Khamoro - World Gypsy Festival
25/05/2010 - 30/05/2010
Place of event: Prague
First held in 1999, Prague's Khamoro festival brings the most vibrant gypsy sounds, rhythms and culture from around Europe to the Czech capital.Each year there is a wealth of traditional music, classical music, gypsy jazz, films, theatre, literature, dance, painting and photographs, as well as workshops.
The travelling peoples of Europe - the Romanies or gypsies - have a unique itinerant culture which the hard-and-fast geographical boundaries of modern states have found it difficult to accommodate. The ongoing purpose of this festival is to show Romany culture from around the whole world, to create a better dialogue and greater understanding between the gypsy minorities and the majority of the Czech Republic's population.
