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The newsletter of Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale
Published monthly, this newsletter covers the exhibition Paradise Lost, as well as the connecting events related to the Roma Pavilion.
Please see the instructions for subscribing/unsubscribing at the bottom of this page.
IN FOCUS
Damian Draghici: Love us as you love our music and art
Nebojsa Radic talks to the Romanian panflute virtuoso
Venice-Bucharest, November 2007 -- “We are you, and you are us - we are the same. We can be hurt the same, we cry the same. We are just called Roma. Love us as you love our music and art. Just look inside your heart before you make a judgment and statement: remember that one God made us all.” This is the message Damian Draghici, the great Romanian prodigy sends to the world a few days after his performance in Venice. More
Roma Pavilion to be presented in London
London-Venice, November 10, 2007 – Time of the Gypsies? will be an evening of art, debate and music, to mark Paradise Lost - The First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. More
Travellers Welcome? Gypsies Welcome?
Re-thinking media images of the Roma, Europe’s largest minority
London, November 10, 2007 -- A panel on portrayal of Roma in the media will be held in the Frontline Club in London on November 16. More
Network of Roma university centers established
Venice-Budapest, October 17, 2007 -- Over 40 representatives of academia, civil society and government took part in the seminar Embracing the future: Identity, culture and artistic expression in education of Roma children organized by the Roma Education Fund and The First Roma Pavilion.
The seminar focused on the ways that culture and artistic expression can be used in the education of Roma children as to build a positive cultural identity. A European network of Roma university centers was established at the meeting.
Event-announcing press release
Seminar report
Romanian Roma tunes rock Venice
Venice, October 20, 2007 -- Over 250 guests in a packed Teatro del Parco, a theater/concert hall popular among the residents of Venice-Mestre, enjoyed the music of the Romanian Gypsy band Damian and Brothers on October 19. More
Serbian Rock‘n‘Roma in Venice
Venice, November 2007 -- Cultural Cont@mination 2007- Si Rom Festival, a co-production by The First Roma Pavilion and the Cultural Councilor of the City of Venice, will close with a concert of the Serbian Gypsy band Kal on November 15. More
Roma-Kunst exhibition in Munich
Munich, November 2007 -- Three of the artists presented in Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art will be featured in an exhibition in Munich later this month. More
Roma Pavilion Award for Young Critics
In October this year the Roma Pavilion announced the Award for Young Curators and Art Critics. Applications received by November 30 will be reviewed by Barnabas Bencsik, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Annie Fletcher, Beral Madra and Marina Grzinic. More
AUDIO
"Roma Kunst auf der Biennale Venedig" Roma Kunst auf der Biennale Venedig – Radio report on Paradise Lost – The First Roma Pavilion by Werner Bloch. Broadcasted on June 21, 2007 on Deutschlandradio Kultur program of the Deutschlandfunk Radio (in German). Listen
Sharaiman, Traditional Gypsy Song, by Damian and Brothers, a Gypsy band from Romania that performed at Cultural Cont@mination 2007- Si Rom Festival in Venice on October 19. The festival was co-produced by The First Roma Pavilion and the Cultural Councilor of the City of Venice. Listen
WHAT DO THEY SAY ABOUT THE ROMA PAVILION
The visitors, art critics, media continue to praise The First Roma Pavilion: while for many, Roma art is ”una gradita sorpresa”, others reflect on the importance of the Roma Pavilion for challenging the Venice Biennale’s concept of national pavilions, or on the importance of building bridges among the nations in a new Europe. More
MEDIA ABOUT THE FIRST ROMA PAVILION
Leading international media about the Pavilion – read and listen to the media coverage, published or broadcasted since the opening of the Pavilion. More
ESSAY
Roma Art: Fiction or Function?
By Daniel Baker, British artist exhibited in Paradise Lost More
THE PAVILION DIARY
Who visited the Pavilion during the last month? Numbers, names, and testimonies from the Book of Visitors. More
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“In this exhibition I experienced that art has got a very important and intensive message to tell to the world.”
-- A visitor to the Roma Pavilion
(An entry in the Pavilion’s Book of Visitors, October 2007)
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