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....LES BOHÉMIENS....par Jacques CALLOT ( Nancy 1892 - 1635 )

...LES BOHÉMIENS....( titre orig.: " La Vie des Egyptiens ", prob. en Lorraine-Fr. )

Jacques CALLOT,... né à Nancy en 1592 et mort à Nancy le 24 mars 1635, est un dessinateur et graveur lorrain, dont l'œuvre la plus connue aujourd'hui est une série de dix-huit eaux-fortes intitulée "Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre", évoquant les ravages de la Guerre de Trente…

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Added by Wout J. van Vloten on March 3, 2015 at 18:02 — 1 Comment

MONA - Julienne METBACH, peintre manouche (Fr)....

*** Julienne Metbach - " Mona " ( English ):

Coming from a circus family Sinti-Manouches, contortionist from the age of three, Mona lived in a vardo ( wooden Gypsy caravan ) and then later in a caravan in France and Belgium, and drew as a child in the sawdust of the circus ring or on the damp misty windows.

Only much later at the age of fifty, she started…

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Added by Wout J. van Vloten on March 2, 2015 at 16:00 — 3 Comments

My Wanderings with Bart McDowell

When preparing to review my first book, I didn't really have any specific plans how I would do it. Though possessing only 215 pages more than half of which were photographs, the book presented a major challenge to me as a learner. In the end I decided to approach my review by structuring it around several questions that presented themselves as I was reading.

The first question was of course, why this book? I first chose Bart McDowell's "Gypsies. Wanderers of the…

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Added by Eugenia Shmulevich on February 23, 2015 at 2:15 — 1 Comment

Introduction of our new tab..." ROMANI REPORTS "....!

Under this tab, you will find interesting news on art, culture, history and media, gathered by: Wout J. van Vloten. Wout is also editor of the World Artists Initiative "Khetanes" page on Facebook. Articles published here can also be found on his Facebook page or on the Khetanes page on…

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Added by Stoimen on February 13, 2015 at 20:30 — 14 Comments

ROMA STEREOTYPE blog

Roma Stereotype blog

by Monica Bodirsky



Truth and Myth

 

Racial stereotypes are damaging because they are a distilled version of an entire culture or race. Stereotypes reduce a group or culture to a one-dimensional caricature by ignoring aspects of complexity and diversity. Sadly, despite the inaccuracies and often-ludicrous portrayals of Romani…

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Added by Stoimen on February 12, 2015 at 22:00 — 2 Comments

Khamoro Budapest Band

Khamoro Budapest Band is a folklore band which plays authentic contemporary gypsy music collected  from all over the country.Beside collections and covers they write, compose and publish their own  original songs.Their virtuosic songs are escorted with oral bass and colorful ornaments. The „listeners” (csacsi vorba) are deeply emotional.The lyrics are about family, love , happyness and sorrow of their actual statement ornamented with thirds.

The…

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Added by Zsolt Farkas on February 4, 2015 at 14:26 — No Comments

Let me be your book reviewer?

Hi everyone,

I am not so great with introductions but lets give this a shot. I am Eugenia, residing in often sunny but cold Northern California. I am a voracious book reader and have recently started a Jewish themed book review blog (http://jewishbooksareawesome.wordpress.com).…

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Added by Eugenia Shmulevich on January 23, 2015 at 2:30 — 7 Comments

2015 Let it begin, make a positive 3x5 card a day to have it your way all life long!

DIY tarot, education literacy for life worth living

1 JAN 2015...

Learn family languages: English, Finnish, Romani Chi'b.…

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Added by Kristina Burbank on January 2, 2015 at 17:30 — No Comments

Right this Rrom ~ 7 NOV 14 art/story Friday Feature #1 ARCHIVE

I am far from perfect, striving simply to be a humane evolutionist, using arts liberally to…
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Added by Kristina Burbank on November 18, 2014 at 12:30 — No Comments

