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Description
The aim is to present and exchange experiences about Roma history, traditions, music and position of Romani women in society. The objective is to share experiences and knowledge about Roma culture in the Czech Republic and Norway in order to reduce these already mentioned prejudices and xenophobia and act all together, cooperate with institutions and organizations with the same goals. Representatives from Slovo 21 will visit Oslo and will take part of Roma Cultural Week in order to organize the event and share experiences with building a world-class event in Romani culture theme. Both partners
Summary of the results
As planned, participants from the Czech Republic travelled to Norway to strengthen the already established relationship between Roma organizations from the Czech Republic and Norway (Slovo 21 and Romano Kher). Romano Kher invited Czechs to participate in their cultural program as experts on selected topics. Slovo 21 presented and exchanged experience with Norwegian Roma. Lively discussions were about history, traditions, music, culture and mainly the status of Roma woman. Even common Roma women from the Czech Republic took part and introduced to the participants from Norway her personal life experience from the CR. The evening programme was dedicated to Roma music. Czech participant had a lecture about traditional Roma music.