...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…

*** 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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).…

DIY tarot, education literacy for life worth living

1 JAN 2015...

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

Toolkit

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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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…

https://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.

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.

          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…