ACCOMPANYING EVENTS

Traditional parade of artists
The World Roma festival KHAMORO offers at the ninth occasion varied parade of participating artists and bands in the centre of Prague. You can enjoy the touching melodies of the Russian Roma, boisterous sound of the Balkan trumpets, lively songs from Italy or dynamics of Hungarian czardas. However, it’s not just about the music; parade is also pleasure for your eyes. You will be able to see colourful costumes and demonstrative pieces of Roma dances typical for each country. Come and sample the experience which KHAMORO brings with traditional music at its concerts. Join the parade right at the lead with the flag-bearers of all partaking countries, select your favourite band directly in the procession and don’t miss out on the carriage pulled by horses loaded with the most expected stars of the festival. It all sets off on Thursday at the high noon terminating at the Old Town Square.

Parade takes place 28.5.2009/ Můstek

Dance workshops
We started organizing our dance workshops in the past two years of the festival and so far they have been aimed at flamenco. This year, however, we introduce new traditional dance of Roma in Russia. Your dance instructor will be a professional dancer Petia Iourtchenko, who lectures at the Paris Conservatory. Petia, long-standing member of the famous Theatre Romen, is valued particularly for his artistic virtue.

Workshops are held 29.5. - 30.5.2009/studio Zambra

Beginners: Friday 17.00 - 19.00, Saturday 10.00 - 13.00
Intermediate: Friday 19.30 - 21.30, Saturday 15.00 - 18.00

Registration form:
http://flamencheco.cz/en/html/pages/kurzy_terminyceny.php3

Days of Dutch Roma
A special part of this year’s festival is a program called„Days of Dutch Roma“, held in co-operation with the Netherlands Embassy in Prague (namely with the festival Nethworks.cz).Their targeted ambition is to bring in rich cultural program introducing the Roma culture and art from this European country.
Days of Dutch Roma offer plentiful attractions for everyone: 2 Gypsy jazz concerts ( The Rosenberg Trio, The Basily Boys), documentaries in the cinema Aero, photo exhibition named „E Romenge- the Roma“ by Šahin Šišić or international workshop for Roma and non-Roma youth “We Are on the Long Way“.

Days of Dutch Roma´ public activities are held 25.5., 26.5., 27.5. and 29.5.2009

Exhibition „Šahin Šišić – E Romenge/ the Roma“
Within the scope of Days of Dutch Roma we have prepared an exhibition of photographs by a Bosnian photographer and a film-maker Šahin Šišić, who lives and works in the Netherlands. His black and white photographs, which are presented at the exhibition „E Romenge – the Roma“, portray former Yugoslavia as perceived by the author during his stay there. The exhibition beautifully reflects rich diversity of the Roma ethnic group, taking you on a journey through their mental world and environment. The exhibition is a part of Days of Dutch Roma.

Opening of the exhibition takes place 29.5.2009

Documentary films

This year we have prepared the projection of three documentaries directed by Bob Entrop. The first movie you will be shown is named „ No Place of Their Own“(90min) and initiates the audience into ordinary lives, values and desires of several Gypsy families.

The second film „Gypsy music hurts“(80min) is a portrait of an exceptional violinist Nella Miranda, who controls his instrument only with the help of three fingers. It exemplifies the passion, tragedy, hardship and suffering.

The third film „A blue hole in the sky“(105min) tells the story of 12 people, who survived World War II and it is their first time confiding the shocking experience onto the camera.

This project is a part of the program Days of Dutch Roma.

The cine-meeting takes place 25.5.2009/Aero cinema

Exhibition „Otto Pankok – Sinti“
Otto Pankok (1893-1965) is one of the most significant German artists, who devoted his work and his personal life to the Sinti and Roma minorities. It is this intense recognition of minorities and variety of artistic techniques that play a key-role in life-work of the artist. He’s known for a very positive relationship and affinity for Roma, especially during the Nazis regime. His entire work is closely related to the gruesome period of history – the Holocaust, during which these ethnic groups were victimized. His work is a precious testimony of the ongoing horrors of the genocide, as he most intensely of all German artists dwells on veracious picture of the Nazis regime. The exhibition also illustrates the afflictions caused to the author by the regime, whereas he was also prosecuted by the Nazis, wasn’t able to exhibit and many of his works were removed from galleries and destroyed.
This exhibition presents Pankok´s wood-carvings, bronze sculptures, photographs, original books, lithographs and info panels providing data about the author in the historical context of his work.

