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Romani champion Alexandr Cverna on Fight Night in Kladno, Czech Republic (2019). (PHOTO: Facebook page of Alexandr Cverna)
Romani MMA fighter from Czech Republic declared champion in international mixed martial arts contest
1.6.2019 9:15 full story
Vicente Rodriguez Speaks About His Vision for the Romani People
26.6.2017 23:40 On 8 June, during the launch of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) in Berlin, the Huffington Post met with activist Vicente Rodríguez, the Romani organizer of the RomaPop alliance. Rodríguez discussed his mission to have Romani people portrayed in a positive light in popular culture. full story
videoEgypt: Band Introduces Traditional Romani Music to the Egyptian Jazz Scene
16.6.2017 12:00 The Gypsy Jazz Project is an Egyptian band that has pioneered Romani-based music in the jazz scene there. The band is set to perform with Egyptian singer and actress Dalia Farid this Saturday 17 June at 9:30pm in the ROOM Art Space and Cafe in Garden City. full story
videoIndonesia: Hijab-Wearing Female Metal Group Defies Stereotypes
15.6.2017 17:25 Voice of Baceprot, (VoB) is a female Indonesian metal group consisting of three young women who choose to wear hijabs, a type of Islamic headscarf. The band formed in 2014 in West Java, “and use their music to combat the stereotype of Muslim women as submissive or voiceless” according to reuters.com. full story
Czech-French film features young Romani actor in lead role
1.6.2017 7:53 A new Czech-French film from director and screenwriter Petr Václav, "Skokan" ("The Jumper"), tells a story of the search for happiness. Its theatrical premiere will be 8 June. full story
Czech Radio marks International Romani Language Day by premiering radio drama based on a Romani fairytale
8.11.2016 9:57 Czech Radio's "Vltava" station, which focuses on culture, broadcast a segment dedicated to the Romani language and literature on 5 November at 9 AM as part of its "Weekend Edition" program. At 10 AM the station broadcast the premiere of a dramatized reading of the Romani fairytale "About the clever (but deceitful thief) Bajcúr". full story
Palestinian and Romani hiphop artists: "Rap is the CNN of ordinary people"
20.7.2015 2:46 Three weeks ago the "Days of Jerusalem" festival was held in the Czech cities of Prague and Plzeň, an event which for several years has presented the culture of this divided Middle Eastern City. Organizers included an appearance by Palestinian rapper Muhammad Mughrabi on this year's rich program. full story
Giving the gadje what they want: NatGeo’s “American Gypsies”
New York, 23.7.2012 16:05, (ROMEA) The National Geographic channel is currently running a program called American Outliers which is being promoted as a documentary series about subcultures in the United States. The series features groups like the Amish, the Roma (or Gypsies), religious groups who believe in the imminence of the Apocalypse, etc. The first installment of the nine-episode American Gypsies series aired on Tuesday 17 July and was as disappointingly trashy as its advertising. full story
Hindus ask Madonna to highlight Gypsy apartheid issue during her Europe tour
USA, 8.2.2012 11:15, (ROMEA) Hindus have asked entertainer Madonna, who was reportedly booed and jeered by thousands of fans in Romania in 2009 when she sympathized with Roma (Gypsy) people, to take up their cause during her upcoming Europe tour. full story
"Cigán" ("Gypsy") wins four prizes during Karlovy Vary film festival
Karlovy Vary, 10.7.2011 16:21, (ROMEA) The Czech-Slovak film "Cigán" ("Gypsy") by director Martin Šulík has won the Special Jury Award at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, which includes a prize of USD 20 000. Ján Mižigár, who played the main role, was also awarded special recognition. The film also won two awards from unofficial juries: The International Federation of Film Societies (FICC) called it the best film and awarded it the Don Quijote Prize, while the Europa Cinemas Label association also gave it a best film award. full story
World premiere of Czech-Slovak film "Cigán" ("Gypsy") at Karlovy Vary film festival, then Toronto
Karlovy Vary, 6.7.2011 17:10, (ROMEA) Speaking at a press conference yesterday at the Karlovy Vary film festival, Slovak director Martin Šulík said his film "Cigán" ("Gypsy") is his most personal work. The film had its world premiere as part of the festival's main competition. Šulík says the image Slovak people have of Romani people is very distorted and incomplete and that his film wants to show what life is really like in the Romani settlements. full story
Interview with Roma author Veijo Baltzar: "I grew up in misery, but with respect"
Brno, 2.6.2011 0:16, (ROMEA) Veijo Baltzar (*1942, Kuopio, Finland) is a Roma author living in Finland. He has written eight novels, more than 10 plays, and award-winning film and television screenplays. He is a pedagogue, a poet, a visual artist, a theater director and a theoretician of drama and new pedagogy. His first novel, Polttava tie (The Burning Road, 1968) was the first by a member of the Roma community through which Finnish society was able to view the world of the Roma community. In 1976 he founded the Roma theater company Drom and in 2002 he helped to found the International Roma Writers Association (IRWA), which brings together roughly 30 Roma authors from around Europe and of which he is the president. He most recent novel, called In Love and War (2008), describes the dramatic fate of a Roma clan in Nazi Germany. full story
13th World Roma Festival KHAMORO opens in Prague 22 May
Prague, 7.5.2011 14:09, (ROMEA) If you would like to experience a week-long marathon of Roma culture, then come to the 13th annual World Roma Festival KHAMORO, which takes place during the week of 22. 5. – 28. 5. 2011 in Prague. The festival, held this year under the auspices of Czech PM Petr Nečas and the Mayor of Prague, Bohuslav Svoboda, has been held in the Czech capital since 1999. Over the years it has been supported by many leading public figures, such as Václav Havel. KHAMORO is organized by the Slovo 21 civic association and Studio Production Saga. full story
Houdek's portraits of Roma authors open in Prague
Prague, 19.4.2011 13:36, (ROMEA) During the opening of "Lačho lav sar maro/Dobré slov je jako chleba" ("Good Words Are Like Bread"), an exhibition of photographs of Roma authors taken by Lukáš Houdek, we heard Petr, a sculptor and habitué of Prague's Jericho café, make the following confession after a few glasses of red wine: "I stole it, or rather, I borrowed it. I wanted to return it today, but I haven't finished it yet." full storySinger Lisa Stansfield documents her travels with the Roma community
England, 30.11.2010 12:04, (ROMEA) British singer and songwriter, Lisa Stansfield has recalled her experiences with the Roma community in Tribune Magazine (London). full storyNew website for Gypsy youth in Wales
Wales, 15.11.2010 9:32, (ROMEA) A new website dedicated to showcasing the work of young Gypsies in Wales has been launched, the BBC has reported. full story
Gypsy rock against Sarkozy!
France, 8.11.2010 11:38, (ROMEA) Romanian rock band VAMA along with ethnic Roma musicians, released a single in English, criticizing President Nicolas Sarkozy’s crackdown on the Gypsies. full story
Romany girl Cher Lloyd has the X Factor
England, 1.11.2010 10:46, (ROMEA) The family of Cher Lloyd revealed to the Mirror how Cher overcame earlier hardship as a traveller to sing on the hit TV show, the X Factor. full storyGypsy Fair in Cambridge successful at breaking down stereotypes
Cambridge, 25.10.2010 10:37, (Romea) Milton Country Park in Cambridge held its first ever Gypsy and country fair over the weekend, with plenty of positive feed back from the local community. full story
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