{"id":55142,"date":"2023-11-25T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/we-know-the-roma-spirit-2023-laureates\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:38:51","slug":"we-know-the-roma-spirit-2023-laureates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/we-know-the-roma-spirit-2023-laureates\/","title":{"rendered":"We Know the Roma Spirit 2023 Laureates!"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hope was given out in the Slovak National Theatre Ko\u0161ice. For the fifteenth time, Roma Spirit awards were given to those who improve the lives of the Roma and our coexistence in Slovakia.<\/span><\/i>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” style=”dotted”][vc_column_text]The award in category Non Governmental Organisation<\/strong> went to \u0160ukar D\u017eivipen<\/strong> from Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica for their unyielding<\/span> community work. The award in category Company and Employer<\/strong> went to the Healthy Regions <\/strong>(Zdrav\u00e9 regi\u00f3ny p.o.) who work in health mediation and improvement of health in the segregated communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The award in category Municipality and Town<\/strong> was given to Lunik IX, a Ko\u0161ice district<\/strong>, whose results help gradually overcome the stereotypically unflattering image of the neighbourhood. In the category Personality<\/strong>, Paul\u00edna Slep\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1<\/strong>, an organic biology scientist, garnered the most interest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Barbora Boto\u0161ov\u00e1<\/strong> was awarded in the category Culture<\/strong> for her long-term artistic contribution, but also for her broad scope in terms of youth education. Stories Without Borders – Media Incubator<\/strong> (Pr\u00edbehy bez hran\u00edc – Medi\u00e1lny inkub\u00e1tor) received an award in category Media<\/strong> for their development of media literacy and education of young media creators.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Act of the Year Jury<\/strong> decided to give the award to the young Nat\u00e1lia Ga\u017eiov\u00e1<\/strong> from Ko\u0161ice, who was at the right place at the right time to help a young man in need at a bus stop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Special Jury Award<\/strong> went in memoriam to Daniela Hive\u0161ov\u00e1 \u0160ilanov\u00e1<\/strong>\u00a0 who was a Slovak writer, dramaturg, playwright, and cofounder of the Roma theatre Romathan. She was awarded for her lifelong and admirable work against discrimination, and for the advancement of culture, writing and dramatic arts.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” style=”dotted”][vc_column_text]Laureats took home a new award named \u201cHope\u201d created by the artist and sculptor Milo\u0161 R\u00e1c, historically the first Roma Spirit laureate in category Culture. The statuette was created in cooperation with a sculptor of rutherian background, Stanislav Ki\u010da.<\/span><\/p>\n

The laureates were decided upon by an international Expert Jury consisting of the Plenipotentiary of\u00a0 the Czech Republic for the Roma Minorities Lucie Fukov\u00e1, psychologist and researcher Sonia Styrkacz, member of the Supervisory Board of <\/span>Allianz Bank Bulgaria and the member of the advisory board of ACEC <\/span>Rainer Franz, Dentons Europe Director for Positive Impact and Pro Bono Atanas Politov and the director of the Office for National Minorities of the Slovenian Republic<\/span> Stane Baluh.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRoma Spirit provides new motivation for self improvement, to improve the life of the Roma as well as the majority population,\u201d <\/span><\/i>said the chairman of the expert jury Lucie Fukov\u00e1.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Act of the Year Jury consisted of previous Roma Spirit finalists and laureates. The winner was chosen by the translator and journalist Erika Godlov\u00e1, Pasell Slovakia s.r.o. proxy Zuzana Ro\u0161kov\u00e1, mayor of Toporec Gust\u00e1v Pompa, a specialist for social inclusion and a member of the Roma Spirit Preparatory Committee Stanislav Daniel and a field work monitoring worker from the Advice Centre for Civic and Human Rights Nas\u0165a \u010conkov\u00e1.<\/span><\/p>\n

The gala evening was hosted by Lujza Garajov\u00e1 Schr\u00e1mekov\u00e1 and Franti\u0161ek Balog. The programme included performances by <\/span>Celeste Buckingham, Drahoslav Bango,<\/span> the <\/span>Sendreiovci gypsy band, Mat\u011bj V\u00e1vra,<\/span> the <\/span>Bugalov brothers band, ER\u00d8, <\/span>the children\u2019s choir \u010eevjatkakere \u010dhave, as well as the soloists of the National Theatre Ko\u0161ice Ballet. The director of the gala was<\/span> Viktor Csudai and musical dramaturg Marco Pillo.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” style=”dotted”][vc_column_text]The recording of the 15th Roma Spirit award will be broadcast by RTVS on the eve of the International Human Rights Day, i.e. on 9 December at 8:35 PM on Dvojka (channel two).<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]www.romaspirit.sk<\/strong><\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hope was given out in the Slovak National Theatre Ko\u0161ice. For the fifteenth time, Roma Spirit awards were given to those who improve the lives of the Roma and our coexistence in Slovakia.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” style=”dotted”][vc_column_text]The award in category Non Governmental Organisation went to \u0160ukar D\u017eivipen from Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica for their unyielding community work. The award…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55144,"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142\/revisions\/55144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acec.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}