Info Khetanes

World Artists Initiative "Khetanes" started its website in October 2010. The site was initiated by Els de Groen, writer, poet, journalist and former Member of the European Parliament (2004-2009), where Romani issues were one of her priorities. In less than a month, 100 artists and scholars joined the website. Many more would follow. September 2014, we exceeded 1000 members…

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Added by Stoimen on November 13, 2014 at 14:00 — No Comments

"Woonwagencultuur reaches official status"

today at the Best Sinti camp I was very proudly shown an official paper certificate on which an Treaty-to-preserve-Immaterial-Cultural-Heritage was drawn at the initiative of UNESCO and ratified by our Dutch government to give "woonwagencultuur" an official status. This will be done by charting out Immaterial Heritage in the National Inventory and helping communities to pass on their traditions to generations to come.

As this treaty was a long time in the making my feeling is that…

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Added by Menno J.H van der Reijden on September 13, 2014 at 23:42 — 1 Comment

ROMANI EYES ON GYPSY FILM

Romani Eyes on Gypsy Film

Summary: The Romani figure has, since the time of silent film, found representation on the silver screen.  Whether as a main character, (or much more frequently as a cameo or a supporting role,) a myriad of cinematic displays of Romani people, with a distinct culture and history, have…

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Added by Stoimen on September 10, 2014 at 21:00 — 2 Comments

IS ROMA CULTURE A SUBCULTURE, DAMAGING MAINSTREAM CULTURE?

On 2 July 2014, The Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest opened its doors to host an exhibition of paintings, called “Confluence, influence – in art?”. All paintings have been made by the Roma painter and sculptor George Mihai Vasilescu, also present on this Khetanes site and member of the Visual Arts and Paintings Group. The exhibition of paintings of manele musicians, that will last until 8 July 2014, caused a stir in Romanian press and social media. The director of the…

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Added by Stoimen on July 6, 2014 at 17:30 — 17 Comments

IMPRESSIONS FROM "ROMA-EMBER AGAINST RACISM", Zürich 20/21 June

There were 16 bands, but quite easily it could have been 20. That big was the enthusiasm of musicians to contribute to the benefit concerts at the first Roma-Ember Against Racism Festival in the Alte Kaserne in Zürich, even if they had to travel 10 hours or more.

The Guitar…

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Added by Stoimen on June 29, 2014 at 22:30 — 8 Comments

Children's Day

1st of June was Children's Day in Bulgaria. On the occasion of the festivities in our local school where many kids from our slum learn together with ethnic Bulgarians, our kids performed 2 little presentations. The motto was "The world is for…

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Added by Khetanes Juniors Bulgaria on June 29, 2014 at 1:37 — 1 Comment

The Soul Has No Ethnic Origin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5DgnC2JXJI

What make me create this film is the fact, most off the people in the world don't understand the Romani People and they'r souls.

Added by Stoimen Vassilev on April 22, 2014 at 17:59 — 2 Comments

Short introduction.

I'm a Dutchmen, since 7 years living and working in the small Bulgarian town of Kotel. Kotel is the craddle of Bulgarian gypsy music all over 100 years! Still here are living more than 200 musicians from famous families like Malakovi, Pamukovi, Lambovi, Bodurovi, just to name a few...

From profession I am a former publisher for legal and government publications aswell as choreographer specialised in folk dance and crossover with modern dance.

Added by Jaap van Beelen on April 16, 2014 at 15:40 — No Comments

Helpless people of Middle East: Gypsies are in tight spot - By Kemal Vural Tarla

       

          The Gypsies living almostly in all countries of the world are having difficult days due to civil wars and conflicts happened in recent years.  This ancient nation has conveyed that “hard times” to future generations with the magic of promise by carrying massacre and pains which they have lived in war and civil wars of the World in their…

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Added by Kemal Vural Tarlan on March 12, 2014 at 10:00 — No Comments

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