Culture

videoVIDEO: Gala celebration of International Romani Day 2019 in Prague's Archa Theater

8.4.2019 16:44 This year's celebration of International Romani Day in Prague is culminating today, Monday 8 April, with a gala evening at the Archa Theater. The space will open to the general public at 17:00 with an NGO market.  full story

videoLIVE BROADCAST TODAY AT 17:30 CET: Prague begins celebrating International Romani Day

4.4.2019 15:34  full story

Richard Samko's message to the late singer Věra Bílá: Me, nikda nazabisterav, palikerav tumege

29.3.2019 7:21  full story

videoVIDEO: 2 000 people in Rokycany, Czech Republic, pay their respects to the Queen of Romani Music, Věra Bílá

24.3.2019 7:14  full story

videoLIVE BROADCAST TODAY from the Czech Republic: Funeral of the Queen of Romani Music, Věra Bílá

23.3.2019 6:55  full story

videoRomani vocalists from Czech Republic and Slovakia record pop music video duet

26.2.2019 7:57  full story

Romafuturismo Library moves to northern Czech town of Most with new name: The Josef Serinek Library

23.2.2019 6:47  full story

Documentarist says Czech rap artist Shot stands out because he draws from real life

5.1.2019 11:15  full story

Romani community in Czech Republic's second-largest city films the first-ever Romani sitcom

7.12.2018 6:51  full story

Documentary by Museum of Romani Culture wins award for best Czech film at international festival

6.12.2018 7:46  full story

Romani community member Olga Halušková has been guiding visitors through Czech castle Karlštejn for more than a decade

24.11.2018 11:27  full story

Celebrated Romani composer Tomáš Kačo releases debut CD "My Home" and will perform soon in Prague

1.11.2018 12:54  full story

EU Justice Commissioner kicks up her heels in Brussels after Romani theater performance from the Czech Republic

17.10.2018 7:09 ARA ART, a Romani theatrical group from the Czech Republic, gave a reprise performance in Brussels for the second time this year of their original play "…a zase jsme spali pindral" ("...and again we all slept pindral"). While in the spring the group accepted an invitation to the Roma Week festival there and performed for a young audience of Romani youth from all over Europe, the October reprise was part of the conference of the European Platform for Romani Inclusion as part of the European Year of Cultural Heritage.  full story

Sweden: Pippi Longstocking gets a rewrite, this time as a Romani girl

15.10.2018 9:15 Most of us know the children's stories about Pippi Longstocking by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. The little girl with braids and freckles who has exceptional abilities for her age and whose buccaneer father is always at sea moves into a quiet, small Swedish town, where she lives alone in her own house with her horse and her monkey.  full story

Czech capital to see seminar on stereotypes in the photographic depictions of Jewish and Romani people

8.10.2018 20:15 On Monday, 15 October, an international seminar about stereotypical depictions of Jewish and Romani people in photography will be held in Prague. The event will involve an historical review as well as the presentation of two unique art projects that have recently been produced on this subject.  full story

Europe's Romani community asked to nominate films for AKE DIKHEA? festival, DEADLINE 15 OCTOBER

3.10.2018 12:07 From 6 - 10 December 2018 the second annual AKE DIKHEA? Romani Film Festival will take place in Berlin, Germany. Organizers are calling on the public to nominate films that Romani viewers identify with.  full story

Miroslav Rác: 21st century classical music teaching the lessons of the Holocaust and its Romani victims

30.5.2018 9:57 There has never been a lack of excellent musicians among Romani people. Composers, though, are a rarer phenomenon.  full story

Czech play focuses on hateful commentaries posted to Internet discussions - #nejsemrasista_ale

25.5.2018 18:44 The Divadlo Petra Bezruče theater in Ostrava, Czech Republic has premiered an original production entitled #nejsemrasista_ale ("#I'm not a racist, but..."), directed by Braňo Holiček. The play about anonymous opinions on the Internet that frequently mask emotions of fear and hatred premiered on 18 May.  full story

Hungary: József "Choli" Daróczi, translator of the New Testament into Romanes, has passed away

17.5.2018 17:25 At the age of 79 the eminent Romani author, poet, journalist and teacher József Daróczi, known to his loved ones by the familiar Romani nickname "Choli", passed away in Hungary on 12 May 2018. Mr Daróczi, an all-around gifted artist and charismatic educator, was one of the most eminent Romani figures in Hungarian public life for decades.  full story

Novel about the Holocaust and its Romani victims, "Jacob's Colours", now in Czech translation

30.4.2018 10:09 Te den, cha, te maren, denaš. "If they give you food, accept it, if they beat you, get out of there."  full story