it,” said the Ara Art organization in a press release sent to the Romea.cz news site.

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Khamoro: Theatre

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The Slovak National Theatre presented a play about a tragic 1928 pogrom against Roma in Pobedimi which killed 6 Roma and left many without a house at the Khamoro Festival.

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Serbia: Theatre Play

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The premiere of the play “Poor Mileva from Bosnia in our civilization in 1878” was held in Subotica, Serbia. This is the oldest known Serbian text written by a woman. The play features the National Theatre, children from the drama section of the Children’s Theatre, and members of the Roma community.

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Romeo and Juliet

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A new reading of “Romeo and Juliet” is being prepared in Belogradchik, Bulgaria. A story of modern Romeo and Juliet, between Roma and Bulgarians will be told by a Bulgarian-Roma theatrical production. The idea is of the People’s Community Center “Razvitie” in Belogradchik.

Well not quite, the Roma Theatre Pralipe had this idea during the siege of Sarajevo.

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Croatia: Theatre R

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Theatre R. a Roma theatre founded in 2018, is preparing a new play co-financed by the European Union under the Impact4values program, which will premiere in the spring in Zagreb and then in Varaždin, Koprivnica, Đurđevac and Čakovec. This play continues the theme of expressing Roma culture in a contemporary and humorous way and successfully equates the problems of young Roma with the problems of other young people in our country.

To that end, they started an anonymous review in about the views of the general population in Croatia on Roma.

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Orphan Milev from Bosnia…

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The National Theater in Subotica started rehearsals for the play “Poor Mileva from Bosnia in our Civilization in 1878” by a woman writer Albina Podgradska. The play is directed by Anđelka Nikolić, and the premiere is scheduled for March 14 at the Jadran stage. Serbian, Hungarian, Roma and Slovak languages are used in the play.

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Bulgaria – Puppet Theatre

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Eighteen Romane children will appear on the stage of the Sliven puppet theater in the performance “The Bird of Happiness”. Evelina Kösovska, who directed and dramatized the play, said this at a press conference today. The children, who are fourth-graders from the “Miladinovi Brothers” and “Yuri Gagarin” elementary schools, in addition to being actors, participated in the creation of the show based on Romany fairy tales and legends.

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Roma Heroes

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From Bucharest to Budapest via Rome, these are the three placves where the International Roma Theatre Festival which opened on 8 September in the Romanian capital took place and will take place. The Roman stop was on October 2 to 8. The tour will end in Budapest from 3 to 14 December . The intent is the “dissemination of innovative and unprecedented knowledge of the Roma Community”.

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Chirikli

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The premiere of Oleksandr Gavros’s comedy “Chirikli” (Gypsy Mother) will take place in Kalush. The charity performance is aimed at supporting the affected districts of Kherson region and Mykolaiv region. They play recently won an award in Ukraine.

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Čirikli – the Bird

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The one-man play “Chirikli” about Transcarpathian Roma won the All-Ukrainian Theatre Day competition

The Oleksandr Gavros’ monodrama  was originally staged in 2021 by the Transcarpathian Music Drama Theatre based on the works of the Roma writer from the Vynohrady region, Mykola Burmek-Dury.

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Slovakia: Interview

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An interview with the theatre actress Dominika Badžová, a Romni from the Košice region. She comes from a poor family with a single mother, and while she studied acting, she could not find a job, being a Romni. She was fortunately discovered and her talent rewarded.

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Bulgaria: Theatre Program

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A project, “Educational theatre, a tool for improved awareness of the art and culture of the Roma ethnic group in Bulgaria” did a casting for candidate actors. The goal is to develop skills through culture and art, and for theatre to be a path to education. And to stimulate greater social cohesion and mutual understanding between the majority and minority cultures with a focus on the Roma.

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