March 2001The activity of the Stories Exchange Project is not only concentrated in Prague. Our project is alive and well in other towns of the Czech Republic. One of them is Usti nad Labem, a northern Bohemian town which became internationally famous for the wall which Czech residents on Maticni street put up during the […]
John Erwin
Cooperation with the U.N. Center, Prague
04/05/01The United Nations Information Center in Prague has prepared a photographic competition for the pupils of primary schools: “Do you know how we live at home?”Pupils from selected schools will be provided with disposable cameras and their task will be to capture the life of their family or the families of their schoolmates. The results […]
Stories Exchange Project Phase III: 2001-2002
8/18/01THE STORIES EXCHANGE PROJECT IN THE CZECH REPUBLICPhase Three (2001-2002) “The Stories Exchange Project is a way of getting people to talk about things that matter to them: things that are in their hearts and in their backgrounds.People often see each other in settings where they speak abstractly. But the Stories Exchange Project gets them […]
Romany Recording Studio Project
5/9/01Drom Recording Studio ProjectThe Romany CenterBratislavská 41602 00 BrnoCzech RepublicI. IntroductionTomás SenkyríkMuseum of Romany CultureBrnoRoms have immense musical talent. They have a natural sense of rhythm and harmony, and their vocal expression is passionate and urgent. But young Romany musicians often sell out to the tasteless concepts of the commercial music world. This is why […]
Stories Exchange Project Morocco
I. Introduction Stories Exchange Project Morocco will apply the rich and diverse traditions of Moroccan storytelling to participants’ everyday experience, enabling them to respond actively and creatively to new opportunities for personal, social, economic, and political development. The project will be organized by the Rabat-based non-governmental organization SEP Maroc in cooperation with the Fund for New […]
What Politics Can Be Like: King Hassan II in Tangier
Mitchell ChanelisDirector, Project DevelopmentThe Fund for New Performance/VideoIt was in 1964. I had planned to leave Tangier days before, but people I knew said, ‘No, you have to wait, you have to wait: the sultan’s coming.’ There are rumors he was going to be assassinated and everybody was on tenterhooks. So I was in the […]
HOLOCAUST
Author: AndreaAndrea 20/09/03 I am running through a cold nightI can hear somebody crying.I am stepping on flowers…… they fade…Whose was the cry?…nobody´s they say…I am running…drops of blood are cold…I am lying……grim heaven… — all around…and a word that is cold as ice HOLOCAUST
ashamed
Author: anonymous, U.K.Location: u.kthere is a boy in my secondary school called Ian. he is a big lad and hates me for being a ‘gyppo’. it’s never out in the open- always secret. but i’m not even a Romani by blood. i speak lots of the language, have Roma or sinti friends, and i’m abused […]
Discrimination
Author: Francesca Roe, U.K.Location: u.kI am not a Romani. But i do speak a lot of the language, have lots of Romani or Sinti friends and have taken up some of the culture. i feel at home with it and when i have finished my education i want to pursue this life even more. But […]
A new agency for unemployed Roma in Prague
Author: Katerina SidonovaLocation: PragueA new service for unemployed Roma in Prague. Free of charge.Personal Agency of Roma is a non-profit agency that was established by the Romani Union in the Czech Republic. The project is supported by the City Council of Prague. Its aim is to help Roma to find work and stay employed. It […]
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