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PRESS RELEASE: NEWS UPDATE
The Once We Were Birds project has been selected for Call the Witness, Media Archives at the 2nd Roma Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2011.
The curators, Enisa Eminovska and Suzana Milevska, based in Skopje say: 'We are interested in your participation particularly because of the great artistic and research merits of your work and its relevance for the Roma communities as a kind of transnational and transversal index and resource of references, communication and knowledge production.'
'We are obviously delighted to have our work recognised in this way' say Tina and Annemarie … 'there is no higher accolade than to be invited by the Roma themselves to participate in their pavilion at Venice, the biggest art fair in the world. It is the purpose of the Once We Were Birds project to highlight the significance of Roma culture all over the world and to continue working with Roma communities both at home in Wales and the UK as well as internationally.'
The selection was made from an open, international submission in Macedonia, earlier this year. The 2nd Roma Pavilion is sponsored by the Open Society Institute, New York as the Roma, although international, are stateless.
June 2010
Contact:
Tina Carr & Annemarie Schöne 0044 (0)1559 362843
www.oncewewerebirds.blogspot.com
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Tina & Annemarie are going back to Hungary in August and September this year to work with the Roma Parliament for six weeks sponsored by Wales Arts International. They will exhibit Once We Were Birds at the János Balázs Gallery, Budapest from September 3rd – October 1st and will continue their work with Roma Community groups in both Budapest and north east Hungary. May 2010 |
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Photographs and Video Films of encounters with the Hungarian Roma |
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Sandi & Edit, Solyom Settlement, Sajokaza July 2009 |
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Tina Carr & Annemarie Schöne |
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You are cordially invited to the opening on Saturday 9 January at 2.00pm for an informal talk with the artists and at 3.00pm for the launch with Jill Evans MEP |
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The Once We Were Birds blog has followed the progress of the project and shows more images of Tina & Annemarie's extraordinary encounters. It is being updated continually and will be available online in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. |
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contact Oriel Myrddin 01267 222775 Tina & Annemarie 01559 362843 |
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Oriel Myrddin, Church Lane, Carmarthen SA31 1LH www.orielmyrddingallery.co.uk |
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ONCE WE WERE BIRDS … Journeys to the Roma People in Hungary and Romania
An initial research trip took place in August and September 2008. We made contacts in Budapest, at the Museum of Ethnography, the Roma Parliament, Lumen Foundation and wandered the 8th District of the city where most urban Roma live. We visited the cities of Miskolc and Debrecen where we met people who introduced us to Roma in rural districts of Hungary. We also spent a few days in Oradia, Romania where we visited a Roma School project. In May 2009 we will be setting off in our Transit camper conversion to Hungary where we will stay until the end of August. We will meet many different individuals and communities both rural and urban. Please follow our travel blog at www.oncewewerebirds.blogspot.com
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COALFACES PUBLISHED
This arresting series of documentary photographs shows the life and landscape of five small settlements in South Wales. These communities in the Afan Valley, after the pit closures, had to deal with high levels of unemployment and found themselves with severe problems of adjustment.
Over several years Tina Carr & Annemarie Schöne worked with the residents of the valley to document the place they call home. These photographs, gritty, beautiful, empathetic, sad and humorous, reflect a hardy and feisty attitude, shared by the residents despite the adversity they are forced to face and provide us with a much needed reminder of a community all to easily forgotten about.
The accompanying DVD is a film entitled 'The Thin End of the Wedge' made with the communities of the Upper Afan Valley in 1992 & 1993 funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Coalfaces ISBN 978-1-905762-54-5 Parthian 2008
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The former Co-op, Croeserw, 2008 |
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