Photo: Khamoro Roma Festival
Billed as “the world’s largest professional Romani festival”, Khamoro, meaning ‘sunshine’ in Romani, has been taking place in Prague since 1999. But as Izabela Chalupníková from the festival’s production team told me, it’s not your typical Romani festival. While most Romani festivals focus on music, Khamoro, in addition to concerts, presents a diverse programme of exhibitions, children’s activities, oral history, film screenings, dance performances, workshops, conferences and more.
“Our main goal is to show how colourful Roma culture is – it’s not all about music, we also have a lot of artists who are painters, dancers, writers, or work in movie production, for example. We want to show this and that’s why we not only have a musical programme during the festival, but also an accompanying programme of movie screenings, activities for children, Roma writers, and so on.
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Author: Anna Fodor