Two events in one day from Romano Lav

First: a Romani Language workshop. This workshop is free, open to all and is hosted by Juice Vamosi, a Roma language expert and translator. Please reserve your place here.

Juice Vamosi grew up in a Roma community in Southern Hungary and currently lives in Oldham, Manchester. Since translating Romani to English from the age of ten, he went on to master most of the Romani dialects spoken all over the world - a unique skill. He has been a personal adviser to key figures in the World Bank and European Commission, for the Ministry of Equal Opportunities in Hungary and for many Roma organisations, TV channels, high schools and universities, alongside interpreting for governmental organisations and nonprofits. Juice is also the founder of Kaskosan, a charitable company whose mission is 'to build the capabilities and life chances of Roma communities and to achieve their well-being in the UK'.

In this workshop he will tell some of the histories of the Romani language, its similarities to Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages, how it evolved in different ways as people moved to or through different countries and some of the 'loan words' picked up or given. Following this, there will be a chance to ask questions, and to practise some words in various dialects.

More info can be found here

Second: This summer, The Deathless Woman (15, 89mins), a film about important events in Roma history, and how they are still relevant today (but also a ghost story) is coming to seven cities across the UK, including Glasgow.

Let The Deathless Woman, ghost of a Roma matriarch, lead you on a journey through archives and landscapes as she looks for people to tell her story - the story of what she witnessed during WWII and how this affects Roma people to this day.

This film screening is a free event – everyone is welcome – but please reserve a place

More info can be found here