Opening of the exhibition takes place 28.5.2009 /palac Aventin

Exhibition “Jiří Doležel – Roma from Vsetin“
This photographic exhibition entitled „ Roma from Vsetín“was provided by the Agency for social conclusion in Roma localities at the Czech Governmental Office. These photos recorded the events of 2005, when the Vsetín City Hall decided to relocate four good- sized families to Jeseníky. When interviewed, all families indicated, that they had been forced to leave Vsetín under the threat of eviction and withrawal of their children. In doing so, they repeatedly expressed the desire to return to their town of Vsetín. Adoption of newly- moved family members was strongly stigmatized by the image created by media representatives from Vsetín, by whom they had been referred to as dodgers and maladjusted citizens. Jiří Doležel is a free-lance photographer and focuses mainly on documentary photography. He works in collaboration with non-profit sector in the in the Czech Republic and is a prize-holder of UNHCR – Czech Press Photo 2006 and Documentary photography and discrimination 2007, which he was awarded by the Multicultural Centre Prague. He also published a book EPI CENTER, which depicts a humanitarian mission in earthquake- affected areas of Pakistan.

EXPERT PROGRAM

Seminar „ Romaculture as a part of European culture“
As in previous years, expert program henceforward remains a component part of the festival. This year it will be the two-day international expert seminar „ Roma culture as a part of European culture“, which will be attended by world experts. The objective of the workshop is to mirror and present Roma culture as an integral and substantial ingredient of European cultural territory. The Roma minority is no doubt, the largest minority in Europe and as such an active cultural bearer it must logically influence the cultural face of Europe. The seminar is being implemented in collaboration with the Charles University – Roma studies seminar.
The seminar is available to general public and presents these experts:
Elena Marušáková/ Bulgaria, Veselin Popov/Bulgaria, Andrzej Mirga/Poland, Arne Mann/Slovakia, Ian Hancock/U.S., Neziti Nedzmedin/ France, Zbzněk Andrš/CR, Jan Červenka/ , Zuzana Jurková/ CR, Katalin Kovalcsik/ Hungary, Timea Junghaus/Hungary, Jana Horváthová/CR, Ceija Stojka/Austria, Eva Davidová/ CR, Erika Manuš/ CR and others.
These experts will give a talk on the subject of Roma culture in different geographical, historical and cultural contexts. They will present us with topics on Romani language, speech and literature, music and folk poetry and directions of contemporary art forms and fine art. The seminar will also showcase a collection from the ethno-musicological conference “Music and minorities”, which took place as a part of the festival last year. The seminar will be interpreted into English.

The seminar takes place 28.5. and 29.5. 2009

International Workshops for Youth “We Are on the Long Way”
International Youth Meeting “We Are on the Long Way” is a long-term project of the organization “Slovo 21”. The aim of this meeting is to help young Roma to find their place in society by strengthening their sense of identity. In 2009, already second execution of this project takes place, this time within the framework of the World Roma Festival KHAMORO. We will introduce 20 young people from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands and Germany participating in the project. When we organized a similar meeting last year, we asked the participants, what projects they would like to implement. From all proposed ideas it emerged, they firstly wanted to acquire proper education, information and experience, which they would later transmit to the Roma community itself, as well as to the general public, all in order to meet the vision of a functioning multicultural society without prejudice. Therefore, this year the meeting is divided into an educational part, where the partakers learn more about history, culture, language and traditions of Roma, and a practical part, in which many young people themselves launch a workshop for Roma children and a public happening in the Old Town Square. The workshops are a part of the Days of Dutch Roma.

The workshops take place 24.5 .- 31.5.2009