Resources
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Nasreddin Hodja Stories
The activity book to accompany the Tilki Sultan story contains simple colouring of some of the characters and a basic patterns, with instructions, for making and decorating a ‘kaftan’. Younger children may need help with some of the cutting and sewing. Please find below text for each of the pieces, listed; 1. Turkish Tales No.1;…
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Crossing the Cultural Divide with Digital Story–Telling
This project uses readily available software, such as iMovie and iDVD, to create and edit short films and presentations about Romani and Traveller history, mobility and identity. Accessing the wealth of personal stories and oral narratives that exist in the communities, this project aims to develop real, marketable skills and experiences of working in media…
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The Romani Holocaust or Porrajmos in Nazi Occupied and Fascist Europe, 1936 to 1945 a Romani Cultural and Arts Company Learning Resource
A learning resource pack for secondary schools The Romani Cultural & Arts Company launches a new resource for secondary schools in Wales, about the Romani Holocaust or Porrajmos. The learning resource is the result of over a year’s work by a dedicated team of academics, artists, designers, and project managers, all of whom are from the…
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RomArchive
While “hegemonic” archives have almost exclusively portrayed Roma in stereotypical ways, RomArchive focuses on their self-representation: New narratives will emerge, reflecting the heterogeneity of the Roma’s diverse national and cultural identities. The wealth of their artistic and cultural production – tightly interwoven with that of Europe as a whole, centuries old, lively and varied to…
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A Romani & Traveller Alphabet
The project to develop the Romani & Traveller alphabet has been a part of the work RCAC does with children and young people to strengthen self-identity, support their self-confidence and improve their knowledge about the wider world. The work has been supported by the BBC’s Children In Need funding.