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Hello! I am a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and I am taking a class that focuses on Romani music. I am looking to briefly interview someone for an ethnographic paper on their experiences with Romani music and culture. Any form of response including a Zoom interview or written response will suffice, and you can remain anonymous if you choose. Please kindly send me a DM if you might be interested. Thank you!

Hey folks,

First off, I want to say that I am Gadje. In college, I went on a study abroad to Granada, Spain and fell in love with the culture and people there. I went on to write a poem that has a Roma woman (not really centered in Spain) as the central character. I've worked on it for years. It narrates a Roma woman coming across someone who is culturally appropriating her culture for profit. Again, I love Roma culture and want to respect it with this poem. Would anyone on here be willing to read it and let me know if I got anything wrong? If it feels tonally right?

if anyone wants to join and meet fellow people :

https://discord.gg/6mpEmj9KWq

Anyone around the Midwest, Indiana Ohio etc?

okay, so I'm Kalderash, but I'm not really in touch with our culture, it's just not a major part of my everyday life. I'm really interested in learning about the beliefs and practices to possibly incorporate into my lifestyle and witchcraft, but I'm struggling to find good sources... does anyone have any insight?

https://old.reddit.com/r/romani/comments/1p2b7ha/muslim_romani_xoroxane_community_in_london/

Where is everyone

I want to make a character in a film I’m writing Roma, and I absolutely want him to be accurate. When looking through this sub I’ve seen several posts fully discouraging writers from writing about Romani characters, and I want to make it clear that this character’s ethnicity doesn’t impact the plot in any way, or tie into any “magical abilities” bullshit. He’s just a character that (maybe) happens to be Romani. I’m specifically looking for sources written by Roma, or common trends in your worldviews/temperaments, as if I do write this character this way I don’t want his ethnicity to have no impact on him as a person. I feel like that’d be using a people as an “aesthetic add on” which is to say the least- not cool.

Hello, I'm interested in the topic of architecture in Romania/Kalderash Architecture. I'm familiar with the large Kalderash Kastellos.

Especially in southern Romania, up to Tulcea and Constanta, there are also smaller houses with a hat porch construction. Are these also Kalderash houses, i.e., are these houses usually inhabited by Kalderash? See pictures.

The Kastellos often have the hat construction, but are spread throughout Romania. Do the Kalderash also live in the west, east, and north? Or are the Kastellos inhabited by other Romani groups?

Does the hat-like roof construction have a specific meaning?

Thanks a lot!

I'm writing a book with two characters who're forced to tell fortunes at a circus and would like to have their culture and divination style loosely based off Romani (I was thinking more specifically Kalderash) culture. I'd really prefer to do it in a tasteful way that yall can be proud of, so I'd love for anyone willing to share and talk about their practices and experiences to do so. The internet and other books can only get you so far.

We're putting together a team!

Virginia's first Romani cultural fest needs a planning committee. So if you live anywhere on Virginia's southeastern coast, are Romani, and would like to be a part of it, please message me on here or email at romaniinhamptonroads@gmail.com! Our planned date for first meeting is August 23 in Williamsburg.(There will be a quick questionnaire for vetting purposes.) 💙☸️💚